![]() ![]() Lets you see where you are going before you go there. Introducing a smart little usability enhancer that gives some context to your cursor when moving up or down the list with the arrow keys. Brings back a long-missed psychedelic kindergarten vibe to file management. Now you can decorate your files with colorful circles. Make stand out what’s important to you, and do it in a way that works best for you and your eyes. you could create a column that shows a special camera icon for all photos that were shot with a Nikon. Now you can create your own columns and have them display icons of your choice. Configuring TC to feel like Windows software takes some effort. So no matter how awful Microsoft makes Explorer in recent versions of Windows, I can get full control back if I can figure out how to load TC onto the system. It starts up quicker than Xyplorer, fully supports WinXP/2000/98, has integrated archive management (RAR3/RAR5 support for Win2k was recently addressed by the helpful forum members and author), and has integrated FTP with advanced configuration options related to codepages and security. System requirements for this file manager are rather elevated: 100 megabytes of disk space!? The webpage design is quite repulsive, it seems like a scam site, overly commercial, with big download buttons and meaningless awards. It seems PowerDesk is now marketed by Avanquest. Looks like PowerDesk has changed ownership several times. The included file finder had a few more options, and the explorer featured treeview of compressed archives, also the dialog helper allowed to resize the open/save dialogs and retain their history. I was a user of PowerDesk 3 by Mijenix Corporation in Win98 days. The basic rectangular selection frame didn't seem to select any files. Xyplorer did start up on Win98, but certain functions showed the expected unreliability of Visual Basic software: New File and New Folder options spawned a dozen error messages and crashed the program. Files and folders with unicode symbols also worked. XYplorer appears to be fully functional (including media preview) on Windows XP and Windows 2000 (with gdiplus.dll copied from XP). This requires a recent version (>6) of MSIE. Instead the program launches Internet Explorer in another window to show the file listing. Even with Zip, we do not get a tree-view of the compressed files. Built-in archive support only includes ZIP. Xyplorer has some MP3 metadata management options, but doesn't support other common formats (including those with simple tags - ogg, ape), which means we need a dedicated software anyway. FTP is a good OS-agnostic way to connect to any other computer, which cannot be easily done using SMB/network neighborhood. The preview panel is easy to configure to show any media formats via DirectShow. Without a heavy-handed license management, Xyplorer is easy to transfer to a new computer. I like how there is a search function for the bulky Settings dialog, as well as an overview of keyboard shortcuts, both of which TC does not feature. I found the initial setup usable, and further configuration quite intuitive. TC has a "DOS/Norton"-feel to its core (down to keyboard shortcuts). Unlike TC, Xyplorer builds upon the win95-type Explorer with a folder tree instead of two panes, which might make the program more accessible to new users. The visual design is overall nicer compared to TC. I wouldn't even consider it, if it required NET. The performance and stability are suprisingly good considering it is a Visual Basic (!) application. I have tried XYplorer in the last few days. ![]()
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