Review: Resco Explorer (2007)

Back in October of last yr, I named Resco Explorer in my very select list of Must Have Software for your WM phone. At present, about viii months afterward, it is still a must have for anyone with a WM phone. Why is that practise you lot ask? In this review I volition highlight all of the major reasons why.

If you lot e'er had to navigate or work with any files or folders on your phone, wanted to edit the registry, map your phone to a hard bulldoze on your network, connect to an FTP server, navigate to and browse other computers on your network, or encrypt your files... and then Resco Explorer for y'all. Maybe you never fifty-fifty stopped to call up that you could do any of these things. At that place is and then much that Resco has packed into their version of Explorer 2007, that I practice not think I could possiblly list them all within the scope of this review... but I will requite information technology a try!

Read on for the full review of Resco Explorer 2007!

(Annotation, Resco Explorer 2008 is now available! It features everything in 2007 and adds a new expect that easier to navigate, including a quick search bar and also with avant-garde network settings.)

Interface / Navigation

Resco Explorer is actually a drove of utilities. They phone call each private utility a module. The prissy affair about Resco Explorer is that if you know how to navigate in i module, similar File Explorer, then yous already know how to navigate several other modules, like the Registry editor or FTP Explorer. All of the basic stuff is right at your stylus tip with a tap-and-concur popular upwardly menu, or by clicking Bill of fare at the lesser of the screen. Some of the avant-garde features are a piffling more cached at times, simply usually placed in a very logical order. In fact, if you notice yourself doing the aforementioned control often, like create folder, you can assign it to a keyboard shortcut.

Depending on your current knowledge of WM OS, there could be a learning curve, depending on the feature or module you are working on, and what yous want to achieve with it. But with the help of many of our manufactures here at WMExperts, establish in the How To section like How To: Install, Uninstall, and Transfer Files on Windows Mobile or How To: Edit the Registry, or our forums hither at WMExperts and Resco Explorer Forum, you should be able to be up and running in no fourth dimension, doing whatever you want to do.

Modules

At present let's take a wait at least some of the nigh impressive of the modules that Resco has included in Explorer 2007.

File Explorer

This probably is the number 1 module that near people will use. This is by far the all-time file explorer for the WM Bone on the marketplace today. You tin easily create folders, delete files, search for folders and files, etc. Just about anything you exercise in file explorer on your PC you tin can do here on your WM phone. It is easy to navigate and holds a lot of ability under the hood. For example, y'all select multiple files and drag and drop files or folders.

Registry Editor

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This is probably the second most used module in Explorer 2007. And just like the file explorer, information technology is ane of the best registry editors I accept worked with and remains my personal favorite.

Congenital In Viewer

Resco Explorer has a congenital in viewer that can be used for viewing files in TXT, BIN or HEX format, equally well as JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG graphics. If you have a split viewer like Resco Photograph Viewer 2007, and then yous tin can as well configure the file explorer to employ that instead. A nice bear upon for most of united states who have non spent actress money on a tertiary party viewer.

Network Browser / Mapping Network Drive

This is a really absurd module. With information technology, yous tin can easily scan the computers on your network. This can make it very easy to copy files to and from your handheld to any computer on your network. You tin can even map a hard bulldoze to your handheld for fast and easy admission without having to browse to information technology every fourth dimension.

FTP Explorer

If yous or your company has an FTP server, with this nifty module you can now browse it just equally easily as if you were at your PC. This can be especially handy if yous have a website or files with your company on an FTP server and y'all desire to transfer pictures or an e-mail attachment from your phone to your FTP server without having to await to sync up with a PC beginning.

Strong File Encryption

The Enhanced Cryptographic Provider can encrypt whatever file you desire with strong algorithms such equally RC2-128, DES-56, 3DES TWO KEY-112, 3DES-168. You can also install a Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista shell extension to use the encryption/decryption process on your desktop PC.

Zip Archive Management

Sometimes handling zipped documents tin be a pain on a WM phone, but with Resco Explorer, information technology can practice just nigh anything you need to with your zipped files, including creating your ain zipped files to save precious storage on your phone. The zipped files are compatible with PCs and information technology also supports RAR compressed files.

Today Plugin

It even comes with a Today plugin where y'all can launch your favorite programs or documents, bank check your battery status, browse your storage card with a single tap, etc.

Conclusion

As you can see, this is one of the most comprehensive software utilities you can get for a WM phone. It provides several tools that the WM OS somehow seemed to take missed. It is easy to navigate and to use. Information technology is loaded with tools for the beginner to the most advanced WM user, so it has something to offer to everyone without fright of outgrowing it. For at the last 3 years, this has been on my Must Have Software list and has proven its place on the list repeatedly during that fourth dimension with zippo else coming close to replacing information technology yet.