Along the right-hand side under the search bar click Tools and select "Menu Bar." That will make it permanent, even after relaunching IE7, until you uncheck it.
Hope this helps,
John
I know that to bring up the menu bar in IE7, you hit the Alt key on the keyboard. How do you make it stay?

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