{"id":294654,"date":"2019-02-04T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=294654"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:00:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:00:38","slug":"microsoft-releases-old-school-file-manager-for-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/294654-microsoft-releases-old-school-file-manager-for-windows-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases old-school file manager for Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the original Windows File Manager as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/windows-file-manager\/9p7vbbbc49rb?activetab=pivot%3Aoverviewtab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Windows 10 app on the Microsoft Store<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The application was released as an open-source project in 2018 and is now available to download.<\/p>\n<p>According to the store listing for the Windows File Manager app, it is available for HoloLens, PC, Surface, and mobile devices &#8211; although the system requirements limit the compatibility of the app to devices running Windows 10 build 16299.<\/p>\n<p>Windows File Manager was launched for Windows 3.0 in the early 1990s and offers a functional, unembellished interface for navigating device storage.<\/p>\n<p>The project is maintained by contributors on the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/winfile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Windows File Manager GitHub repository<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screenshot of the Windows File Manager app for Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Windows-File-Manager.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294656\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Windows-File-Manager.jpg\" alt=\"Windows File Manager\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Windows-File-Manager.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Windows-File-Manager-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Windows-File-Manager-573x430.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/294452-windows-10-users-unable-to-download-updates.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Windows 10 users unable to download updates<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released the original Windows File Manager as a Windows 10 app on the Microsoft Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":294658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[34451,26970,57172],"class_list":["post-294654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft-store","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-file-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294712,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654\/revisions\/294712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}