re: Customising windows as documents, photos etc.
Friday, March 12, 2010 at 2:33 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Martin
(65 messages posted)
It's always beyond me why a small number of contributors respond to perfectly 'innocent'
questions with this type of aggressive tone. Maybe it's some misguided attempt to
prove to anyone reading this thread that you are somehow smarter than the original
poster (since I am a qualified PC hardware engineer, that may well not even be the
case), though I can't see anything in my original question that would cause such
an attitude. Just one of the hazards of posting on public forums I suppose...
If you are well aware that replacement file management software sits on top of explorer,
you should also be aware that Power Desk and such software (at least the ones I tried)
do not even attempt to replace all the windows shell functions of Explorer, which
means that Explorer.exe, as long as it is running, may still crash, causing problems
(for example with opening context menus) whether you have an alternative file manager
running or not.
Like you (I repeat) I have very little problem with XP itself crashing.
M
On Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:32 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>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.
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