If you’re a Windows 3 user, you probably know how to use the File Manager to manage your files. If you’re a Windows 10 user, this article will show you how to use the File Manager in Windows 10. The File Manager is a part of the Windows 10 operating system and it’s one of the most important tools in your computer’s toolkit. It lets you manage your files, folders, and applications. You can access it from any location on your computer. To use the File Manager in Windows 10, open it from the Start menu or from the taskbar. The File Manager will open in a new window if it’s not already open. If it is already open, click on its name to show its contents. The File Manager has three main sections: Files, Folders, and Applications. The Files section contains all of your files and folders. You can see them by clicking on their names or by opening them in a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad and looking at their contents. The Folders section contains all of your application folders and subfolders. You can see them by clicking on their names or by opening them in a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad and looking at their contents. The Applications section contains all of your applications and programs that are installed on your computer. You can see them by clicking on their names or by opening them in a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad and looking at their contents
Throwback alert! Microsoft’s vintage File Manager program, which originally shipped with Windows 3.0 in 1990, has been ported to Windows 10, and it’s available for free from Microsoft. Here’s how to get it.
Managing Files Before File Explorer
In versions of Windows earlier than Windows 95, you needed to use a special application to copy, move, and delete files within Windows itself. In Windows 3.x, this application was called File Manager.
Even after Windows 95 integrated file-managing functions directly into the Windows shell—creating Windows Explorer—some die-hard fans still used File Manager because they preferred its concise, tree-based interface.
Some of those File Explorer fans are still out there today, and three years ago, one of them took Microsoft’s open-source release of the original Windows 3.x code and turned it into a modern version of File Manager for Windows 10.
The interface for the modern File Manager is basically the same as the old version. You can sort files with toolbar buttons, manage drives and directories in multiple sub-windows, and even format disks—but this time, it supports 64-bit Windows, long file names, and other modern conveniences.
How to Get the Classic Windows File Manager
Microsoft maintains File Manager as an open-source project under the MIT License on GitHub. You can download it on GitHub as a ready-to-run EXE file (Winfile.exe), and it’s even available for free in the Microsoft Store.
It’s all the fun of Windows 3.0 file management without the baggage of MS-DOS. Just run it, and you’ll think it’s 1990 all over again—even if you weren’t there the first time. Have fun!
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