Windows Explorer

File Explorer - file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system. This software is the 104^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of software and the 166^th most popular software in Japanese Wikipedia. Article “Windows Explorer” in Japanese Wikipedia has 20.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 10 references and 18 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Japanese) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Windows Explorer” was edited by 1 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Windows Explorer”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 1401 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

File Explorer is on the 166^th place in local ranking of software in Japanese Wikipedia and on the 104^th place in global ranking of software in all the time.

The article is cited 256 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 3865 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #4045 in August 2024
• Global: #4405 in December 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #28054 in April 2014
• Global: #11872 in September 2010

There are 31 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) File Explorer		76.6788
2	Chinese (zh) 檔案總管		49.5243
3	Hindi (hi) विन्डोज़ एक्स्प्लोरर		44.6829
4	Vietnamese (vi) File Explorer		44.1024
5	German (de) Windows-Explorer		40.8928
6	Tamil (ta) விண்டோசுத் துருவி		37.4467
7	Italian (it) Esplora file		30.6188
8	Russian (ru) Проводник Windows		27.875
9	Catalan (ca) Windows Explorer		27.2389
10	Hebrew (he) סייר הקבצים (חלונות)		26.2692

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Windows Explorer" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) File Explorer		4 113 531
2	Spanish (es) Explorador de archivos		3 175 250
3	German (de) Windows-Explorer		753 756
4	Russian (ru) Проводник Windows		742 245
5	Portuguese (pt) Windows Explorer		547 871
6	Japanese (ja) Windows Explorer		463 105
7	French (fr) Explorateur de fichiers		369 705
8	Indonesian (id) Windows Explorer		230 378
9	Polish (pl) Eksplorator Windows		219 647
10	Italian (it) Esplora file		187 810

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Windows Explorer" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) File Explorer		13 364
2	Spanish (es) Explorador de archivos		1 202
3	Simple English (simple) My Computer		1 115
4	Japanese (ja) Windows Explorer		877
5	Russian (ru) Проводник Windows		796
6	German (de) Windows-Explorer		771
7	Chinese (zh) 檔案總管		591
8	French (fr) Explorateur de fichiers		339
9	Korean (ko) 파일 탐색기		315
10	Italian (it) Esplora file		284

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Windows Explorer" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) File Explorer		339
2	Spanish (es) Explorador de archivos		136
3	German (de) Windows-Explorer		127
4	Italian (it) Esplora file		111
5	Russian (ru) Проводник Windows		105
6	French (fr) Explorateur de fichiers		90
7	Japanese (ja) Windows Explorer		47
8	Chinese (zh) 檔案總管		46
9	Polish (pl) Eksplorator Windows		42
10	Dutch (nl) Windows Verkenner		41

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Windows Explorer" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Esplora file		2
2	English (en) File Explorer		1
3	Hindi (hi) विन्डोज़ एक्स्प्लोरर		1
4	Japanese (ja) Windows Explorer		1
5	Korean (ko) 파일 탐색기		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Windows Explorer		1
7	Chinese (zh) 檔案總管		1
8	Arabic (ar) مستكشف الملفات		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) File Explorer		0
10	Catalan (ca) Windows Explorer		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Windows Explorer" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) File Explorer		647
2	Chinese (zh) 檔案總管		344
3	Russian (ru) Проводник Windows		341
4	Italian (it) Esplora file		321
5	Korean (ko) 파일 탐색기		291
6	French (fr) Explorateur de fichiers		282
7	Japanese (ja) Windows Explorer		256
8	Ukrainian (uk) Провідник Windows		163
9	Vietnamese (vi) File Explorer		137
10	Arabic (ar) مستكشف الملفات		133

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic مستكشف الملفات
az	Azerbaijani File Explorer
ca	Catalan Windows Explorer
cs	Czech Průzkumník souborů
de	German Windows-Explorer
en	English File Explorer
es	Spanish Explorador de archivos
fa	Persian کاوشگر فایل
fi	Finnish Windows Resurssienhallinta
fr	French Explorateur de fichiers
he	Hebrew סייר הקבצים (חלונות)
hi	Hindi विन्डोज़ एक्स्प्लोरर
hu	Hungarian Windows Intéző
id	Indonesian Windows Explorer
it	Italian Esplora file
ja	Japanese Windows Explorer
ko	Korean 파일 탐색기
ms	Malay Windows Explorer
nl	Dutch Windows Verkenner
no	Norwegian Windows Utforsker
pl	Polish Eksplorator Windows
pt	Portuguese Windows Explorer
ro	Romanian Windows Explorer
ru	Russian Проводник Windows
simple	Simple English My Computer
sv	Swedish Utforskaren
ta	Tamil விண்டோசுத் துருவி
tr	Turkish Dosya Gezgini
uk	Ukrainian Провідник Windows
vi	Vietnamese File Explorer
zh	Chinese 檔案總管

Best Rank

Japanese: #28054 04.2014

Global: #11872 09.2010

Best Rank

Japanese: #4045 08.2024

Global: #4405 12.2010

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