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Explorer++

Explorer++ is a free and open source file manager for Windows that can replace the functionality of Windows' native File Explorer. It can even be set to be the default file manager. Read more about Explorer++. subtitle

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    2023-04-03

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  • Chainloading Clover/OC from Windows Boot Manager?
    And hence this question, how do I chainload the Clover/OC EFI file from the Windows Boot Manager menu? No way that I know of, you need to use another bootloader first, OC/Clover must come first. (Adding OpenCore via BCDEdit has always borked my Windows installs.) rEFInd will do this, but you need to mount your EFI (ESP) in windows with read/write, and swap bootloaders. This requires a whole bunch of steps using... Source: about 1 year ago
  • Sigma File Manager v1.6 is released to Microsoft Store, Winget, and Github. Ask me anything!
    Just a heads up, I currently use Explorer++ to do this function for my role at work. TBH that app is pretty ancient compared to this new file manager but it works for my purposes. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Windows 10 new ADMX files
    Launch a 3rd party file explorer (or cmd) as TrustedInstaller and you will be able to replace/modify the templates. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Secret emergancy! Please help me!
    Download this: https://explorerplusplus.com/, extract it to your desktop, right click on it and run it as admin. Then through this program try to access the files that are giving you permission errors. Source: over 1 year ago
  • How do you recover permanently deleted files without administrator permissions?
    Btw if you need to launch a file explorer with TrustedInstaller rights you can use 7-Zip or something like Explorer++ since the default explorer can't be (easily) launched with TrustedInstaller rights. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Is it possible to view hidden folders on a per-folder level?
    Not with the default explorer. However you could get Explorer++ and use that for when you want to see all files. It also has tabs many other useful features. Source: over 1 year ago
  • i cant find any document to add explorer to winpe. any one can help? im a new. thank for reading
    It's possible adding Explorer++ might work. Source: almost 2 years ago
  • Help resetting my computer? Can't figure out what's wrong
    For backing up, you can use the bootable flash drive and explorer++ 64 bit. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Way to make it so explorer does not close under the nt authority\system name?
    You can't run explorer with SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller rights. You can however run a third party explorer such as Explorer++. What are you trying to achieve? Source: over 2 years ago
  • File names on my USB drive are too long to copy. What can I do?
    And after that download https://explorerplusplus.com/. Source: over 2 years ago
  • Max file/path character limit
    Use another explorer like https://explorerplusplus.com/ , or a filemanager . Source: over 2 years ago
  • So tired of Windows explorer. Will it ever get "fixed"?
    There's also Explorer++ if you want something that's designed to be basically a better version of the stock Explorer. Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Installing rEFInd
    After you do the efi partition mounting step use explorer++ to copy files to that partition and use notepad++ to edit the config. Source: about 3 years ago

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In 2012 it was released CubicExplorer as an open source file manager. Its objective was none other than to replace the Microsoft Windows Explorer thanks to a series of improvements in terms of usability. Some of them are its tabbed interface with integrated search and quick view mode for almost all types of files.

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