Immersive Explorer for Windows 8 x86/x64 or Windows 7

Immersive Explorer is designed to be an alternative to the default file explorer included in Windows (known as Windows Explorer).
It aims to provide an "immersive" experience to the user by focusing on the content rather than hiding it behind useless icons and large window chrome and borders. It will also avoid the user from having to open different applications and navigate between multiple windows when doing things as simple as viewing a picture.
For example, when the user want to see a photo, instead of opening Windows Photo Viewer in a new window, the photo will be displayed directly in the Immersive Explorer window.

Although it is not a Windows 8 "Metro application", it is designed around the "Metro" user interface guidelines. It will be optimised for touch-screens, but will offer a great experience for desktop users too (with features like scroll-to-zoom, keyboard navigation).

Immersive Explorer is based on Win32/.net/WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). It uses graphical hardware acceleration to display fluid animations and transitions, making it look more modern than the default GDI-based Windows file explorer. Note that it is not a complete replacement for the Windows Shell (it's just an alternative to Windows Explorer) and it won't even need admin rights to be installed.

As it is not based on WinRT, unfortunately it means that it won't work on Windows RT devices (but it will work on Windows 8 tablets like Surface Pro). I expect Windows 8 (x86) tablets to be more popular than Windows RT tablets among power users, so lack of Windows RT support is not a huge problem.

Release Notes (current version : 0.5.0, released 2013/03/05)
Source code (coming soon)

Features supported in the current alpha version :

local file system browsing (no network drive support yet, write operations are not supported in this version)
picture viewing (scroll to zoom, tap to zoom, arrows up/down to zoom, but no touchscreen support yet)
MD5/SHA1 hash calculation

Features that WILL BE supported in the near future:

performance improvements (scrolling and folder load time)
audio playlists
touchscreen support
picture manipulation (rotate, crop, and mass resize)
file system operations: move, copy, delete, rename, copy/cut/paste
advanced view filters and sorting
local network browsing
favorite folders
customization (background pictures, colors, ...)
setup program
pinning folders in the taskbar

Configuration required :

Windows 7 or Windows 8
A Core 2 Duo processor, or better (this app will be optimised to run on low end CPUs like Intel Atom or AMD Fusion in a future version)
At least 1 GB of ram
The .NET Framework 4 must be installed (it is already installed by default in Windows 8, but not on Windows 7)

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Translations :

Want to help translate Immersive Explorer in your language? Contact me!
Right know, I need help for any language except those listed in the table below :

Language	Availability	Author
English	Included	Julien Manici
Amharic	Automatic download	Melaku Seyoum
Catalan	Automatic download	Cesar Andres Arias
Chinese (simplified)	Automatic download	Li Bowen
Chinese (traditional)	Automatic download
Czech	Automatic download	Marek Snapka
Dutch	Automatic download	Jan van Dijk
French	Automatic download	Julien Manici
German	Automatic download	Philipp Borucki
Hebrew	Automatic download	Aharon Don
Indonesian	Automatic download	"Luke"
Italian	Automatic download	Gianfranco Di Tommaso
Persian	Automatic download	Javad Rajabzadeh
Polish	Automatic download	Krystian Duszynski
Portuguese	Automatic download
Romanian	Automatic download	Brebenel Silviu
Russian	Automatic download	Nikita Sotnichenko
Spanish	Automatic download	Jorge Ronald Cribb
Turkish	Automatic download	Enes Demirel
Ukrainian	Automatic download
Vietnamese	Automatic download	Trịnh Bảo Khương

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Magnus - 2013/03/25 21:24

Check out File Manager app for Windows Blue

www.neowin.net/news/this-is-the-file-manager-app-for-the-modern-ui-in-windows-blue

Julien MANICI - 2013/03/25 23:05

Yeah I've seen that.
I was expecting this to happen in Win8.5 (blue) or at worst, Win9.

I'm still continuing to work on my app. This doesn't change anything to my plans.

Justin L - 2013/03/25 00:18

Julien, since you won't have the ability to update the software in the foreseeable future, is there any sort of work around to the time bomb we can use to keep using the software we have right now?

Thank you!

Cristiano Ronaldo - 2013/03/24 22:08

The people are not complaining for bugs or lack of functionalities, but for the non working app.
Why spending time developing an app, if we put a time bomb and dont have time or infrastrutures for keep the app running and updated?
Its good to come here and say "I love your enfort and your work, and like alot your app, but the app simple dont work.
Please dont let this app be killed by non sense Time Bomb, be smart!!!
Continue the good work not the bad!!!
You can do better!!!!!!

Cesar - 2013/03/24 18:21

No me Funciona el Immersive

azure - 2013/03/24 05:43

update please, I really love this app on my win 8 :)

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