58 alternatives to Windows Explorer!!

If you hate the default Windows explorer then here is a list of a total of 58 alternatives to choose from. It has everything from cool and sleek to downright ugly. Pick your choice.

*blog.sina.com.cn/u/46dac66f010002ba

The website is chinese, but it has links to the publisher site of each software along with screenshots. Here is the complete list of the explorers.

Ac Browser Plus
FileMatrix
EXPLOR2000 v3.23b
BeCommander v0.7.2
Virtual Commander 2000
Probe 0.93
Disk Order 2.3.5
GNU Midnight Commander
SlashX
Cubic Explorer
Drag & File | Power File
File Maven Pro
Turbo Browser
File on the fly
SmartFile
Universal Explorer (UE) 4.2
AccelMan File manager
UniCMD
GXExplorer
Krusader
V
Gyula's Windows Navigator
RageWork
Ace Explorer 1.3.75
Blue Commander 2.1.6
muCommander
Handy File Tool
2xExplorer/xplorer2 lite/xplorer Pro
Free Commander V2005.09a
ExplorerXP 1.07
A43 File Management Utility V2.45
XPlorer
Commander 1.27
TwoDirs
Directory Opus 8
FileAnt 2005
Vifm-0.3a
EF Commander Win.32
Advanced File Manager 3.2
Novatix ExplorerPlus V6.2/VCOM PowerDesk Pro
F
File Commander
BSCommander
WinNC.Net
ZTreeWin
WinNavigator
FAR
Servant Salamander 1.52、2.x
SpeedCommander
KCommander
Nico's Commander Pro 5.59
Magellan Explorer 3
Super Explorer 1.5
AB Commander
FileCommander V4.6.1
XYplorer V4.40
Frigate3
Turbo Navigator 1.47

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which is the best...............

I haven't seen all but Disk Order has a Mac look and is cool.
Krusader has a KDE look.
BeCommander v0.7.2, SlashX, AccelMan File manager are simple and looks good too.

The most horrible are Ac Browser Plus, FileMatrix, GNU Midnight Commander

nice post. i use xplorer2 ocznly.

R

i think windows explorer is the best in the end ......... overall .

nice post

Thx for telling.

I never knew such softie existed. Which ONE should I try out ?

M

blackpearl said:
I haven't seen all but Disk Order has a Mac look and is cool.
Krusader has a KDE look.
BeCommander v0.7.2, SlashX, AccelMan File manager are simple and looks good too.

The most horrible are Ac Browser Plus, FileMatrix, GNU Midnight Commander

Midnight commander is just superb if you know to use it. Atleast the *nix version is.

^^ I don't know its features but Midnight Commander's look is ugly.

nice post

I had used Directory Opus 8. Its much much faster than Windows Explorer, and has got loads of options and customisations.

Tactile 3D is also one of them. It has got a virtual 3D interface as if in Space.

blackpearl said:
I haven't seen all but Disk Order has a Mac look and is cool.

It seems that Disk Order is available only for MACs. I searched for the link and went to the download page of Disk Order; only to find no download option for Windows.

Please tell me where I can get Disk Order and try...

Yes Disk Order is for Mac only. It was a mistake to include it in the list. About 4-5 others belonging to Linux were also wrongly added to the list.

Lucky_star said:
I had used Directory Opus 8. Its much much faster than Windows Explorer, and has got loads of options and customisations.

Tactile 3D is also one of them. It has got a virtual 3D interface as if in Space.

Yeah, Directory Opus 8 is the way to go when u want something extra, more powerful and a nice GUI.

Tactile 3d is a future concept of 3d desktop. Not much handy for geeks. Atleast try it once to see what future holds for you.

nice post

T159 said:
Tactile 3d is a future concept of 3d desktop. Not much handy for geeks. Atleast try it once to see what future holds for you.

Tactile 3d is a joke , and future is not dumb.

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HAS anyone of em a lot of skins + lots of plugins also ???

I will charm that.

XYplorer is a nice one, also has built in search tool that gives you the feel and control of the win98 find feature. And displays all info in the same window.
I like it.
SlashX is also nice.
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blackpearl said:
I haven't seen all but Disk Order has a Mac look and is cool.
Krusader has a KDE look.
BeCommander v0.7.2, SlashX, AccelMan File manager are simple and looks good too.

The most horrible are Ac Browser Plus, FileMatrix, GNU Midnight Commander

The Disk Order software which u are talking about is for Mac the windows disk order is ridiculous.
Here is the link to windows disk order:*www.yildun.com/dskorder.html

It does not look cool or offer much functionality.

S

gud info

other cool pick.. Thanks

blackpearl said:
I haven't seen all but Disk Order has a Mac look and is cool.

blackpearl said:
Yes Disk Order is for Mac only.

What an irony! It is not much of a surprise then, that it 'has a Mac look', is it? LOL!

Trying dem one by one...

aryayush said:
What an irony! It is not much of a surprise then, that it 'has a Mac look', is it? LOL!

At first I thought DiskOrder was available for Windows and the screenshot was that of the program running under Win. Hence the first post. Later I realised it was only for the Mac, hence the 2nd post.

Yeah, I realised that. But it still sounded funny.

never heard of em.
i use only ms ie.

I liked Xyplorer and ExplorerXP.