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Windows Explorer reached its pinnacle in Windows XP when in classic mode and went downhill after that with the crippled search facility (showing two items for e

Windows Explorer reached its pinnacle in Windows XP when in classic mode and went downhill after that with the crippled search facility (showing two items for each search on Vista - one on the disk and one from the search index it generates painfully slowly), the tabbing to the listview headers (why would you want to tab to a header?), the auto viewing of folders (this MUST be a music directory as it has 1 MP3 file in it so I will show a rating system for ALL files), the giant blue bar that sits at the bottom telling you that you are using a computer with a processor in it (duplicating the System Information window accessible from Windows-Break), the giant useless ribbon on Windows 8, the non-following treeview on the left so that the right and left pane do not correlate to each other (made an option in 7 I think), the top organize bar on 7+ that is not usable using the keyboard, the daft favourite links area that by default occupies 40% of the space on the left, and the flicker-full navigation bar. And another thing: the "uninstall a program" from that silly bar on the top. Explorer is for exploring files and directories, surely not to do EVERYTHING with your computer...? Don't get me started on Finder on the Mac.

ksk 13y ago
I always thought the search functionality of windows was horrible till Windows 7 finally managed to deliver a decent implementation of it. >And another thing: the "uninstall a program" from that silly bar on the top. Explorer is for exploring files and directories, surely not to do EVERYTHING with your computer...? Well, for about 20 odd years explorer.exe is technically just a 'shell namespace browser' and one of those shell namespaces is the 'explore files and directory' part and the others are the control panel part , uninstall programs part, etc I believe for windows 95 microsoft originally did not plan to allow third parties to extend the shell namespace because they felt a buggy shell extension could crash the entire OS - which was true for W95. There is an option now to launch these in seperate processes.
- 72deluxe 13y ago
  I think the issue with the search is that it makes it very difficult to search for text within files, for example. You have to do a search and then modify it afterwards. The same is true in Finder. It's backwards.
ubercow13 13y ago
I'm not sure I could possibly disagree more with almost every point you just made, just goes to show how personal such things are
- 72deluxe 13y ago
  What purpose does that giant blue bar have at the bottom of Windows Explorer? It isn't resizable and you can't get rid of it. One bonus is that it has a gradient so isn't ugly, but I can't see the point of it???

ksk 13y ago

I always thought the search functionality of windows was horrible till Windows 7 finally managed to deliver a decent implementation of it. >And another thing: the "uninstall a program" from that silly bar on the top. Explorer is for exploring files and directories, surely not to do EVERYTHING with your computer...? Well, for about 20 odd years explorer.exe is technically just a 'shell namespace browser' and one of those shell namespaces is the 'explore files and directory' part and the others are the control panel part , uninstall programs part, etc I believe for windows 95 microsoft originally did not plan to allow third parties to extend the shell namespace because they felt a buggy shell extension could crash the entire OS - which was true for W95. There is an option now to launch these in seperate processes.

72deluxe 13y ago
I think the issue with the search is that it makes it very difficult to search for text within files, for example. You have to do a search and then modify it afterwards. The same is true in Finder. It's backwards.

ubercow13 13y ago

I'm not sure I could possibly disagree more with almost every point you just made, just goes to show how personal such things are

72deluxe 13y ago
What purpose does that giant blue bar have at the bottom of Windows Explorer? It isn't resizable and you can't get rid of it. One bonus is that it has a gradient so isn't ugly, but I can't see the point of it???