Alternate Explorer

Hi,

I'm just curious, is there another "windows explorer" available to download somewhere?

My windows explorer is giving me crap and V E R Y S L O W response times on my pc at work, is there any alternative?

Thanx

you probably have virus/worm/spyware causing this... windows explorer ussually work fine. download those programs to check for worms:
http://www.download.com/3302-8022_4....html?pn=2&fb=2
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
both not perfect, but combined toghether might find more worms. if you really want alternative to the Window Explorer, you have plenty:
http://www.google.co.il/search?num=...ive&btnG=Search

Hey Shadow,

I have a few spybot, worm apps, none of that on my pc.

Just a slow pc, when I run SQL Server, ASP.Net and photoshop at the same time

I am busy dl'ing some free apps, I just like to look at the new stuff.

Thanx

Well there's always my favorite 'windows explorer' it runs very fast and not buggy at all.

Click on Start, then Run type cmd into the command line and click ok

Boy that command prompt works great every time

Serisoulsy though I've never seen a problem with windows explorer unless the system was being overtaxed by something else.

lol
yeah and to search for file you can use dir c:\[file name] /s
but it's quite not user friendly and all...

You could try 2xExplorer (http://www.netez.com/2xExplore) - used to be free...not sure if it still is!

There's more to Windows than just Explorer

There's:

"NT Kernel"

"Windows Windowing System"

"Explorer Desktop"

"Explorer Browser"

...In that order, they rely on the one above them

The Kernel is *the* system, don't touch it!

The Windowing System is the bit that manages windows and all that malarky, its what defines each Window's shapes, common controls, title bar, borders, etc...

You can get "WindowBlinds" for Windows that augments the windowing system, however it doesn't fully replace it

The Explorer Desktop is the "desktop" you see, along with the taskbar, the alt-tab screen, and other numerous thingiemabobs.

You can get alternate task managers too, the main ones being OpenStep and BlackBox clones

There's also a number of 3D task-managers, the finest example being SphereXP you may have also heard of Microsoft's attempt at 3D task managing, with "TaskGallery" but it isn't exactly aesthetically pleasing

Finally, there's Explorer itself

...Presently the Explorer file manager and web-browser combo is combined with the Explorer task manager

And yes... there are alternates to this as well, you can write your own in any high-level language thesedays, even VisualBasic, but don't expect the best performance... Optimised C++ is always faster

I thought progman.exe was available even through XP, but I can't get it to run on my XP computers. It does give me a good Windows 3.1 flashback on my W2000 server though

Thanx guys, for taking the piss out of me

Installed another Spyware, Worm app and its working fine again.