Comments on: Restore That Missing "Up" Button in Windows Vista Explorer

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:02:12 +0000

Mavis don’t reply to their email at all – I had the same issue of my serial code no longer working thanks to a change in hardware, and they just ignored my email. Unless ‘they’ are just 2 guys with a fancy website. I found an easy way to solve my problem was to re-request my code via their website facility, and the code I got was new.

In terms of functionality, Mavis Up Button is perfect for those who want their up button, like me, but I’ve found a nasty bug in Windows 7 where the installation of Up Button causes Explorer to crash should you use the “open containing folder” feature in Firefox’s download feature when a download’s finished and you want to directly access the folder it’s in.

This might have been an issue in other Operating Systems but I didn’t notice it.

So, it’s very hit and miss overall – no support at all, and a brutal bug in Windows 7 – but gives the up arrow which should have been there in the first place.

By: Rollo

Rollo — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:55 +0000

I miss the up button. It was perfect and much better than the silly ‘breadcrumbs’ option.

However the two alternatives on this article are not the answer. Both are badly coded and buggy to install (and uninstall!)

Hopefully someone will come out with a good hack to put this useful feature back.

By: JimB

JimB — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:02:11 +0000

LOL there Ralph, do you realise you’re replying to a person’s post at the top of this thread and dated May 2008 ? I think the person has forgotten this thread a longtime ago. Better look at what we’re saying lately about this whole button thing.

But you’re of course 100% correct BTW concerning the uselessness of the breadcrumbs. QTTabbar fullfills all your wishes.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:27:07 +0000

Sean, if you are very deep in the folder hierarchy and the folder names are very long, then the breadcrumbs are USELESS, because what you can see is maybe a single folder name.

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:35:18 +0000

Yeah JimB that’s what I did… But to be honest, the Mavis one was just perfect to me… I don’t really need other feature than the “Up button” and it was well integrated.

By: JimB

JimB — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:36:16 +0000

Once more use the QTTabbar and forget Mavis. He can put his button where …

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:39:20 +0000

@Cons

It happened the same for me with Mavis Up Button… I changed my motherboard and the key was then invalid after reinstalling Vista, support never answered any mail… And some people wonders why there’s a piracy problem !

By: JimB

JimB — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:52:33 +0000

Why bother ? It just isn’t working. Use the QTTabbar.

By: Cons

Cons — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:32:19 +0000

Regards the Mavis Up button: I can’t recommend it, since you can’t install it on more than one computer and if you change anything to your hardware you can’t install it anymore. I replaced my harddrive and wanted to re-install the application. It gave me an error that the purchased code I owned wasn’t valid, and I noticed that the hardware ID had changed. Also, their support never responded to any of my questions!

By: Sergiu

Sergiu — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:34:09 +0000

>>> Why do you need an up button? If you have the address bar set up with the arrows, (I think it’s the default?) you can just hop up exactly where you need to go�.
If you are inside in a folder, that’s on the desktop, how do you get to the desktop? You click the drop-down menu, then you choose “Desktop”. That’s 2 steps, instead of one. When you need to do this multiple times a day, it becomes annoying.