Re: Win10 equivalent to Windows Explorer?

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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