Maximize the first frame with its menu bar but without its tool bar.
Switch on/off menu-bar-mode several times:
the frame height grows.

Here is the frame-pixel-height reported in *Messages*
Menu-Bar mode enabled
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
Menu-Bar mode enabled
1180 (#o2234, #x49c, ?Ҝ)
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
1207 (#o2267, #x4b7, ?ҷ)
Menu-Bar mode enabled
1239 (#o2327, #x4d7, ?ӗ)
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
1271 (#o2367, #x4f7, ?ӷ)

Best regards,

Fabrice Popineau



In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.3 (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2014-04-16 on ALIMANTADO
Repository revision: 115831 fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr-20140416210032-k4fnr3beizg9nuy3
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600
Configured using:
 `configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/c/Local/Emacs
 --libexecdir=/c/Local/Emacs/bin --datarootdir=/c/Local/Emacs
 --localstatedir=/c/Local/Emacs --sysconfdir=/c/Local/Emacs/etc
 --with-jpeg --with-xpm --with-png --with-tiff --with-rsvg --with-xml2
 --with-gnutls 'CFLAGS=-I/mingw64/include -O3 -g'
 CPPFLAGS=-I/mingw64/include LDFLAGS=-L/mingw64/lib'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: fr_FR.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Messages

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  buffer-read-only: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<f11> M-x t o o l <tab> - <tab> <return> <f11> <f11> 
<f11> <f11> <f12> <f12> <f12> <f11> <f11> M-x m e n 
u - b a <tab> m m <backspace> o <tab> <return> M-x 
M-p <return> M-x M-p <return> M-x M-p <return> <f11> 
<f11> M-: ( f r a m e - p i x e l - h e i g h t ) <return> 
M-x M-p <return> M-: M-p <return> M-x M-p <return> 
M-: M-p <return> M-x M-p <return> M-: M-p <return> 
<f11> C-x b <return> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-movement> <drag-mouse-1> <C-insert> M-x r e 
p o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
Menu-Bar mode enabled
1180 (#o2234, #x49c, ?Ҝ)
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
1207 (#o2267, #x4b7, ?ҷ)
Menu-Bar mode enabled
1239 (#o2327, #x4d7, ?ӗ)
Menu-Bar mode disabled
Menu-bar mode disabled.  Use M-x menu-bar-mode to make the menu bar appear.
1271 (#o2367, #x4f7, ?ӷ)

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec
rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils mule-util cus-start
cus-load time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp w32-common-fns disp-table w32-win
w32-vars tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list
newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer
select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai
tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european
ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help
simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp
files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule
custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process
w32notify w32 multi-tty emacs)

Memory information:
((conses 16 85001 4886)
 (symbols 56 18628 0)
 (miscs 48 40 104)
 (strings 32 13345 3581)
 (string-bytes 1 318170)
 (vectors 16 9306)
 (vector-slots 8 369833 11038)
 (floats 8 57 182)
 (intervals 56 257 24)
 (buffers 960 12))