The new Explorer window in Windows 7 and Vista does not contain an Up button, which drives me completely batty. Thankfully I found a keyboard shortcut replacement.

Let us say I am,in my x:\wpmu\wp-content directory. Definite, I can usually click the “wpmu” part of the path and simulate the Up button, but it does not constantly work, especially if I have lowered the size of the window or tiled two windows beside each other.

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This window is 600px wide, should not I have an simple way to go Up? Turns out I do… if I just hit the following key combination:
Alt+Up

Ahhh, so much better… now I’m in the parent directory!

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Other keyboard shortcuts for Explorer:

• Alt+Right - Go forward
• Alt+Left- Go back
• Alt+D – Focus the address bar and select the current path.
• F4 – Pop up the dropdown in the address bar, actually somewhat useful.
• Alt+Enter – Properties of the selected file
• Ctrl+Mousewheel – change the size of the icons
• F11 - Put explorer into Fullscreen mode. in fact kinda weird, and I have no idea why this function is even there.