But, it's evolved a *lot* over time, with more and more add-ons available for it. I didn't like Dolphin at first when it was first launched with KDE 4.x. as there are *MANY* add-ons available for Dolphin now) It also has *LOADS* of add-ons available to give it extra 'right click' options for a wide variety of purposes (for using lots of different utilities for archive purposes, interfaces to various cloud storage services, root terminal use in the folder you're viewing, sending files to other apps and services, launching other apps, etc., etc., etc. It also supports tabbed views of different drives/folders (as made popular by newer internet browsers) and you can also have more than one instance of Dolphin open at the same time. You've got the choice of multiple views as with most file managers (lists, detailed view, smaller or larger icons or thumbnails, etc.) and you can also use split views (different drive/folder structures that are 'side by side') The Dolphin file manager is pretty nice once you take the time to make some configuration tweaks to it (I usually customize the 'places' tab on the left, add a visible address toolbar and more as some of the available toolbars are not activated by default). Thanks All - Tom (trying to regain sanity). A simple viewer does not have to be rocket science does it? IMHO, it's because of such cumbersome, confusing, squirrely, irritations like this that the PC is/has being replaced by the iPad, type gizmos for the average user. Please, please, another suggestion for a file viewer/explorer for W7. Both remind of an MS design that knows best for you and must to do it their way. Or, if in fact they will do such, the configuration 'fix' is buried where I can't find it. 2) Total Commander will not command copy a file with a simple right click and menu selection.

For example - 1) Multi Commander will not save the column configuration changes I make. I have in last couple of weeks spent hours with - Multi Commander and Total Commander, both for 64b. The standard Windows Explorer I have always found to be cumbersome to use. Note there are two vertical windows.Ī simple right click on a file name brings down a window with choices such as - copy, past, open, rename. Rather than try and explain what I like about it, here is jpg. I love PowerDesk for its straight simplicity. My favorite file viewer/explorer of many years PowerDesk is not fully functional in W7.

Forgive me, this is such an elementary problem.

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