Why this is important: File Explorer isn’t a niche app; it’s the core of how you browse files, move folders, open documents, manage downloads, and more. If it doesn’t feel snappy, everything else on ...

A new Windows 11 Insider update optimises File Explorer search by removing redundant indexing operations, promising faster ...

Early tests on Insider builds show that searches may execute roughly twice as fast as with the previous method.

Microsoft keeps running into brick walls with the 2024 version of Windows 11. Each new update designed to fix the outstanding bugs ends up introducing other problems. That's apparently true with the ...

File Explorer finally gets a consistent dark mode: progress bar, dialogs, and confirmations follow the system theme. Dark progress bar is rolling out with the December security patch KB5072033 ...

Editor's take: Windows 11 brought a slew of UI changes and "improvements" few users welcome. File Explorer's state is particularly dire, yet Microsoft shows no sign of backing off its relentless quest ...

Windows 11 customers who are not satisfied with the current state of File Explorer have plenty of third-party options to choose from, and the list of available options has just expanded with a ...

This post explains how to restore tabs in File Explorer after a restart in Windows 11. This feature is currently available in the Windows Beta versions but will be rolled out to all soon. The release ...

Microsoft appears to have plans in the works to add tabs to the File Explorer on Windows 11. We’d like to know if that’s enough for you or if you’d like to see tabs available across more apps. Windows ...

Last week, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to members of the Windows Insider Program. This one only rolled out to those on the Canary Channel, which is the most experimental and ...

If you’ve ever accidentally closed File Explorer in the middle of digging through several folders across multiple tabs, you know how annoying that can be. Well, you won’t have to worry about that ...