Windows 11 Explorer vs. Windows 10

[xMorpheousx416]

Well.. okay, so it's not truly 11 vs. 10, but it is 10's UI within 11.

Coming from this article:
 

https://www.neowin.net/news/simple-tweak-makes-windows-11-file-explorer-faster-and-fixes-a-very-annoying-bug/#login-form

 

I followed that... opening up the Control Panel and pressing the UP arrow twice to get to the Home screen... we now have the Windows 10 version of Explorer, no tabs and no flash bang associated with it...and if you noticed, the display window on the right is white and not in dark mode.

I truly find it interesting that MS continues to drag their feet just trying to fix what's on top of the UI, much less anything embedded several screens under it all.

(Note... if I open Explorer first, and then click on Home... I have tabs, just not the 'explorer' window as it is, coming out of the CP)

[Yonah Member]

I wish Microsoft would release an iteration of Windows Explorer with as many new feature additions and changes as — or the attention to detail — Windows Vista offered. (Adornments in the Shell, column headers in all icon view modes, icon overlays to indicate the default program assigned to open an item, thumbnail handling procedures, and tooltips when dragging items are only some examples.)

[Dřívko]

Isn't it actually Windows 8.1 Explorer? The W10 one is basically facelift of Windows 8.1 Explorer

[xMorpheousx416]

On 06/12/2025 at 10:19, Dřívko said:

Isn't it actually Windows 8.1 Explorer? The W10 one is basically facelift of Windows 8.1 Explorer

I've lost track.

MS just loves to paint what you see on top... once you click a few times things just go back to at least Vista... however, there's still a few .dlls with the XP icons intact.

[+Eternal Tempest MVC]

I prefer the windows 10 UI (and did the register tweak to bring it back on windows 11, in conjunction with One Commander - https://www.onecommander.com/

I feel the Files (app) https://www.neowin.net/news/one-of-the-best-file-managers-for-windows-11-gets-brand-new-omnibar-and-more/ would be a great alt but trying to juggle multiple locations, with numerous files, I've caused it to crash / have performance issues. I'm not a typical user.

One Commander seems to get around crashing & performance by using GPU acceleration (optional) and seems to use a separate task process(s) for copy/paste/folder creation etc that doesn't lock up the main if anything goes south. 

One Commander give me the layout option I need, when say, dealing with multiple Humble Bundle's, Bundle of Holding's, Fanatical that built up over the years and trying to import them in to caliber in an well organized fashion.