up button

[tdk08]

is there a way to get the up button back like in xp?

for windows 7 or i guess vista too

 

[garysgold]

Hello tdk08,

Welcome to the forums.

There may be a third party app that will do that, but you can click on any folder in the path and be taken to that folder. Called a breadcrumb trail or something like that. The arrows next to each folder will give you a list of what's there.

Gary

 

[Abhimanyu]

You can also use backspace if your not comfortable with that.

 

[The111]

You can also use backspace if your not comfortable with that.

Backspace navigates back, not up.

 

[dreadlox]

The breadcrumb is not as good as the old up-button in XP and unfortunately not a perfect alternative. The biggest problem is that it does not support ctrl-click (which should open the folder in a new window). Ctrl-click on the up-button did that, and it's very useful... I have no idea why on earth MS didn't implement that in the breadcrumb also - that would be the easiest thing in the world for them, and it would not break any new UI-philosofies...

However, there is help
I bought "Mavis Up Button" (only $5) and it works in both Vista and Windows 7 (including ctrl-click of course)! The only problem I've found with it is that it does not support multiple running instances of explorer.exe. Now, that's not very common, but some apps open a new explorer.exe, and that causes explorer to crash :/ At least on my Vista 64-bit...

 

[MrBachelor]

So..... I got the 7 upgrade for the older HP Pavillion running through my TV in the living room. Runs great too. Got a nice mouse, enabled the onscreen keyboard, and put the actual keyboard away. I'm really missing that up button in Explorer.

Has anyone found a way to enable the lost XP feature?

I'm running both 32 and 64 bit systems.

 

[smarteyeball]

Has anyone found a way to enable the lost XP feature?

I'm running both 32 and 64 bit systems.

No

 

[Disk4mat]

Since Vista I've gotten very used to clicking in the address bar to navigate up. I find it easier almost since I can skip multiple folders. For opening in a new window I jsut right click the folder in the nav pane and select open in new window.

 

[kdogg]

You know, I been googling etc about this very problem and HUNDREDS of people on dozens of forums, message boards etc have complained about not liking the bread crumbs and wishing there was a way to add in the up button again.

I tried the trial of Mavis Up Button but considering I need it for about 6 computers, it's kind of a rip off.

Looks like it was cracked "Mavis.Up.Button.v1.0-Lz0" but I sure as heck can't find it.

I can't believe no ones made a free little tool to add this in yet with as many people as there are asking. I'm actually shocked.

Hopefully someone does soon, I don't really like the bread crumbs either.

 

[Ivo]

I am working on a free utility that adds the Up button to Windows Explorer (among other features). See attached screenshot.

It is still in beta and I could use some testers. If anybody is interested, contact me at {REMOVED} and I can send you a copy.

 

[mangotango]

I agree the 'breadcrumbs' is easy to use, but what I need is the ctrl-up click to open a new window of the parent directory, I use this all the time in XP

 

[Ivo]

Can you elaborate, please? I'm pressing Ctrl+Up arrow in XP and nothing happens. I also tried holding down Ctrl while clicking on the "Up" button, still nothing.

 

[bamajon1974]

Hi Ivo, I'd like to test your up button for Vista and 7 explorer. I tried sending an email request but my message was bounced back several times. Can you send your application to [Email REMOVED]
Thanks!

 

[mangotango]

ctrl-up

On XP, hold down ctrl and click the 'up' button - a new window is opened showing the parent folder. Can't do this on W7

 

[Ivo]

Weird... I tried exactly that on 2 different computers with XP, but it didn't work. Either way, my Up button now supports Ctrl+click

You can download it from http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/

 

[skipgilles]

shortcut solution

I just found a shortcut key combination for "up" that I didn't know: Alt+<arrow-up>

I guess it might actually work in XP as well, but I never tried.

Found that Alt+<arrow left> is also back and Alt+<arrow right> is forward.

 

[The111]

I just found a shortcut key combination for "up" that I didn't know: Alt+<arrow-up>

I guess it might actually work in XP as well, but I never tried.

Found that Alt+<arrow left> is also back and Alt+<arrow right> is forward.

Yup, been using that in Vista/7 for a while.

Alt-up does not work in XP, but alt-left/right does work both in explorer and most web browsers.

 

[lolarne]

Weird... I tried exactly that on 2 different computers with XP, but it didn't work. Either way, my Up button now supports Ctrl+click

You can download it from Welcome to Classic Shell

dude.. This just OWNS!! I regstred just to tell you that
It made windows explorer useable again, I was seriously on my way to buy total commander or something.

However, I found a small bug, nothing grave but when you have the taskbar on more than one row and have your classic start-menu then windows7 start menu will still show if you don't click exactly in the button. I tend to just pull my mouse down to the bottom left corner, hence i found this bug.

Keep up the good work

 

[Ivo]

dude.. This just OWNS!! I regstred just to tell you that
It made windows explorer useable again, I was seriously on my way to buy total commander or something.

However, I found a small bug, nothing grave but when you have the taskbar on more than one row and have your classic start-menu then windows7 start menu will still show if you don't click exactly in the button. I tend to just pull my mouse down to the bottom left corner, hence i found this bug.

Keep up the good work

Thanks for the nice words

Yes, I know about this bug. The area you speak of is part of the taskbar and not the start button orb. The shell does something funky with it and I am unable to detect a mouse click there. OTOH you can think of it as a "feature" - now you get a single-click access to both menus

Edit: Now that I tried the multi-row taskbar I can see how this can be a real problem. I'll see what I can do. I'm shooting for having the next beta ready either this weekend or the next.

 

[dreadlox]

Great initiative!
It's certainly good with a free alternative to Mavis Up-button (it adds up to quite a lot of money if you have 5 computers like me, and they have lousy support I have emailed them 2 or 3 times with bug-reports, questions about a license that suddenly stopped working, etc, and I have never got any answer from them)

The thing I like about Mavis Up-button though is that it's more integrated into the explorer window (the button sits left of the adress-bar, next to the back- and forward-buttons, and it has the same style as these buttons). I have no idea how they do that and if it's some kind of hack, but it would be great if ClassicShell could do someting like that The classic toolbar takes a whole extra row in the explorer window (I usually don't have the menu visible)...