How to change the row height menu in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8

How to change the row height menu in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 -

Earlier versions of Windows such as Windows Vista or Windows 7 settings were very flexible appearance. Unlike the newer versions, including Windows 10 and Windows 8, they allowed to change spacing between desktop icons size of the window border, scrollbar width and many other options that you can not change. One such option is the height of the bar menu for applications that have a menu bar. Increasing the height of the menu bar can be very useful if you use a touch screen device. Taller menus are much easier to operate with your finger. It is a registry tweak that can serve as a workaround for this case.

Although the user interface to change the appearance Advanced in Windows 10 and Windows 8 has been removed by Microsoft, you have at least two ways to grant such parameters.
To change menu line height of 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 , do the following.

1. open the registry editor.
2. Go to the following registry path:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER  Control Panel  Desktop  WindowMetrics 

   Tip :. See how to move to the desired Registry key in one click

3. You will see a string value (REG_SZ) named menuHeight . As the name suggests, this value is responsible for the height line menu. Its value data uses the following formula:

    -15 * height in pixels menu 

   For example, by default, it is -285, meaning 19 pixels (px):

    * 19 = -15 -285 

   
   If you want to increase simply calculate a new value. For example, to put 100 px, you must define the menuHeight value data as follows:

    -15 * 100 = -1500 

   

4. Now , log out of your user account and log in back. Run Notepad and look at the level of
   menu bar before :. After

There. To undo this change, all you need to do is set the parameter to -285 menuHeight and finished.

Alternatively you can use Winaero Tweaker to change the line up menu. In Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, it will be applied on the fly. In Windows 10, you still require to log out and log in back.

In addition, it allows you to change the menu font, which can only be changed with a registry tweak, because it is represented in the registry in binary format.

Note that some desktop applications have a menu bar does not respect this setting to all.

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