Where's my Up Arrow (up one folder button) in Windows Explorer?

[Colin Barnhorst]

The Up Folder button in XP Window Explorer has been expanded to a bar, call
it the "Breadcrumbs Bar", which enables you to move up the folder tree as
many folders as you wish with a single click. The Breadcrumbs Bar and the
Address Bar are the same bar now. To change the Breadcrumbs bar to the
Address Bar, click on the small icon just to the left of the first ">" or
the down arrow in the far right of the BB. To change from the Address Bar
back to the Breadcrumbs Bar, click once (highlight) any item in the window
area below.

When you start Vista the Welcome Center opens in a WE window. Look across
the top and you see the Breadcrumbs Bar. It will show ">Control
Panel>System and Maintenance>Welcome Center ". It is not an address bar in
the sense of being a path string as in the Address Bar in XP WE. Each of
the entries is a live button and if you click it you are moved upward
directly to the folder. You can now make long distance moves upward in the
tree with a single click.

If you click on the icon to the left of the first > the bar changes to the
Address Bar and presents the path string "Control Panel\System and
Maintenance\Welcome Center." This is handy for copying and pasting
addresses. To return to the Breadcrumbs Bar, single click on one of the
items in the Welcome Center, say, "View Computer Details." Voila, the BB
returns. To perform an operation such as the Up Folder button in XP, simply
click on "System and Maintenance" in the BB. >System and Maintenance> is a
button.

To return to Welcome Center, click either the Left Arrow at the far left or
the drop down arrow immediately left of the BB. If you are back in the
Welcome Center and want to move up directly to Control Panel, just click on
the >Control Panel> button in the BB. If you want to move even further up
the tree, click on the > to the left of Control Panel for the drop down list
of locations you can go to. In fact clicking on ANY > in the BB presents
you with branches you can go to.

And to think, all you wanted was that old fashioned Up Folder button. Tsk
Tsk.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

To clarify one point that confuses some folks, the breadcrumb bar is the
control for your current location. The backward and forward arrows on the
far left of WE is the control for your history.

The difference is that the control for your current location moves you in
the folder tree regardless of where you have or have not already been in the
current session while the control for your history can only move you to
places where you have already been in the current session.

The Breadcrumb Bar is NOT your history of the current session.

Note that the drop down arrow to the immediate left of the >Control Panel>
shows a long list of locations. These are all the places in Windows that
provide an entry point for Control Panel (the CP icon appears as an item in
those windows).

 

[Mario Rosario]

Tsk tsk, my question to you is why is it called the Breadcrumbs Bar?

 

[Danny]

The Up Folder button in XP Window Explorer has been expanded to a bar,
call it the "Breadcrumbs Bar", which enables you to move up the folder
tree as many folders as you wish with a single click. The Breadcrumbs Bar
and the Address Bar are the same bar now. To change the Breadcrumbs bar
to the Address Bar, click on the small icon just to the left of the first
">" or the down arrow in the far right of the BB. To change from the
Address Bar back to the Breadcrumbs Bar, click once (highlight) any item
in the window area below.

When you start Vista the Welcome Center opens in a WE window. Look across
the top and you see the Breadcrumbs Bar. It will show ">Control
Panel>System and Maintenance>Welcome Center ". It is not an address bar
in the sense of being a path string as in the Address Bar in XP WE. Each
of the entries is a live button and if you click it you are moved upward
directly to the folder. You can now make long distance moves upward in
the tree with a single click.

If you click on the icon to the left of the first > the bar changes to the
Address Bar and presents the path string "Control Panel\System and
Maintenance\Welcome Center." This is handy for copying and pasting
addresses. To return to the Breadcrumbs Bar, single click on one of the
items in the Welcome Center, say, "View Computer Details." Voila, the BB
returns. To perform an operation such as the Up Folder button in XP,
simply click on "System and Maintenance" in the BB. >System and
Maintenance> is a button.

