What you need to know
- Files, a third-party file management app on Windows 11, just received an update to version 3.5.
- The update changes the app’s design to feature rounded corners and adds several new features.
- Among the additions are the option to hide the toolbar and the option to edit a file in Notepad by using the right click context menu.
Files is a third-party file management app available on Windows. The app has been on our radar for years and earned praise for its attractive design and feature set that often beats Microsoft’s own File Explorer. Many of the features you see in File Explorer today, such as tabs, shipped first in Files. The third-party app just received an update to version 3.5 that adds more rounded corners and several new features.
The bump to version 3.5 is not massive, but it does bring some welcome changes to the app. The content area of Files is now separated from the status bar, toolbar, and preview pane. With that split comes the addition of some more rounded corners. Previously, only the top-left corner of the content area was rounded.
Files v3.5: What’s changed
- Updated the design with rounded corners
- Added an action to switch focus between panes
- Added an “Edit in notepad” option to the right click context menu
- Added a setting to configure the “Open in ide” button on the status bar
- Added support for “Thin acrylic” system backdrop
- Added support for running AHK files as admin
- Added support for hiding the toolbar
- Added support for displaying the total duration when selecting multiple video files
- Added support for closing the left pane in Dual Pane mode
- Added a network locations widget to the home page
- Hovering over items in OneDrive locations will now display a tooltip detailing the file’s current sync status
- Hovering over images will now display the dimensions in a tooltip
- Selecting a batch (.bat) file display an “Edit in Notepad” option on the toolbar
- Opening the log location will now close the Settings Dialog when Files is the default file manager
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