Windows explorer is a very very slow and wasteful application. On my old p3 450mhz windows xp machine navigating between folders is painfully slow, but browsing files over the network share is practically instant. Also, in a directory stuffed with files, its difficult to jump to the one im looking for, I wish there was some filter bar where I could type *big.jpg and filter down all the files (actually, does anyone know if such an explorer extention exists?)