At Last! Full Line Selection for Windows Explorer!

For years, I've wondered why somebody hadn't figured out a way to give full row selection to the Windows Explorer. After all, most other programs, including such stalwarts as WinZip, have had it for years, if not decades. Well, it's finally here!

One of the developer resources that I use regularly, The Code Project, is a huge collection of articles and samples on all kinds of programming. Although most of the code available on the site is for hard core programmers only, and is intended to demonstrate a programming technique, or to become part of a bigger project, once in a while, a nifty stand alone utility appears.

Such was the case a few weeks ago, when their weekly newsletter brought to my attention TrayProdder. I have no idea why its author, who goes by the name,  "The Everator," gave it that name, but it doesn't matter, because it makes the Windows Explorer so much easier to use. You can see screen shots at Windows Explorer in XP: Now with Checkboxes and Fullrowselect.

Unlike most code downloads available from The Code Project, the download that will be of interest to the largest audience lives on the developer's own Web site, at http://www.everator.com/backpages/index.php/trayprodder.

If you use Windows Explorer a lot and run Windows XP, install your copy of TrayProdder, and the required Microsoft .NET Framework, version 3.5, and get ready to enjoy your new, improved Windows Explorer.