Anyone developing a better, less buggy Windows Explorer for Vista?

[atodzia]

The bugs in Window Explorer are really getting to me. Is there a
better alternative program out there or is anyone developing one for
Vista?

I think Windows Explorer in XP had major bugs as well initially but
you would think they have had enough time to get a file management
tool perfected.

 

[Richard Urban]

I have not been able to understand (since Windows 95) why people struggle
with explorer.

There are many actual file manager programs available. Total Commander (free
with nag ware) will do most anything that you may ever want to accomplish
with your drives, and then some. I purchased it 8 years ago and have gotten
about 25 updates since then. I have been using it for 8 years now.

Prior to that I used XTree Gold, based upon DOS (in Windows 95).

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User

 

[Adam Albright]

The bugs in Window Explorer are really getting to me. Is there a
better alternative program out there or is anyone developing one for
Vista?

There were several good alternates that ran fine in XP, haven't looked
for one that runs in Vista. Probably will be a crop pretty soon.

 

[Richard Stallmann]

you haven't been able to understand? then go download the x64 bit version. what, it's not there? well, maybe now you understand.

Also, @people, try to understand that there is a difference between a programme and a system component! A programme can never be as
fast or reliable as a component fully integrated into the system. Compare KDE on linux with WinExplorer and you'll see what I mean.

The only thing vista explorer needs is a phucking "up" button. why isn't anybody coding one, for god's sake?!

 

[Steve Thackery]

The only thing vista explorer needs is a phucking "up" button. why isn't

anybody coding one, for god's sake?!

It's got the breadcrumb trail instead, which does the same thing, and more.

Steve

 

[Steve Thackery]

That's interesting, I haven't noticed any bugs. Could you give a couple of
examples?

Steve

 

[Nick Goetz]

Total Commander is the "Swiss Army Knife" of Windows utilities with some
good plugins & addons.

It's the first thing I load on every computer I work on.

Nick Goetz

 

[Michael Chare]

That's interesting, I haven't noticed any bugs. Could you give a couple
of examples?

Steve

For example it quite often does not show files in a folder, even if you
click refresh. You need to be able to trust what is being displayed.

 

[Guest]

I will code one for you if you want.
G

you haven't been able to understand? then go download the x64 bit version.
what, it's not there? well, maybe now you understand.

Also, @people, try to understand that there is a difference between a
programme and a system component! A programme can never be as fast or
reliable as a component fully integrated into the system. Compare KDE on
linux with WinExplorer and you'll see what I mean.

The only thing vista explorer needs is a phucking "up" button. why isn't
anybody coding one, for god's sake?!

 

[Guest]

Oh and by the way, it will work with Vista he he he
Sorry to hear your troubles man, I have not worked with x64 yet.
Maybe I will release a 'phucking' up button for all the Vista users with
trouble, and we can see how many times it gets pressed
G

 

[Guest]

It's not a bug... it's a feature:

Try dragging and dropping a file onto the moving file tree. Good thing it
has a search feature so you can find the file you just dropped into the wrong
bucket.

 

[Hugh Wyn Griffith]

PowerDesk or the similar Explorer Plus that behaves like Norton Desktop
for Windows did. (Don't hold that against it <g>)

PowerDesk has a free version you can try out and maybe continue to use.
I'm using ExplorerPlus because I bought that to support the original
programmers but it works fine under VISTA.

You can have one or two Drive Windows; have them show horizontally or
vertically; have a tree window; show or not show folders in the files
window; select drives with a click on a labeled button; use a very fast
file search facility; and copy to the clipboard a file name or the
complete path to it with a single click. Like:

C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\angelusb.inf_22a0c7db

I can't understand why MS didn't buy them out -- unless they didn't
trust windows users with finding files <g>

http://www.v-com.com/product/PowerDesk_Free_Trial.html

ExplorerPlus seems to have disappeared from its umpteenth home at:

http://www.sendphotos.com/

 

[DevilsPGD]

In message <[email protected]> "Steve Thackery"

That's interesting, I haven't noticed any bugs. Could you give a couple of
examples?

If you use the "Group by" views, hold "CTRL" and click on a header, the
release control before the items are selected, any previously selected
items are now unselected.

 

[marty]

That's interesting, I haven't noticed any bugs. Could you give a couple of
examples?

Steve

These are a few bugs I am experiencing with Vista.

1) Mouse-over a folder icon and the notification-popup displays along
with folder name, date created, folder size etc - "Folders: *folder
names*" where *folder names* should be an abreviated list of the folders
contained in that particular folder (how it worked in XP anyway).
Instead *folder names* contains the name of the folder I am mousing-over.

2) Incidences where I have deleted the contents of a folder, but after
refreshing I mouse-over the folder icon and under "Size:" it still
indicates the folder is full.

3) Explorer windows do not remember their size. VERY ANNOYING!

4) Explorer windows do not remember their "Views" settings. VERY ANNOYING!

 

[Milhouse Van Houten]

And this:
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=295759

 

[marty]

you haven't been able to understand? then go download the x64 bit version. what, it's not there? well, maybe now you understand.

Also, @people, try to understand that there is a difference between a programme and a system component! A programme can never be as
fast or reliable as a component fully integrated into the system. Compare KDE on linux with WinExplorer and you'll see what I mean.

The only thing vista explorer needs is a phucking "up" button. why isn't anybody coding one, for god's sake?!

HAHA...I initially read that as a "phucking up" button not phucking "up"
button. It needs one of those as well.