File Manager allowed a user to create, rename, move, print, copy, search for, and delete files and directories, as well as to set permissions ( attributes) such as archive, read-only, hidden or system, and to associate file types with programs. The program's interface showed a list of directories on the left hand panel, and a list of the current directory's contents on the right hand panel. Although File Manager was 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 via a two-pane view different from that of File Manager, and a single-pane view obtained by clicking a 'My Computer' icon. It is a single-instance graphical interface, replacing the command-line interface of MS-DOS, to manage files (copy, move, open, delete, search, etc.) and MS-DOS Executive file manager from previous Windows versions.
File Manager is a file manager program bundled with releases of OS/2 and Microsoft Windows between 19 and available from 6 April 2018 as an optional download for all modern releases of Windows, including Windows 10.
