Disable Explorer Breadcrumbs in Windows Vista

[shahjinn]

Dozens of people have written in and expressed their hatred of the new breadcrumb feature in Windows Vista's Explorer address bar, and especially because you simply can't turn it off… until now.

Here is the default explorer breadcrumb:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6549/image57bp4.png

And here's the address bar after running AveNoBreadcrumb. It will completely disable the breadcrumbs.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3439/image58mg9.png

Installing AveNoBreadCrumb

Download and unzip the file
Double-click on AveNoBreadCrumb.exe
Close the current explorer window, and open a new one.
Magic!

Adding to Startup

Open an explorer window and type in shell:Startup into the address bar to get to your startup folder.
Create a shortcut in this folder to AveNoBreadCrumb.exe

Uninstalling

Remove the startup shortcut, if any.
Double-click on AveNoBreadCrumb.exe to disable it.
Close the current explorer window and re-open.

Download-Link (http://mpj.tomaatnet.nl/AveNoBreadcrumb.zip)

Enjoy:top:

[spamtroll]

Thanks, this was beginning to get on my nerves.

[shahjinn]

Thanks, this was beginning to get on my nerves.

No problem Enjoy :top:

Best regards
shahjinn