![]() ![]() ![]() Obviously it was a big improvement over Windows 1&2, but just about anything would look good compared with them.Compared with the RISC OS desktop I was using at home, with its drag and drop, iconbar and elegant window management, it seemed like something out of the stone age. Quite a few of the people I worked with prefered using DOS apps like old versions of Wordperfect, rather than having to deal with Windows 3. The GUI was an unintuitive mess that just wasn’t designed for multitasking apps, while the system crashed even more than the worst versions of System 7 that I tried on my Powerbook. I’m a retro computer/OS geek, but that’s one of the few old systems that I have no warm feelings of nostalgia about whatsoever. At the time I remember hating the fact that I had to use it in work. | Packard Bell Navigator | Proprietary | 3.It’s funny to see people looking back fondly at Windows 3. ![]() | BumpTop* | Proprietary | XP, Vista, 7 | | KDE Windows | Open source | XP, Vista, 7 | | SharpEnviro* | Open source | XP, Vista, 7 | | Emerge Desktop | Open source | 2000, XP, Vista, 7 | | Classic Shell | Open source | Vista, 7, 8, 10 | | Cairo Shell | Closed source | XP, Vista, 7 | Wikipedia provides a list of alternative shells for windows, I have never tried any of them so I cannot say if they are good or bad. Setting the shell as a alternative file browser will not work (as you discovered) as the shell is responsible for a lot more than just browsing your files. You are not replacing just the file browser in windows when you change that option, you are replacing the entire shell. ![]() Even though there is an option for registering it as a file manager, it doesn't autoplay when I plug in a phone or flash drive. If not, at least show me how to set Cubic explorer to be the default file manager. Is there a program that can fully serve as a replacement or alternative to explorer.exe? I had to run cmd from cubic explorer in order to run cmd.exe. I set Cubic in gpedit and restarted only to find that the startup programs did not run at startup, only Cubic explorer was running on a black screen like in safe mode with command prompt and networking. I have tried a couple of file managers/browsers e.g Cubic,Explorer++ and Orbitz and I like Cubic explorer the best, but they only help in viewing my files and folders. I want a different look(I didn't have this desire till I saw that option). When you go to gpedit.msc > User configuration > administrative templates > system > custom user interface there's an option for setting a different user interface from explorer.exe. ![]()
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