Banner File Manager 1.2.0

Banner File Manager 1.2.0 — fast large folders.

A native Windows file manager for Bannerlator containers, forked from the Winlator File Manager by BrunoSX (MIT).

What's new

• Large folders open fast and scroll without stalling. A folder's file sizes and dates are now read straight from the single directory listing instead of asking the system about every file one by one — so a folder with thousands of files no longer pauses on open. Previously each file cost a separate round-trip through Wine to Android storage; now it costs none.
• Icons and file types are remembered. Working out a file's icon and type is an expensive shell lookup under Wine, so it's now cached per file extension and kept as you move around. The first .txt in a folder does the lookup; every other .txt — and any you meet later in other folders — is instant. The list only ever builds the rows you can see.
• Proper version information. The executable now carries standard Windows version details (company, product, version, license). This fills in the file's Properties dialog and clears a reputation-based antivirus false-positive that an executable with no version metadata was drawing from Microsoft's scanner — every other engine was already clean.

Everything from 1.1.0 (dual-pane split view, file actions, full light/dark theming, dark scrollbars) is unchanged.

Compatibility

Universal x86-64 build — runs natively under Box64, via wowbox64 in arm64ec containers, and under FEXCore. No arch-specific code.

Install

Place wfm.exe and libcdio.dll (needed for ISO mounting) together in a container's C:\windows\.

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License: GPL-3.0-or-later. Incorporates MIT-licensed WFM code © 2023 BrunoSX (preserved in LICENSE.WFM); bundles/links libcdio (GPL-3.0-or-later), which is why the combined binary is GPL. © 2026 The412Banner.

Banner File Manager 1.1.0

Banner File Manager 1.1.0 — dark scrollbars.

A native Windows file manager for Bannerlator containers, forked from the Winlator File Manager by BrunoSX (MIT).

What's new

• Dark scrollbars. The list and tree scrollbars were the last controls Wine still painted with the classic light look regardless of the container theme, leaving a white bar under the file list in both single and split view. They are now owner-drawn to match the active theme — trough, thumb and arrow buttons — including the corner square where a horizontal and a vertical bar meet.
• They stay dark while you use them. Wine's scrollbar tracking runs its own modal message loop and repaints the bar itself while the button is held, so a press in the trough used to flash white until you let go. The bar is now repainted for the duration of the press.
• Slightly smaller UI font — Segoe UI, one step down, across the list, tree, toolbar, address bar and column headers.

Light mode is unaffected: the system already renders these controls correctly there, so they are left alone.

Compatibility

Universal x86-64 build — runs natively under Box64, via wowbox64 in arm64ec containers, and under FEXCore. No arch-specific code.

Install

Place wfm.exe and libcdio.dll (needed for ISO mounting) together in a container's C:\windows\.

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License: GPL-3.0-or-later. Incorporates MIT-licensed WFM code © 2023 BrunoSX (preserved in LICENSE.WFM); bundles/links libcdio (GPL-3.0-or-later), which is why the combined binary is GPL. © 2026 The412Banner.

Banner File Manager 1.0.0

Banner File Manager 1.0.0 — the first public stable release.

A native Windows file manager for Bannerlator containers, forked from the Winlator File Manager by BrunoSX (MIT).

Highlights

• Dual-pane split view (View ▸ Split View) — two independent panes, active one highlighted, per-pane path bars, copy between panes.
• File actions — Open as administrator, Open with ▸ (registered apps + Choose another program), Properties dialog.
• Quality of life — keyboard shortcuts (F2/Del/F5/F6/Backspace/Enter/Ctrl+C·X·V·A), Show Hidden Files, byte-accurate copy progress bar with cancel, status-bar total size.
• Reliability — copy/move/delete via native Win32 APIs instead of shell32 SHFileOperation, sidestepping the Wine shell32 copy-paste crash on Proton 10.0-4.
• Light + dark theme — follows the container theme; controls Wine renders light regardless (header, status bar, search field, address-bar buttons) are owner-drawn to match, and re-color on a live theme switch.

Compatibility

Universal x86-64 build — runs natively under Box64, via wowbox64 in arm64ec containers, and under FEXCore. No arch-specific code.

Install

Place wfm.exe and libcdio.dll (needed for ISO mounting) together in a container's C:\windows\.

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License: GPL-3.0-or-later. Incorporates MIT-licensed WFM code © 2023 BrunoSX (preserved in LICENSE.WFM); bundles/links libcdio (GPL-3.0-or-later), which is why the combined binary is GPL. © 2026 The412Banner.