alternative vista windows explorer

Has anyone had any success with either running the XP version of Windows Explorer on Vista or using a third party file explorer ? Vista's explorer continues to be one of the really annoying "features" of the OS and we would like to be able to use an alternative program. I do understand that VS has good programming tools with which to implement the file capability, but don't want to have to develop a program that may already be available. Thank you. Robbie

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Has anyone had any success with either running the XP version of Windows Explorer on Vista or using a third party file explorer ? Vista's explorer continues to be one of the really annoying "features" of the OS and we would like to be able to use an alternative program. I do understand that VS has good programming tools with which to implement the file capability, but don't want to have to develop a program that may already be available. Thank you. Robbie