Winfile Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• RIP, WordPad

  > Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever. Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it. > If... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• [Windows 10/11] [S Files Pro X] [$14.99 -> $0] [Dual Pane File Manager with Colorful Themes]

  There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo. Source: 11 months ago

• How to split your models among several drives in Windows 10

  The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink. Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there a better file manager than Explorer that I can download?

  Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2. Source: over 1 year ago

• file manager/windows explorer

  Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile. Source: over 1 year ago

• For those who use Core installs, what are your pain points?

  A file manager. I've been contributing to https://github.com/microsoft/winfile but my real goal is to have a WinPE/Core thing that is self contained but offers some explorer-like convenience. Source: about 2 years ago

• new explorer (left) speed regression. please upvote my feedback issue (link in comments)

  I'm going back to the old days. https://github.com/microsoft/winfile. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more

  How far back do you want to go? Windows 3.0 file manager is now open source and readily available from Microsoft directly![1] I’ve personally found it a joy to use even on a modern OS like 10. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago