| "...But you may not know that you can use your web file browser as
| your own computer file browser..."
|
| "...IF your want to browser "C" drive, then enter the address C: or
| file:///IF your want to browser "C" drive, then enter the address C:
| or file:///C:// in your browser address bar. Samely if your want oto
| explore "D" drive, then enter the address D: or file:///D:// in your
| browsers address bar.
|
| Just put C: in the IE address bar. Then tell me IE is not a file
| browser.
|

That's left over from Active Desktop, when Microsoft
was trying to equate Windows with the Internet and
embedding IE as a part of the OS. Before XP, a folder
window actually had an IE browser window in it. The
"listview" that shows the files was actually an object
in a webpage.

Some of that blending still remains, partly for backward
compatibility and partly because Microsoft still wants to
present IE as integral to the OS.

None of that means Explorer and IE are the same. Once
you "browse" to a folder path, it's an Explorer window in
an IE frame and there's no longer a browser window there.
(You can confirm that with a program that shows all open
windows and their sub-windows. The actual browser window
itself is of class "Internet Explorer_Server". There's no such
sub-window remaining after you navigate to a folder.) The
appearance of IE and Explorer being the same is just a
leftover quinky dink. (Though it is a good reason not to
use IE online, due to the security risks of blending IE and
Windows so intimately.)

...Not that any of this has anything to do with poor Jerry's
attempt to solve his computer problems.