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So I’ve grown very quickly to like FreeCommander (http://www.freecommander.com), as I think it is the closest thing I can find to the old Norton Commander. You’d think that working where I do I’d find the NC internally but such has not been the case

Freecommander lets you have split panes, and even lets you mark files with the spacebar (praise be to NC).  This screenie shows the vertical split, but by default it splits horizontally.

So this is all well and good until you start hitting Win+E to and find yourself back in the dark world of Explorer instead of your fantastic new (and FREE!) file manager.

Thanks to some tips from John Morales I was able to simply and easily remap the keys I needed to make it launch FC instead.  Just follow the directions at his site, and replace the line:

~E=Run|xplorer2.exe|0|2 ; Run Xplorer2 Win-E

with

~E=Run|"c:\Program Files\FreeCommander\FreeCommander.exe";Run Free eeCommander Win-E

I haven’t yet figured out how to make it work when I double click My Computer, but, baby steps…