lets you speak to your New York cab driver; you tell it where you want to go. Here’s what you can type there (press Enter afterward): •• A Web address. You can leave off the http:// portion. Just type the body of the Web address, such as www.sony.com, into this strip. When you press Enter (or click the > button, called the Go button), Internet Explorer opens to the Web page you specified. Tip: If you press Ctrl+Enter instead of just Enter, you can surround whatever you’ve just typed into the address bar with http://www. and .com. See Chapter 11 for even more address shortcuts along these lines.
•• A search phrase. If you type some text into this strip that isn’t obviously a Web address, Windows assumes you’re telling it, “Go online and search for this phrase.” From here, it works exactly as though you’ve used the Internet search feature described on page 403. •• A folder name. You can also type one of several important folder names into this strip, such as Computer, Documents, Music, and so on. When you press Enter, that particular folder window opens. Tip: This window has AutoComplete. That is, if you type pi and then press Tab, the address bar will complete the word Pictures for you. (If it guesses wrong, press Tab again.)
•• A program or path name. In this regard, the address bar works just like the Run command (page 55). In each case, as soon as you begin to type, a pop-up list of recently visited Web sites, files, or folders appears below the address bar. Windows is trying to save you some NostalGia corner
Would You Like to See the Menu Bar? You may have noticed already that there’s something dramatically different about the menu bar (File, Edit, View, and so on): It’s gone. Microsoft decided you’d rather have a little extra space to see your icons. Fortunately, you can bring it back, in three ways. Temporarily. Press the Alt key or the F10 key. Presto! The traditional menu bar reappears. You even get to see the classic one-letter underlines that tell you what letter keys you can type to operate the menus without the mouse. Permanently, all windows. On the task toolbar, choose OrganizeÆLayoutÆ“Menu bar.” The traditional menu
bar appears, right above the task toolbar. There it will stay forever, in all Explorer windows, at least until you turn it off using the same command. Permanently, all windows (alternate method). Here’s another trick that achieves the same thing. Open Folder Options. (Do that by typing folder op into the Start menu’s Search box, or by choosing OrganizeÆ“Folder and search options” in any Explorer window.) In the resulting dialog box, click the View tab. Turn on “Always show menus,” and then click OK.