winfile
yori
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winfile
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Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
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.
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RIP, WordPad
> 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
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[Windows 10/11] [S Files Pro X] [$14.99 -> $0] [Dual Pane File Manager with Colorful Themes]
There's always winfile lol. I wish they'd drop the 95 era file explorer source. That was the best one imo.
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How to split your models among several drives in Windows 10
The ancient winfile (that get revived by microsoft), ctrl+shift drag to make symlink.
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Is there a better file manager than Explorer that I can download?
Joke comment: WinFile if you do not have Windows 11 22H2.
- Valve is paying a whole lot of developers to keep the Steam Deck's open-source software going
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I’m trying to install Monkey Island but don’t know what I should install it on.
Here's the WinFile link, enjoy :) - https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/
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file manager/windows explorer
Good old Windows File Manager from the early 90s! In the Microsoft Store or github https://github.com/microsoft/winfile
- Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware
- the "folder jump up" problem in Ms windows and it's solution in WinFile.
yori
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Name the tools you can't live without!
yori
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The Tilde Text Editor
Malcolm Smith's YEdit deserves mention here, also inspired by the old MS-DOS Edit which was used by so many people in yesteryears to edit their autoexec files, read .nfo files and poke into the numerous batch files of the day. MS-DOS Edit no longer runs natively outside of something like a DOSBox, but YEdit is the closest thing I have seen to recreating almost exactingly the old nostalgic experience.
Tilde is of course more for the non-Windows audience while YEdit is only for Windows.
http://www.malsmith.net/edit/
MIT licensed source: https://github.com/malxau/yori/tree/master/edit
- Ask HN: Are there no shells for windows other than PowerShell and CMD?
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Vifm v0.12.1 is now out
Escaping of arguments and slashes in paths will now hopefully work better on Windows, which is generally an issue there. Yori shell is now also handled on Windows.
- UNIX tools with win32
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Windows business cli essentials.
If you're not constrained to inbox tools, there's a lot more out there. Personally I'm not a fan of PowerShell and have posted all of my tools at https://github.com/malxau/yori . Not saying that's an exhaustive set of tools that solves all problems, but it's my list of "what's missing" from the out of box Win32 experience.
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How do I show the short DOS path in the ConEmu prompt?
For what it's worth, I maintain my own CMD-like shell (http://www.malsmith.net/yori) and look in forums like this for suggestions/feature requests. I see why you'd like this, but if implemented, it can't ever be consistent, so I worry that it'd just generate more confusion.
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For those who use Core installs, what are your pain points?
A start menu/taskbar (stop laughing - I'm not crazy!) It's a 52Kb self contained executable that can parse shortcuts from the start menu folders. Makes RDP to Core into a somewhat sane experience. See https://github.com/malxau/yori/tree/master/yui .
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Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
Thankfully, the author of Yori[0] shell has made a modern port of EDIT called, well, Yedit[1].
[0]: http://www.malsmith.net/yori/
[1]: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2021/03/03/yedit-the-miss...
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What are some alternatives?
ubuntu.com - The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.
Files - Building the best file manager for Windows
ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more
MS-DOS - The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, for reference purposes
filemanager-plugin - A file manager plugin for the editor "Micro"
webapp-manager
vim-which-key - :tulip: Vim plugin that shows keybindings in popup
budgie-extras - Additional Budgie Desktop enhancements for user experience
getmic.ro - The fastest way to install Micro
ModernWpf - Modern styles and controls for your WPF applications
godit - A very religious text editor