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Also known as Windows Explorer, Explorer is used in Microsoft
Windows 95 and above to explore and manage the files
on the computer drives. Although
similar, Microsoft Explorer is not the same as "My
Computer" and is not "Microsoft
Internet Explorer", even though Internet Explorer is
sometimes improperly referred to as Explorer.
Below is an example of what Explorer may look like.

Explorer in Windows 2000
Users familiar with earlier version of Microsoft Windows such as Windows
3.0 or Windows 3.1 can think of explorer being the same thing as file
manager.
To open Explorer a user can do any of the below steps.
- right-click the Start button and click Explorer.
- Click Start, Programs, and then Windows Explorer or Explorer.
- Click Start, Run, and type explorer and press
enter.
- Users with a keyboard that has the Windows logo can use the
shortcut of holding the Windows key and
E at the same time.
- Open the windows or winnt directory
and double-click the explorer.exe file.
- Information about how to make Explorer display the files the
same way each time you open a new window can be found on
document CH000770.
- Additional information about how to change how files are
shown in Explorer can be found on
document CH001015.
Also see: My computer,
Operating System
definitions
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