Windows 8 In Depth

Folder Navigation

Windows 8 implements drives and folders as hierarchies that you navigate up, down, and even across. As you can see in Figure 6.4, the address bar doesn’t show any drive letters or backslashes. Instead, you get a hierarchical path to the current folder. The path in Figure 6.4 has three items, separated by right-pointing arrows:

• Current folder icon—This icon represents the current folder. You’ll see a bit later that you can use this icon to navigate to your computer drives, your network, the Control Panel, your user folder, and more.

• Libraries—This represents the second level of the sample hierarchy. In the example, this level represents all the libraries associated with the current user account. (A library is a virtual folder ...