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Welcome to EasyExplorer XP Gold
v4.0
Table of Contents:
PrefaceWe offer two
different versions of EasyExplorer XP for evaluation: q
EasyExplorer XP Gold Edition
The gold edition comes with the most essential tools for your daily needs. Some
of the features are Tasks, Reports, Personal folders and much more. q
EasyExplorer XP
EasyExplorer
XP is designed for home users who have less need for a complete solution for
managing files. Such a user only needs a good replacement for the lame Windows
Explorer.
Unless specified, every place where the text mentions EEXP Gold v4.0, it also
refers to EasyExplorer XP v4.0 (the non gold version). General information on upgrading to the latest versionRegardless of the
version of EasyExplorer currently installed on your computer, EasyExplorer XP
will not alter it. EasyExplorer XP installs in a different folder and stores
information in a separate place in the Registry. You can keep your older version
running while testing EEXP Gold v4.0 to see if you would like to upgrade. Please note EEXP
Gold v4.0 no longer supports Windows 95. When you first run
EEXP Gold v4.0 it will import most your old settings (reports, tasks, tools,
etc.). You may need to manually set individual settings from the Options dialog. If you have
previously purchased Life Time FREE Upgrades: If, when placing
your order for EEXP Gold v3.x your have also purchased Life Time FREE upgrades,
then this upgrade is free for you. If you are not
sure if you qualify for free upgrades please send an e-mail to
support@piquest.com along with your order id or any details that can help us
locate your original order (name, address, etc). To receive this
free upgrade please send
support@piquest.com
an e-mail with your order id or any details that can help us locate your
original order (name, address, etc). We will send you back a link to the retail
version of EasyExplorer XP Gold v4.0.
Go Back
If you are a current user of EasyExplorer XP Gold v3.x or
FileQuest
Lite v2.2 and below q
Click
here
to place your upgrade order. This link also provides FREE life time upgrades.
q Click here to place your upgrade order. This link does not provides FREE life time upgrades.
If you are a current user of EasyExplorer XP v3.x q
Click
here
to place your upgrade order. This link also provides FREE life time upgrades. q Click here to place your upgrade order. This link does not provides FREE life time upgrades. Or, from EEXP Gold v4.0, from the main menu, select ‘Help/Buy/Place Your Order Online’ and follow the instructions. How to upgrade to EasyExplorer XP v4.0q Click
here
to place your upgrade order. This link also provides FREE life time upgrades.
q Click
here
to place your upgrade order. This link does not provides FREE life time
upgrades. Or, from EEXP v4.0, from the main menu, select ‘Help/Buy/Place Your Order Online’ and follow the instructions.
Upgrade Policy
q If, during the first 60 days after placing
your order for any of the above products, a new version is released, only the
difference in price between the two versions is required. If the new release
costs the same, than no payment is required. q Purchasing Life Time FREE upgrades, grants
your FREE upgrades for every future releases. q Critical fixes are guaranteed to be free of
cost. For example, if EasyExplorer XP will not be compatible with any future
version of Windows, we will release a free fix for that. q You can save 10% of the upgrade cost by
sending us a check instead of placing your order online. From the main menu of
EEXP, select ‘Help/Buy/Upgrade Form’.
Removing your old version of EasyExplorer
After you have
upgraded to the latest version of EEXP v4.0, you have two options to remove your
previous version. Option 1: From the Add/Remove Control Panel applet,
find an entry for ‘EasyExplorer’ and select Remove. Option 2: If the above entry is not present, or
if you wish to manually remove any traces of previous versions of EasyExplorer: q Go to \Program Files\EasyExplorer q Remove the following folders: EasyExplorer, EasyExplorer XP q Start RegEdit q Remove the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PiQuest Software, Inc.\EasyExplorer XP\3.0 How to
place your order for EasyExplorer XP (Gold) v4.0
Note:
This information is only for new users of EasyExplorer XP (Gold) v4.0. Ordering
EasyExplorer XP Gold v4.0: q Click
here
to place your order. This link also provides FREE life time upgrades.
q Click
here to place your upgrade order. This link does not provides FREE
life time upgrades. Ordering
EasyExplorer XP v4.0: q Click here to place your order. This link also provides FREE life time upgrades. q Click
here to place your upgrade order. This link does not provides FREE
life time upgrades.
Or, from EEXP v4.0, from the main menu, select ‘Help/Buy/Place Your
Order Online’ and follow the instructions.
Special Offer
q For a limited time, users of EasyExplorer XP
Gold Edition can enjoy our time saving utility, FastSplit Gold. FastSplit Gold.
