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Ammammata wrote:

> as per subject, I'm looking for an explorer replacement to manage PDF 
> files, moving/copying between folders
> 
> the default thumbnail view is not enough to show the content
> 
> the idea is a three-pane explorer, like in recent windows: the folder tree, 
> the folder content and the pdocument preview

Assuming you enabled display of the preview pane in Windows Explorer,
why can't you drag its left-side border to increase its width?  Hover
the mouse cursor over the left vertical border of the preview pane until
the cursor turns into a doubled horizontal arrow then click and drag.
With Windows Explorer and with its preview pane expanded to occupy half
the screen, you can click on a .pdf file and read it in the preview pane
very easily without having to double-click the file to load it into a
PDF viewer program.

I haven't been on Windows XP for many years so I wasn't sure if its
Windows Explorer had a preview pane.  So I searched online using:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows+xp%22+preview+pane+size

and found as the 2nd article:

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us
/nwspr_customize_preview_pane.mspx

If you don't want to use the preview pane then increase the size of the
thumbnails.  In the above Google search, the following was the 1st
article:

https://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-xp/how-to-increase-windows-explorer-de
fault-thumbnail-size-for-pictures/
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