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)]] File Manager was a File Manager program bundled with Microsoft Windows 3.0 1, Windows 3.1x , Windows NT 3.1 , Windows NT 3.5 and Windows NT 3.51 to replace the previous MS-DOS Executive interface. Ian Ellison-Taylor was the Shell developer on the Windows 3.1 team responsible for File Manager and Print Manager.2 The program's interface showed a list of Directories (later called folders) on the left side, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right side. File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, Print , copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set Permissions such as read-only or hidden, and to associate file types with programs. Also available were tools to label and Format disks and to connect and disconnect from a Network Drive . On Windows NT systems it was also possible to set ACL s on files and folders on NTFS partitions through the shell32 security configuration dialog (also used by Explorer and other Windows file managers). The program was simple yet sophisticated. In its 16-bit form it had a Y2K Issue due to lexicographic correlation between dates and the ASCII character set. (Colons and semicolons replaced what should have been '2000'. This did not affect the 32-bit version. A patch correcting the bug is available at the reference immediately following.) 3 From Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 onward, File Manager was superseded by Windows Explorer ; however the WINFILE.EXE |
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