Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer

scottalanmiller

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in PowerShell...

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

scottalanmiller

Chocolatey allows you not only to install a package quickly and easily like this...

choco install mypackage -y

It also allows you to simply update all managed packages on your system like this...

cup all -y

It's so handy. Really takes Windows to the next level. Plus Choco provides a massive library of packages so it is a handy way to research what is available today.

siringo

@scottalanmiller thanks, I will look into it.

1337

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

The original... Midnight Commander
choco install mc

It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

scottalanmiller

@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
The original... Midnight Commander
choco install mc
It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value

1337

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
The original... Midnight Commander
choco install mc
It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.
I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value

Haha, rookies

They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.

scottalanmiller

@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
The original... Midnight Commander
choco install mc
It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.
I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value
Haha, rookies

They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.

So alike, but not from a vendor I couldn't trust, you see.

1337

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
The original... Midnight Commander
choco install mc
It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.
I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value
Haha, rookies

They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.
So alike, but not from a vendor I couldn't trust, you see.

But it was way before Symantec bought Norton.

BTW, here is Norton Commander:
https://informatics.buzdo.com/_images/f550-1.gif

And Midnight Commander
https://debiananwenderhandbuch.de/bilder/instweiter/mc.png

scotth

They used to have a nice disk editor too.

iroal

I like Q-dir

https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

hobbit666

What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

That's the case for ALL installs.

WrCombs

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD
That's the case for ALL installs.

I was starting to understand that.

BRRABill

@hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

Yeah, what's up with that?

dafyre

@BRRABill said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

Yeah, what's up with that?

Some folks don't like having 50 windows open when doing drag & drop / copy and paste?

I've yet to find one that I consistently come back to -- no matter what OS I'm using... Althought Multicommander is looking kinda nice.

DustinB3403

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD
That's the case for ALL installs.

You could use the chocolately gui

scottalanmiller

@DustinB3403 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD
That's the case for ALL installs.
You could use the chocolately gui

Has to run as admin, too.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@DustinB3403 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:
Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...
Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
FTFY -
It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD
That's the case for ALL installs.
You could use the chocolately gui
Has to run as admin, too.

Chocolatey absolutely does not need to run as admin.

It has to be installed as admin. But you can run it without admin rights and install things in the user scope.

Granted not many windows applications are designed to install to the user scope, so that would be a problem. But that is not chocolatey's fault.

tonyshowoff

@dafyre said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@BRRABill said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

@hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

Yeah, what's up with that?

Some folks don't like having 50 windows open when doing drag & drop / copy and paste?

I've yet to find one that I consistently come back to -- no matter what OS I'm using... Althought Multicommander is looking kinda nice.

So it's more of an issue with Explorer's file navigation in general rather than an issue specific to Windows 10? Because that's sort of the inference from what OP wrote.