Microsoftが昨年、GitHub上にオープンソースソフトウェアとして公開したWindows File ManagerがMicrosoft Storeからダウンロード可能になったことが分かりました(MSPoweruser)。
オリジナル版のWindows File Managerは、1990年代にMicrosoftが開発したGUIベースのファイル管理ソフトで、昨年になってGitHub上にソースコードが公開されました。オープンソース版はWindows 10でも動作するほか、以下に示すようなさまざまな改良が行われています。
- OLE drag/drop support
- control characters (e.g., ctrl+C) map to current short cut (e.g., ctrl+c -> copy)
instead of changing drives- cut (ctrl+X) followed by paste (ctrl+V) translates into a file move as one would expect
- left and right arrows in the tree view expand and collapse folders like in the Explorer
- added context menus in both panes
- improved the means by which icons are displayed for files
- F12 runs notepad or notepad++ on the selected file
- moved the ini file location to %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\WinFile
- File.Search can include a date which limits the files returned to those after the date provided;
the output is also sorted by the date instead of by the name- File.Search includes an option as to whether to include sub-directories
- ctrl+K starts a command shell (ConEmu if installed) in the current directory; shift+ctrl+K
starts an elevated command shell (cmd.exe only)- File.Goto (ctrl+G) enables one to type a few words of a path and get a list of directories;
selecting one changes to that directory. Only drive c: is indexed.- UI shows reparse points (e.g., Junction points) as such
- added simple forward / back navigation (probably needs to be improved)
- View command has a new option to sort by date forward (oldest on top);
normal date sorting is newest on top
昔懐かしい雰囲気の外観を持つアプリですが、そこが逆に高評価を集めている模様。インストール要件はWindows 10 version 16299.0以降となっています。