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This article introduces the knowledge of "what are the new features of Windows10 Explorer". In the operation of actual cases, many people will encounter such a dilemma, so let the editor lead you to learn how to deal with these situations. I hope you can read it carefully and be able to achieve something!

When will Windows10 change to UI? Over the past few years, people have to complain about Windows10's fragmented UI, especially when it comes to the fact that macOS's entire UI has been changed, and Microsoft fans are even more restless. In the current Windows10, the new Fluent Design interface, tile, and traditional Windows32 interface are mixed together, and many key components, such as Explorer, still retain the old style, which is quite eye-catching. Now, a complete revision of Windows10's UI is finally coming!

According to foreign media Windows Central, Microsoft will bring a comprehensive innovation of UI in next year's Windows10 21H2 version, unifying the design style of Windows10 UI, and the interface is fully closer to Fluent Design. In the leaked screenshot, you can see that the elder like the resource manager has finally put on a brand new look!

Windows10 Explorer will switch to the new UI

Windows10's resource manager is undoubtedly a killer function, and its function is powerful enough to make many similar products ashamed. For example, many friends who use Mac envy many useful features in Windows10 Explorer. This time it has changed its Fluent Design-based interface, and it can be expected to perform better in terms of transition animation, fineness, touch screen support, and so on.

But is there anything else that Windows10 Explorer needs to improve? High level is not perfect, so let's talk about some other aspects of Windows10 Explorer that deserve to be improved.

Multi-label support

This is probably the most popular feature in Windows10 Explorer. When you need to open multiple file directories at the same time, you are particularly aware of the need for this feature-opening multiple explorer windows and stacking them on the screen is really not a good experience.

Windows10 file management does not support tags, and a bunch of windows are big.

Web browsers have fully added multi-tab support, and it is no longer necessary to open a bunch of windows to open multiple web pages, while in competitors such as macOS, the file manager Finder also supports multi-tabs, which brings higher operational efficiency. While Windows10's resource manager is powerful, it has lagged behind others in terms of multi-tag support.

In order to make up for this shortcoming, developers have to make third-party tools to make Windows10's resource manager also support tabs, such as QTTabBar, Clover and so on. However, the third party has always been less stable and smooth than the original, this major revision of Windows10 Explorer UI, can you add the multi-tag support that we have complained about for a long time? We'll see.

Duobiaoq multi-tag implemented with QTTabBar

Extra label bar

Search function

When it comes to the biggest drawbacks of the Windows10 system, the search function is definitely on the list. Although Microsoft has greatly improved the search function of the system since Windows7, and added the direct search function to the resource manager, the experience has not been satisfactory.

The search experience of Windows10 Explorer is not very good

At present, there are many problems in the search of Windows10 Explorer. First of all, the efficiency is slow, and the search speed is obviously lower than that of third-party tools such as Everything; secondly, index files take up more space, and if a global search index is established in Windows10, it will even take up space calculated in G, which is very puzzling. Finally, there are many performance problems, Windows10 search has exposed abnormal occupation of CPU and other problems, and quite unfriendly to HDD, these shortcomings have greatly affected the search experience of Windows10 resource manager.

In contrast, many third-party tools such as Everything have done better. Everything has a much better search experience than Windows10 with a volume of more than 1m, which really humiliates Microsoft. In addition, competitors such as macOS are much more efficient than Windows10, so I hope Microsoft can take advantage of the overhaul of the Explorer interface to polish its search function.

Quick Preview

Windows10 Explorer provides a variety of file views, you can use lists, thumbnails, and so on to browse a variety of files. But is the experience perfect enough? Of course not. At least in terms of "preview", Windows10 Explorer has done a very bad job.

Preview pane of Windows10 File Explorer, which is not practical

The purpose of the preview is that you can see the contents of the file without opening the file, which can greatly speed up the efficiency of finding specific files. Windows10 provides a preview view in Explorer, but on the one hand, the area showing the preview content is very small, and on the other hand, there are very few file formats that support the preview, so it is not very practical. By contrast, the experience of "QuickLook" in Apple's macOS is excellent. Press the space in the Finder of macOS to preview the details of the file at a glance.

QuickLook on macOS

Of course, Windows10 Explorer has ways to achieve a similar experience, such as installing a third-party App. But this is always troublesome compared with official support. This resource manager UI revision, can you add features similar to QuickLook? I hope there's a surprise.

Windows10 Explorer achieves QuickLook effects through third-party tools

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