Folder Explorer 0.3.5

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.5_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64). Upgrading: Folder Explorer offers new versions itself (Settings ▸ About), or install over the old version; your layout and settings stay.

Changes

Fixed

• Dim, Blur and your own wallpaper reach the right edge of the screen. A thin strip there used to show the Windows wallpaper, untouched.
• Blur with the Windows wallpaper source works on Wallpaper Engine and other live wallpapers. They stay live and Windows blurs them, at a fixed strength. Before, Windows' saved wallpaper picture replaced them.
• Shift+Delete deletes files for good, as in File Explorer, after Windows asks. It used to send them to the Recycle Bin. Answering No in a Windows delete confirmation no longer says something went wrong.

SHA-256 of the installer: b027dbf0f9143b7fcf3f375e4ed1f3d34b6a5f6099f7b32a2bdaea80e2522a2c

Folder Explorer 0.3.4

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.4_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64). Upgrading: Folder Explorer offers new versions itself (Settings ▸ About), or install over the old version; your layout and settings stay.

Changes

Fixed

• Blur in Settings ▸ Wallpaper works with the Windows wallpaper source too. Before, only Dim did anything there. The Windows wallpaper is then drawn by Folder Explorer, placed the way Windows places it.
• A temporary group's Move to archive keeps using the same archive group after you switch the interface language, instead of creating a second one. Thanks to @bfs2021.

SHA-256 of the installer: 1e3777c2cd4c55ad72d72b7d981109659f1f4f63b874f93bc02cd28a6ce6de40

Folder Explorer 0.3.3

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.3_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64). Upgrading: Folder Explorer offers new versions itself (Settings ▸ About), or install over the old version; your layout and settings stay.

Changes

Added

• Files can be dropped straight from an archive onto the desktop, a folder icon or a group: a ZIP or RAR opened in File Explorer, WinRAR, or mail attachments. Windows extracts them, just like dropping them in File Explorer.

SHA-256 of the installer: 01f384f7f0f553d7919cf1df482930afcf0092d0a327763a023725842170ee18

Folder Explorer 0.3.2

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.2_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64). Upgrading: Folder Explorer offers new versions itself (Settings ▸ About), or install over the old version; your layout and settings stay.

Changes

Fixed

• Files and folders can be dropped on the desktop again, from File Explorer, Everything and other apps. Since WebView2 156 every drop showed the no-entry cursor. Dropping straight from inside an archive (a ZIP or RAR opened in File Explorer, WinRAR) isn't supported yet and says so; extract the files first.

SHA-256 of the installer: 0c5ee706e92a1cfff91276371801c8ba48087cb78c67ab03f0105082602ae2ec

Folder Explorer 0.3.1

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.1_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64). Upgrading: Folder Explorer offers new versions itself (Settings ▸ About), or install over the old version; your layout and settings stay.

Changes

Added

• Updates from inside the app. Once a day Folder Explorer looks for a newer release on GitHub and offers it on the desktop; Settings ▸ About checks on demand. Nothing is installed until you click Install, the installer is signature-checked, and the app restarts by itself. Turn the daily check off in Settings ▸ Behavior.

Fixed

• The Start with Windows shortcut is only written when it is missing or points to another copy of the app. Rewriting it on every settings change looked like malware persistence, and Microsoft Defender quarantined the running app as Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml, which left the desktop without icons.
• With the English interface, the search bar's calculator reads 1,000 as one thousand. Thanks to @Logic769.

SHA-256 of the installer: 66daa73ffa6c9ef2231605d58be759b593799cc6e75bd8fa047315cf025b9bed

Folder Explorer 0.3.0

Phone-style folders for your Windows 11 desktop: drop one icon on another to make a group. Groups are virtual, so your files never move, and Windows' own desktop comes back as soon as you quit.

Install

1. Download Folder.Explorer_0.3.0_x64-setup.exe below and run it. It installs for your user only, no administrator rights needed.
2. The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may show "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway.

Requires Windows 11 (x64); WebView2 is already part of Windows 11.

SHA-256: d553abf6c52a1b5f6cf57254a976c8598b083f8a782ecf1f5ff23f5f05d4b1a9

What's new in 0.3.0

• English interface, now the default. Turkish is one click away in Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Language; the tray menu, Windows' New ▸ entry and error messages follow the language too.
• Bilingual installer (English or Turkish, English preselected). The app starts in the language you install it in.
• Open source under the MIT license.
• Fixed: moving files into a folder finds where they landed even when they were passed as a short (8.3) path, so those moves can be undone.
• Fixed: game mode no longer takes click-through screen overlays (recording frames, screen-sharing borders, GPU or chat overlays) for a full-screen game and hides the desktop.

