File Manager (Windows)

The File Manager was the file management program installed by default the 16- bit operating systems of the Windows 3.x series and the 32- bit operating systems Windows NT 3.1 and Windows NT 3.51. With the release of Windows 95 it was superseded by Windows Explorer.

History

The File Manager 3.0 was introduced with Microsoft Windows, in which he replaced the earlier (actually unnamed ) program window indicating "MS- DOS" in the title bar, which pointed to Windows as a graphical working environment of a DOS system to its previous Windows versions. He was in all Windows 3.x versions of the standard windows file manager. Windows 95 provides the original version during setup the option instead of the new Windows Explorer, continue to use the old combination of Program Manager and File Manager. The executable file is included to Windows ME. The File Manager This Windows operating system is not year 2000 compliant, but there is a patch available from Microsoft that fixes this problem.

With the release of Windows NT 3.1, which used the same user interface as Windows 3.1, a 32 -bit version of the file manager has been introduced. With Windows NT 4.0 File Manager has been replaced in this series by the operating system Windows Explorer, where the executable is still included in Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP to run unchanged.

Functions

The program is called as a link on the main group of the Program Manager. The File Manager window is divided into a drop- down menu to switch between drives at the top, a folder view ( the main innovation in comparison to otherwise similar MS -DOS window ) on the left and a file view on the right side. In addition to managing files and folders in the file manager allow formatting of drives, connecting a network drive as well as the mapping of file extensions.

Under Windows NT, the extended possibilities of the NTFS file system could be managed, so access rights and file compression.

References and sources

• Windows
• Historic software
• File Manager