懐かしのファイル管理ソフト「Windows File Manager」がMicrosoft Storeからダウンロード可能に

2019年2月3日

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Microsoftが昨年、GitHub上にオープンソースソフトウェアとして公開したWindows File ManagerがMicrosoft Storeからダウンロード可能になったことが分かりました(MSPoweruser)。

オリジナル版のWindows File Managerは、1990年代にMicrosoftが開発したGUIベースのファイル管理ソフトで、昨年になってGitHub上にソースコードが公開されました。オープンソース版はWindows 10でも動作するほか、以下に示すようなさまざまな改良が行われています。

OLE drag/drop support

control characters (e.g., ctrl+C) map to current short cut (e.g., ctrl+c -> copy)
instead of changing drives

cut (ctrl+X) followed by paste (ctrl+V) translates into a file move as one would expect

left and right arrows in the tree view expand and collapse folders like in the Explorer

added context menus in both panes

improved the means by which icons are displayed for files

F12 runs notepad or notepad++ on the selected file

moved the ini file location to %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\WinFile

File.Search can include a date which limits the files returned to those after the date provided;
the output is also sorted by the date instead of by the name

File.Search includes an option as to whether to include sub-directories

ctrl+K starts a command shell (ConEmu if installed) in the current directory; shift+ctrl+K
starts an elevated command shell (cmd.exe only)

File.Goto (ctrl+G) enables one to type a few words of a path and get a list of directories;
selecting one changes to that directory. Only drive c: is indexed.

UI shows reparse points (e.g., Junction points) as such

added simple forward / back navigation (probably needs to be improved)

View command has a new option to sort by date forward (oldest on top);
normal date sorting is newest on top