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I've never found an alternative shell on Windows that integrated as well as explorer. That's to be expected I suppose, but it's an annoyance I find it hard to g
by ruthmarx 2y ago
I've never found an alternative shell on Windows that integrated as well as explorer. That's to be expected I suppose, but it's an annoyance I find it hard to get past. That, and the Windows DE works well enough for me for the stuff I have to do on Windows.
- w4rh4wk5 2y agoI am actually quite happy with PowerToy's FancyZones [1]. It's not perfect but it's working nicely 99% of the time; although it does not tile automatically. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzon...
- WorldMaker 2y agoThe newest PowerToy, Workspaces, seems to be a new sideways approach to some of the things auto-tiling is good for. I've not yet tried to learn Workspaces that well to know how well it succeeds at its new job, but it's on my TODO list. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/workspaces https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/workspac...
- snthpy 2y agoThanks. This looks useful.
- clan 2y agoAround the Windows XP / 7 timeframe I used Blackbox for Windows (bb4win)[1] and was very happy with it. I used it for I think 2 or 3 years. I cannot remember if it was with Windows 7 or 10 I stopped (I skipped 8). It was painfree and nice. Now I use Windows so rarely I do not spend any time making it behave nicely. I have not used it recently and it seems to have morphed into xoblite[2] [1] https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ https://bb4win.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.xoblite.net/docs/ http://www.xoblite.net/docs/
- alok-g 2y agoTry OpenShell. Works very well. I use it's start menu.
- ruthmarx 2y agoFor sure, it's a must on any Windows after 7. I don't really consider it a separate shell though since it only changes the start menu and task bar, and is basically identical to previous versions of the official versions.