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How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 04 Jan 2009 16:56
by 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
Re: How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 04 Jan 2009 17:24
by jacky
vdongen wrote: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
Re: How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 05 Jan 2009 03:32
by vdongen
A very worse start of 2009!
Re: How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 21:32
by admin
To undo "XYplorer = Default File Manager" the xywiki proposes this:
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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@=""
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\XYplorer]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@=""
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\XYplorer]
, 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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REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell]
@="none"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\XYplorer]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell]
@="none"
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\XYplorer]
(XP SP3)
Re: How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 22:00
by jacky
admin wrote: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"
)
Re: How to force windows to use XYplorer
Posted: 13 Jan 2009 22:06
by admin
jacky wrote:admin wrote: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!