FS Gold makes your backups easier by splitting large files to support backup
media. q You can place your order using an order from. From the main menu of EEXP, select ‘Help/Buy/Order Form’. Using an order form, gives you a 10% discount of the official price of EEXP Gold. What’s new in EasyExplorer XP Gold v4.0Minor Changes:
New Features:
EEXP
Opens All Folders In Windows You can now set
EEXP Gold to always open when opening folders in Windows. This option is only for advanced users: o
Start Windows Explorer o
Select Tools/Folder Options from Explorer o
Switch to the File Types tab o
Find the Folder file type and click on the
Advanced button o
Add an action ‘Open With EEXP Gold’ and set
the command line to: “C:\Program Files\PiQuest\EasyExplorer XP
Gold v4.0\EasyExplorer.exe" "%1"
Make this new command the default command.
Customizable Toolbars (Gold Only) Customize every
toolbar to have its own buttons and its own text options.
New Columns Dialog (Gold only) A new dialog makes
it very easy to add the columns you are interested in and reorder them. You can even
assign a different color for each column.
Automatic unlocking The retail version
of EEXP Gold v4.0 automatically unlocks itself by connecting to our secure
server.
Sound Events You can customize
EEXP Gold v4.0 to play a sound when certain events happen, such as closing or
opening a window.
New Search Type: Icons (Gold only) You can search for
icon file or icons that contains files, such as EXE and DLL file types.
New Color Chooser A new dialog was
added helping you choose colors.
Easier Then Even To Add Tasks/Reports/Personal Folder (Gold only) A simple step by
step new interface makes it a snap to add even complex items such as tasks
Cleaner Main Menu The main menu can
be customized to remove all items that have a keyboard shortcuts. This will make
the main menu much cleaner only showing those items you must use the menu to
access.
Tray Icon EEXP
Gold can be customized to never removed the tray icon, making it a snap to bring
it back to view
Folder Tree Color (Gold only) The folders tree
can be customized to have a custom color
Personal Folders (Gold only) Separators can be
added to the Personal folder menu and toolbar
Header Re-Arrange When in Details
mode (CTRL+F12), headers can be rearranged by dragging and dropping them into
the desired place Enhancements:
New Delete Options (Gold only) A new dialog let
you set many options for deleting files and for clearing your Recycle Bin. A very important
feature is to always check for locked files before deleting files. This can save
you time and also warn you when you are trying to delete locked files. You can also
trigger this check by holding down the CONTROL key when deleting files. This
option also works when doing a Clear, Safe Clear and Destroy.
SHIFT Key When selecting an
object from a menu or from a toolbar (such as tasks, tools, etc), it will open
the object for editing
Hidden Status Bar The status bar
will be hidden from view when no folders are open, providing a cleaner look for
EEXP Gold. A new pane always shows the size of the drive and the amount of free
disk space.
Hide EasyExplorer XP (Gold only) A new option let
you completely hide EEXP when you minimize it. This option is only enabled when
you choose a hotkey to restore EEXP.
Outlook Integration You can directly
drag and drop attachments from Outlook to EEXP. This saves you the extra step of
saving them through Outlook.
‘My Computer’ Folder View Selecting a drive
item in the ‘My Computer’ view, will show the actual used and free space in the
status bar
Copy Across Views (Gold only) A new option let
you copy files to the clipboard across multiple windows. You can select a group
of files in folder A, then switch another group of files in folder B, then paste
the files from both folders to another folder.
Folder Wallpaper A new option let
you set a wallpaper for file folders
Attributes Search Improved (Gold only) Four new options
were added: o
Search for
files that are NOT read-only o
Search for
files that are NOT hidden o
Search for
files that are NOT system files o
Search for
files that are NOT locked Versatile Reports & Tasks
(Gold only) Two new options
for reports and tasks let them become really powerful: o
You can select
to always run the Report/Task on the selected folders in the folder view o
You can select
to always let you choose a folder(s) the run the report/task on before running
them
New Toolbars (Gold only) Every type of
object in EEXP Gold now comes with a toolbar. For example, for your reports, you
can show a Report toolbar. Or, for your tools and favorites you can have a
Launch toolbar. For each object you can select if too add it to the toolbar or
not. This let you
access your objects quickly and easily.
Drag and Drop To New Toolbars (Gold only) When an objects
toolbar is displayed you can drag and drop files and folders to toolbar buttons.
This has a different effect based on the toolbar: o
Dragging items
to a Launch toolbar button, will launch the selected toolbar button with the
dragged items as arguments, when dragging to a non-folder item o
Dragging items
to a Launch toolbar button, will copy/move to the selected toolbar button’s
folder o
Dragging
folder(s) to a Tasks/Reports toolbar button, will run the selected Task/Report
on those folders.
Improved Taskbar A new dialog let
you fully customize the built in taskbar. Here are some of the new options: o
Show the
taskbar on top/bottom o
Show the
taskbar only after a certain number of windows is open o
Show the
taskbar only when all windows are maximized o
Taskbar buttons
act as toggles, just like the Windows taskbar buttons o
Color options o
Font options o
Flat appearance Also, you can
drag and drop files and folders directly to taskbar buttons
Improved Back/Forward When moving back
or forward, the last selected folders are re-selected.
