Address Bar

The address bar is a feature of web browsers and Windows Explorer^*.

The address bar displays your current location, which will be either a website (e.g. http://www.google.com) or a location on your hard drive (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\Cecil Sagehen\My Music). If you want to go somewhere else, type it into the address bar and hit ENTER.

^*Some computers have the Windows Explorer address bar turned off by default. You can turn it on by going to View > Toolbars > Address Bar.

Internet Explorer (a web browser) and Windows Explorer (a file explorer) have been designed to seamlessly interoperate. This means that if you type a website address into Windows Explorer, it transforms into Internet Explorer and shows you the web page. Conversely, typing in C:\Program Files\ into Internet Explorer's address bar will magically transform it into Windows Explorer. This fact and the similarities of the two programs' names have caused many consumers to confuse them as one single program; in fact, they're simply a well-coordinated tag-team.