Upgrading from 0.2.0: install over it. Your layout and settings stay; the app uses the language you pick in the installer.

Folder Explorer 0.2.0

Windows 11 masaüstünü telefon ana ekranı gibi kullanmanı sağlar: simgeleri sanal gruplara topla, dosyaların diskte yerinden oynamaz. Uygulama kapanınca Windows'un kendi simgeleri geri gelir.

Kurulum

1. Aşağıdaki Folder.Explorer_0.2.0_x64-setup.exe dosyasını indir ve çalıştır (yönetici izni gerekmez, yalnızca senin kullanıcına kurulur).
2. Kurulum dosyası imzasız olduğu için Windows SmartScreen uyarı verebilir: Ek bilgi ▸ Yine de çalıştır.

Gereken: Windows 11 (WebView2 hazır gelir).

SHA-256: 0763536f798932b88f28055636db33ed9d504cacc8683080fee5133d09a8ceca

İzlenen ilk sürüm. Daha önceki bütün derlemeler içerikleri farklı olsa da "0.1.0" diyordu; bu yüzden o derlemeler birbirinden ayırt edilemez.

Yeni

• Akıllı grup, canlı klasör, en çok kullanılanlar ve geçici masa; panel, yığın, sekmeli ve masaüstünde hep açık kutu görünümleri.
• Windows Hello veya PIN ile kilitlenen gruplar; masaüstünde başlık ve ayraçlar.
• Simge plakaları ve simge paketleri, sayfa başına ya da gündüz/gece duvar kâğıdı, duvar kâğıdından vurgu rengi, içe/dışa aktarılabilen hazır temalar. Hazır tema seçince önceki özel görünümüne geri dönebilirsin.
• Aramada hesap makinesi, son dosyalar, Windows ayar sayfaları, dizinlenmiş dosyalar ve web araması; komut paleti (Ctrl+Shift+P) ve Hızlı Bakış (Boşluk).
• Sağ tık Explorer'ın kendi menülerini açar. Windows'un Yeni ▸ menüsüne "Yeni grup oluştur" eklenebilir.
• Tepsi menüsünde Yeni ▸ (grup türleri, kutu, başlık, ayraç) ve Simgeleri düzenle; gruplarda ve kutularda sağ tık menüsü.
• Kurulumda "Bilgisayar açılınca başlat" seçeneği.
• Oyun modu ve pil modu.

Değişenler

• Ctrl+Space kısayolu kaldırıldı, başka uygulamaların tuşlarını alıyordu. Masaüstünde yazmaya başlamak aramayı açar.
• Düzenleme modundaki ×, gerçek bir dosyayı Geri Dönüşüm Kutusu'na taşımadan önce sorar. Basılı tutunca düzenleme modu Ayarlar ▸ Davranış'tan kapatılabilir.
• Özelleştirme pencereleri kaydedilmemiş değişiklikleri atmadan önce sorar.
• Izgara ekranın sağ kenarına kadar uzanır; bazı simgelerin (çoğu Steam oyunu) çevresindeki soluk çerçeve kalktı.
• Açık grup panelindeki yazılar açık temaya uyar.
• Otomatik simge boyutu artık Windows masaüstündeki boyutla aynı (Görünüm ▸ Küçük / Orta / Büyük); simgeler Windows'takinden küçük ve bulanık görünmez.

Düzeltmeler

• Explorer ya da WebView2 çökünce uygulama kendini toparlar ve Windows simgelerini geri getirir; Windows'ta simgeler gizliyse gizli kalır.
• Düzen dosyası bozulmaya ve boş kayıtlara karşı korunur: bozuk dosya kenara alınır, en yeni sağlam yedek yüklenir, kayıt başarısız olursa haber verilir.
• Geri al/yinele, yeniden adlandırmaları ve klasöre taşımaları doğru dosyaya uygular (Windows'un "Atla" ve "İkisini de tut" seçenekleri dahil); yavaş bir işlem sürerken yapılan değişiklikler kaybolmaz.
• Yavaş bir silme sürerken taşınan simge geri zıplamaz; son öğesi çıkan grup kaldırılır.
• Yeni ▸ ile oluşturulan öğenin adı hemen sorulur.
• Masaüstündeki seçimi okuyan başka araçlar artık doğru seçimi görür.
• "Terminalde aç", adında özel karakter olan klasörlerde de güvenle çalışır.
• Yeni ▸ menüsünden ya da açılışta konsol penceresi yanıp sönmez.
• Ağdaki yavaş kısayollar duvar kâğıdını ve önizlemeleri bekletmez; değişmeyen masaüstü yenilemeleri yeniden çizilmez ve kaydedilmez; gizli pencereler daha az bellek kullanır.