Better File Explorer

I am looking for a File Explorer alternative that displays files and folders nicely in Windows 8.1 Enterprise.
It should be like this picture below or better:

Hi,
Generally speaking,most of people use third-party tool to implement customizable skins.
Meanwhile,we haven't any microsoft tool to implement customizable skins.
Thanks for your understanding.
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Kelvin Xu
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    Hello,
    I am using Windows 8.1 Professional, and since a short time, I am having troubles with the file explorer.
    It is extremely slow. When I just want to select a file, it takes about 10 seconds, if not more, and then any operation I perform on files (opening directories, renaming files, right-clicking for options, etc.) is terribly slow.
    I have looked at the indexing options and tried to minimize the areas that are indexed, but to no avail. Even with only C:/Users indexed, I have about 500,000 items indexed.
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    Just because you've seen it personally doesn't make it automatically a systemic Microsoft problem.  While I don't disagree that Explorer could be better programmed, there ARE those of us who don't see regular crashes, freezes, or particularly slow operation.
    Keeping in mind that external drives have to spin up, and that can be perceived as taking some time when you access the drive in Explorer, once spun up you shouldn't be seeing noticeable delay.
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    When I first navigate to my spun-down MyBook external USB drive I see the contents of the root folder instantly.
    When I navigate a level or two into the folder structure I see a few second delay when it gets deep enough that the data is not cached and the drive has to spin up to get it.
    Then, once spun up, when I navigate into any folder its contents show up instantly.
    When I copy a file by dragging to/from the drive or do a backup to the drive I see a substantial percentage of the theoretical maximum transfer speed (I have USB2).
    If you are not seeing performance similar to the above then you have something out of the ordinary set up on your particular system that's causing it.  You should never be seeing crashes.  I don't.
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    On the workstation on which I'm typing this, my Windows 7 x64 installation would enumerate about 30,000 files per second the first time, and about 50,000 files per second the second time, from the RAM cache.  I have a very responsive I/O subsystem.
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    It seems likely that this enumeration slowdown affects real operations in Explorer beyond just this file count.
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    Detailed how-to in my eBooks:  
    Configure The Windows 7 "To Work" Options
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     the slowdown is in File Explorer, rather than the file system itself.
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