95/NT 4 Programming, for a discussion of the basic menu items for an

application. For complex programs, it is not practical to put all the menu
options that may be needed on the menu bar. This is where pop-up menus
(sometimes called submenus, or pull down or drop down menus) come
in. When selected, the top menu bar items can spawn pop-up menu items with
many more options from which to choose.
Windows applications use two basic types of menus: top-level menus and
pop-up menus. The top-level menu (also called the main menu of a program)
is a set of commands that is visible in the windows menu bar at all times,
assuming the program has a menu. See the style guide in Chapter 1, Windows