I recall seeing a shortcut key to hide or show this bar a while back, but cannot for the life of me recall the shortcut key(s). Obviously that would be silly, but you can do it. I have an issue with some sites hiding the command bar when they open a new window in Internet Explorer. You could also use other commands directly from the address bar - for instance, if you wanted to see a directory listing of the current directory in the command prompt, you could use cmd /k dir in the address bar.

Just like that, Notepad will open the file. If you want to directly open a particular webpage or website through Internet Explorer then do. This will open Internet Explorer’s default webpage. 3) Press OK in the bottom left corner of the RUN box. Remove the address bar in Windows Explorer using a group policy setting. From the Desktop folder in Explorer, type notepad test.txt into the address bar, and hit the enter key. 1) Press Windows and R key together to open the RUN toolbox. For example, a network administrator might want to disable the ability to navigate freely in Windows Explorer by removing the address bar from the top of the screen.This can help prevent users from accessing important resources, such as servers.

Imagine that you have a file on your desktop called test.txt and you want to open it.

You can also run other commands, like opening a file in the current folder with Notepad. Here’s a fun little tip for you: did you know that you can run commands from the address bar in Windows Explorer? It’s true - any app that you could run on the command line can be run from the address bar, including opening a new command prompt.įor instance, if you were to type cmd into the address bar, you would end up opening a command prompt with the current path already set to whatever the current folder is.

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