Explorer Breadcrumbs for Windows XP

Breadcrumbs was initially introduced in Gnome’s Nautilus file browser. This feature was later implemented in Windows Vista for simplifying directory navigation by adding a toolbar which shows the directories you’ve navigated. Luckily for Windows XP users, a donationware called Explorer Breadcrumbs brings the same functionality to Windows XP.

With Explorer Breadcrumbs, you can click on the toolbar and go back to any previous directory at any point of time. Else, you can use the drop down menu on the breadcrumb toolbar to navigate further. In layman’s words, Explorer Breadcrumbs lets you go to any location with a single click, rather than following through folder hierarchy.

Download Explorer Breadcrumbs

As I told earlier, Explorer Breadcrumbs is a donationware. You can install it on any number of machines, but if you can show your appreciation by donation $7,95

Thanks for the tip, Anirudh

This post was published by on March 13, 2007

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  • http://anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    Thanks for publishing the article Thilak

  • http://www.rishiraj.info Rishi

    Awesome thing.

    That toolbar is really helpful for me as I forget location of the folders easily! ;)

  • http://technixupdate.com abhishek bhatnagar

    ya thilak it is good utility may be you remembered when i told you about it..in or chat.

  • http://andrewkuo.net Andrew Kuo

    Nice tool! How do you find all these awesome tools?

  • http://tech-buzz.net Thilak

    Andrew: Our secret messenger Anirudh! Who else?

  • http://anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    /me sings:
    Now we know as we are known, unimagined thingsDeath is just the messenger, love the truth it brings

    @andrew, found this while looking for explorer enhancements. There are some really neat ones if you care to look.

  • destinyking

    I would like to suggest tabbyfile which has the option to open folders in tabs just like in firefox .More information can be obtained from
    http://bradlima.com/index.php?page=tabbyFile

  • http://anirudhsanjeev.org Anirudh

    @destinyking, tabbyfile is a seperate file manager, but it has a nice concept. I like the tiles menu and am used to explorer. If a tabbed interface for explorer can be found, that would be nice.

  • http://techecho.blogspot.com av

    QTTab adds tabbed browsing experience for windows explorer..makes windows switching very easy in windows

  • Avii

    Great tool. This is one of the few things I actually like about VISTA. I also like how they have a quick name, date, size box on all views (not just detailed) so you can change how things or ordered in one click.

    anybody know of such an add-on for xp?