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There are many reasons to be annoyed by Windows, but perhaps one of the most common is its feeble file manager. Explorer is desperately short on features and functionality, and there\u2019s no sign of this changing any time soon: if anything, it looks like Microsoft is trying to head for a simpler world where most people never bother with file management at all.<\/p>\n
Fortunately you don\u2019t have to put up with the standard Windows offerings, though, as there are a host of third-party file managers to explore. And the latest,\u00a0Just Manager<\/a>, is particularly promising: it\u2019s still in alpha, but if you\u2019re interested in Explorer alternatives then it\u2019s definitely worth a few minutes of your time.<\/p>\n The program\u2019s portable build is extremely compact, for instance, at barely more than 500KB. And its installation is extremely simple: a single executable, one DLL, a few settings and language files, and that\u2019s it. Just Manager isn\u2019t going to clutter your system.<\/p>\n Launch the program and there are no obvious compromises in the interface, though, which looks just as you\u2019d expect for this kind of tool: multi-pane, with a tabbed interface, already network-enabled (your existing mapped drives should already be available, and you can easily add more), with full drag and drop support, and so on.<\/p>\n And despite its alpha status and small size, Just Manager still has room for some useful extras. Like a small command line at the bottom of the program window, for instance. Navigate to a folder, enter a particular command there — \u201cattrib *.exe\u201d or whatever it might be — and a console window will open to show you the results.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s just the start. There\u2019s also a batch file renaming tool. A capable search dialog. An option to change the file stamps and attributes for your chosen files (and we mean all the attributes: Compressed, Offline, System, Sparse file, Reparse point and more). A folder comparison tool. You even get an FTP client (basic, but it works).<\/p>\n And this can all be configured via a surprisingly capable Settings box, where for example you can already customise the entire menu system. So you can browse to a particular item and remove or rename it, replace its icon, even give it an entirely different action of your own (so clicking \u201cSearch\u201d, for example, could launch any other search tool you might want to use).<\/p>\n This is still an alpha, of course, and so you\u2019ll spot deficiencies and problems from time to time. Icons can\u2019t display the contents of files, for instance (image file icons won\u2019t show picture thumbnails). You can\u2019t drag and drop files onto a tab that isn\u2019t currently selected. And we found the program crashed a few times for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n Still, even now\u00a0Just Manager<\/a>\u00a0is a likeable tool with a lot of features, and already far more powerful than Explorer in many areas. Development seems to be proceeding well, too, and we\u2019ll be interested to see where the project goes next.<\/p>\n Photo Credit:<\/strong> S.john<\/a>\/Shutterstock<\/a><\/p>\n There are many reasons to be annoyed by Windows, but perhaps one of the most common is its feeble file manager. Explorer is desperately short on features and functionality, and there\u2019s no sign of this changing any time soon: if anything, it looks like Microsoft is trying to head for a simpler world where most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/img><\/a>
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