Newly discovered Windows 11 trick brings back classic Windows 10 File Manager without any registry hacks

[Redaktion]

There are a good number of reasons why many Windows 10 haven't upgraded to Windows 11 yet. One of them is the classic File Explorer. While a previously known method to access it on the new operating system required a registry edit or a third-party tool, a user on Reddit has found a much simpler way.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Newly-discovered-Windows-11-trick-brings-back-classic-Windows-10-File-Manager-without-any-registry-hacks.843917.0.html

[Shawn]

It's pretty inexcusable that they dropped support for the address bar dragon drop in 23h2 because they brought it back in 24h2. They should have just waited until it was fully ready so that nobody ever had to suffer.

And yet.

[NikoB]

Morons in M$, bring back the classic W2K/XP/W7 theme!

What kind of morons do have to be to make window control buttons of such a huge size and not even allow professionals in Pro/Ent versions to change the theme to a classic one with compact buttons at the top right of the window, which allow you to pack much more information in the windows onto the same screen resolution?!

How can you call Windows "Pro" if a professional simply has no choice but to patch system DLLs to bring back compact Windows window control buttons?

The Indians ruined everything...

[Hotz]

Morons in M$, ...

What kind of morons do have to be to make ...

"Yes"

[Mazic]

Morons in M$, bring back the classic W2K/XP/W7 theme!

What kind of morons do have to be to make window control buttons of such a huge size and not even allow professionals in Pro/Ent versions to change the theme to a classic one with compact buttons at the top right of the window, which allow you to pack much more information in the windows onto the same screen resolution?!

How can you call Windows "Pro" if a professional simply has no choice but to patch system DLLs to bring back compact Windows window control buttons?

The Indians ruined everything...

Yes for the Windows 7 Aero theme.

As for ruining thing's, it's not the executioner, it's the decision makers or those who make the go decision which ruins the final output.
Also if the owner(s) are ok with, then that person/team is doing great regardless of people liking it or not.

[George]

Morons in M$, bring back the classic W2K/XP/W7 theme!

Sadly MiniSquish will continue to constantly change their OS until NOBODY will want to use it.

I liked the W2K theme.

[Jay Mann]

But why? The tabbed explorer is probably the only good thing in W11 after all the regressions it has.

[NikoB]

People who really work never use a crappy windows explorer - there are file managers like Total Commander for that. Any intensive group operations with files are many times slower outside the 2-window scheme and outside developed file managers. Not to mention a bunch of other features in professional managers. I've never used WE in my life except to install TC/Far, after that I don't really care - I never need WE again after installing carefully tuned TC/Far.

Well, roughly how you can use moronic Chrome, except for YouTube, because Google deliberately blocks the normal operation of other browsers on its video hosting, which requires an antitrust investigation - but where is it - US officials - are they corrupt? And a number of sites where moronic developers made the code compatible only with Chrome. In all other cases, Firefox is an order of magnitude more comfortable and better, not to mention the fact that it is actually the only browser where you can disable incorrect cloudy font grayscale smoothing(DirectWrite bug) (сorrect version in XP by default without ClearType - it work in Chrome up to v49 and FF68), as in Chrome (where it cannot be disabled and therefore in 100% of cases spoils the eyesight of everyone who tries in Chrome read texts).

[TarHeelRob]

Doesn't open in old File Explorer.  MS must have read your article and corrected.

[Davidmenk3]

People who really work never use a crappy windows explorer - there are file managers like Total Commander for that. Any intensive group operations with files are many times slower outside the 2-window scheme and outside developed file managers. Not to mention a bunch of other features in professional managers. I've never used WE in my life except to install TC/Far, after that I don't really care - I never need WE again after installing carefully tuned TC/Far.

Well, roughly how you can use moronic Chrome, except for YouTube, because Google deliberately blocks the normal operation of other browsers on its video hosting, which requires an antitrust investigation - but where is it - US officials - are they corrupt? And a number of sites where moronic developers made the code compatible only with Chrome. In all other cases, Firefox is an order of magnitude more comfortable and better, not to mention the fact that it is actually the only browser where you can disable incorrect cloudy font grayscale smoothing(DirectWrite bug) (сorrect version in XP by default without ClearType - it work in Chrome up to v49 and FF68), as in Chrome (where it cannot be disabled and therefore in 100% of cases spoils the eyesight of everyone who tries in Chrome read texts).

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