Windows Vista tip: If you’ve been missing the Up navigation button in Windows Explorer since you upgraded to Vista, the functionality is still there—it’s just hidden behind an Alt-up keyboard shortcut. Now when you want to move to the parent folder of the folder you’re currently browsing inside, just hold Alt and tap the up arrow. We’re assuming Windows decided to drop the Up functionality in Vista because in most cases, the Back arrow (or Backspace) will suffice, but if you’ve jumped to different folders in the sidebar or you started browsing your filesystem below the root, the Back button just doesn’t do the trick. Luckily Alt-up is a simple, intuitive shortcut alternative. Thanks Chuma!
rudya
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:39 PMWell just another “improvement” from Microsoft. Why would they remove the intuitive up button?
I can;t believe that I and all users of Vista didn;t memorize the Alt-Up key combination. $@#*^%_$%#!
guy
Saturday, November 1, 2008 at 11:41 AMWell I do miss it and the Alt+Up requires both hands to do it. Not very practical, eh? The UP click in every other MSWindows Explorer was way better. If I click in a shortcut in my desktop to some location in the drive I can only go up a few folders not to root.
balmydrizzle
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 2:43 PM1. save a shortcut for some directory, say ABC, put it into quick launch bar
2. click the shortcut to open it
3. if press Alt-Up or back button, it goes to quick launch directory rather than actual parent directory
this happens only in Vista, how can I do this in vista since I always do this way to go to some brother directory of ABC
ukSamo
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 3:50 PMOr just use the “Backspace” key!
I’d still prefer an up icon and they’ve still missed it in Windows 7, but at least the open and close box is quite a bit nicer to use.
Angus Kidman
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 4:40 AMUnlike previous versions, in Vista, backspace doesn’t always go up a directory — it goes back through folders in the order you’ve viewed them.
Jack Brown
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 1:48 PMI just sent a suggestion to Microsoft to have an option to have the up button and let the Backspace behave like the up button as it did in Windows XP.
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_vista_master then click on “Send Us Feedback”