Execute the .reg file with administrator privileges and re-check your right-click menu, the shortcut should be away now.

Screenshot of the menu entry:

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In time, Sebastien convinced us to move over to GitHub, and on GitHub we met new people. One such person was goes by the name Micheal Hardy. He’s been around for years, that “unnamed” person making “backspaceware”, and he made such a clone of BetterExplorer… twice. (You’ll also find programs he “made”, cloning video games, Paint.Net, Firefox, and D-FEND for DOSbox, and that’s just the start.)

Another person we met on GitHub is Markus. He offered us something amazing: our own website. That website is what you see here now, and it’s because of Markus that we have it. Around this time, Sebastien convinced Dimitar and myself to move over to Skype, so the four of us, Dimitar, Markus, Sebastien, and myself, now regularly talk to each other over Skype. A lot of our talk is about business, which makes sense, but I also enjoy those moments where we also talk about other things, and it helps us as a team bond and work together more. These are people I’d enjoy calling my friends, and together, we make BetterExplorer.

Markus helped us in a lot of ways, especially with handling Micheal Hardy, and getting BetterExplorer out into the public, and as well, he offers a lot of help with the website. It amazes me how knowledgeable he is about networking and running a website, and he’s younger than me! Again, BetterExplorer wouldn’t be where it is without him.

Markus, Sebastien, and myself sometimes get into a few arguments over things (sometimes when Sebastien and Markus argue, either or both come running to me to help resolve the issue) but I believe it only helps BetterExplorer, since it can be shaped by people with different viewpoints and ideas. The saying “two heads are better than one” applies here… except it’s four heads.

So, I want to offer my thanks to Sebastien and Markus for the work they’ve done so far. They’ve helped out tremendously. Again, we honestly would not be where we are today without them both. I hope they will continue to help us for a long time to come!

I also want to thank Dimitar himself, for creating BetterExplorer in the first place, and then allowing me to join in. I honestly was a bit nervous about joining the project at first, but after a bit of conversing with Dimitar, I warmed up to him and to BetterExplorer itself. He’s an actual computer programmer with a lot of experience, so the chance to work alongside someone like that really makes me happy.

I also want to thank the various people who have helped out with making translations for BetterExplorer. As you might or might not know, I am the one that manages the translations for BetterExplorer, and I take every chance I get to thank those people for helping out. It’s great to see BetterExplorer available in so many languages.

Finally, I want to thank the public, the people who download and use BetterExplorer, the people who come back and write to us positive comments, the people who offer their suggestions and bug reports, the people who… give BetterExplorer a shot. We do our best to make BetterExplorer the way it is, and we love it when we get positive feedback. We hope that the public will continue to be there for us. Beta 1 had 17 119 downloads. I’m looking forward to seeing what Beta 2 will get, seeing how improved it is.

So, thank you to all of you, again. We’ve had a lot of success so far, and we’re looking forward to what the future will bring us.

Jayke R. Huempfner (JaykeBird)
Co-Developer, BetterExplorer
Translations Manager, BetterExplorer

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We’re all very excited about Beta 2. It offered a lot of features that now puts BetterExplorer on par with other explorer replacements, and also just makes it that much easier to use. If you haven’t taken a look, or if you have Beta 1, I highly suggest giving Beta 2 a try. (As always, though, we’re still using the “Beta” label, since there’s still some kinks to work out.)

Some of the features I’m excited about includes support for multiple windows (a highly requested feature), improvements to the tab bar (I’d like to say we’ve exceeded expectations), and the Folder/Drive Size Chart feature (since a Folder Size column is an impossibility). Of course, there’s a lot more features than just that. If you’re curious, you can take a look at our changelog.

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In case someone wants to use the old icon instead, they can do so.

You can download the old icon here: Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

How to put it into the program

For those of you who aren’t programmers, we have the “How to Build BetterExplorer” page.

After completing step 2, open the folder you created, and you should see a number of folders. Open the BExplorer folder, followed by the BetterExplorer folder. In this folder, you’ll see a bunch of files. Look for the file called “Explorer.ico” and replace it with the old icon. (Make sure it is named “Explorer.ico” or otherwise, no icon will show up!)

If you need more help, let us know.

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We were recently threatened by a guy who calls himself “Michael Hardy” . He stole our source code and claimed the program as something he created.

He is well-known on the Internet for stealing (ripping off)  open-source code and modifying it (adding in his own credits) plus trying to sell it. ( a search on Google or Yahoo  should give enough proof.)

We once sent him a warning about a site of his and now we have discovered a site where he claimed again better explorer is his software. In addition to that, he even edited the credits in the program itself, as you can see in the following screenshots:

A credit page on his (now offline) site:

Michael Hardy’s “Better worse Explorer”:

(I suggest running it in a virtual machine – sure is sure.)

And the Beta 1 from us:

Do you Notice a Difference? Well… it should be clear what has been done here.

And, thanks to guys like Michael Hardy, many software programmers stop open-source development. In my opinion, this has to stop. But let’s see. We are not the kind of people who sue everybody just by copying something like rounded corners .

Now, to get some proof about this guy’s movements we have some links for you that you might want to read:

gmc.yoyogames.com

I suggest reading the comments:

youfailit.net ( A series of posts about this guy. It is ridiculous.)

youfailit.net ( as he already posted a comment. Funny somehow.)

Our email chat with this… well *person*:

It shows exactly what kind of person Michael Hardy is. Some comments on youfailit.net also mentioned this.

Enough Talking. Make your own opinion of this.

And now his reaction, and with this, i knew it was the person that we were searching for. A liar. It is funny how he declined in his first mail to be the one that is responsible for it.

Previously, our program was released under the GNU GPL. This does not mean everyone can copy it at his will. When you fork something you have to AT LEAST to give credits for it (or you contact the creator(s)). This is what got us mad the most. This guy copied our work without giving credits – he even added in credits to his family members.  This means he broke the GPL license that BetterExplorer was under at the time.

Quote (GPL 2.0):

1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program’s source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty;

The problem is that Mr. Michael Hardy offered us a domain. Now he thinks he is “DA KING” and can tell us anything he wants. False. We have taken measures to secure our work as well as the domain. He has absolutely no access to the data or the server of our site. The only ones having access to this are me and Dimitar.

To all open-source developers around the world: be careful if someone offers you something for free. And be sure to license your hard work.

To quote someone (I don’t remember his/her name anymore:)):

Think about it.

A little update: I also found a Firefox clone by Mr. Michael Hardy. This is insane.

It it is based on Firefox Aurora, Version 5.0. All credits from Firefox or Mozilla have been Removed –> The license is violated. Mozilla has been contacted about it.

*some names on images are censored to protect the privacy of this noninvolved individuals.

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Addition: Please review our custom license terms. You Can review them by reading the license.txt in the source codde/and/or the license you have to agree to at the installation.

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