Smart Tech Tips

Many of you may have notice the address bar starting with Windows Vista having a new unique way of letting you finding out where you are in Windows Explorer. While most will welcome this change, some of you old school geeks who would rather have the full path with all the c:\ and \, would love to find a way to get this back. You can do it by pressing Alt+D in the window but that can get tedious.

The quickest solution is to install AveNoBreadCrumb

Just unzip the folder and run the AveNoBreadCrumb.exe file to disable the breadcrumbs. You will need to close out of the current explorer window to have it take effect. If you would like this to be a permanent thing, copy the AveNoBreadCrumb.exe to a place in your ‘Program Files’ and place a shortcut to that file in your startup folder.

If you have Windows XP and would like to have breadcrumbs, then download QTAddressBar

Just install the program and restart the computer. When you come back, right click on the toolbars area of a new explorer windows and deslect the address bar and select QT Breadcrumbs Address Bar.

Here are the two addresses to the programs mentioned in this post.

http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/download-qtadd

http://www.howtogeek.com/geekers/AveNoBreadcrumb.zip