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Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe
Posted: 02 May 2020 17:34
by Keagel
How bad of an idea would that be? That would force every program that directly calls explorer.exe to open in XYplorer instead.
Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe
Posted: 02 May 2020 18:40
by nas8e9
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
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Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe
Posted: 12 May 2020 09:12
by Leito
You can already do this through XYplorer settings:
Re: Replacing explorer.exe by a symbolic link pointing to XYplorer.exe
Posted: 16 May 2020 16:51
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.