and MS-DOS Executive file manager from previous Windows versions.

Also available were tools to label and format disks, manage folders for file sharing and to connect and disconnect from a network drive.

On NTFS drives, individual files or entire folders could be compressed or expanded.

Chris Guzak was the shell developer on the Windows 3.1 team responsible for File Manager.

More numbers (2, 3, and so on) were added after the tilde if more than one file name with the same initial characters existed in the same directory.

The 16-bit version distributed with Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.1 installations had a Y2K issue due to lexicographic correlation between date representation and the ASCII character set; colons and semicolons replaced what should have been '2000'.