If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. File Explorer is the default app for managing files on Windows. Despite improvements ...

In brief: If you frequently deal with zipped files, File Explorer should soon perform notably better during extraction. Developers have optimized the feature in the latest Windows 11 Preview Build.

The latest beta version of Windows 10, which is available to users on the Fast Insiders track, finally brings a dark theme to File Explorer to match the rest of Windows 10’s dark aesthetic.

Something to look forward to: Microsoft has been making changes to the File Explorer interface in Windows 11 since early last year, but it looks like a more significant overhaul is on the horizon.