Releases: microsoft/winfile
March 2024: Cumulative Release
This release includes changes from the past year. Highlights include:
- Ability to launch Administrator command prompt or Explorer in a directory
- More entries in the Goto dialog, and ability to Page Up/Page Down through the list
- Resizable dialogs throughout
- Symbolic links are visually distinguished using <SYMLINK>
- Translation improvements
- Can launch the Store version from the command line
- Refresh is more thorough
- Can specify an initial directory when opening Winfile
- Source and tooling improvements, including an ability to target Windows XP
This version (v10.3.0.0) is released in four ways:
- zip file attached here; Winfile_v10.3.0.0.zip
- Microsoft Store ("Windows File Manager"); https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9p7vbbbc49rb?ocid=badge
- Chocolatey:
choco install winfile
winget install "Windows File Manager"
(which simply installs the Store version)
December 2022: Cumulative Release
This release includes a large number of changes over the last year or so. Huge thanks to @schinagl for his diligence and persistence. Other contributors: @tokomio-sun, @Takym, @malxau, and @podsvirov. Thanks!
The major changes are summarized on the main page in numbers 16-23. Some highlights:
- major improvements related to reparse points, esp. symbolic links and junctions, including creating them
- support for long paths (requires registry change)
- improvements to various non-English translations
- goto cache can support more than one path
- ARM64 version replaces old ARM one
This version (v10.2.0.0) has been released in five ways:
- zip file attached here; Winfile_v10.2.0.0.zip
- Microsoft Store ("Windows File Manager"); https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9p7vbbbc49rb?ocid=badge
- Chocolatey:
choco install winfile
- msys2;
pacman -S <artifact>
(example artifact mingw-w64-i686-winfile) winget install "Windows File Manager"
(which simply installs the Store version)
The old release point on https://winfilerelease.blob.core.windows.net/craigwi has been removed.
Enjoy!
June 2020: Cumulative release
This release includes a number of smaller changes over the recent many months.
This version (v10.1.4.0) has been released through the Microsoft Store and the binaries on Azure blobs (signed by Microsoft) have been updated. Chocolatey will be updated soon.
Cumulative changes through early January 2019
- Fix issue #164: toolbar customizations are restored properly
- Fix issue #192: calling convention for WNet function pointers
- Fix issue #194: Stack overflow while building goto cache ...
- Fix issue #198: Add missing Polish translations and fix original translation encoding
- Old rc files are now available in master
- Prepare and make initial submission for Microsoft Store release.
- Fix overflow bug in wfdrives.c and uninitialized variable in wfcopy.c
- New Feature: add ^w as short cut for windows close
Corresponding Chocolately package submitted (not yet approved as of this writing).
Cumulative changes through June 2018
See commit history for details.
Winfile cumulative changes to date
WinFile v10.0 - Sharing 10 years of improvements
WinFile release v10.0. See readme.md for changes.
Files:
winfile.exe, winfile.pdb: release build for x86 (32bit)
winfile.chm: copied from help directory
Hash:
winfile.exe sha1 D9D9D15B6EF0FC483417461A1844AB6C2A532656
Runtime:
Winfile.exe depends on the VS 2015 C runtime; you can download that from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Original Windows File Manager (winfile) runs on Windows again
Files:
winfile.exe, winfile.pdb: release build for x86 (32bit)
winfile.chm: copied from help directory
Hash:
winfile.exe sha1 99E56F1237D81F902927DE5FBF126E391C8C0DA8
Runtime:
Winfile.exe depends on the VS 2015 C runtime; you can download that from
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145