Windows Vista provides “Breadcrumb” style navigation in Windows Explorer. This small addition makes it more user friendly. Another advantage with Breadcrumbs is its ability to directly jump to a sub folder by its hybrid drop down box. And you can bring all these to Windows XP with ViSplore.

As mentioned above, this little tool emulates Vista-like navigation in Windows XP’s Explorer. You can navigate to any sub folder of a selected folder from a drop down list which populates on clicking the arrow icon. A nice feature is its built in search capability. You can directly move to the folder by typing its name in a search box, similar to live search in Windows Vista.

It uses Vista Glass style designed by WindowsX to bring in the Glass UI to Windows XP, which adds to aesthetics of your Windows XP GUI. Only problem I encountered during its use is, it becomes unstable on maximizing the window. Also you can’t intuitively steer to “My Computer”. Apart from that, this is a cool utility which improves productivity and crafts a fine looking Explorer. Here’s its screenshot.

Download ViSplore.

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