Tag: EXPLORER

There are plenty of Windows Explorer replacements out there, and most of you probably have a favorite. While I'm normally content to use what Windows gives me, I'm always looking for a good portable replacement to help ease file management tasks on customer computers. Cubic Explorer has a number of options that have earned it the job. While it's packed with functionality and can be customized ...

We've covered many, many Explorer replacements here in the past, so I was a little surprised that MuCommander hadn't been written up yet. What makes MuCommander stand out is that it is free, open source, and cross-platform. The author's web site provides downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux (.tar.gz) as well as a Debian package, portable version, and a Java Web Start package. It's actually the ...

If you spend any amount of time moving files around using Windows Explorer, the repetitive clicking can get tiresome. Folder Guide is a context menu enhancement that speeds your navigation: add a folder to your Guide, and accessing it is a two-click operation from any explorer window or file dialog box. Adding a folder to Folder Guide can be done two ways. Launch the main program, click the add ...

While I know there are plenty of good replacements out there for Windows Explorer, I'm not ready to jump ship just yet. I don't really need any really advanced functionality, but there are a few things I'd like to add. Vista-style breadcrumbs and tabbed browsing, for example. QuizoApps has coded two small extensions that do the job quite well with a minimal impact on resources. Both addons are ...

Windows Explorer keeps getting a tiny bit better with each new Windows release. But for some reason Microsoft refuses to offer one thing that many other file managers have had for years: a two-pane window. If you want to copy files from one folder to another, you need to open two separate Explorer windows. There are a whole slew of free replacements for Windows Explorer. But one of the new kids ...

The default folder icons in Windows are so dreadfully boring, what with their bland manilla coloring and horizontal orientation. What we want is brightly colored folders that we can choose to stand on their side (like Vista). In the real world, not such a great idea - your paperwork would just slide out constantly and you end up with a bigger mess than before you crammed it into a folder. In ...

What's one of the worst things about Windows? The explorer function to find folders, documents, and pictures of your cat doing funny things. NexusFile aims to replace Windows Explorer. Here are some of the cool features that NexusFile sports that the Windows team left out on Explorer: Favorite Folders Tab support - This is a big productivity one Smart bar that remembers the directories ...

PreviewConfig is a utility that gives Vista users the power to add file type support to the Explorer preview pane, which can be activated via "Organize." Though the preview pane can be an interesting and useful feature of the OS, it really lacks in file support. It's possible to add support for more without a 3rd party program, but that requires some risky and time-consuming registry tweaking. ...

There are plenty of alternatives to the Windows file explorer. But since you can't uninstall the default file explorer, you might as well learn to love it. Or tweak the heck out of it. Whatever floats your boat. DMEXBar is a Windows Explorer add-on that lets you add a few extra toolbars and dozens of extra features to Explorer. Probably the most notable tweak is the addition of a button that ...

In an amusing move that is sure to have caused a few flushed faces, Kaspersky Antivirus recently declared Windows Explorer malicious code. While we've known Explorer to crash from time to time, this treatment seems a bit excessive. The gaffe came in the form of a routine virus update this past Wednesday night. Kaspersky mistakenly identified Explorer as an infected file. For those not ...

With the recent release of Microsoft Photo Info, your photo's EXIF data is just a hover away. This little software add-in allows you to view, add or modify common metadata that is stored in digital photos. Once installed you'll find a new "Photo Info" option when you right-click supported image files in Explorer. Microsoft Photo Info lets you work with individual or groups of images, which is a ...

If you do hard-core web development, which do you use? IE 6 or IE 7? I would rather use Firefox, but I have to develop for IE, since most of the world still uses it. Sure IE7 is new, IE6 is old, and they are similar, yet it is tough to develop for both, especially when you can't really install both together on the same machine. Microsoft is going to help you out with that. On November 30th, ...

Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch notifies us of Grazr, a quick tool to browse your OPML files, no programming knowledge needed. I guess you could think of Grazr as a hierarchical exploded tree-menu explorer-type interface on some kind of weird custard that makes you say things like "dandy." For an example, check it out over at TechCrunch. Grazr, a sort of OPML browser makes RSS feeds pop and ...