Re: address bar is disabled

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Hi Wesley,

Thank you very much for the information. But I didn't mean the browse dialog box. From Start | Run, I type "explorer" in the box with a label "Open:" on its left. Then I get a window exploring the files/folders in the hard drive. In the window, the address bar is all the way to the right and disabled. I cannot type anything there. My another computer doesn't have this problem. I must have set some option to cause this problem.

Tony

Wesley Vogel wrote:

Do you mean Start | Run | Browse button | Places bar?

That opens a Browse dialog, similar to Open or Save As dialogs.  They have
no Address bar.

They have:
Places bar
Look in or Save in box
File Name box
Files of type box

Browse, Open, Save As dialogs

Places bar
[[Provides shortcuts to places on your computer or the network from which
you can open a file, such as the History folder, the desktop, or My Network
Places. When you click a location, it will appear in Look in, and the files
and folders in the selected location will be listed at the right.]]

Look in or Save in box
[[Specifies the location where you want to locate a file or folder. Click
the arrow to select another location, or click on the toolbar to move up
levels.

The box below lists the items in the selected location. To open a file, in
the Open dialog box, double-click the name of the file you want to open. To
save a file using an existing file name, in the Save dialog box,
double-click the name of the file you want to save.]]

File Name box
[[Provides a space for you to type the name of the file you want to open or
save. To quickly find a file you’ve previously opened, click the file name
in the drop-down list, if available.

If you are searching for a file, you can use asterisks (*) as wildcards. For
example, you can type *.* to see a list of all files. You can also type the
full path of a file, for example,

C:\Mydocs\Letter.doc.

If you are saving a file, you cannot use a question mark (?) or an asterisk
in the file name. If you use a question mark or asterisk and click Save, the
file will not be saved and the dialog box will not close. ]]

Files of type box
[[Lists the types of files to display.]]

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