hi John!

Thanks for your program. it would be fine when i can open local folders or files with your addressbar.

atm it opens the default webbrowser.

Thanks for the fix. I couldnt survive without the address bar there.

Oxymoron

Understandable, as Windows Explorer WAS the default browser (back in IE6 anyway…)

Great Stuff with a capital G!!!! The address bar makes my life simple…was a little bummed when I noticed it gone…. Thanks a bunch!

John… U made my life better…

Thanks!!!! This is great. Lost without the address bar.

hey guys, this is great found it on msfn forums which then lead me to here

1. sp3 stinks for removing that address bar i rely on it

2. how do you keep MuvEnum Address Bar: in place and always on when restarting computer? cuz when i do it dissappears then i gotta renable it, unlock taskbar move it around the relock. thanks

3. thanks

thanks soooooooo much john.. i love this toolbar..

Hey, when it auto-puts in HTTP:// I use the task bar to launch more then just sites, it also opens c:; regedit; notepad, calc, sol, cmd, ect…. anyway to get it to still do this? And the original one opend the default browser as well, and FireFox has to option of useing IE6/7 History anyway, I don’t see a problem with it at all.

On a second note, anyone who knows of it even being there, that I know of, only use IE7 anyway, FireFox is a joke.

Every XP SP3 user that’s missing the ‘Address’ Toolbar– you can use the ‘Windows Search Deskbar’ toolbar and type in file paths ex. ‘C:\’ or URLs ex. ‘http://www.google.com’ and it will launch the correct application to handle it in SP3 RC2 (and maybe other RCs)… hope that helps… it makes annoying suggestions from index items… that the only downer. Good luck hopefully they’ll wise up before the actual release.. :fingers crossed:

Anyone with a Myspace account tried to enter their site into “muvextoe” address bar?
It adds an “/” to the end of the address, and the page won’t display.
Try it out on your site on Myspace.
If I manually delete the “/” after I’ve hit enter (even though I didn’t type that in the first place), all is fine.
Minor gripe I know!
Thanks for adding the missing address bar back.
Steve
myspace.com/whoscalling
NOT
myspace.com/whoscalling/

John: I can’t wait until you fix the disappearing bar issue because I am totally lost without my address bar Thanks! — Frank

It would be nice if you could do single word google searches from the address bar. Just saying. Thanks though.

that’s good news! let me try it out

A-MA-ZING! Thanks alot, I just feel much better using my computer hehehe. Thats a very good piece you just fixed on the SP3

This comes as a great relief. Like so many other users, I was disappointd to find my Address Bar missing from the bottom of my screen. I too had come to rely on the address bar to type in URL’s and local paths.
A couple of points: I’d like to see an ‘Address Bar’ label (icon and/or text) to the right of the bar, as previously. I’d also like to see a border along the top of the bar to blend it in w/ the rest of the taskbar area.
Just a thought. And, well done!

Re the search shortcuts, the current XP Address bar will do the searches you can configure in TweakUI - they are stored in the registry and … well, best described over here - http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_search_the_web.htm

hth Andy

John,
Coders are the rock stars of the 21st C.: Downloaded the RTM version of SP3 this morning, installed it, couldn’t find the address bar, searched MSKB in vain, found the cause this afternoon (everywhere BUT MS), and now this evening, I was able to download your amazingly generous fix. YOU are a rock star, my friend. Thank you!

Thank you VERRY MUCH!!!
Ive installed this evening SP3 for XP and my loved addressbar in my taskbar gone away! Now ive found your verry nice replacement! Thank you verry much!
But is it possible to add a history function of typed commands please? Because the bar is always empty.

Another SP3 sucker checking in…

Thank you for this - I use the address bar every day multiple times daily. You’re awesome.

I’ll be interested in a x64 version…

Just wanted to see if you’d consider adding in Vista address bar functionality, where you can click on the individual folders in the path to move up in the tree.

Great fix, btw!

Works great so far! Thanks!

Thanks for the tool. Any plan to support environment variables?

John,

I agree with everyone else here, you rock. I am pissed they got rid of the address bar. I was wondering if you could integrate the following into your next release.

I have a favorite in IE7 for bankofamerica.com, named “b1″. Previously, I would type “b1″ into the address bar and it would take me right to the BOA site.

Is this do-able?

Many thanks.

Ty, very much for this lifesaving tool!!! IS there a possibility to make it look the more the same for the windows classic theme?

Anyways keep up the good work!

Thank you so very much for this program. My only suggestion is that it would be nice if it remembered the addresses youve typed into it or at least the last few of them. I visit about 10 or 15 diff websites a day and with the old tool bar if I needed to revisit one I could click the arrow on the side and it would show me a history of all the addresses Ive typed in. For some reason with this one it remembered me going to microsoft.com and nvidia.com and 2 other pages on microsoft.com but none of the other pages ive gone to. Also when you click the little orange button there should be a button for settings or preferences along with checking for updates (a link to your site would be helpful too in case I want to come back and leave feedback or download/buy your software). Again, Thanks for this program its a major pain having to open a browser every time I want to go to a website.

oops sorry I just clicked on the logo on the update screen and it went to your site… a blatantly obvious link would be nicer though.

