Folder display -- can I remove navigation pane? customize tool-bar?

[ggull]

In the folder display (the window that pops up when you click on a folder),
there are two ways it would be nice to make it look more like XP.

-- Can I just make the Navigation Pane (that thing on the left with
'favorite links' and the directory tree) go away? Especially for a laptop
with limited screen territory, but in general. (for instance, in XP I like
to have folders with just a narrow list of files, to tuck away in a corner,
or if I'm moving files between folders.)

-- Can I customize the toolbar? right-click doesn't seem to do anything,
nor whatever else I've tried, and I can't find anything in either the Vista
help files nor the book I have. (A few old discussions I found on the net
complain of this but hinted it was in the hopper to be fixed.) In XP I
really love the up-arrow to go to the parent folder (perhaps because I often
get to a folder by a shortcut rather than climbing a tree). And there were
some other icons that I liked also, like delete. I know there are
workarounds, maybe even preferable ones, but I really liked the old toolbar,
while the new one seems like a huge (and it does seem bigger) waste of
pixels. Burn?? If I can't customize it, can I just make it go away (and
use the menus of Classic look)?

TIA, Grumpy Dinosaur

 

[Tom W.]

For the first one: Click Organize, then you can make panes (dis)appear in
the Layout menu.

 

[Gordon]

in XP I really love the up-arrow to go to the parent folder

You don't need it in Vista - just click on the parent folder in the address
bar....

 

[ggull]

Press Alt and the Up arrow to go to the parent folder or just click on
the parent folder in the navigation bar.
For other tips on changing the folder view check out some of Brinks
tutorials .....

Thanks for the the Alt Up arrow hint, and for the link to the tutorials.

Also when you buy a new car, do you want it to look or drive like your
old car or do enjoy that new car feeling?

Well, I don't enjoy new car "improvements" just to be new, just because the
engineers felt they had to change something to justify their salaries, like
putting that wacky steering wheel (what the heck is that for anyway?) behind
the driver's seat to avoid cluttering the dashboard. Or lights that stay on
when you leave the car just long enough that you can't tell for sure they
really are going to go off.

 

[ggull]

You can remove the navigation pane as described above. More
specifically, after clicking Orangize, then click Layout, then click
Navigation Pane. Each click of that will turn it on or off and it will
show you by coloring it.

Thanks to you and Tom W. for this. I know I looked under Organize, but
somehow missed it.