Alternate Explorer

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Description

An Alternate Explorer can be something like TotalCommander. Using this is the key to avoid using explorer.exe. Please note that changing the Alternate Explorer in SharpE does not change the default Windows Explorer; so, when you use shortcuts to folders via browsers, for example, you will open explorer.exe (and quite possibly the entire start menu and loads of other stuff, too) in the attempt to find a given item.

Path: \SharpCore?\Services\Exec\Exec.xml

Example:

   <SharpCore Version="0.5.0.0">
     <Main>
       <AltExplorer>-1</AltExplorer>
     </Main>
   </SharpCore>

Guide

This is pretty straightforward; there is only one field to edit. Of course, making it 1 would be logical value, but that will not work here; SharpCore? will not know where the alternate explorer is unless you link it to its directory and the .exe file. So, let us say I would like to use explorer.exe as my "alternate" filebrowser. I would link to it by replacing -1 with C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe (in Windows XP, in Windows 2000 this would be \WINNT\). Note that SharpE has a nasty habit of sometimes overwriting this file with the standard <AltExplorer>-1</AltExplorer> again - So keep a back up of the modified one, too.