While there are plenty of File Explorer alternatives, including some we've taken a look at here on XDA, Microsoft provides no easy way to replace the default handler for file management.

If you changed the Navigation pane width in File Explorer on Windows 11/10, and you want to now get it back to the default width, then you can reset the File Explorer Navigation pane width to ...

That said, this is not a File Explorer-specific setting but is similar across the desktop's context menu too. As such, I plan to cover it separately in a dedicated Closer Look article in the near ...