brokenhope

What I want to make is a file explorer, one very very similar to the one that comes with Windows XP, give and take a few features. The reason I dont like windows file explorer is that in some directorys I will get a message it cant read the data at line whatever and it crashes, closing all open explorer windows, and explorer.exe, which means that everything locks up, I have to restart explorer and the user32 isnt functioning properly so I cant open and close my old windows like I usually can, with the tabs on the start bar only will work to maximize not minimize, and I have to use the minimize maximize close tabs on the window to function... you get my point it messes everything up badly.

I want to create an alternative in VB.NET that does nearly the same exact thing, adding in image browsing functions, rememberance of settings on directorys, mass setting setter (sets specific settings to many directorys), and a way to almost completely prevent it from crashing like windows file explorer does.

Is this possible? I mean I want the same look and feel of it, just diffrent features, if I cant get the exact look and feel, then something very similar will be fine. Do you think this will be a lot of work? Some things can be left out, like thumbnailing videos, the small little thumbnail view does nothing, having icons for each file works just fine...