Standard Buttons toolbar
The Standard Buttons toolbar, which is visible in all the sample Explorer windows in this chapter,
provides quick access to commonly used features of Explorer. You can show or hide that toolbar by
choosing View › Toolbars › Standard Buttons.
The Address bar
The optional Address bar, visible beneath the Standard Buttons toolbar in Figure 2-26, shows the name
of the location you’re viewing at the moment. It also provides a drop-down list of other commonly
accessed locations on your computer. You can jump to a new location by choosing it from the dropdown
list.
Figure 2-26: An Explorer window with all the trimmings
You also can type the name of a new location to visit into the Address bar. After you’ve finished typing,
just press Enter or click the Go button to go to that location. Note that if you have Internet access, you
can type the URL of any Web site into the Address bar. For example, typing www.coolnerds.com and
pressing Enter, or clicking the Go button, takes you to my Web site. Clicking the Back button takes you
back to wherever you left from on your own computer. Although this is handy for quick visits to Web
sites, you’ll probably want to use the Internet Explorer program, discussed in Chapter 6, for most of your
Web browsing.