How to Show Current Path on Title Bar in Windows 8

Introduction

Windows 8 is now released and Microsoft has changed some default behavior that exists in the previous version of Windows. Here I will discuss with you one of the changes that have occurred in Windows 8.

As you know, the title bar of Windows Explorer is used to display the complete path of the drive or directory where the file resides, like this.

Windows explorer

But, in Windows 8 the common default behavior would be omitted. Now, the title bar does not show the full path of the current location in the Windows Explorer. But if you want this, you can change this by doing the following.

Step 1. Open the Windows Explorer by pressing the Win+R key.

You will see that the title bar does not show the full path of the location.

Title bar

Step 2. Go to the View menu from the top of the window.

View menu

Step 3. Select the Option from the top left of the window. Now, click on the "Change folder and search options" from the drop-down list.

Change folder

Step 4. Switch to the View tab in the Folder Options window.

Folder Options window

Step 5. At last check the "Display the full path in the title bar" checkbox like this. Click the OK button to apply the change.

Display the full path

Now when you open the Windows Explorer and go down the particular location, the Title displays the current location to you.

 Title displays the current location

Summary

In this article, we learned about How to Show the Current Path on the Title Bar in Windows 8.


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