A series of leaked photos shows that File Explorer is about to receive a complete design overhaul on Windows 11

Last week, Microsoft released the first Dev Channel build of 2023 on the Windows 11 Insider channel to the internal tester community. Besides a series of major bug fixes, build 25272 also comes with hidden files inside. Going deeper into analysis, it was discovered that Microsoft seems to be quietly implementing behind the scenes a new, relatively comprehensive design overhaul of File Explorer on Windows 11. The leaked information has partly Which gives a pretty good idea of ​​what Microsoft is working on, it is expected to have a new home page interface and many changes in the details pane including options:

1. Insights
2. Activities
3. Properties
4. Related Files
5. Conversations
6. Sharing status

As of today, January 14, Microsoft continues to release another Dev channel build - build 25276 - revealing more details about the improvements expected to apply to File Explorer in the near future. While we already have a rough idea of ​​what the redesigned menus will look like, the latest batch of leaked screenshots shed more light on "Insights", "Activities" and "Conversations". . What is that.

Accordingly, while Activities appears to show modifications, etc., made in a file, the Conversations option appears to indicate messages or messages of which that file is a part.

A series of leaked photos shows that File Explorer is about to receive a complete design overhaul on Windows 11 Picture 1 A series of leaked photos shows that File Explorer is about to receive a complete design overhaul on Windows 11 Picture 2 A series of leaked photos shows that File Explorer is about to receive a complete design overhaul on Windows 11 Picture 3 A series of leaked photos shows that File Explorer is about to receive a complete design overhaul on Windows 11 Picture 4

A technology blogger with the nickname PhantomOcean3 discovered that it is possible to enable the above changes with Insights ID "38613007", using a tool like ViVeTool. The steps are as follows:

Step 1: Download ViveTool from GitHub and extract the files in a convenient and easy-to-find folder.

Step 2: Press Win + X and select Terminal (Admin).

Step 3: Switch Windows Terminal to the Command Prompt configuration using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + 2 or by clicking the down arrow button at the top of the window.

Step 4: Navigate to the folder containing the ViveTool files using the CD command. For example, if you placed ViveTool in C:Vive, enter CD C:Vive.

Step 5: Enter vivetool /enable /id:38613007 and press Enter. (For PowerShell, try: .vivetool /enable /id:38613007)

Step 6: Restart your PC.

Hope you are succesful.

Jessica Tanner

Update 16 January 2024