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Raymond Chen summarizes some of the whys you've asked regarding Windows
Explorer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...3/4195888.aspx


"Duncan Anderson" <DuncanAnderson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Having watched the inexorable development of Windows O/S since Win98SE
> I've
> come to the conclusion that Windows O/S is being primarily developed for
> IT
> Professionals - networking and security - as well as Office - Word, Excel,
> Power-Point etc - and Home - games, photos & music - use and appears to be
> totally ignoring Power-Users.
>
> By Power-User I mean scientists, technicians, engineers, 3D-CAD modelling
> and CGI etc, where there is often a need to multi-task and more is expect
> from Windows Explorer.
>
> Several years ago I was able to download a very useful utility that took
> over Windows Explorer's Copy and Move functions and gave then some
> inteligence. When you copied or moved a file to another folder, if another
> file with the same name existed you could set parameters that the file
> would
> only be copied or moved if it had been modified more recently or was
> larger
> etc, etc, etc. You can also download utilities for renaming files. But I
> end
> up with a myriad of little utility programs that I'm not sure I can trust.
>
> I'd like to be able to move and rename files at the same time.
>
> I'd like to be able to copy and paste text, whilst getting rid of the
> formatting.
>
> There are thousands of other little jobs I'd like Windows Explorer to be
> able to do, but it doesn't give me that option. I have to live with it's
> limited functionality or download suspect utilities ... !
>
> So I want to know why can't Windows Explorer include a Visual Basic Editor
> and utilse VBA functionality ?
>
> No doubt the home and office user will go, "what ... ?"
>
> And the IT Profssional will go, "that's to dangerous, think of the
> security
> ... !"
>
> To which there are two answers; firstly, how dangerous it would be depends
> upon what is exposed through the API. Secondly, it could be an optional
> install is it is in most applications. Home and Office users needn't
> clutter
> up their H/D by installing this option as the default install would be
> without VBA and support. IT professionals could keep their usual appoarch
> to
> allowing others to uses computers, basically don't let them have anything
> that might make the job easier, so they wo't install this option.
>
> But Power-Users could have access to some very powerful and useful
> functionality that would allow them to get more out of their PC or work
> station and be a more productive employee.
>
> So how about it Microsoft ...
>
>
>
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