Files v2 [Windows 11] App Review | A Fantastic Modern File Explorer 

My only gripe is that it is a bit slow. Optimization is needed. Otherwise, it's an amazing app. Kudos to the devs.

It's frustrating when third party developers can make something that good looking, uniform, and powerful. The fact that right click - see more option in Windows 11 just bring up old version of right click without any makeover while Files v2 simply can do that. But it still feels slow, definitely need more on that but it's good.

these are function i miss the most for Mac when move back to window. thank you

Great video! Will definetly be trying out!

omg this is soooo much better than the default file explorer. and omg i would LOVE cover flow to return, it's literally the reason why im holding onto an older version of macOS

how can i change the default file explorer default to files ??? thanks!!!

Thank you so much for this brilliant video! Thank you thank you!!

Tried this, It's amazing and definetly good but the only thing is that it feels slow, sometimes its laggy sometimes it crashes. Overall great third party app.

how do you extract stuff. i tried downloading tricky mod, and it wouldn't do the default file explorer. this is the only reason i got this, but idk if you can extract the mod.

Hi Sir, I did try out File app, but unfortunately I cannot integrate as driver my Box account. Is there any way or solution to Box integration?

I need the details pane on the bottom! Can this app do this?

Im using the latest windows and im not sure how to make this the default app.

hello bro can i set it as default

how to make that app always run as administrator bro?

Can you actually change the icons in the app?

why cant i drag things, for example a "folder" out to the desktop without this popup menu where i manually need to press "Move here". Anyone know how to make it so it just insta drops on the desktop.?

i cant use the run system, or app data with this new files, can someone help me fix this?

how to rename multiple files,i try some things but not do it,thank you!

files got no folder tree on the side panel, so its disqualified for me...

hello, Do you know how to delete this app. The app broke normal folders in my compiuter.

Can I replace Explorer for Files completely?

Perhaps I'm missing something here. I want to expand the drives folder on the left pane to see the contents of individual folders like I can do in File Explorer. How do I do that in the Files App?

I commend you for taking the time and effort to show us new things. But for me, the windows explorer is integrated into the system, so it is a lot faster. For example if you open network devices it takes 3 minutes to show your network, while in WE it takes just a click!

I like the app but 2 issues for me were; it did t work with quicklook, and it didn't update the amount of drive space displayed when deleting files. It is sluggish, I'm going to keep using it for a couple months to see if it gets better.

I am having trouble with my downloads off of google chrome as the file explorer interface, but the downloads on the files app still works

this is awesome but its loaded ... how to downlad the latest version of this file

Can u help me with options like “Move to” or “Copy to” in this app, cant figure out where it is.

My files Custom themes is showing only default. How can I add more themes

Does anyone know where the documentation for this app is? Or does any such documentation exist? I'd like to know if there's any way to search for files by file size. like an expression in search like size:>100GB like regular windows explorer does.

I love it, but, I don't understand how to make a zipped file I guess? I can create a zipped file, but it's empty. I'm not able to select a bunch of files and send it to a zipped file. Any advice?

the bundle always disssapering after restart

The app is very nice. The problem is a little buggy and slow. The interface is great! Better than the default Windows File Explorer.

I tried this a few months ago and I recall there being some issues (crashing, etc...I forget some) but it should get better with time.

While this is to-tal-ly the prettiest file manager an earlier version had one infuriating problem: when my media player is open ANY FILE OPERATION STARTS MEDIA PLAYER PLAYBACK. Still not fixed in 2.4 so I deleted it again. Will try again in a year or so.

HOW DO I MAKE IT MY DEFAULT

I've closed Files App, but Files process is still running in the background and consume more than 30% CPU resource. It is a bug……

They need to add remove animation option ... For some computers its slower ...

Unable to send a particuar files or files from pc to mobile via bluetooth directly from Files app. This is a defect. You cannot send anything from pc to pendrive directly from files app.

Used it for about a week. But opening any folder just took way too long.

