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Everything about File Explorer
Microsoft Windows file manager application
File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, named explorer.exe internally in Windows operating systems, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems, as well as user interface elements such as the taskbar and desktop. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: File ExplorerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: File of Uncertainties: Exploring Student Experience of Applying Decolonizing Knowledge in PracticeInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Interactive Computing SeriesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: PFME: a Novel Explorer for Personal File Management on Mobile DevicesCited 0 times
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📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
PFME: a Novel Explorer for Personal File Management on Mobile Devices
Handling Different Hadoop Platforms with Single Generic File Explorer: A New Approach
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Interactive Computing SeriesKenneth C. Laudon · 1997
Go! withShelley Gaskin · 2007
Data ClusteringCharu C. Aggarwal, Chandan K. Reddy · 2013
PC annoyancesBass, Steve., Stephen J. Bass · 2003
Geometry with Geometry ExplorerMichael Hvidsten · 2004
Microsoft Excel 2013Nita Hewitt Rutkosky · 2014
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6Gary B. Shelly, Thomas J. Cashman · 2002
ExplorationsJ. Timothy Kolosick, Allen Simon · 1991
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