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Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

28 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 6 stories, 22 comments · first 2018-04-07 · latest 2026-10-27

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  1. …still to this day, when you want a break from File Explorer. It's archived again now, but: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by WorldMaker · 2026-10-27 · in Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11
  2. …a brain drain. I remember Windows Explorer opening swiftly back in the day (fileman even faster - https://github.com/microsoft/winfile now archived sadly) and today's Explorer experience drives me insane as to how slow it is. I have even…
    comment by 72deluxe · 2025-04-29 · in Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
  3. File Manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile Calculator (the horrible UWP one, unfortunately): https://github.com/microsoft/calculator As for that FAT driver, it was traditional to include in the SDK/DDK sources of some of the actual…
    comment by userbinator · 2024-08-24 · in Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
  4. Microsoft released the NT 4 version of it under the MIT license: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by InvisibleUp · 2024-07-03 · in The history of Alt+number sequences
  5. Ask and ye shall receive: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile File Manager, or winfile.exe, was the predecessor to Explorer's file management aspects. You can use it on Windows 10 and 11 (and all the others) if you want to. Program…
    comment by Dalewyn · 2024-04-10 · in Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)
  6. …masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by badsectoracula · 2023-09-03 · in Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows
  7. …3.x, even though my first Windows was 95 OSR2. Since File Manager and the icon are now free ( https://github.com/microsoft/winfile ), there is no copyright reason not to use it verbatim. If you liked it, you may enjoy my page…
    comment by networked · 2023-08-26 · in Clean mount lists in Linux
  8. …winfile[1] utility referred to them as directories. When Windows 95 came out it became folders. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by jackvalentine · 2023-01-19 · in When was the term ‘directory’ replaced by ‘folder’?
  9. Microsoft open sourced the original: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/ Edit: Also available on the microsoft store https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9p7vbbbc49rb?ocid=badge
    comment by alt227 · 2022-08-12 · in Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
  10. …years ago for those who still want it with win10/11[1], to much acclaim from its many fans[2] [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16790099
    comment by llimos · 2022-07-14 · in A Windows 95-like shell for Windows 3.1x
  11. Microsoft DOS https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS Microsoft WinFile https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile Outside of Microsoft created Windows 2003 32bit: - https://reactos.org - https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/ReactOS
    comment by xet7 · 2022-07-09 · in Microsoft's Growing Control of Linux
  12. …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
    comment by bleachedsleet · 2021-06-16 · in Windows 11 screenshots leak, show new Start menu and more
  13. …kind of interesting, the original File Manager was open sourced and recompiled for modern Windows. https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by accrual · 2020-06-12 · in Windows Explorer Through the Years
  14. …has received quite a few patches and improvements, but it's still basically the same old tool. [1] https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
    comment by josteink · 2019-11-05 · in Unofficial Windows XP SP4
  15. …programming, before threading, GUI applications were massive co-operative multitasking C switches: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile/blob/master/src/winfile...
    comment by miohtama · 2019-09-05 · in Windows File Manager re-released
  16. …UI, but it could potentially happen. Maybe when it hits some anniversary like WINFILE.EXE did: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
    comment by WorldMaker · 2019-08-14 · in Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code
  17. I thought so too, given that MS has already released the source of the original File Manager: https://github.com/microsoft/winfile ...and it compiles to a nice small and fast ~300KB executable, in contrast to their open-sourced and…
    comment by userbinator · 2019-06-08 · in Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be
  18. …for the NT4 version of that file manager (with changes so it runs/compiles on modern Windows) https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
    comment by zamadatix · 2019-03-21 · in Microsoft revives “Clippy” as a sticker for Microsoft Teams
  19. …now, maybe you have confused it with File explorer -don't think that could happen anytime soon. https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
    comment by type0 · 2019-03-07 · in Microsoft Open-Sourced Calculator
  20. …98 started hiding the contents of system folders by default. Luckily, we have 64-bit WINFILE.EXE: https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile :)
    comment by einr · 2018-10-22 · in Even After Fix, Windows 10 Update Is Botching File Operations
  21. https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile :-)
    comment by chungy · 2018-09-29 · in The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
  22. …history.org/atchm/microsoft-word-for-wind... and WinFile (an old version but updated to run on Win10) https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile I'm sure they'll get to the kernel eventually!
    comment by sp332 · 2018-06-13 · in Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript