Doc talk:2.4/Tutorials/Materials/BSoD/Intro exercise
"..point your cursor at the bottom line of the main menu and drag it down to reveal the Blender options. "
Or change the 3d window (or any other window) to a User Preferences Window. I'll sometimes do that when I have multiple windows and they are arrranged such that Blender prevents the default preferences window from being dragged down or far enough, without me having to re-arrange all the other windows.
Mike --Mstram 00:03, 4 August 2006 (CEST)
Good point. I will add some extra text and also an image or two to explain. Thanks for this.
Colin