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

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. :)

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2011-10-19T17:30:21+00:00

ALT+UP ARROW = UP ONE LEVEL

But how were we supposed to know this?

And what if you're not a "shortcut-key" person?

Oh well, MS keeps burning themselves, let Apple take over the world.

Bye
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2011-10-19T19:41:30+00:00

ALT+UP ARROW = UP ONE LEVEL

But how were we supposed to know this?

And what if you're not a "shortcut-key" person?

Oh well, MS keeps burning themselves, let Apple take over the world.

Bye

Thank you....so....much.

I just really can't believe they took this out it's pretty ridiculous. But thank you so much that I cna now do it again with a quick shortcut.
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2011-11-24T04:46:11+00:00

I am a fan of Windows...and most of the time they get it right. In this instance however, this is one of the most stupid, unnecessary and dysfunctional changes they have ever made. The "up one level" function was just that...it WAS functional...it worked well and it was a basic action that served a practical and often needed purpose. Whoever made the decision to remove it was not thinking in a very clever or user friendly way at all. It absolutely should be returned...and we shouldn't have to upgrade to have it returned either. Worst situation I've encountered is when you go to "save as" something...but want to save it in a different directory than the one you're in, which I would simply use the "up one level" button for. A scenario I would have thought was very common place and performed by millions of people on a daily basis...so why on Earth would Microsoft remove this and deteriorate the functionality of the program ? Sheer stupidy and working against your customers.
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