Comments on: Disable Explorer Breadcrumbs in Windows Vista

By: me

me — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:10:35 +0000

John, don’t be gay. Breadcrumbs are noobish. And, don’t tell us to learn Vista, we (most likely) have more computing experience than you.

Thanks for the excellent submission. I look forward to testing it.

By: twig

twig — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:08:57 +0000

exactly what i was looking for!

props to the author, cannot express enough gratitude for this!

By: PankkypH

PankkypH — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:39:06 +0000

Hello there,
Is there any news about how to get rid of the invisible start menu problem when using AveNoBreadCrumbs ?
That’s the only reason I don’t wanna download this program…

By: me

me — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:54:50 +0000

It is simply ridiculous to me that they did not ad this as a feature in Vista… I can totally understand that it may be an upgrade for some people but they shouldn’t have ignored people that liked explorer the way it was. As Bill said above me- windows 7 looks like more of the same… I just hope they gave the user more flexibility to change it in that version, otherwise XP is going to continue it’s long stay on my machines for a while into the future…

By: tester

tester — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:11:17 +0000

I see there is a great deal of dissent amongst many web users who can’t understand why some people have issues with the breadcrumb facility (do a google search on this topic!).

I have a disability that makes typing very difficult. I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition software and I program Visual Basic with this software, largely by voice. Having breadcrumbs disabled will facilitate my file management by allowing me to set a focus in the address bar and paste a file location depending on a file or folder that I verbally express using my voice recognition software. This is incredibly simple with a straightforward address bar and provides quick access to files/folders, but despite repeated attempts I have been finding it impossible to do this using windows vista’s breadcrumbs facility. The breadcrumb facility prevents me from efficiently accessing my selected computer folders requiring considerably more effort and putting a seriously dent in my productivity as a computer user, to do what I’d consider is a simple task.

I do see the value for able-bodied individuals, but I find it remarkable that I’m unable to switch this off in windows vista itself to facilitate accessibility for disabled people who really want to help themselves.

This workaround will seriously make a world of a difference for me, thank you.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:33:08 +0000

Breadcrumbs are one of the worst additions to Vista. They’re 1) small and hard to click on and 2) don’t work with long pathnames.

Up-arrow and backspace worked quite well in XP, and the fact that you can’t use them in Vista is the reason why I’m not upgrading to it. Nor Win7 (since it looks like it has the same brain dead system), until this machine dies an unrecoverable death.

By: Ken Mason

Ken Mason — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:48:41 +0000

AveBreadCrumbs doesn’t work on x64 CPUs, or in x64 Vista, I don’t know which imcompatibilty. Both?

By: Dan Dar3

Dan Dar3 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:16:47 +0000

Are you clicking away to get the breadcrumbs back? try ESC key.
Up button would be nice, try using Backspace key for now.

By: Disgruntled from Surrey

Disgruntled from Surrey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:15:43 +0000

I have to agree with Kbboy, at least these breadcrumbs allow you to navigate. Having the dropdown box as showing previously visited locations is completely redundant due to back and forward buttons surely. I want a way to have that dropdown box allow me to access the whole of my computer like in previous versions of windows, not just places I’ve been before. If that’s not possible, is there a way to disable having the breadcrumbs disabled (Alt-D), so that I don’t have to constantly click away from the box to get the breadcrumbs back? An up button would also be nice.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:29:10 +0000

Dear MS – this is my last PC – how much productivity have you cost us with all this nonsense! It’s just utterly irresponsible for MS to not allow this to be disabled. The file path is crucial for so many things. Bad news – AveNoBreadcrumb did not work for me on a 64bit machine. Anything else that can be done?