I hid the menu bar in VirtualBox, how to show it again?
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00:00 I Hid The Menu Bar In Virtualbox, How To Show It Again?
00:27 Accepted Answer Score 119
00:38 Answer 2 Score 121
00:54 Answer 3 Score 3
01:21 Answer 4 Score 23
02:23 Thank you
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ANSWER 1
Score 121
You can access the menu while the VM is running by Right Control + Home (by default). It will pop up as a contextual menu through which you will be able to reactivate the display of the menu.
ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 119
Open virtual machine's settings, then User Interface page. Check this box:
ANSWER 3
Score 23
I had a similar problem where the menus & status bar were gone.
The Host + C fixed the issue. Why?
Looking at the list of hotkeys (From the menu: Input » Keyboard... » Keyboard Settings...), the Host + C is assigned to the Scaled Mode function. The feature that let you change the size of your guest window to whatever dimensions you'd like (it does not even have to be a standard 4:3 or 16:9). This is great, but the side effect is that the VirtualBox system removes the menu & status bar because these may not fit properly when you resize your window in that mode.
So hitting Host + C again fixes the issue because it gets you out of the Scaled Mode. Now they can be sure that the menu & status bar will fit your window as expected.
Note: by default the Host key is the Right Ctrl key. That means if you have the habit of using that Right Ctrl in your day to day usage (like editing a file), you could end up triggering a VirtualBox guest feature without knowing it... some of which could be a shutdown or reboot of the guest!
ANSWER 4
Score 3
Temporary removing of %USERPROFILE%/.VirtualBox folder with
mv %USERPROFILE%/.VirtualBox %USERPROFILE%/.VirtualBox_old
and starting a virtualbox from scratch allowed to solve the issue with the help of
hotkeys(Host+C & Host+Home, where Host=Right Ctrl)
from this tooltip
