Comments on: Windows 7 Explorer Replacement

By: Steve Marshall

Steve Marshall — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:45:27 +0000

Agree with all the comments guys. I hate Win7 Explorer, and use my XP machine by default. I have TRIED to get to grips with the Win7 Explorer, but am seriously angered by its messy interface, its over-elaborate Address Bar, which doesn’t display the fullpath name unless the window is enlarged, and especially, by the GREEN RIBBON OF DEATH stopping any further file management.

I have tried all the solutions Google can find (“display icons, not thumbnails” “search files not files & contents” “disable windows search in services.msc )

I hate the damn thing.

By: Finn

Finn — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:34:24 +0000

I had to get used to Win7 since my employer’s systems are all Win 7 by now. Having worked in the IT business for more than 30 yrs, and always looking for ways to do things quicker and easier, I was one of the last ones to get my Win 7 upgrade.

I fully agree with the above comments. Apart from its shiny looks, Win 7 stinks. Experienced users like us are treated like 7 year old imbesiles. Win Explorer is absolutely useless, so full of annoying “do you really want to..” warnings and errors that I really hate it every time I have to use it.

On the home front, all of our lap tops have Win 7, but I only use Win 7 for Internet. My personal lap top is a dual boot. If I do anything besides Internet, I switch to XP. Same goes for my development desk top in my home office, officially declared a Win 7 free area.

No, everything wasn’t neccessarily better in the old days. If it wasn’t for the Win Explorer, the hopeless IE 8, and the imbesile security system, Win 7 might have been a fine thing really. Every time I install Win 7, I spend two hours removing the most annoying things. RegEdit is a wonderful thing…

So thank you very much for the above mentioned Explorer alternatives. I’ll sure give them a try!

By: George

George — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:37:47 +0000

And — in autumn, I will have been using Windows 7 for two years now. It really is not as bad as I must read on this page all time.
I do have the direct comparison to XP all day as I do active developement in Windows XP Virtual Machines on a Windows 7 host. At home, I have Ubuntu running — with a XP VM for the Canon Scanner :-(
Windows 7 really is OK!

Yes, I know — in the older days, everything was better ;-)

By: George

George — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:33:17 +0000

Hi again,

DoubleCommander is the only tool I found, which is also available in a true 64-bit-Version. On the positive side, it’s Freeware (hosted on SourceForge). On the negative side, it has still a long way in front, until it is really usable, many features are still missing. BUT — there is hope – there seems to be activity at least in the Project Wiki… :-)

By: Ares Hermes

Ares Hermes — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 07:20:12 +0000

It is boldly obvious that Bill Gates has no pride left on Microsoft, and with Steve Ballmer running the developments, it is to no surprise that Windows 7 is deplorable. Windows OS’s have evolved into cash-flow milking marketing products that consumers are coerced to install.
I wished Windows Explorer was the only annoyance, but no hopes. Windows x64 is plain pathetic altogether.

By: sOliver

sOliver — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:50:55 +0000

George, if you are looking for an explorer replacement that supports all context-menu items, you’ll probably be looking for a long time. I haven’t found any that supports it, but I’ll look into it again. Thanks for the feedback.

By: George

George — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:16:38 +0000

It would be nice to remark in this list, which of these Exporer Replacements _really_ support Windows 7. Ultra Explorer is too old (the lase release is from 2009, long before the lauch of Windows 7) and on my Windows-7-64-bit-system, it hangs on every start of the program for several minutes.

Also every 32-bit-compiled program does not show 64-bit-Context-Menu-Items, so it would be nice to see within this list, which of them support 64-bit natively. So long, none of the ones I tested was able to show my 64-bit-TortoiseGit-Context-Menu, except of Total Commander, which uses a Context-Sub-Menu which crashes in 4 of 5 usages :-(

By: Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:33:59 +0000

If you don’t like Windows 7 then don’t use it lol…

By: TheDevian

TheDevian — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:19:22 +0000

XP was the last OS Bill Gates worked on and it was the last one worth having. I know it tells me something. Please come back to the OS dept Bill! They took away all the functionality of Explorer, the start menu, can’t even preview animated gifs. It takes 3 or more times the # of clicks to get anywhere or get anything done, they all but killed the quick launch and replaced it with that crappy pinning thing. Shouldn’t have to edit the registry to turn the few of these things we can turn back on (sorta) that we can. It’s so offensive.

By: segaa

segaa — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:49:43 +0000

Because of these “improvements” of Windows 7 Explorer I already managed to irreversibly delete two of my folders (lovely Shift+Del was hit automatically as a result of my 10-year dev experience on Windows platform) Who invented this idiotic approach – selecting in the right panel and deleting in the left??! Good that I had all backups ready…
Thanks for this review of explorer replacements, I am definitely moving out of the standard Windows 7 Explorer.