Windows Vista Windows Exporer - Folder Explorer

Some things changed in windows vista's File - Folder exporer, And here i am not talking about the glass enterface or about the Icons.

Things i will talk about here have to do with Using the file - folder - windows explorer.

To start with, If you had Windows XP Professional for example, Openning a folder put its location in the title bar, In vista they broke down the location string around the "/" and made every part of it a button, So it now acts like the breadcrumb you see on many websites...

An example of that is here

But not only that, Now you can actually browse to folders within a mother folder by using the arrow beside every breadcrumb, in the windows folder dropdown the files/folders were limited to 54 folders from within the windows directory.

The burn button under the addressbar has 3 buttons in our case here, A button to burn the files-folders to optical storage (the rightmost with a disk and fire hovering around it (looks a bit like the firefox logo),

The Views drop down button gives you the choices you typically had with Views in Windows XP (They just made them bigger, added sampe size beside them, Ordered them by size, and put a scroll bar to go with it), Nothing complicated from the programmers prospective (if anything noteworthy at all)

And the organise button that rteplaced everything else.

As you can see, the file menu has the essentials you used to find in the file menu, Edit, and view menu, Add to that the search button that used to be there in XP is now in the organize menu (Folder and search options)

Also, the default display now includes the folder tree, and an optional Preview Pane (the preview used to come on the left margine in XP, now it can be opened as a right margine.