Although the interface changed in Windows 95, Program Manager remained an option for a while (PROGMAN.EXE was included in Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 and 2000). See File Manager. See Win 3.1/9x differences.

In Windows 3.1, you pressed Ctrl-Esc or double-clicked on the desktop to bring up the precursor of Task Manager, called Task List. The utility let you view all open applications and close one if ...

Windows 3.X The Windows 3.x Program Manager user interface (GUI) was a vast improvement over previous versions of Windows. See Program Manager. PCMag Recommended Windows 11 Accessories.

In 2018, Microsoft open-sourced the original and first GUI-based Windows File Manager which debuted in Windows 3.0. The program, which is maintained on GitHub by Microsoft, is now available to ...

The Windows 3.0 Program Manager ensured that users’ essential applications were always just a mouse click away. There was no longer any needs to remember the sometimes lengthy command line file ...

Dating back to the days of Windows 3.0, File Manager was an application using the multiple-document interface to display the contents of several folders within one window.

For Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft rewrote 16-bit File Manager as a 32-bit application, while Wittenberg's work enabled it to run on 64-bit Windows with Visual Studio (VS) 2015 and 2017 support.