Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe

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Keagel
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Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe

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How bad of an idea would that be? That would force every program that directly calls explorer.exe to open in XYplorer instead.

nas8e9
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Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe

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AFAIK the Windows shell depends on Explorer.exe.

*If* you try it (I really wouldn't) make sure you have an image backup of your Windows drive :wink:.

Leito
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Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe

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You can already do this through XYplorer settings:

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Keagel
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Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe

Post by Keagel »

Leito wrote: 12 May 2020 09:12 You can already do this through XYplorer settings:
I already ticked that, and it works for some programs. Others call the explorer.exe file directly which means it just ignores the default file manager option.
I tried the symlink and it was wonky, it didn't really work and it seemed like it was starting from a new session as it asked me for registration details.

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