Just installed this app and using it as default. Two issues: it doesn't open ZIP files like Explorer and it does not open when you double click a folder on the desktop (it still opens with Explorer). These are quite big issues.

hello how to uninstall this application please tell i cant able to uninstall it

Its sad that a small indie company like Microsoft cant put the resources to renovating their file manager :/

hey do u know how to undo the default file explorer setting?

help me change the registry I set it as default but I cannot change it back

Unfortunately the app feel really buggy on my end. Stuff like clicking tabs or files feel unresponsive. I've moved to One Commander (with also a somewhat modern UI) for now, but this app feels promising if they fix and optimize it.

Can you add google drive to it?

Likee!

I cant pastee

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It is a nice looking application with a very good potential for the future. But it feels quite sluggish, has large memory consumption and is too mouse-centric to provide a real productivity boost. Its dual pane mode is not really useful. It has serious bugs e.g. all my drives disappeared for some unknown reason after a while and they do not appear again even if I restart the application. There are many animations which look impressive at the first but they lack any real purpose, they just make things moving around screen... I prefer my file manager to be more traditional ("Norton Commander" real dual pane-style), keyboard-centric (for highest productivity) and slick, fast and light-weight. And nice looking too. So finally I had to program my own - it is called HiFile. :)

Why is your Windows version not activated?

YOU CAN ALSO CHANGE THE THEMS IF YOU WANT.

I really like this application but when I was using it to copy over my important documents and files and it crashed I realized then that I could never risk using it on my computer. The only real feature it has that I need is tabs which is now available in windows 11, or if you're still on windows ten you can get a program called "groupy".

Its slow, after first run its restarting itself and also need some seconds until it shows the elements. Also if you are in an USB Drive, it blocks it that mean i cant eject it. With that problems it will get obselete if windows realese their tabs system for Explorer

I like Files but disappointed that Sync is not included in the Cloud Drives. I am unable to find a way to pass this comment back to the developer.

This thing is almost perfect. The main one I really wish it had, was the way you can drag and drop windows in chrome. I want to just drag the tab "out into a new window" and then if you I want to drag one tab from one window to another, I want it to just pop it right in like the way chrome does. That sort of thing. We're so used to tabs in web browsers, why not emulate their behavior? I do also wish there was an option to make it so the secondary pane opened the folder you clicked on the left by default. So basically, if you wanted to look through a bunch of folders fast, without leaving that main folder, you could just click and see the contents real fast. EDIT: Months later they fixed that, and now I love it, but cannot get .lnk (shortcut link) files to show no matter what I do. Absolutely ruins it for my usecases. So frustratingly close.

Its a WASTE app..I am on Windows 11 and I set this app as default but after Uninstalling this app, I am not able to open any files/ folders on my system tried Restarting but not working..Its showing error APPLICATION NOT FOUND. Please tell how to fix it and make my original File explorer a default one

this files file manager looks better than file explorer, but when i used it in a couple days it was stop functioning... help how to fix it thank you

My advice to whom care if you enabled this app as a default app in any circumstances in you enter safe mode you won't able to use explore so don't enable it as a default

Looks like mostly bs to me. What wouldve been great is thumbnail icons that would play a snippet of moving content for video files when mouse hovers over it and or be able to play webp and gif anim directly in tve thumbnail when mouse hovering over it. It’s a frature A LOT of users have requested for win File Explorer doubt we will get to see it even in third party explorer though cause no one have implemented even though it has been higly requested for over a decade. Bet it’s extremely difficult to code for it.

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This sucks, it's a bit buggy. Sorry for the term. But it is what it is.

This app is highly overrated! Cosmetically it may be slightly better looking but functionalities its sucks, simply need a lot of improvement to it. There are a lot of flaws and faults with the app, in fact it has caused a lot of problems while running it on win11. The only way to cure the problem is by stopping using it and switching to the win11 explorer. It has caused all sorts of problems. It needs a serious improvement before you can use it properly.

Don't install this