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> as good as Windows file explorer

In what way is the MS Windows file explorer good? It neither has tabs, side-by-side view, pattern selection, performant search, an UI, that doesn't regularly blocks and becomes unresponsive, etc... .

What feature does it have, that some other file manager, doesn't have? I can't think of any?

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wkat42425mo ago

The unresponsive thing is because the whole explorer.exe still seems to be one big single threaded process. One thing hanging kills everything. Including stuff completely unrelated to the file manager like the task bar. So weird.

dmitrygr5mo ago

> seems to be one big single threaded process

This option has existed since win2k IIRC:

Tools > Folder Options > View > Launch folder windows in a separate processed

wkat42425mo ago

I don't think that actually fixes the issue though. Perhaps there's some shared message queue that's blocking things? I don't know. I know I've had that on in the past and it didn't solve it.

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philistine5mo ago

Whenever something is weird about Windows, it's for backwards compatibility reason. There must be no way to keep win32 and rewrite explorer.exe.

solnyshok5mo ago

taskbar is very much related, it is an instance of explorer exe with some parameters, that makes it show as taskbar. Try killing explorer.exe in the task manager, when no other explorer windows is running.

1718627440OP5mo ago

That's an implementation detail though. While I find that sensible, most users are not technical and still consider that to be unrelated and a bug.

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cam_l5mo ago

It does have tabs, you are probably just stuck on an old version because windows update broke.

The only feature that windows maybe kinda does better is the preview pane, but even then, it regularly loses certain file types and in the latest update it started taking 5 seconds or more just to render a text file.

Anyway, still doesn't come close to Dolphin.

florbo5mo ago

fwiw Windows 11 Explorer does have tabs.

1718627440OP5mo ago

Oh is that new? I haven't noticed that yet. Is it obvious how to use it? How do you use it? (C-T, C-W, C-Shift-T, ...?)

plqbfbv5mo ago

Yep, close to regular browser tabs from my point of view. I don't know all the shortcuts, but the few that I used - CTRL+{T,W} - behaved like Chrome or Firefox.

rkagerer5mo ago

I've been running tabs in file Explorer since windows 7. QtTabBar.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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wkat42425mo ago

dmitrygr5mo ago

> seems to be one big single threaded process

This option has existed since win2k IIRC:

Tools > Folder Options > View > Launch folder windows in a separate processed

wkat42425mo ago

I don't think that actually fixes the issue though. Perhaps there's some shared message queue that's blocking things? I don't know. I know I've had that on in the past and it didn't solve it.

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philistine5mo ago

Whenever something is weird about Windows, it's for backwards compatibility reason. There must be no way to keep win32 and rewrite explorer.exe.

solnyshok5mo ago

1718627440OP5mo ago

That's an implementation detail though. While I find that sensible, most users are not technical and still consider that to be unrelated and a bug.

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cam_l5mo ago

It does have tabs, you are probably just stuck on an old version because windows update broke.

Anyway, still doesn't come close to Dolphin.

florbo5mo ago

fwiw Windows 11 Explorer does have tabs.

1718627440OP5mo ago

Oh is that new? I haven't noticed that yet. Is it obvious how to use it? How do you use it? (C-T, C-W, C-Shift-T, ...?)

plqbfbv5mo ago

Yep, close to regular browser tabs from my point of view. I don't know all the shortcuts, but the few that I used - CTRL+{T,W} - behaved like Chrome or Firefox.

rkagerer5mo ago

I've been running tabs in file Explorer since windows 7. QtTabBar.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse