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Old December 8th 17, 02:59 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Default Windows Explorer Replacements

On 12/7/17 6:06 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ken Springer" wrote

| On another quest to find a replacement for the default Windows Explorer.
|

I'm curious what you want to get, or get rid of.
Some things might be available through shell
extensions, like Explorer Bars, though I don't know
what's out there for that.


First, a short story, recent actual experience, as in the last month. G

The kid that runs the local PC repair shop had never seen Windows for
Workgroups. So, I installed a copy on an old XP laptop and dropped it
off for him to play with.

Know what impressed him the most? File Manager!! Especially the
navigation pane with the distinct lines showing the file structure
hierarchy.

That hierarchy is hard for people to see and grasp once the Vista
version of Windows Explorer and later. There's no connecting lines.

File Manager of W4WG is even easier to show that as each drive is
displayed in a bar just above the file display.
https://www.idgcdn.com.au/article/im..._img_60352.jpg
Technically, the display is not correct at the topmost level, but it's
the best MS did.

I tutor seniors with their computers, and the closer of a replacement to
File Manager I can find would be a plus as a starting point. And,
replacing Windows/File Explorer rather than a separate program would
make it easier to explain. That would make it easier to transition to
the display they see on their computer.

If they still have something of a quizzical look on their faces, I tell
them to look at it rotated 90˚ clockwise, it's simply a corporate
organizational chart.

And, don't think everyone knows all this simple stuff we take for
granted. In the last month, I helped a senior who didn't know what a
word processor is, but had stumbled onto WordPad. She didn't know how
to save a file, and has owned this computer since Windows 8.

XPlorer++ also displays the lines, but it's portable. Currently, I
carry a copy of it on a thumb drive.

No matter what program I end up with, I'll have to try them out in W8.1
and 10.

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