I also agree with Lakesidezx.
Did any of you know that you could hold down CTRL and click on the Up folder
to get a new window of the parent directory? I use this A LOT!!! I usually
used this to compare two similar directories. But the nice part was that I
didn't need to type a lot or navigate a lot to get near the location I was
using. So now I need to learn CTRL-N but it doesn't feel the same.
Does anyone know how to turn the breadcrumbs off and only leave the text?
Often I would only replace the text name of one folder and I would navigate
to a completely different folder structure because the sub-folder structe was
the same, now I need to click in a blank spot (really annoying especially
since the size of the blank space changes) or press ALT-D press right arrow
and then hold down the left arrow or press ATL-D and then grab my mouse and
find the location.
Yep ALT-Up is the only way left to navigate to the previous folder without
using the mouse. Anyone come across a way to open the parent folder with a
CTRL-Click type way?
I really wish they included the Up button. I guess that if you like the
mouse then you love the new breadcrumb feature. If you use Explorer via thet
keyboard, then you are hating the new breadcrumb feature. This is natural
beacuse keyboardists find the most efficient way to get somthing done.
Adding more key strokes, key combinations or changing the keys really pisses
us off and make us less efficient.
Did anyone notice if/possibly that ESC does not stop IE from loading a web
page like IR6 did?
Does anyone know how to put the File Menu above the arress bar of Explorer?
Does anyone know how to load the XP Explorer.exe on a Vista machine to get
back the XP functionality? OSes were suppsed to have the ability to change
shells. Does anyone (especially Microsoft) remember that?
Phy
KIKO Software said:
I do agree completely with you Lakesidezx. I find these 'breadcrumb' quite
frustrating. Often the window is not wide enough to show a decent row of
crumbs, and something as complicated as:
[] > Computer > OS (C
> Program Files >
in reality simply means:
C:\Program Files
but once you get to this stage, you're really stuck when you want to go to
the parent directory. <Alt-Up> is the only real remaining solution. I do miss
the simple 'up' button in the toolbar very much (I found your posting when I
tried to find where the 'up' button had gone).
Lakesidezx said:
Im apparently not making myself very clear on this.
The names in the breadcrumb change depending on what directory your
visiting, thus there is no consistancy visually to them. A simple up arrow
is consistant visually, it stays the same all the time, it never changes, so
it is very intuitive to use.
Chad, Yes I do realize that there are backwards and forward buttons to be
used, but sometimes I don't want to go "back" but instead want to jump up on
directory, and I may have started on a folder down deep, so there is no back
because I started on a folder that is not root. If there were an up arrow
button it would take me up one level, much like how back would work if I
navigated down.
So basically MS has provided a way to navigate up (by using the back button)
if you started at root and moved down, but they did not provide a simple up
button that will nagivate up levels if you start from somewhere other than
root level.
Anyway, this is purely a suggestion to MS, and is not meant to start a
debate on how a user should or shouldn't use their own computers, and I
suppose the people that never played around with beta or RC versions and
thus are very much used to the simple consistant interface of XP explorer
would find it most usefull to have some consistancy in Vista explorer (like
a simple Up one level button that remains constant visually).
Thanks for trying to provide information though, it is appreciated.
