If the shiny modernity of Windows 10 has you down and you're looking for a blast from the past, now you can add a little vintage Windows flair to your PC. Microsoft has open-sourced the code for the original Windows File Manager, which initially debuted with Windows 3.0. And yes, you can compile it and use it with all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.
Available now on GitHub (via The Verge), File Manager definitely serves up a healthy dose of nostalgia. The code was copied by Microsoft's Craig Wittenberg from the Windows NT 4 source tree in November of 2007. There are two versions of the source code available, dubbed "original_plus" and "current master." Original_plus is essentially the File Manager as it existed in 2007, but with small modifications, so it compiles with Visual Studio and will run on current Windows. Current master has been enhanced with Wittenberg's own set of custom tweaks.
We may be on the eve of the next big update to Windows 10, but the open source release of Windows File Manager offers a chance to take a nostalgic look back in time. If you want to give it a shot, pixelated icons and all, you can grab the source code from GitHub now.
