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.

Windows 11 will enhance the File Explorer tabs to open links directly there, instead of a new window. The feature is coming ...

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 ...

The default look of File Explorer is quite bland. It doesn’t open to our preferred folder, less frequently used features like ...

Admittedly, the default File Explorer categories may not be suitable for the file types you want to sort and you may need even more tiers of sorting. If that’s the case, you can customize the ...