Metro-style Browsing for Windows 7 with Immersive Explorer
By Stacy Bruce for Windows Talk
Windows 7 and Windows 8 are the popular operating systems used in majority of the PC systems these days. With Microsoft finally releasing the date for Windows 8 final version, users are expecting to taste Metro UI feature of this latest operating system. Don’t you have the patience for waiting for so long? Well, you can experience Metro UI feature with a new browsing app – the Immersive Explorer. Now the time has come to bring a change to the mode of browsing of files.
Immersive Explorer is a new app which has come up to relieve you from the mundane Windows Explorer. This is a metro style, streamlined and clean application for file browser. This Windows Explorer replacement is designed completely with Metro UI interface.
Immersive Explorer – A Change from Default Browsing Activity
This file browser app is a perfect alternative to your default Windows Explorer. With Windows 8 Metro UI design, this browser application primarily intends to provide you easy accessibility to contents instead of displaying a number of toolbars and icons and hiding the actual contents behind these icons. This app enables you to do the simple task in the simple way. Now, you no longer have to open multiple applications or navigate through multiple windows in order to perform a simple task as watching some photo.
For instance, say you wish to view one JPEF file. You do not have to open up Windows Photo Viewer; you will get to see the JPEF file in the window of Immersive Explorer directly. Moreover, it is expected that many new features like streaming of video and audio and some basic image modifying tools like resizing, rotating and cropping will be included in this file explorer.
Therefore, if you are in search for a good replacement for Windows Explorer, then pick this app. This is certainly an attractive alternative to your file browser…
Browsing file in Immersive explorer is at your fingertips – you do not have to give much effort in that. When you want to open a file in this Explorer, just double click it and it will be opened, provided the file type is supported by the Explorer. So, just double click your desired picture file in this Explorer and you will be able to view the image you desire.
Want to a particular file property? Just double click on it and the properties will be displayed in Immersive Explorer. You also have the facility to view SHA-1 and MD5 hash checksums of any file together with their properties in Immersive Explorer. Amongst the features that are expected to be found in this latest browser are modernized view sorting and filters, touchscreen support, playback support, picture manipulations and file operations.
Thanks to Julien Manici for creating such a functional app for the PC users. You know Immersive Explorer doesn’t require any administrative privilege for using it! These exciting features are only added to its first release. Many other features are awaited to be added in the future release. So, grab this opportunity of using this interesting Immersive Explorer!
Author’s Bio: Want to know about any app? Contact Stacy Bruce, the Windows 7 Support expert. Get the help you are searching for!
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