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Windows File Manager

Windows File Manager lives again and runs on all currently supported version of Windows, including Windows 10.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Discontinued

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  • Windows
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The repository on GitHub was archived on Mar 4, 2025.

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    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.

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    • English

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They should make Windows 10 shell (launcher, explorer) and stock UWP apps including Settings and MSN apps as open source as well.

What is Windows File Manager?

Original Windows File Manager (winfile) with enhancements

The Windows File Manager lives again and runs on all currently supported version of Windows, including Windows 10. I welcome your thoughts, comments and suggestions.

History The Windows File manager was originally released with Windows 3.0 in the early 1990s. You can read more about the history at this link.

Changes in original_plus The source code provided here (in the src directory) was copied from the Windows NT 4 source tree in November 2007. The tag named original_plus contains a very limited set of modifications from the original sources to enable WinFile.exe to run on current Windows. The most significant changes are:

converted to Visual Studio solution; works on VS 2015 and 2017 compiles and runs on 64-bit Windows (e.g., GetWindowLong -> GetWindowLongPtr, LONG -> LPARAM) added a few header files which were stored elsewhere in the NT source tree (e.g., wfext.h) deleted some unused files (e.g., winfile.def) converted 64-bit arithmetic from internal libraries to C converted internal shell APIs to public APIs (the primary reason the old version would not run) The help directory contains both winfile.hlp and winfile.chm. Winfile.hlp was in the NT4 source tree, but does not work on Windows 10 any more. Winfile.chm was copied from a regular installation of Windows 98 and works on Windows 10. As is, WinFile.exe tries to launch winfile.hlp which fails.

Version v10.0 represents the entire set of changes from Nov. 2007 until this OSS project was created. For changes post v10.0, see the commit and release history.

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