re: Customising windows as documents, photos etc.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(23818 messages posted)
I'm well aware of the fact that other file managers run on top of Explorer. You seemed
to have two complaints. You don't like the file manager, well there's little that
can be done if you stubbornly cling to using it, learn to live with its idiosyncrasies.
You complained about the stability, while all of those issue can cause explorer to
crash, there's no reason to have those problems on an ongoing basis. As I said before,
XP has been solid as a rock for me on multiple PCs for 8 years, except for the rare
occasions that I had a hardware failure, or a significant software issue. But these
have been very rare, and were quite easy to rectify; and my experience is similar
to most other regular contributors to this forum. I've offered my two cents worth,
it's certainly your prerogative to ignore it.
On Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 3:40 pm, Martin wrote:
>Hi. I bought Power Desk in fact, but didn't really like it - it was a while back
>and I don't recall why, I must admit. I uninstalled it.
>
>But in any case, the point is , Windows Explorer is not just a file manager, it
is
>hard-wired into the XP system and, like Internet Explorer, has a number of background
>functions that you cannot turn off. If you have an alternative File Manager installed,
>you will still have Windows Explorer running too - try stopping explorer.exe with
>Task Manager, and Power Desk or whatever won't keep your desktop running (unless
>things have greatly changed since I last inverstigated).
>
>Not true by the way that "Also if XP crashes on you at all, you either have bad
hardware
>or malware" there are a thousand and one reasons why XP might crash due to software
>problems - missing or corrupt dll files to name just one.. In any case, I don't
really
>have problems with XP crashing, just Windows Explorer. It is VERY delicate (as you
>are obviously well aware) and will hang if under pressure, and change settings (like
>customisation of folders) as it sees fit (so to speak). Useless, but there is no
>'under the bonnet' replacement for it - file managers like those you mention just
>ride on top if it.
>
>Martin
>
>
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