File Manager
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File Manager was a file manager program bundled with Microsoft Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.1, Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 3.51 to replace the previous MS-DOS Executive interface. The program's interface showed a list of directories (later called folders) on the left side, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right side. File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, print, copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set permissions such as read-only or hidden and to associate file types with programs. Also available were tools to label and format disks and to connect and disconnect from a network drive. On Windows NT systems it was also possible to set ACLs on files and folders on NTFS partitions.
The program was simple and proved to have issues such as Y2K problems. [1] From Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 onward, File Manager was superseded by Windows Explorer; however, the WINFILE.EXE program still existed in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me. It was removed in subsequent versions of Windows.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Windows Support entry. Retrieved 18 August 2006.
[edit] References
- Microsoft's Windows history
- Help file for winfile.exe
