Vista - Trying to find out how to turn off "breadcrumbs" in Windows Explor

Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in Windows
Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed the
extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
mouse).

"Phydeaux" <Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in
> Windows
> Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed
> the
> extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
> mouse).
>
I just hit windows key - e and explorer pops up immediately. Breadcrumbs?
what are they?

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"Phydeaux" <Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:94FD41B5-55DF-40B2-82FD-9378C5F0BA0C@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in
> Windows
> Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed
> the
> extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
> mouse).
>


I use crushed Corn Flakes instead...

Lang

On Jun 27, 3:16 am, Phydeaux <Phyde...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in Windows
> Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed the
> extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
> mouse).

I would be very happy if there was a way to have the breadcrumbs as
the alternate and the text path as the default. Navigating by the
breadcrumbs can be fantastically fast if you need to navigate that
way, but most of my navigation is up or down 1 directory and the
ability to copy/paste the part (or part of it) is more important that
anything else (as far as the address bar goes). As well, I find the
breadcrumbs are so large that information must be hidden a lot of the
time.

housetrained,

Breadcrumbs are the term that I have picked up for the way Vista shows &
navigates between folders within the Explorer address bar. If anyone know
what the actual term is, it might help me figure out how to turn them off. I
want the address bar to display text only and all the time, just like XP does.

Does anyone know what the correct term is for Vista's breadcrumbs?


"housetrained" wrote:

> "Phydeaux" <Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:94FD41B5-55DF-40B2-82FD-9378C5F0BA0C@microsoft.com...
> > Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in
> > Windows
> > Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed
> > the
> > extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
> > mouse).
> >
> I just hit windows key - e and explorer pops up immediately. Breadcrumbs?
> what are they?
>
> --
> John the West Ham fan
> housetrained@hotmail.com
> <><
>
>

The 'breadcrumb' bar shows where you are and allows you to go back from
whence you came...
I don't know of a way to turn it off.
But Hansel & Gretel may...LOL

"Phydeaux" <Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> housetrained,
>
> Breadcrumbs are the term that I have picked up for the way Vista shows &
> navigates between folders within the Explorer address bar. If anyone know
> what the actual term is, it might help me figure out how to turn them off.
> I
> want the address bar to display text only and all the time, just like XP
> does.
>
> Does anyone know what the correct term is for Vista's breadcrumbs?
>
>
> "housetrained" wrote:
>
>> "Phydeaux" <Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:94FD41B5-55DF-40B2-82FD-9378C5F0BA0C@microsoft.com...
>> > Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in
>> > Windows
>> > Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not
>> > enjoyed
>> > the
>> > extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without
>> > the
>> > mouse).
>> >
>> I just hit windows key - e and explorer pops up immediately. Breadcrumbs?
>> what are they?
>>
>> --
>> John the West Ham fan
>> housetrained@hotmail.com
>> <><
>>
>>

dont think u can. its an inbuilt feature.

^ BreadCrumb Bar is what now appears in ur adress bar. From one folder you can jump to any other folder on the path backward using the breadcrumb arrows. It makes it easier to go back as many steps as you want. However you cannot drag a file to address bar, hover over an arrow & open that folder with drag selected. You can instead simply do a Cut & go to that folder & Paste.

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So no one from Microsoft is answering this question? Can anyone from
Microsoft say for sure if my request is possible or not?

"theclyde" wrote:

> On Jun 27, 3:16 am, Phydeaux <Phyde...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in Windows
> > Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed the
> > extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
> > mouse).
>
> I would be very happy if there was a way to have the breadcrumbs as
> the alternate and the text path as the default. Navigating by the
> breadcrumbs can be fantastically fast if you need to navigate that
> way, but most of my navigation is up or down 1 directory and the
> ability to copy/paste the part (or part of it) is more important that
> anything else (as far as the address bar goes). As well, I find the
> breadcrumbs are so large that information must be hidden a lot of the
> time.
>
>

Phydeaux wrote:

> So no one from Microsoft is answering this question? Can anyone from
> Microsoft say for sure if my request is possible or not?
>
> "theclyde" wrote:
>
>
>>On Jun 27, 3:16 am, Phydeaux <Phyde...@discussions.microsoft.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know of a way to turn off the graphical "breadcrumbs" in Windows
>>>Explorer? This question is for all the keyboardists who have not enjoyed the
>>>extra steps needed to use Explorer.exe and the keyboard (yes without the
>>>mouse).
>>
>>I would be very happy if there was a way to have the breadcrumbs as
>>the alternate and the text path as the default. Navigating by the
>>breadcrumbs can be fantastically fast if you need to navigate that
>>way, but most of my navigation is up or down 1 directory and the
>>ability to copy/paste the part (or part of it) is more important that
>>anything else (as far as the address bar goes). As well, I find the
>>breadcrumbs are so large that information must be hidden a lot of the
>>time.
>>
>>

Hey capin' crunch...how's the starship doin?
Frank

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:08:01 -0700, Phydeaux
<Phydeaux@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> So no one from Microsoft is answering this question? Can anyone from
> Microsoft say for sure if my request is possible or not?


In case you're confused, let me make it clear: this isn't Microsoft
you're addressing. This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just
Windows XP users here, helping each other if and when we can. We are
not Microsoft employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP"
behind our names; that's an honorary title for having provided
consistently helpful advice) except for an occasional employee who
posts here unofficially on his own time.

Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question.

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