Great program. I can see how useful this would be.

If you want the “real” address bar back, you can replace one file in SP3 with a the SP2 version. Obviously, this is a type of “hack”, so it may break future updates and what not. If you are interested in checking out the process, have a look here: http://personal.ryantadams.com/2008/05/08/restore-the-address-bar-in-windows-xp-sp3/

Again, this method is not for everyone, most users will probably find the program offered hear easier and safer.

UPDATE: This program may not actually be needed. I appear to have saved my address bar by doing the following steps. I just confirmed this to work.

1) Before upgrading to SP3, drag the address bar from the task bar to the desktop where it will undock. Right click on the address bar & tell it to “Always stay on Top”.

2) Proceed with the upgrade.

3) After rebooting the address bar option is no longer part of the toolbar, but the undocked address bar window will still be on the desktop.

4) Drag & Drop it back to the address bar, where it will function as it always did.

Good Luck

-vAlis

Thanks Muchly for the great toolbar. Talk about Crisis Averted! I have happy users thanks to you!

sorry to seem dim, but, have installed the address task bar but I dont seem to have access to it on the tool bar. Have I missed soemthing

The solution to get the address back is here
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=683
Copy the old browserui.dll from SP2 to SP3 System32 folder, then reboot

JC, thanks for the link. Even easier is this article & tool, linked from that article, which worked like magic:
http://personal.ryantadams.com/2008/05/08/restore-the-address-bar-in-windows-xp-sp3/

Nice to have the real thing back…I use the address bar literally hundreds of times a day.

John, have been using your MuvEnum Address Bar for the past few days. Fantastic fix…nice work. But there’s still a few things it doesn’t do that made me go back to the Microsoft one:

• Can’t enter “My Documents” or “My Computer”.

• Can’t enter a drive letter for a network drive unless it’s already been accessed by some other process. (One of the main things I use the address bar for is to access my network drives.)

• Your search page (http://search.muvenum.com/search?q=searchterm) is broken…wrong MIME type? all I see is the HTML code.

• And, as others have mentioned, it would be nice to have the icon (favicon) back next to the address…which can then be dragged elsewhere to make a shortcut.

Very small caveats. Like I said, brilliant fix and alternative to the Microsoft one.

It is a nice address bar but still alittle buggy for me… I have not throughly tested this but if you drag the my computer icon in the start menu to the top of the screen and then right click on the docked toolbar.. Address is there… Undock it check keeep on top and then dock it in regular place… I tested this method without the keep toolbar on top option checked and it would disappear every once in a while..

Another alternative is Dave’s Quick Search Taskbar Toolbar Deskbar at http://www.dqsd.net/ . This does various things as well as being a pretty competent address bar. One thing missing, as far as I can tell, is history of addresses, but there are other nice features.

Great replacement thanks! But I will wait for the search function to work. Right now when I type in something to search for, it brings up a weird xml page. Keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot for your addressbar! One thing that I miss is entering %temp% or %programfiles% to go to the full path.

Unattended installs:
I can use /S for a silent install, but is there a switch to uncheck “Show Go Arrow”?

There IS address bar in XP SP3 !
Drag any folder from explorer to the side of monitor > this will create sidebar toolbar > right click on this toolbar and select: Toolbars > Address bar.
Grab you new address bar and drag it to taskbar.
Enjoy

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks for this. Can’t work without an Address input on my Taskbar.

Damn MS and/or the EU or whoever put them up to it. I’d like to put my foot up their arse for removing such a productive feature.

Just noticed one small thing. The original MS Version checks Favorites for a match before adding the “http://” prefix.

This becomes really handy because you can save a bunch of Favorite items with short names. Whether they point to local folders, network shares or URLs to websites, simply typing a word into the Address Toolbar and pressing Enter will bring you to your destination.

When I try the same thing in the current version of this util, it adds “http://” to the beginning everytime.

Example:
type ‘dlls’ (no quotes) into the Address Toolbar

Expected result: Explorer opens to a path like \\serverOne\f\sourceFiles\production\dlls

Actual result: Internet Explorer opens to http://dlls/
which (of course) cannot be displayed

I like this tool, and would buy it, but it’s not working when the taskbar is in the vertical position, only when it’s in the horizontal position.

Drag your taskbar to the side of your screen to see what I mean…

Thanks

Hi

I really loved your taskbar, it works as well as the original…. but I need to make a request….

Could a make a new review… I don’t like much bitching around but it doesn’t works well with vertical taskbars =(
The image the smaller space i can get it to use =x;

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/230/imagena8.jpg

Any comments on TEA’s post regarding moving a folder to the side of the screen, creating an address toolbar within that toolbar, and dragging it to the taskbar? (I had to drag the address toolbar to the Desktop first, then drag it to the taskbar.)

Is there any way to automate this with a registry setting?