Microsoft's first File Manager (WinFile) was released 27 years ago with Windows 3.0. This application has now been made open source, which will surely bring a sense of nostalgia to those who loved Windows in the 90s.
File Manager was the successor to MS-DOS and was introduced as a new way to access files and folders in Windows. It was released with Windows 3.0 and remained until Windows NT 4.0 and Windows ME. Later, Windows Explorer (now known as File Explorer) replaced File Manager.
The source code for File Manager was maintained by Craig Wittenberg of Microsoft. He copied the code from the Windows NT 4 source tree in 2007 and made a few minor changes to make WinFile compatible with the current version of Windows. It is now released as the “Original_Plus” version.
File Manager can also run on 64-bit Windows operating systems. There is another version called “Current master”, which includes all the changes and improvements made by Wittenberg since 2007.
So while you wait for the Spring Creators Update, it would be a great experience to bring back some old Windows features on your computer. You can download the original and tweaked versions of File Manager and their source codes from Microsoft's GitHub repo