To return to Welcome Center, click either the Left Arrow at the far left
or the drop down arrow immediately left of the BB. If you are back in the
Welcome Center and want to move up directly to Control Panel, just click
on the >Control Panel> button in the BB. If you want to move even further
up the tree, click on the > to the left of Control Panel for the drop down
list of locations you can go to. In fact clicking on ANY > in the BB
presents you with branches you can go to.

And to think, all you wanted was that old fashioned Up Folder button. Tsk
Tsk.

I follow you now. What a pullaver. The up arrow was much simpler.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Imagery from Hansel and Gretel for lack of something better. The folks on
the Vista Shell team refer to it that way.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

But not as versatile. You could only go up one step per click and you did
not have a view of all the entry points once you reached a level where you
could have come from multiple locations in the tree.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Of course you can use the Breadcrumb Bar the way you did the up arrow by
always clicking on the item-to-the-left to navigate.

 

[Danny]

But not as versatile. You could only go up one step per click and you did
not have a view of all the entry points once you reached a level where you
could have come from multiple locations in the tree.

I'll give you that.

 

[Rock]

The Up Folder button in XP Window Explorer has been expanded to a bar,
call it the "Breadcrumbs Bar", which enables you to move up the folder
tree as many folders as you wish with a single click. The Breadcrumbs Bar
and the Address Bar are the same bar now. To change the Breadcrumbs bar
to the Address Bar, click on the small icon just to the left of the first
">" or the down arrow in the far right of the BB. To change from the
Address Bar back to the Breadcrumbs Bar, click once (highlight) any item
in the window area below.

When you start Vista the Welcome Center opens in a WE window. Look across
the top and you see the Breadcrumbs Bar. It will show ">Control
Panel>System and Maintenance>Welcome Center ". It is not an address bar
in the sense of being a path string as in the Address Bar in XP WE. Each
of the entries is a live button and if you click it you are moved upward
directly to the folder. You can now make long distance moves upward in
the tree with a single click.

If you click on the icon to the left of the first > the bar changes to the
Address Bar and presents the path string "Control Panel\System and
Maintenance\Welcome Center." This is handy for copying and pasting
addresses. To return to the Breadcrumbs Bar, single click on one of the
items in the Welcome Center, say, "View Computer Details." Voila, the BB
returns. To perform an operation such as the Up Folder button in XP,
simply click on "System and Maintenance" in the BB. >System and
Maintenance> is a button.

To return to Welcome Center, click either the Left Arrow at the far left
or the drop down arrow immediately left of the BB. If you are back in the
Welcome Center and want to move up directly to Control Panel, just click
on the >Control Panel> button in the BB. If you want to move even further
up the tree, click on the > to the left of Control Panel for the drop down
list of locations you can go to. In fact clicking on ANY > in the BB
presents you with branches you can go to.

And to think, all you wanted was that old fashioned Up Folder button. Tsk
Tsk.

Nice explanation Colin.

 

[Rock]

The Up Folder button in XP Window Explorer has been expanded to a bar,
call it the "Breadcrumbs Bar", which enables you to move up the folder
tree as many folders as you wish with a single click. The Breadcrumbs Bar
and the Address Bar are the same bar now. To change the Breadcrumbs bar
to the Address Bar, click on the small icon just to the left of the first
">" or the down arrow in the far right of the BB. To change from the
Address Bar back to the Breadcrumbs Bar, click once (highlight) any item
in the window area below.

When you start Vista the Welcome Center opens in a WE window. Look across
the top and you see the Breadcrumbs Bar. It will show ">Control
Panel>System and Maintenance>Welcome Center ". It is not an address bar
in the sense of being a path string as in the Address Bar in XP WE. Each
of the entries is a live button and if you click it you are moved upward
directly to the folder. You can now make long distance moves upward in
the tree with a single click.

