{"id":2817,"date":"2017-05-08T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2022-12-09T19:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:47:34","slug":"windows-10-v1703-using-a-touch-optimized-explorer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/05\/08\/windows-10-v1703-using-a-touch-optimized-explorer-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 V1703: Using a touch optimized Explorer app"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft delivers Windows Explorer (explorer.exe<\/em>) in Windows 10 Creators Update as a file manger. But there is an undocumented, touch optimized file manager app on board. Here are a few details how to use it. <\/p>\n

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Windows Explorer is well known, this file manager can be accessed via an task bar's icon or via the desktop icon This PC<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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But on touch screens, this file manager isn't the best choice. While Microsoft has shipped a file manager app in previous Windows 8, similar apps for Windows 10 are offered by third party developers. But Windows 10 Version 1703 contains a touch optimized file manager app within the path: <\/p>\n

C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\Microsoft.Windows.FileExplorer_cw5n1h2txyewy<\/em> <\/p>\n

Here is, how this app locks currently: <\/p>\n

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The app has a burger menu and some buttons in the footer to handle primitive file operations. Also a context menu to copy, move, rename or delete files is suported. <\/p>\n

How to use this app?<\/h3>\n

Using C:\\Windows\\SystemApps\\Microsoft.Windows.FileExplorer_cw5n1h2txyewy<\/em> via double clicking to launch this app doesn't work. Martin Brinkmann from ghacks.com has found this SemperVideo<\/a> and published<\/a> the details to use the new file manager. We nee a desktop shortcut with the following command: <\/p>\n

explorer shell:AppsFolder\\c5e2524a-ea46-4f67-841f-6a9465d9d515_cw5n1h2txyewy!App<\/em> <\/p>\n

to invoke the new app. Right click to a free part of your Windows 10 desktop and select context menu commands New\/Shortcut<\/em>. Then add the command given above for this shortcut and set a name for your desktop shortcut. Then a double-touch to this desktop icon invokes the new file explorer app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft delivers Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) in Windows 10 Creators Update as a file manger. But there is an undocumented, touch optimized file manager app on board. Here are a few details how to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[826,447,30,598],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-explorer-app","tag-hack","tag-tip","tag-windows-10-creators-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}