14 Facts About File Explorer

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.

File Explorer could be accessed by double-clicking the new My Computer desktop icon or launched from the new Start Menu that replaced the earlier Program Manager.

The Windows 2000 Explorer featured an interactive media player as the previewer for sound and video files.

Windows File Explorer includes significant changes from previous versions of Windows such as improved filtering, sorting, grouping and stacking.

Attributes sortable and searchable in Windows File Explorer include pictures' dimensions, Exif data such as aperture and exposure, video duration and framerate and width.

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Windows Explorer contains modifications in the visualization of files on a computer.

The Toolbar button in File Explorer to go up one folder from the current folder has been removed .

For example, if a folder contains many large video files totaling hundreds of gigabytes, and the Window Explorer pane is in Details view mode showing a property contained within the metadata, Windows Explorer might have to search the contents of the whole file for the meta data.

File manager on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 is renamed File Explorer and introduces new features such as a redesigned interface incorporating a ribbon toolbar, and a redesigned file operation dialog that displays more detailed progress and allows for file operations to be paused and resumed.

In Windows 11, File Explorer had undergone significant UI changes with the Ribbon Interface simplified into a command bar.

File Explorer can be extended to support non-default functionality by means of Windows shell extensions, which are COM objects that plug the extended functionality into Windows Explorer.

File Explorer allows metadata for files to be added as NTFS alternate data streams, separate from the data stream for the file.

Special folders, such as My Computer and Network Places in Windows File Explorer are implemented this way, as are File Explorer views that let items in a mobile phone or digital camera be explored.

Source-control systems that use File Explorer to browse source repositories use Namespace extensions to allow File Explorer to browse the revisions.