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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Chocolatey

      Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

      https://chocolatey.org/

      You can install it with this command in PowerShell...

      Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
      
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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        Chocolatey allows you not only to install a package quickly and easily like this...

        choco install mypackage -y
        

        It also allows you to simply update all managed packages on your system like this...

        cup all -y
        

        It's so handy. Really takes Windows to the next level. Plus Choco provides a massive library of packages so it is a handy way to research what is available today.

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        • siringoS
          siringo @scottalanmiller
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          @scottalanmiller thanks, I will look into it.

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            1337 @scottalanmiller
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            @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

            The original... Midnight Commander

            choco install mc
            

            It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

            Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @1337
              last edited by

              @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

              @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

              The original... Midnight Commander

              choco install mc
              

              It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

              Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

              I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value 🙂

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                1337 @scottalanmiller
                last edited by 1337

                @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                The original... Midnight Commander

                choco install mc
                

                It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

                Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

                I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value 🙂

                Haha, rookies 😉

                They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

                Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @1337
                  last edited by

                  @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                  @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                  The original... Midnight Commander

                  choco install mc
                  

                  It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

                  Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

                  I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value 🙂

                  Haha, rookies 😉

                  They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

                  Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.

                  So alike, but not from a vendor I couldn't trust, you see.

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                    1337 @scottalanmiller
                    last edited by 1337

                    @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                    @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                    @Pete-S said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                    @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                    The original... Midnight Commander

                    choco install mc
                    

                    It's not the original. Norton Commander is the original.

                    Norton Commander used to be the first program to install straight after ms-dos itself.

                    I don't recognize anything from Norton as valid. People used to use AV from them, too. MC is the original of value 🙂

                    Haha, rookies 😉

                    They are so alike that I feel like I'm back in the eighties every time I run mc. Even the key bindings are almost identical. And the colors and, and, and...

                    Norton Commander was of course nc so there's that difference at least.

                    So alike, but not from a vendor I couldn't trust, you see.

                    But it was way before Symantec bought Norton.

                    BTW, here is Norton Commander:
                    https://informatics.buzdo.com/_images/f550-1.gif

                    And Midnight Commander
                    https://debiananwenderhandbuch.de/bilder/instweiter/mc.png

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                      scotth
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                      They used to have a nice disk editor too.

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                      • iroalI
                        iroal
                        last edited by

                        I like Q-dir

                        https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir

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                        • hobbit666H
                          hobbit666
                          last edited by

                          What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

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                          • WrCombsW
                            WrCombs @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by

                            @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                            Chocolatey

                            Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                            https://chocolatey.org/

                            You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                            Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                            

                            FTFY -
                            It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @WrCombs
                              last edited by

                              @WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                              @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                              Chocolatey

                              Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                              https://chocolatey.org/

                              You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                              Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                              

                              FTFY -
                              It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

                              That's the case for ALL installs.

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                              • WrCombsW
                                WrCombs @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                @WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                Chocolatey

                                Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                                https://chocolatey.org/

                                You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                                Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                                

                                FTFY -
                                It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

                                That's the case for ALL installs.

                                I was starting to understand that.

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                                • BRRABillB
                                  BRRABill @hobbit666
                                  last edited by

                                  @hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                  What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

                                  Yeah, what's up with that?

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                                  • dafyreD
                                    dafyre @BRRABill
                                    last edited by

                                    @BRRABill said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                    @hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                    What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

                                    Yeah, what's up with that?

                                    Some folks don't like having 50 windows open when doing drag & drop / copy and paste?

                                    I've yet to find one that I consistently come back to -- no matter what OS I'm using... Althought Multicommander is looking kinda nice.

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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                      @WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                      Chocolatey

                                      Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                                      https://chocolatey.org/

                                      You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                                      Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                                      

                                      FTFY -
                                      It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

                                      That's the case for ALL installs.

                                      You could use the chocolately gui

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                        last edited by

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                        @WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                        Chocolatey

                                        Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                                        https://chocolatey.org/

                                        You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                                        Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                                        

                                        FTFY -
                                        It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

                                        That's the case for ALL installs.

                                        You could use the chocolately gui

                                        Has to run as admin, too.

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                                        • JaredBuschJ
                                          JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                          @DustinB3403 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                          @WrCombs said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                          Chocolatey

                                          Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

                                          https://chocolatey.org/

                                          You can install it with this command in Administrative PowerShell...

                                          Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
                                          

                                          FTFY -
                                          It's only every worked for me in an Admin Powershell or admin CMD

                                          That's the case for ALL installs.

                                          You could use the chocolately gui

                                          Has to run as admin, too.

                                          Chocolatey absolutely does not need to run as admin.

                                          It has to be installed as admin. But you can run it without admin rights and install things in the user scope.

                                          Granted not many windows applications are designed to install to the user scope, so that would be a problem. But that is not chocolatey's fault.

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                                          • tonyshowoffT
                                            tonyshowoff @dafyre
                                            last edited by

                                            @dafyre said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                            @BRRABill said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                            @hobbit666 said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

                                            What's wrong with Win10 File Explorer?

                                            Yeah, what's up with that?

                                            Some folks don't like having 50 windows open when doing drag & drop / copy and paste?

                                            I've yet to find one that I consistently come back to -- no matter what OS I'm using... Althought Multicommander is looking kinda nice.

                                            So it's more of an issue with Explorer's file navigation in general rather than an issue specific to Windows 10? Because that's sort of the inference from what OP wrote.

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