The File Manager app for Windows 10 is a labor of love by Craig Wittenberg, an engineer who's worked for Microsoft for nearly 37 years on everything from Word for Windows 2.0 to machine learning ...

There are several options for file managers that you can use on Windows computers instead of File Explorer. Here are the seven best file managers for Windows 10/11.

Windows File Manager (winfile) Last year, Microsoft released binaries and the source code, licensed under the MIT License, for an improved version of File Manager able to be run on Windows 10.

However, One Commander, Files, File Commander, etc., are some of the best free file manager apps for Windows 11/10 that you can download to get the most out of.

File Manager running on Windows 10 Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

Wittenberg copied File Manager from Windows NT 4.0 source in November 2007 and has made a "very limited set of modifications" to enable File Manager, also known as WinFile.exe, to run on Windows 10.

File Manager continued to ship with Windows long after it was replaced by Explorer just in case somebody needed it, but for the last decade or more, Windows hasn't included it.

To use PowerShell to launch the Windows 10 file manager, use these steps: Open Start. Search for PowerShell and click the top result to open the console.

The team behind the Total Commander file manager app have now released the first public version for Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile. The app has been in closed beta testing for a year.

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