Comments on: Vista Breadcrumbs for Windows XP

By: DarkUltra

DarkUltra — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:26:38 +0000

Anyone else than me missing the option to breadcrumb to the desktop? I can “up” to the desktop in XP, but not breadcrumb there in Vista, thus its hard to access the desktop, recycle bin and network.

By: RonCam

RonCam — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:22:47 +0000

Just came back to browse your fascinating web site and stumbled across this hint …

I’m looking at the illustration and wondering, how much of this functionality (not the identical appearance) can you get by creating a Shortcut on the Desktop to My Computer, then drag that Shortcut to (for example) the top Desktop border. Then, open new Toolbar’s Context Menu, click Auto-hide.

When it opens, right-click on any entry and select Explore. I’ve found this quite helpful, but don’t have Vista or XP, so can’t say how close it comes to the functionality of the above hint. It certainly wouldn’t conflict with any other software or functions …

By: Suraj

Suraj — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:47:45 +0000

never mind … got it fixed … reinstalled .NET n it got installed

By: Suraj

Suraj — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:30:34 +0000

it didn’t install at all .. showed error! “The Application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application. .. any suggestions?

By: Artemis

Artemis — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:31:50 +0000

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).

By: Alex Railean

Alex Railean — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:03:00 +0000

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/

By: Nikola

Nikola — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:39:00 +0000

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.