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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Redders on 20 July 2004, 01:50

Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: Redders on 20 July 2004, 01:50: Windows Explorer seems to be the main cause of problems with my Windows XP system, after a few days it starts sucking up all avalible RAM and makes my system very slow and unstable, is there anyway to remove Explorer and replace it with something better? Perhaps Gnome or something, i dunno.
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: Orethrius on 20 July 2004, 21:39: http://dev.litestep.net/news.php (http://dev.litestep.net/news.php)

That's all I'm saying.
:cool:
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: zolo on 20 July 2004, 14:19: You cannot get rid of Explorer as such. It's tied into the operating system - just like it shouldn't be.

Try Mozilla or Firefox for your browsing Mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/)

Use one of those and ignore Explorer.

The LiteStep page... er... they don't actualy say what it is? Why so coy?

zoo

PS If its Windows Explorer being the problem - which it is anyway - try Explorerx2 (http://www.netez.com/xplorer2/)

I have only just download this myself as I use 2xExplorer which is discontinued.

It's much faster than Win Explorer and such a small download it's worth it just to try.

To date every bit of MS software I have replaced has been better. I now appreciate why geeky coders keep saying MS software is very poor.

It's not just MS bashing it's MS software isn't actually very good.

[ July 20, 2004: Message edited by: zolo ]
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: Refalm on 20 July 2004, 22:43: quote:
zolo: You cannot get rid of Explorer as such. It's tied into the operating system - just like it shouldn't be.

Wrong ;) you can run Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 without Explorer, and using LiteStep (http://beyondconvention.net/ohussain/lsinstaller/) and Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/).

But of course, Linux (http://www.linux.org/) is better than Windows (http://smile.gif)
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: hm_murdock on 20 July 2004, 22:54: I don't have any problem with Explorer. no crashes, no other issues.

Only thing I don't like about it are the vague "file replace" dialogs, and its crappy handling of file copy/file move errors

but then, OS X has an equally crappy method of handling errors
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: Xeen on 20 July 2004, 23:13: Yes, explorer in XP is incredibly unstable and full of bugs. Use Win2k or use Linux.
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: Refalm on 21 July 2004, 01:33: quote:
xeen: Yes, explorer in XP is incredibly unstable and full of bugs. Use Win2k or use Linux.

JimmyJames was talking about this problem in general. For example: you copy a directory with 83 files from a CD to your hd. One of the files in the dir is broken. Windows will now discontinue the copying of the rest of the dir.
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: skyman8081 on 21 July 2004, 01:47: I used to use litestep, but it is slow as hell on an athlon XP 2200+ with 512 MB of system RAM and a 128 MB Geforce FX5200.

Just like XFree86, litstep is slow as hell.
Title: Windows Explorer
Post by: WMD on 21 July 2004, 04:25: quote:
Originally posted by Sauron: gone:
I used to use litestep, but it is slow as hell on an athlon XP 2200+ with 512 MB of system RAM and a 128 MB Geforce FX5200.

Just like XFree86, litstep is slow as hell.

You really think so? I started using that and it hasn't been slow at all. Then again, I'm using the default skin.