Vista Breadcrumbs for Windows XP
The same programmer that created yesterday's Tabbed Explorer plugin also has another add-in that will give you Vista-style breadcrumbs in Windows XP. This application should be really helpful for those of you that aren't ready to switch to Windows Vista yet, but want to get some of the new features.
Installation of this application is fairly simple, just unzip the files into the location you'd like to keep them, and then double-click on the QTAddressBar.exe file.
Select the Install option, and then click the Next button to register the component with Windows.
At this point you need to either log off and back on, or restart explorer.exe through Task Manager. You can select the File \ New Task option once you kill the process.
Assuming you are back from restarting explorer, now right-click on the toolbars area and do these two actions:
- Deselect Address Bar
- Select QT Breadcrumbs Address Bar
Now you'll have an incredibly similar breadcrumbs implementation for Windows XP.
Of course, there are also some of you that don't like the breadcrumbs in Vista, and there's a way to disable those too.
Explorer crashed when logging off after the install, but I think it is not related. I find this piece of code very useful and have been waiting for *you* to finally blog about a XP port of the breadcrumbs. Thanks.
This thing uses the .NET platform, this will force the system to load additional modules, which is not a good idea if your machine is not extremely fast.
There are alternative 'breadcrumbs' tools, written in C or C++, they consume less resources. Try this one: http://minimalist.com/software.....eadcrumbs/
This looked pretty neat, but unfortunately it doesn't play nice with Styler Toolbar (it doesn't conflict, it just messes up the look that Styler gives for the explorer toolbar).
it didn't install at all .. showed error!
"The Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. .. any suggestions?
never mind … got it fixed
… reinstalled .NET n it got installed 