What happened to the 'Up one folder' button in the Windows Explorer??

This functionality is not the same.

As long as you dont have directories of the same name lenght (and even if You have it still is not the same).

I have been using this function instead of "one level up" button and it is not as half effective as the button.

The problem is, you cannot go several directories up by clicking repeatedly, you have move mouse cursor every time, because directories are different lengths.

"c:[projects][name of the project][standart structure inside the project][different folders]"

[name of the project] - could be 10 to 30 chars

[standart structure inside the project] - is 8 chars

[different folders] - is 10 to 35 chars

And each time, You go up one level, You have to adjust cursor position on the parent folder.

There are only two parent folders shown at a time, that is not enought.

You have to click on different places several time instead of clicking on one button repeteadly until You are where You need to be.

(Ill try ClassicShell, it seem to be the right choise from what I have read.)

Windows XP also had the ability to go back using the arrow key on Explorer, so being able to go back is not an entirely new feature.

It seems quite user un-friendly to simply remove a method of navigation that so many people use, and has been part of the navigation for years.

This feels like it was a change simply to change something. Actually, it feels like Microsoft wanted to make sure the users would get familiar with their new functionality with Backspace and clicking in the address bar. To me, it feels like Microsoft did this because they were worried people would not notice the new functionality if the users just blindly kept using the up one level button.

So, they took away functionality so many users have grown use to and facilitate a lot of their navigation with, not even giving us the option to put it back -- and not caring what it did to those of us who used the Up Arrow functionality.

Too many times in the past few years, functionality has been changed, and users aren't even given the option to operate the way they have done successfully for years.

To me, the most blatant example of this is the way Favorites are saved from the menu bar -- the difference from IE6 to IE7 and on.

But I wouldn't have any problem at all if Microsoft wants to hamper the way Users can work, as long as they have the option of selecting whether they want to, perhaps, use functionality from the previous interface.

Isn't that supposed to be the point of all those commercials they did where "Joe User" and "Soccer Mom Sally User" had suggestions they thought would be helpful, and Microsoft responded?

But it seems with each new software distribution, there is functionality that is just plain taken away.

I can see the point of the new way one can use Explorer in Windows 7 -- and much of it is helpful. But why does Microsoft keep doing things like then removing functionality that could work in tandem with the new methods.

'

When I was setting up my Windows 7 for the first time, too many of my questions to Microsoft regarding functionality that I used to use but was not present resulted in responses of "You'll need to find some third party software in order to make that work the way it used to".

As you know from reading this thread, the up button is included in Windows 8, 8.1 and now in Windows 10.

I use Classic Shell in Windows 7 just for the up button although I also found using the address bar acceptable as well.