Rather than address the issue, a Microsoft 'expert' chimes in (while seeming A bunch of users have a problem and see a need for a feature or function, and say so. Really just so typical of Microsoft's response in these situations. More 'bling' instead of core functionality such as speed etc.

I tried plenty of 3rd part products and they all are poor replacement (despite many welcome additions) because they don't integrate well with OS or focus on even

This is so bad that i'm thinking about biting the bullet and making my own browser. There are improvements too (although very few) like snapping window to half of the screen when something is dragged to left or right edge of screen. To reach things quickly, I expect them to be always in same place, not shuffling or stacking. It is very annoying to look for things that jump around. Shuffle in the Start Menu, Task Bar, Notification area etc. This too keeps on shuffling it's content so one has to keep reading and looking for right link, yet there is no '.' icon in the right pane and even level up icon is not always shown. There is additional and 'conveniently' namelessīar with 'organize, etc. They get synced eventually when user clicks on item(s) in one of them. on start explorer panes don't even match, left one is on 'Desktop', right one is showing 'Libraries'. So that cannot be clicked on), continues to waste screen space (top bar of every window is fatter than ever and yet, it is completely blank, one can't even see title any more instead it shows some blur that is nothing but strain for eyes, more heat from GPUĪnd thus increased battery drain). It hides files and folders, hides file extensions, hides actual folders and exposes bunch of 'special folders', changes view and visible columns merely because it figured that there may be change in content of the folder (for example if it contains mediaįiles, switches to thumb view, hides my columns and shows something else like 'Rating', 'Genre' etc., completely ignoring what I want to see), even if it does not change columns, it keeps on adjusting their width (it is like bad joke with button moving around it is like having battler that instead of taking your orders, actually bosses you around:

Xyplorer save column order