re: Question about 'Sort by Extension in Explorer'
Thursday, June 5, 2003 at 4:51 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Donald Lessau
(1 messages posted)
more light-weight but with 'Sort by Extension" (own extension column) functionality
is TrackerV3 (www.trackerv3.com)
On Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 12:55 am, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> My solution is to use a third-party shareware program called "Windows Commander",
> from:
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>http://www.tucows.com/system/preview/195854.html
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> I have version 5.0 and I see they're up to 5.51 now, so I hope the following
still
>applies.
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> Windows Commander has no knowledge of what the extension description is, so the
>files get sorted by the raw extension. Also, it doesn't have the wacky way of sorting
>files by name that Windows Explorer has under XP, a mixture of alpha and numeric,
>which often makes it hard to find files, e.g. "xy01, xy1, xy02" in Windows Explorer,
>which in Windows Commander comes out in the order "xy01, xy02, xy1". That, at least
>for me, is easier.
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> The big liability of Windows Commander is that you can't jump down to a file
by
>typing the first few letters of the name: you have to scroll to it.
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> Other things I still go to Explorer for are dealing with ZIP files and creating
>shortcuts. Both those things are supposed to be possible in Commander, but I haven't
>figured out how to get the same functionality for them as out of Explorer, though
>I haven't tried very hard. Another bad thing is the search. If you find multiple
>files and click on one that turns out to be not the one you wanted, you have to
redo
>the search. The search does come out in a separate window though, unlike in XP
Explorer
>where the search list takes the place of the file list so you can't see the file
>list any more unless you get out of the search.
>
> Oh yeah, and when you rename a file, you have to remember to press "ENTER" or
>the change doesn't take: that's annoying enough that I sometimes go back to Explorer
>if I have to rename several files. Windows Commander keeps two windows open side-by-side
>all the time, which is very handy for moving files around.
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