Friday, March 13, 2009

How to display the hierarchical folder path instead of "breadcrumbs"?

Personally, I like the "breadcrumbs" path view in Vista (Computer --> Maxtor (D:) --> Pictures --> SFTrip) because you can click any point at it and go there - it's quick and efficient. But some readers have complained that they want to see the old style hierarchical path (D:\Pictures\SFTrip) instead. Well, that's easy enough:
  1. In Windows Explorer, hold down the ALT key
  2. Press and release the D key
  3. The path is highlighted, so you can copy it to your keyboard with CTRL+C
  4. To get back to the "breadcrumbs" view, press the ESC key.

If you want to keep the breadcrumbs, but need to copy the path, just right click an empty space in the address bar after the path and you can select "Copy Address" or "Copy Address as Text." Note that these same procedures work in Windows 7, too.

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