

Many years ago I switched to an alternative shareware file manager which was a vast improvement in every respect over Explorer. Worse, it lacks several obviously important features. Windows Explorer has never been particularly well-designed it’s dorky and awkward to use. I could get it doing moderately complicated file-management tasks in a very short period of time. It does have an awful lot of features but because it's so well designed, users can just ignore features they don't need at the moment and/or don't want to bother learning about. That documentation, by the way, is excellent: thorough without being overwhelming, designed to facilitate access to particular topics, and there is even an extensive manual one can download in PDF from the site. The menus are so well designed and intuitive that, although I've used XYplorer heavily for almost two weeks I've yet to have to consult the on-line documentation.
