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File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...
PhilB66:
Hi, Are there any truly 100% effective explorer replacements- i.e. such that explorer never then appears in normal use?
-dalchina (September 11, 2007, 06:58 PM)
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I think the reviews should only look at programs that do not use the Windows API. Otherwise, you'll be looking at 'replacements' that are essentially Windows explorer in a new outfit.
PhilB66:
OK tinjaw - let me feed my ravenous toddlers and I'll create a poll while they're burping contentedly to themselves and are held captive by Dora the Explorer...
-Darwin (September 11, 2007, 08:07 PM)
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;D
Dora's Fairytale Adventures is my kids favorite.
urlwolf:
It's apparently quite hard for an explorer replacement to really be a complete explorer replacement- i.e. to ensure explorer NEVER appears when you don't expect it.
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This has more to do with how other programs call explorer.exe. There is a standard way. If they call it in a different way, then it will pop up and not be intercepted by your default file manager.
Re: wiki on filemanagers... good idea. I thought "but there's one!", but I was remembering this:
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml
There's a BOOK on filemanagers!
That site is pretty exhaustive.
They seem to like TC.
Darwin:
Holy crap, batman! The author claims that the resource has been around for 21 years! Wow. It is comprehensive and I was entirely unaware of its existence. Thanks, urlwolf for directing us to it.
Dirhael:
OK tinjaw - let me feed my ravenous toddlers and I'll create a poll while they're burping contentedly to themselves and are held captive by Dora the Explorer...
-Darwin (September 11, 2007, 08:07 PM)
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Your poll better have an option called something like "I use all of the above File Managers" ;)
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