Praise!
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:44 am
Lacking a twitter profile, a contact form on this site, a "General" forum category, or any other means, I'm going to abuse this forum to say, or actually shout out a big
THANK YOU!
You saved my life.
Seriously. I've spent (or rather wasted) the past weeks with restoring sanity in Windows 7, trying all kind of tricks and tweaks being available on the net, but wasn't remotely able to get Windows Explorer to reliably behave, look, and feel like it did in Windows XP. I have absolutely no idea what Microsoft was smoking when they changed the entire UI to be unusable and removed any kind of configuration options or even registry tweaks... I've tried Classic Shell and a couple of other tools, and although some of them worked, they introduced regressions on their own.
Luckily, searching for Windows Explorer replacements yielded Explorer++, and although I've only tested it for a couple of minutes, it is exactly what I was searching for. A clean, simple, XP-style file manager, perfect for productivity.
So I'm not sure whether you're aware of this unique selling point, especially as it's not clearly mentioned on the project home page, but I can assure you, many users upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 are searching for exactly this: Explorer++, sanity.
By highlighting this fact, I'll take the chance to amend: In case you're planning additional features, a more smooth user interface, or perhaps even aligning Explorer++ more with Windows Explorer in Windows 7 — just in case you're planning anything in this direction - please make it optional.
In case you're interested in my initial user experience of using Explorer++, I'd be happy to do a write-up on that. Just let me know.
Thank you!
Daniel F. Kudwien
THANK YOU!
You saved my life.
Seriously. I've spent (or rather wasted) the past weeks with restoring sanity in Windows 7, trying all kind of tricks and tweaks being available on the net, but wasn't remotely able to get Windows Explorer to reliably behave, look, and feel like it did in Windows XP. I have absolutely no idea what Microsoft was smoking when they changed the entire UI to be unusable and removed any kind of configuration options or even registry tweaks... I've tried Classic Shell and a couple of other tools, and although some of them worked, they introduced regressions on their own.
Luckily, searching for Windows Explorer replacements yielded Explorer++, and although I've only tested it for a couple of minutes, it is exactly what I was searching for. A clean, simple, XP-style file manager, perfect for productivity.
So I'm not sure whether you're aware of this unique selling point, especially as it's not clearly mentioned on the project home page, but I can assure you, many users upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 are searching for exactly this: Explorer++, sanity.
By highlighting this fact, I'll take the chance to amend: In case you're planning additional features, a more smooth user interface, or perhaps even aligning Explorer++ more with Windows Explorer in Windows 7 — just in case you're planning anything in this direction - please make it optional.
In case you're interested in my initial user experience of using Explorer++, I'd be happy to do a write-up on that. Just let me know.
Thank you!
Daniel F. Kudwien