Thanks Mathias.
Yes MS copy dialogs aren't very aesthetic nor do they hi-lite things as I would like. I think a lot of my preferences would need to override native explorer behaviour which may be beyond the scope of your prog/available time.
I guess it would require a lot of coding to fully hook MC into the OS to eliminate the everlasting poor Win Explorer features & clutter.
Its now W8 & MS still don't recognize a need for multi pane.
Wow! That nukes loads of things. Bit overkill for my current needs, even my cmd-line startup got eaten.
Now all I've got to do is reconfigure some things .... & I will be good to go