If you click on the icon to the left of the first > the bar changes to the
Address Bar and presents the path string "Control Panel\System and
Maintenance\Welcome Center." This is handy for copying and pasting
addresses. To return to the Breadcrumbs Bar, single click on one of the
items in the Welcome Center, say, "View Computer Details." Voila, the BB
returns. To perform an operation such as the Up Folder button in XP,
simply click on "System and Maintenance" in the BB. >System and
Maintenance> is a button.

To return to Welcome Center, click either the Left Arrow at the far left
or the drop down arrow immediately left of the BB. If you are back in the
Welcome Center and want to move up directly to Control Panel, just click
on the >Control Panel> button in the BB. If you want to move even further
up the tree, click on the > to the left of Control Panel for the drop down
list of locations you can go to. In fact clicking on ANY > in the BB
presents you with branches you can go to.

And to think, all you wanted was that old fashioned Up Folder button. Tsk
Tsk.

Mind if I quote you on this when the this question will come out over and
over on Vista's public release?

 

[Noozer]

But not as versatile. You could only go up one step per click and you did
not have a view of all the entry points once you reached a level where you
could have come from multiple locations in the tree.

It ain't a tree if you can come and go in multiple directions.

I still will miss the Up folder button.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Ever watched a squirell? (KP aside)

It ain't a tree if you can come and go in multiple directions.

I still will miss the Up folder button.

 

[michail iakovou yos]

what a pile of breadcrumb cap.... we want the button!

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Tell MS at (e-mail address removed).

what a pile of breadcrumb cap.... we want the button!

 

[michail iakovou yos]

Dear (e-mail address removed)

I wish for you to cut the crap and make an OS that is user friendly.
First of all change the search that some ***cough**** like and
redesign it into something usable. Next the start menu, all the rest of the
GUI
abominations. Breadcrums jelly and whatever other toxic things you have in
there.
Then after that you can start fixing the bugs. Redesign first then fix.

Thank you. May the brains be with you (next time)

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Are you thinking that you are speaking directly to Microsoft in this
newsgroup? I'm sorry, but this newsgroup is only a peer to peer self-help
newsgroup used by the public to exchange advice and views.

 

[michail iakovou yos]

All the attempts of humanity to communicate with Microsoft have been
non satisfactory.
We have tried communicating on all known electromagnetic frequencies,
and using encoded burst of positron beams.
This non intelligence non biological organism, seems
to be isolated, and has no feedback mechanisms. This is apparent from
its attempts for creation that are not in compliance with the needs of the
life forms on earth. It seems that the communication link was severed
in the last 5 year period. The result is a "thing" called vista.

 

[William]

If you really don't like Vista and prefer running XP, then...

GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS NG...

and haunt an XP newsgroup. This newsgroup is a peer to peer Vista users group.



All the attempts of humanity to communicate with Microsoft have been
non satisfactory.
We have tried communicating on all known electromagnetic frequencies,
and using encoded burst of positron beams.
This non intelligence non biological organism, seems
to be isolated, and has no feedback mechanisms. This is apparent from
its attempts for creation that are not in compliance with the needs of the
life forms on earth. It seems that the communication link was severed
in the last 5 year period. The result is a "thing" called vista.

 

[Rock]

If you really don't like Vista and prefer running XP, then...

GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS NG...

and haunt an XP newsgroup. This newsgroup is a peer to peer Vista users
group.



All the attempts of humanity to communicate with Microsoft have been
non satisfactory.
We have tried communicating on all known electromagnetic frequencies,
and using encoded burst of positron beams.
This non intelligence non biological organism, seems
to be isolated, and has no feedback mechanisms. This is apparent from
its attempts for creation that are not in compliance with the needs of the
life forms on earth. It seems that the communication link was severed
in the last 5 year period. The result is a "thing" called vista.

Are you thinking that you are speaking directly to Microsoft in this
newsgroup? I'm sorry, but this newsgroup is only a peer to peer self-help
newsgroup used by the public to exchange advice and views.

No don't send the troll to the XP newsgroup! We have our own share of them.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Use the Bread Crumb menu.