In XP, I can add buttons to the explorer toolbar by rm-clicking on the bar
then selecting customize and choosing the new buttons.

How can I do this in Vista?

Eddie.

Thanks for the response...

That's really too bad. Frankly, I thought this was one of the best features
of XP; allowing me to create a toolbar nearly meeting my exact needs. This
features helps reduce common tasks/clicks and helps me get the job done
faster. This Vista limitation alone might push me back to XP!! I was
hoping that Vista would allow greater GUI customization so that I can reduce
my mouse travel.

There's no doubt that Vista GUIs *looks* Great! But, i'm interested in
performance and getting one-click access to my most common tasks. I've
already turned off the fancy stuff to maximize performance, consequently my
machines looks more like XP. I don't need flipping and fading windows on my
office machine--I want my answers and I want them now!

I'm also upset that my XP menu-keystrokes don't translate to Vista or
MSO2007 keys. Word, one might say, supports 2003 menu key sequences, but
this ain't so. In 2003, if I needed to undo something, ALT-E then Enter
works, 2008 requires ALT-E then U. Excel 2007 is a big improvement over
2003. But the OS and Word seem to have lost their advantage.

Eddie...

"the granter of sina" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> someone working at Microsoft had an incredibly stupid idea to make that
> IMPOSSIBLE in vista....
>
> You are one of thousands if not millions that complain about this stupid
> restriction.
>
> And then you have the microsoft blind followers who don't understand this
> simple thing and claim that vistas GUI design is GREAT! lol
>
> there is a third party solution that adds some button on a toolbar but I
> don't really like it that much
>
>
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:e3JV2#(E-Mail Removed)...
>> In XP, I can add buttons to the explorer toolbar by rm-clicking on the
>> bar then selecting customize and choosing the new buttons.
>>
>> How can I do this in Vista?
>>
>> Eddie.
>>

Thanks again.

Just as the PC OS was evolving to primate status, a committee drove it back
to brontosaurs.

Eddie.

"the granter of sina" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> just as a reference here is the addon that I was talking about that you
> can
> add delete and other buttons to this bar
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...up-button-too/
>
> also for references sake there is a hack that no longer works with vista
> sp1
> but it was interesting: here
> http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/vista/explorerbuttons.html
>
> also see this for up button
>
> http://www.askvg.com/mavis-up-button...lorer-toolbar/
>
>
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Thanks for the response...
>>
>> That's really too bad. Frankly, I thought this was one of the best
>> features of XP; allowing me to create a toolbar nearly meeting my exact
>> needs. This features helps reduce common tasks/clicks and helps me get
>> the job done faster. This Vista limitation alone might push me back to
>> XP!! I was hoping that Vista would allow greater GUI customization so
>> that I can reduce my mouse travel.
>>
>> There's no doubt that Vista GUIs *looks* Great! But, i'm interested in
>> performance and getting one-click access to my most common tasks. I've
>> already turned off the fancy stuff to maximize performance, consequently
>> my machines looks more like XP. I don't need flipping and fading windows
>> on my office machine--I want my answers and I want them now!
>>
>> I'm also upset that my XP menu-keystrokes don't translate to Vista or
>> MSO2007 keys. Word, one might say, supports 2003 menu key sequences, but
>> this ain't so. In 2003, if I needed to undo something, ALT-E then Enter
>> works, 2008 requires ALT-E then U. Excel 2007 is a big improvement over
>> 2003. But the OS and Word seem to have lost their advantage.
>>
>> Eddie...
>>
>> "the granter of sina" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> someone working at Microsoft had an incredibly stupid idea to make that
>>> IMPOSSIBLE in vista....
>>>
>>> You are one of thousands if not millions that complain about this stupid
>>> restriction.
>>>
>>> And then you have the microsoft blind followers who don't understand
>>> this
>>> simple thing and claim that vistas GUI design is GREAT! lol
>>>
>>> there is a third party solution that adds some button on a toolbar but I
>>> don't really like it that much
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:e3JV2#(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> In XP, I can add buttons to the explorer toolbar by rm-clicking on the
>>>> bar then selecting customize and choosing the new buttons.
>>>>
>>>> How can I do this in Vista?
>>>>
>>>> Eddie.
>>>>
>>
>>

the granter of sina wrote:

> someone working at Microsoft had an incredibly stupid idea to make that
> IMPOSSIBLE in vista....
>
> You are one of thousands if not millions that complain about this stupid
> restriction.
> ---------------------------------------

Translation: capin' crunch got 3 calls about this at the help desk where
he works.
Two of them were from the same person.

John Draper would know better. And Greenblatt would never work a help
desk. Stallman would revese engineer and rewrite the GUI. I work at the
TMRC and long for the days when I could assy code on a PDP-8/L that acheived
digital perfection. (lac dap dippy dap lio dio JMP)


"Frank" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> the granter of sina wrote:
>
>> someone working at Microsoft had an incredibly stupid idea to make that
>> IMPOSSIBLE in vista....
>>
>> You are one of thousands if not millions that complain about this stupid
>> restriction.
>> ---------------------------------------
>
> Translation: capin' crunch got 3 calls about this at the help desk where
> he works.
> Two of them were from the same person.