Looks like I will be migrating to Win10: new computer - Lenovo
ThinkCentre M92p SFF Quad Core i5-3470.

There is (to me) a nameless crudely similar DEFAULT thinggie that
fails to work properly xxxxxx REFUSES to work properly and seems that it CANNOT work properly.

1) How do I get rid of that?
2) How do I add/install a decent Windows Explorer?

Thanks.
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Robert Baer wrote:

Looks like I will be migrating to Win10: new computer - Lenovo
ThinkCentre M92p SFF Quad Core i5-3470.

There is (to me) a nameless crudely similar DEFAULT thinggie that
fails to work properly xxxxxx REFUSES to work properly and seems that it CANNOT work properly.

1) How do I get rid of that?
2) How do I add/install a decent Windows Explorer?

Thanks.

So I think what you're saying, is you click on .htm
file and MSEdge opens instead of Firefox or Seamonkey
or whatever you thought that you chose.

There are several dialogs for fiddling with that
stuff, but they're hardly satisfactory.

The main annoyance is the one for MSEdge. Microsoft
keeps hogging things and resetting the setting.
We'll just do the simple one then. Not worth it,
but try anyway.

https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/125823-making-ie-11-default-browser.html

Kari:

Settings > Apps > Default apps > Web browser

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/browsers-email/221871d1548235461t-making-ie-11-default-browser-image.png

Additional nuisance step:

https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/browsers-email/221872d1548235511t-making-ie-11-default-browser-image.png

There will be situations where maybe some Microsoft
tool needs a browser, and even if you set Firefox to be
your browser, MSEdge will open the so-called "Help" page.

Kari has another tutorial page he wrote, which is about
a hundred web pages long, and I haven't the heart to
post that, because you'll only moan and no purpose will
be served :-) It shows a zillion stupid things you can
try, and you just know they're not going to work :-)

I don't even try to program that stuff any more. I
just use "Open with" sorts of things and that's it for me.
No screwing with MIME types any more. Not interested.

Paul
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Paul wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

  Looks like I will be migrating to Win10: new computer - Lenovo
ThinkCentre M92p SFF Quad Core i5-3470.

  There is (to me) a nameless crudely similar DEFAULT thinggie that
fails to work properly xxxxxx REFUSES to work properly and seems that
it CANNOT work properly.

  1) How do I get rid of that?
  2) How do I add/install a decent Windows Explorer?

       Thanks.

So I think what you're saying, is you click on .htm

* ?.htm? what is that? There are no file types anymore.

file and MSEdge opens instead of Firefox or Seamonkey
or whatever you thought that you chose.

* "Edge" is well named, it cuts into everything whether yuo want it or not.

There are several dialogs for fiddling with that
stuff, but they're hardly satisfactory.

The main annoyance is the one for MSEdge. Microsoft
keeps hogging things and resetting the setting.

* "hogging" is a understatement.

We'll just do the simple one then. Not worth it,
but try anyway.

https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/125823-making-ie-11-default-browser.html

   Kari:

   Settings > Apps > Default apps > Web browser


https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/browsers-email/221871d1548235461t-making-ie-11-default-browser-image.png

   Additional nuisance step:


https://www.tenforums.com/attachments/browsers-email/221872d1548235511t-making-ie-11-default-browser-image.png

There will be situations where maybe some Microsoft
tool needs a browser, and even if you set Firefox to be
your browser, MSEdge will open the so-called "Help" page.

Kari has another tutorial page he wrote, which is about
a hundred web pages long, and I haven't the heart to
post that, because you'll only moan and no purpose will
be served :-) It shows a zillion stupid things you can
try, and you just know they're not going to work :-)

I don't even try to program that stuff any more. I
just use "Open with" sorts of things and that's it for me.
No screwing with MIME types any more. Not interested.

   Paul

Does anything solve the problems of explicitly NOT showing drives,
NOT showing a file/files?

Thanks.
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Robert Baer wrote:

Does anything solve the problems of explicitly NOT showing drives, NOT showing a file/files?

Thanks.

There are third party file explorers, with names
like Total Commander. I've not tried any of those.

You can define containers with Veracrypt that
perhaps nobody could find in a naive search, but
that's probably not the question you're asking either.

If you're talking about cleaning up the appearance
of the left-hand pane, yes, that's been tried.
Each section of the pane cleanup, has its own recipe.

I just don't have the energy for stuff like this :-)

Paul

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Paul wrote:

Robert Baer wrote:

  Does anything solve the problems of explicitly NOT showing drives,
NOT showing a file/files?

   Thanks.

There are third party file explorers, with names
like Total Commander. I've not tried any of those.

You can define containers with Veracrypt that
perhaps nobody could find in a naive search, but
that's probably not the question you're asking either.

* correct.

If you're talking about cleaning up the appearance
of the left-hand pane, yes, that's been tried.
Each section of the pane cleanup, has its own recipe.

I just don't have the energy for stuff like this :-)

   Paul

???? at the cost of not knowing where things are and/or if they exist?
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