Birdseye

The issue I have with any alternative file manager, is trust. How do I know it is not syphoning off files? Free is never free there is always a catch

A file manager is the core of the OS. Microschoft should bloody well fix it up, and ensure it is not also the windows manager. That has been a gripe since 1998. And Microsoft should fix up with settings that you can hide all those useless cluttering views like musics documents, video blah blah blah, and rename home back to quick access. Plus have the context menu with words and not icons.

But maybe I have to give up 30 years of fighting and wishing and buy TotalCommander . Or go to Linux, only reason I can't is cause there is nothing as powerful as Excel

Plus 5 days of your time to go through the he'll of setting it all up again. So let's say M$ should pay each of us 15k. And another 250k for ptsd suffered at the hands of their piss poor quality software

Well said. And don't get me started on M$ co pilot. Not even an AI, it's very bad, just a scraping tool of all our IP. Nah I'm done, no more mr M$ till you fix the file manager, the settings, and the speed

George  seems to me you don't use the OS. Win 11 is severely broken the core being the file manager is beyond useless. It is much slower, network discovery is still broken, and the control panel is still not fully replaced. I hate the rounded corners and all that they did is change the icons the glitz. But not even consistently. And people have to learn where they have hidden the stuff we know. It's pathetic. And wasteful, the machines of 10 years ago are more than fast enough. Just install Ubuntu and you'll see it fly. After 45 years of Microsoft piss poor quality I have had it