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    included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 and some later versions, Windows Explorer was introduced and used as the primary file manager, with file management...
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  • standard (version 1.2 dated June 1997). An orthodox file manager typically has three windows. Two of the windows are called panels and are positioned symmetrically...
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  • "Windows Explorer" to "File Explorer" in Windows 8; however, the old name of "Windows Explorer" can still be seen in the Windows Task Manager. Windows...
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  • File Explorer address bar, or by typing taskmgr in Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell. Task Manager was introduced in its current form with Windows...
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    The Windows Boot Manager (BOOTMGR) is the bootloader provided by Microsoft for Windows NT versions starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008...
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  • for NTFS. The file manager merely enables or disables it. Supported up to Windows XP only. Document scraps are not supported in Windows Vista and later...
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    A window manager is system software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface. Most...
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    Far Manager (short for File and ARchive Manager) is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and is a clone of Norton Commander. Far Manager uses...
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    to browser-style file managers. One complaint[by whom?] is that spatial managers use too many windows, leading to clutter. In a Windows 95 usability study...
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    is an orthodox file manager for DOS, OS/2, and Windows. DOS Navigator is an influential early implementation of orthodox file manager (OFM). By implementing...
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    Windows Commander. The name was changed in 2002 after Microsoft pointed out that the word "Windows" was their trademark. Comparison of file managers Comparison...
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    tiled windows, unless in full screen mode. These floating windows can be moved and resized freely, just as they can in stacking window managers and popular...
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  • Program Manager is the shell of Windows 3.x and Windows NT 3.x operating systems. This shell exposed a task-oriented graphical user interface (GUI), consisting...
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    Twm (redirect from Tom's Window Manager)
    "comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) 1/5". Newsgroup: comp.windows.x. Retrieved February 16, 2022. twm — Tab Window Manager for the X Window System —...
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    more common approach used by stacking window managers, which allow the user to drag windows around, instead of windows snapping into a position. This allows...
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    The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists...
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  • The Windows shell, as it is known today, is an evolution of what began with Windows 95, released in 1995. It is intimately identified with File Explorer...
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    Dolphin is a free and open source file manager included in the KDE Applications bundle. Dolphin became the default file manager of the KDE Plasma desktop environments...
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    WinSCP (category Free file managers)
    WinSCP (Windows Secure Copy) is a file manager, SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), WebDAV, Amazon S3, and secure copy protocol...
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    work on GNOME file manager fork, Zdnet, Aug 2012 NEMO FILE MANAGER FOR UBUNTU OR LINUX MINT VIA PPA[usurped], Technology Linux & Windows, Dec 2012 Linux...
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  • Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the server and business markets. It is the direct...
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  • Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a commercial download manager software application for the Microsoft Windows operating system owned by American company...
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  • The Security Account Manager (SAM) is a database file in Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 that stores users'...
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  • of a Windows shell replacement for Windows File Manager and Program Manager released as Norton Desktop for Windows. Norton Commander for Windows was a...
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    XTree (redirect from XTree for Windows)
    terminal decline after the widespread adoption of Microsoft Windows. The built-in Windows file manager had a vaguely similar appearance to XTree, and while it...
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    dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager...
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  • Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a line of discontinued Microsoft Windows operating systems released from 1995 to 2000 and supported until 2006...
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  • not a requirement for Windows applications to use the Windows Registry. For example, .NET Framework applications use XML files for configuration, while...
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  • Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft and the first of its Windows 9x family of operating systems, released to manufacturing...
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    a plain text file. Window tiling is handled manually, rather than dynamically. Windows can be split horizontally or vertically. Windows can be arranged...
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