Restore the drop down menus in IE7?

Wondering where the drop down menus went?!    Yeah … me too.  I admit I don't use IE very much anymore … so this didn't come up until I was trying to help Myrna troubleshoot why her blog was showing up differently in IE vs. Firefox vs. AOL … but suddenly it was very important (and annoying!) to discover the unexpected absence of drop down menus. 

Dang.

It turns out the Microsoft has hidden them in an effort to give you more room for browsing.  (Which in theory makes sense … until you look at how much room the buttons and toolbars take up compared to the drop down menus … but I digress) …

Want your menus back? 

Hit the ALT key.  Seriously … that's all it takes.