#Xplorer2 vs xyplorer windows

All the usual holy beasts of the market are in here, and I'm glad to see xplorer² in there among the big guns (in fact the last week xplorer² was ranked 54,007 as a result of the lifehacker article, which would make it third most popular tool!). These entries are ranked according to alexa's global website rank, averaged for the last 3 months. So we proceed with the understanding that this is isn't exact science but it's better than nothing! How statistically significant is this? probably not much - e.g. Their data are based on the browsing habits of an unknown population of users that have installed alexa's toolbar. So I'll take the easy way out and use Alexa's rankings. So which is the most popular file manager? How do you even start to approximate this measure? I could have used google's PageRank but it isn't very illuminating since all websites seem to have pagerank 5. So much for rational consumer decisions :) In fact I bet that most people will just forget about exhaustive feature enumeration and will grab the 'most popular' file manager that their friends also use. There are a few comparison articles and reviews you can check to ease this task but it still isn't trivial. It will take ages to test all the alternatives. If you are a user trying to make up your mind on which program is best for you, you've got your work cut out.

#Xplorer2 vs xyplorer windows

I suppose xplorer² is somewhere in the middle, keeping the industrial strength of NC whilst combining it with the ease of use of windows explorer.

This lot can be roughly split in two categories, 'orthodox' file managers that ape the classic Norton Commander, and a sundry of explorer replacements. That was 37 programs right there, and I'm not including tons of other semi-abandoned or open source stuff in sourceforge. Sometimes when I consider the competition I get depressed, I mean look at this list of file managers: 2圎xplorer, A43, ABCommander, AcBrowser, AccelMan, Advanced file manager, CubicExplorer, Directory opus, EFCommander, ExplorerPlus, ExplorerXP, FAR, FileAnt, FileBoss, FileMatrix, FileQuest XP Gold, FreeCommander, Frigate, Gyula's navigator, Magellan explorer, MeeSoft commander, muCommander, Nico's commander, Powerdesk, Servant salamander, SpeedCommander, Sprintbit file manager, TotalCommander, UltraExplorer, Universal explorer, Windows file explorer, WinNavigator,, XFile, xplorer², XYplorer, ZTreeWin. That's because windows explorer is totally lame, and programming a file manager is relatively straightforward in the scheme of things. The file manager category must be the most competitive in the whole shareware industry. 'There's lies, damn lies, and statistics'