Freeware Files: 5 Add-ons that Make Windows Explorer Even Better!
February 17th, 2010 admin
Topics: app, clean, context, features, files, manager, MaximumPC, open-source, roundup, tweak, web exclusive, windows
Windows Explorer hasn’t always been the most feature-packed of elements inside Microsoft’s operating systems. Yet, oddly, it’s probably the one part of your Windows version that you use most frequently. But that’s not to say that everything is Microsoft’s fault. We’re often so quick to blame the software giant for what’s more a lack of future-proofing than outright failure. In this case, Windows Explorer can’t predict what’s going to be the next big thing–it can’t know that you’ll want your photographs easily updated to Maximum Photos someday; it has no idea that you might somehow need to paste a direct link to a file instead of its name or containing folder. Windows Explorer is, in a word, dumb. …

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