Improved Favorites You can now store
multiple folders in one favorite, letting you open a set of folders at the same
time.
New Choices For Tool’s Arguments You can add
arguments to your tools in three different ways: o
Add a fixed
argument o
Popup a dialog
before running a tool letting you insert an argument o
Pick up the
selected items in the files view as arguments
Sort Order EEXP
Gold stores not only the last sort type but also the last sort order (up or
down)
File/Folder Size Options You can select to
show the file/folder size in three different ways: o
Default (KB,
MB, GB depending on the size) o
Bytes – Always
show size in bytes o
KB – Always
show size in KB
Hidden Folders You can hide/show
hidden folders in the folders tree. This enhancements let you hide files/folders
in folder views but still view hidden folders in the folders tree.
Context Sensitive Help Each dialog comes
with its own help. You can access it by pressing F1 while the dialog is open.
Flat Window Bar The window bar can
be configured to be flat providing a more pleasant appearance.
Detailed Recycle Bin The Recycle Bin
folder was improved to display detailed information about deleted files You can also
select files in the Recycle Bin using Edit/Select from the main menu
Improved Explorer Mode In Explorer Mode,
you can open as many query windows (search, report, etc.) as you like without
closing the folder you are working with.
Dialogs Movement Move any dialog by
clicking anywhere in the dialog gray area and dragging the mouse pointer.
Performance/Stability/Memory This latest
version of EEXP Gold is more stable, consumes much less memory and is 30% faster
than the previous version.
Toolbars & Icons All toolbars and
icons now support 256 colors instead of 16, providing a much more pleasant
appearance of EEXP Gold.
Custom Icons Each object in
EEXP (tools, reports, favorites, etc.), can be customized to have a different
icon than the default one.
Improved Choose Folder(s) dialog o
The dialog is
resizable and initially bigger o
The folders
tree has check boxes to make it easier to select multiple folders o
When selecting
multiple folders, selecting a previously selected folder from the list of
folders, will also select the folder in the folders tree
Improved Status Bar The status bar
shows the folder size and the total number of files/folder in it. It also shows
size in GB for very large items.
‘Prompt For…’ When right
clicking on an EXE file, a menu item, ‘Prompt for arguments…’ is added to the
context menu
Details Mode In details mode,
Control Panel and other virtual folders, show more information, such as a
Comment for items.
Improved Edit Boxes Two new
improvement for edit boxes: o
Most of the
edit boxes are no longer read only, so you can type directly in them. o
An Edit Box
will a red background if the data in it is no longer valid. For example, if you
have a tool that point to a non exiting file, the edit box that holds the path
to that file will have a red background
Improved List Boxes If a list box has
an invalid item, that item will have a red background. For example, it the Tools dialog, if a
tool is no longer valid, it will have a red background in the list box of tools
Improved Menu Items If a menu item is
invalid it will show will a special icon and a red background. For example, if a
tool under the Go menu item is invalid, it will be shown with a red background. The above three enhancements makes it very easy to maintain your reports/task/tools and other objects. Important notice for EasyExplorer v3.x usersEasyExplorer XP includes hundreds of new features and enhancements that were added to it from FileQuest XP and FileQuest XP Gold. This was done in order to give you a better product that while it lacks many of the stronger features of EasyExplorer XP Gold (Tasks, Reports, etc.), it still offers excellent features for making your file managements tasks easier and faster.
Installation Problems
If you encounter problems installing EasyExplorer XP, please follow theses steps: q Make sure your current installed version of EasyExplorer XP is not running q
Clear your c:\temp and
C:\windows\temp folders. q
Delete all EEXP*.exe files from
you computer (be sure to search for it). q
Download EasyExplorer XP again
and save it (don't run it yet!). q Right click on the downloaded
file and select ‘Extract To’, select a brand new folder, If there is no 'Extract
To' command, double click the file instead q After extraction is complete, run setup.exe from the new folder.
Unlocking Problems
If
EasyExplorer XP fails to unlock, please make sure you have followed our
instruction to unlock it. Especially pay attention to the following details: q When starting EasyExplorer XP, an unlock
dialog should open, if you don’t see an unlock dialog or see a trial dialog, you
are not running the correct version. Make sure you are running EasyExplorer XP
from the right shortcut. q If you get an error message that EasyExplorer
XP can’t find the license file, make sure to copy it to the folder mentioned in
the message. q If you get an error that the information
typed in the Unlock dialog is incorrect, make sure to enter the exact
information you have received from us. Capitalization of letters and spaces
should be the exact same. q Note that if you are attempting to install
EasyExplorer XP again in order to unlock it, you need to close EasyExplorer XP
first.
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