How to force windows to use XYplorer

[vdongen]

How to force windows (Vista) always use xyplorer instead of his own file explorer. I have read it somewhere how to do it but ?I can't find it anymore.

Bart

[jacky]

How to force windows (Vista) always use xyplorer instead of his own file explorer. I have read it somewhere how to do it but ?I can't find it anymore.

hmm... are you asking "How Can I Make XYplorer My Default File Manager?" because the answers can be found on the FAQ on XYwiki, and there's even a link there from a sticky topic "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)" in this very forum

[vdongen]

A very worse start of 2009!

[admin]

To undo "XYplorer = Default File Manager" the xywiki proposes this:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@=""

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\XYplorer]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@=""

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\XYplorer]

However, this made "Suchen..." (German for Find or Search) appear in my context menu instead of "Explorer"!

I found out that it should be "none" instead of "":

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@="none"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\XYplorer]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@="none"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\XYplorer]

Can anybody confirm this? (XP SP3)

[jacky]

However, this made "Suchen..." (German for Find or Search) appear in my context menu instead of "Explorer"!

I found out that it should be "none" instead of "":

Right, seems the XYwiki isn't entirely right To be exact though, it didn't made "Suchen" appear for you, I really don't think so. It made it be used as default/appear in bold, but it was (probably) always there.

Apparently when there's no value defined, Windows just takes the first value he finds, which seems to be the "find" key (Search/Suchen). Also, if you put something that doesn't exist (e.g. "none") it defaults back to explorer.

Technically I think you could pout anything you want, as long as it doesn't exists, but "none" seems to be the default value used yes (at least it was on the PC I just checked, as mine says "XYplorer" )

[admin]

However, this made "Suchen..." (German for Find or Search) appear in my context menu instead of "Explorer"!

I found out that it should be "none" instead of "":

Right, seems the XYwiki isn't entirely right To be exact though, it didn't made "Suchen" appear for you, I really don't think so. It made it be used as default/appear in bold, but it was (probably) always there.

Ah okay, makes sense!