Where they returned on Windows 8. I haven't seen it! Would be great!
I have Windows 8.1 and it is definitely there. 8.1 is free if you have 8. Just Google it. :)
What happened to the 'Up one folder' button in the Windows Explorer??
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Starting with Windows Vista, the 'up one folder level' button has been removed!! I found this button to be HIGHLY useful and am VERY disappointed it is not there any more... This has drastically slowed down my production speeds!
In the following image from Windows XP Explorer, near the top right between the 'Back/Forward' buttons and the 'Search' button, you see a folder with a green arrow pointing up. Clicking that button makes the Windows Explorer go "up one folder level" bringing you to the parent folder of your current location:
http://www.daleisphere.com/wp-content/uploads/windows-xp-windows-explorer-folders-view.jpg
In the next image from Windows 7 Explorer, you can see that the 'up one folder level' button has been removed:
http://www.winsupersite.com/images/win7/win7_m3_explorer_01.jpg
Is there any way at all to get that button back PLEASE? This will drastically improve my production speeds...
(Whenever I click a 'browse for file' button in Windows 7, the explorer starts at the last folder I was looking at and I often just want to go one or 2 folder levels higher than that, but the only way to get there is to start completely at the beginning from the C: drive and navigate through all the folders to get there which can get VERY time consuming since I find myself browsing for folders 50 times/day simply cuz the 'up one folder' button is missing...)
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Anonymous
2015-04-23T17:59:09+00:00 Facebook and Windows are two completely separate products. Also, XP was never 'too secure', that's complete nonsense. Saying that it no longer is secure is, however, more of a sneaky marketing scheme rather than pure sincerity.
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Anonymous
2015-04-23T18:01:11+00:00 The replies are already getting too off-topic, but your comment has no relevance whatsoever. I think you'd be better off on 4chan.
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Anonymous
2015-05-11T08:53:15+00:00 Hi,
Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.
As you mentioned, you would like to know about the “Up One folder” button in the Windows Explorer.
I would like to inform you that this feature was available for Windows XP and is unavailable for Windows 7.
In Windows 7 we have Backspace button to go back as up one folder used to work for XP.
Hope this information helps. Please let us know if you face any other issues with Windows in future. We will be happy to assist you further.
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Anonymous
2015-05-11T16:54:32+00:00 The original questions was posted in 2010. It is now 2015 and this is the first reply from Microsoft. We appreciate it but it is a little late in coming....
Also, the solution you give here has been addressed over and over again already in this thread. The back button and on up button are not the same thing.
It's been so long since I've had the one up button that I've gotten used to not having it- but when this change was first made it made me very frustrated as it was something that I used multiple times a day. I'd like to see it come back for real in the future. Of course we all know about the back button- no need to tell us that- but it's just isnt the same thing.