"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message
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> Van Chocstraw wrote:
>> What makes this so slow to read directories with a few thousand files in
>> them The green progress bar in the windows takes forever. If you re-sort
>> the directory it takes forever again. On the other hand Xplorer2 does it
>> instantly.
>
>
> I don't know what's wrong with the code, but it's been my experience that
> the file managers that come with windows have not really worked since
> Windows 3.1 (which had a great file manager). The one in Windows 7 is
> better than the one that came with Windows XP, my last OS version. I
> always used Power Desk in XP. Now I'm looking for a free replacement for
> the file manager in Windows 7 x64. Windows native file managers seem to be
> crap.
>
> -Al-
Interesting. I don't like Windows Explorer in Win7HP-64bit - I much prefer
that in XP. I copied explorer.exe over from XP, but it won't run. I wonder
if there is a simple fix to get it to work in Win7?
Have you looked at FreeCommander as a possible file manager for Win7?
--
Jeff
