diff --git a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.properties b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3f960bac63c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.properties
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+TraditionalRenderingPreferenceActionName=Traditional Rendering Preferences...
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.xml b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.xml
index 6ae4bc7a1c2..5ae6224678e 100644
--- a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.xml
+++ b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/plugin.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         </enablement>    
     </renderingBindings>          
 </extension>
+
 <extension
       point="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages">
    <page
@@ -28,6 +29,21 @@
    <initializer class="org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional.TraditionalRenderingPreferenceInitializer"/>
 </extension>
 
+<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.viewActions">
+    <viewContribution
+            targetID="org.eclipse.debug.ui.MemoryView"
+            id="org.eclipse.debug.ui.memoryView.toolbar">
+         <action
+               class="org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional.TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction"
+               helpContextId="TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction_context"
+               id="org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional.preferenceaction"
+               label="%TraditionalRenderingPreferenceActionName"
+               menubarPath="additions"
+               style="push"
+               tooltip="%TraditionalRenderingPreferenceActionName"/>
+	</viewContribution>
+</extension>
+
 </plugin>
 
 
diff --git a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction.java b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5feb6cd9115
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ * 
+ * Contributors:
+ *     Ted Williams - Wind River - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+package org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional;
+
+
+import org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.IAction;
+import org.eclipse.jface.preference.IPreferenceNode;
+import org.eclipse.jface.preference.IPreferencePage;
+import org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog;
+import org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceManager;
+import org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceNode;
+import org.eclipse.jface.window.Window;
+import org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IViewActionDelegate;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IViewPart;
+import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionDelegate;
+
+public class TraditionalRenderingPreferenceAction extends ActionDelegate implements IViewActionDelegate {
+
+	/* (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.IActionDelegate#run(org.eclipse.jface.action.IAction)
+	 */
+	public void run(IAction action) {
+		IPreferencePage page = new TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage();
+		showPreferencePage("org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional.TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage", page);	 //$NON-NLS-1$
+	}
+
+	/* (non-Javadoc)
+	 * @see org.eclipse.ui.IViewActionDelegate#init(org.eclipse.ui.IViewPart)
+	 */
+	public void init(IViewPart view) {
+	}
+	
+	protected void showPreferencePage(String id, IPreferencePage page) {
+		final IPreferenceNode targetNode = new PreferenceNode(id, page);
+		
+		PreferenceManager manager = new PreferenceManager();
+		manager.addToRoot(targetNode);
+		final PreferenceDialog dialog = new PreferenceDialog(DebugUIPlugin.getShell(), manager);
+		final boolean [] result = new boolean[] { false };
+		BusyIndicator.showWhile(DebugUIPlugin.getStandardDisplay(), new Runnable() {
+			public void run() {
+				dialog.create();
+				dialog.setMessage(targetNode.getLabelText());
+				result[0]= (dialog.open() == Window.OK);
+			}
+		});		
+	}
+
+}
+
diff --git a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage.java b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage.java
index d90cd43f38a..05d65eab55f 100644
--- a/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage.java
+++ b/plugins/org.eclipse.dd.debug.memory.renderings.traditional/src/org/eclipse/dd/debug/memory/renderings/traditional/TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public class TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage
 	public TraditionalRenderingPreferencePage() {
 		super(GRID);
 		setPreferenceStore(TraditionalRenderingPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore());
-		//setDescription("Traditional Memory Rendering");
+		setDescription("Traditional Memory Rendering");
 	}
 	
 	/**