Windows Explorer drop-down menu solution

This is one thing about Vista that has confused the heck out of me and many others. Why would Microsoft’s drop-down menu in Windows Explorer show a history of visited websites and directories instead of your folder directories? Do they want you to use the navigation menu on the left? Yes they do but I find it easier to just use the drop-down list at the top. Microsoft has actually changed the way you use that menu in Vista. You can still have a list of directories drop down from that menu.

Switching over from XP, there’s no doubt your first instinct was to use the right-most arrow to access a list of your directories (as highlighted in yellow.)

But that’s not what Microsoft intended for you to do when using Windows Explorer in Vista.

In order to access a list of directories, you’d have to click on those little arrows beside each folder.

There are in fact arrows beside each folder, making it more productive to navigate since you do not have to move back a folder in order to access that folder anymore.

Now you don’t have to be frustrated with a list of websites every time you want a listing of your files.

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