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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:53PM (#16327903)
> I love being able to drag a file up one level in the tree without cutting and navigating to the destination to paste, or having 2 windows open to almost the exact same location.

While Miller columns certainly support that, so does the tree view in the left panel in the default Windows explorer layout.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by favorited on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:04PM (#16327977)
Honestly I didn't think of tree view before seeing this (and neither did the friends I asked who are more regular Windows users than I am). I'm gonna give it a shot.

I've been using bitCommander, which is a Windows file manager that supports (among other things) Miller columns.

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Re:Designing Windows 95’s User Interface by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:07PM (#16328007)
Compared to the tree view, Miller columns use more horizontal space, but have less vertical overflow. Which is superior probably depends a lot on your usage patterns, but both will support “drag to (grand, etc.) parent of current folder” fairly simply.
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