winfile VS downlords-faf-client

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 Manager, or progman.exe, was the predecessor shell to Explorer. It was included with Windows through Windows XP SP1 before finally being stubbed in SP2. You can probably grab the binary from XP SP1 and run it in newer Windows versions, though.

> Plenty of open source apps are abandoned. The maintainers get tired, too busy, or whatever.

Other people can pick up the baton. For example my window manager of choice is Window Maker which was abandoned for literally years (fortunately since the underlying tech doesn't change every other month, it still kept working) before someone else it picked it up and nowadays there are a few developers working on it.

> If it was open source, the odds are no one would care to take over maintenance (though they could) since it’s basically redundant at this point.

When Microsoft opensourced winfile[0] (the file manager from Win3.x/NT 3.x) some developers did flock to it (i personally even added a small feature to allow for multiple file masks which was merged), so i'm pretty sure the same would happen for an opensourced wordpad.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.

The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.

Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.

Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/

Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile

supreme commander forged alliance and install forged alliance forever

supreme commander -> https://faforever.com/ is all you need

The real deal happens at http://faforever.com/

no worries. if you do end up trying supcom FA again, do yourself a favor and add this: https://faforever.com/ 15 years of community upgrades and progress and mods and ease of life features (even performance inproovements and graphics updates) for Forged Alliance condensed into one app.

Head to faforever.com (community run update project) and install/register that too.

I second this. still playing it to this day. it has a very active community of some 30 000 to 40 000 players over on the FAF client

Check out https://faforever.com/ if you haven't already

and yeah there are tons of people playing it actively these days (about 30 000 on the community-made FAF multiplayer client alone)

it's kept really active by a huge community of between 30,000 - 40,000 people on a platform called https://faforever.com/ (they've updated the graphics a bit)