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| Guest | Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? In windows 2000 and XP the drop down arrow at the right of the address bar at the top of the window would link you to all kinds of useful places including all of your hard drives, control panel, common folders and, most usefully, removable drives such as a USB flash drive, allowing you to quickly do a Ctrl+C on a file and naviagte to the drive, then Ctrl+V to copy over to it. In Vista however, the drop down arrow just gives me a bunch of websites and other stuff I have recently looked at, which is useless. I want to know if there is a way to get the same drop down menu with all the useful stuff on that existed in win XP and 2000. Can anyone help? |
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| Guest | Re: Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? Hi, Adam. It would help us help you if you tell us WHICH window you are looking at and asking about. In Windows Explorer, click Organize | Layout and turn on the Navigation pane, which appears at the left of the screen. Click Folders at the bottom of this pane to expand it into the familiar tree, with Desktop at the top. Personally, I seldom look in the top items here, but click on Computer, then Drive C:. If you hover the mouse over a drive, you should see a triangular arrow indicating that there are subfolders here. Click on the triangle to see the directory of that drive in the Navigation pane. Or click on the drive name to open that directory in the Details pane. This Windows Explorer window is highly customizable. Spend some time exploring here and you should be able to tailor it to your tastes. Some of the settings can also be reached from Control Panel | Folder Options | View, much like in WinXP. One useful setting is Always show menus; this shows the Menu bar in Explorer, in addition to the Toolbar. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@xxxxxx Microsoft Windows MVP (Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275) "Adam_N" <AdamN@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:25BEB481-05DC-44FB-A481-AFB373E0F14C@xxxxxx
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| Guest | desktop folder address bar issue R C White's reply discussed HOW to find root drive info in a folder but I'd like to ask how to get the address bar's dropdown (in any folder on desktop) to STOP showing internet sites and only show drive info. Is it Vista's way of synchronizing desktop navigating with internet navigating? Thanks (Maybe it's me but I think, despite all of it's advantages, Vista may have made a few too many "user friendly" changes to the point of annoying!) EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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| Guest | RE: desktop folder address bar issue Dear Kathy Hewett, It seems that you want to know the same thing as me! Thank you for writing out more clearly than I could manage! I though I had been quite clear, but never mind. Hopefully someone will know the answer! Surely everyone should find it a lot more useful to have a list of drives/common folders than your browser history? I thought this version of windows was supposed to be removing the ties between Windows Explorer and IE on the grounds of security? Dear R C White, Thank you for your reply. In my query I was referring to a standard Windows Explorer window, from which you can browse files and folders. In XP, the My Computer and Control Panel windows also open in this type of window, with the drop down menu of drives and useful folder locations available to take you where ever on your machine you need to go. "Kathy Hewett" wrote:
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? Perhaps you might find something that will give you what you are looking for in this tutorial. Windows Explorer Address Bar Hope it helps, Shawn |
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| Guest | address bar issue Hi Adam, Well, I continue to be frustrated with Vista...this is just ANOTHER irritating change, causing me to navigate another learning curve. To top it off, I made the mistake of upgrading to MS Office 2007...what was I thinking?... and that only made things worse! Thanks to Shawn's link, I identified that our desktop folder's address bar shares with IE...that's why it shows internet addresses in the dropdown. (Seems like a lot of wasted man hours just to answer that simple question, doesn't it?) It seems to me that most tutorials assume that you like all of the changes with Vista and don't wish to question basic functions. Now...we need to find out how to, if possible, make the address bar STOP doing that. HERE'S OUR QUESTION: Is there a way to make the address bar in any desktop folder's address bar's drop down, show ONLY desktop (C drive) folders and NOT internet sites? OR... Is there a way to STOP showing internet sites in any desktop folder's address bar's drop down list? EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com |
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: address bar issue
Since IE7 and Windows Explorer share the same address bar, ther is no way that I am aware of. That was the way the address bar in Vista was designed. Sorry, Shawn | |||||||||||||||
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| Guest | Re: Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? "brink" <brink.2z89s1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:brink.2z89s1@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...
noticed the right-pointing arrows next to the folder names in the address bar. Click on one of these to see all sub-folders located in that particular folder . . . there is also, to the far-left, a "top-level" icon that will give you access to the Computer "folder" all shared folders, Control Panel, etc. After a short learning curve I've found this system to be much more intuitive, and easier to navigate than the XP style drop-down menu/address bar. YMMV Mic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Administrator ![]() Rep Power: 150 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Re: Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? No offense taken, but it is included in the tutorial link I posted above. Windows Explorer Address Bar Shawn |
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| Guest | Re: Where has the normal address bar drop down arrow gone? "brink" <brink.2zcm17@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message news:brink.2zcm17@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...
wasn't aware. I've found that often when a link is given as, or as part of, an answer, the question is still asked again and again, even if the link clearly answers the aforementioned question. Again, no offense intended, just something I noticed. People are lazy about looking for answers on their own and when they post to a group such as this, will often ignore, or only skim through, links posted so I tend to try to answer as completely as possible in the hopes that the question will be sufficiently answered without the need for a link, as the link is often ignored . . . etc . . . I can loop this forever. :-) Mic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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