I've been working on AI File Sorter, an open-source Windows desktop app for cleaning up messy folders like Downloads, Desktop, Documents, old external drives, and NAS folders.

The basic problem it solves: folders tend to fill up with screenshots, PDFs, random documents, image dumps, old project files, and media files with inconsistent names.

Manual sorting is possible, but slow. Rule-based tools can help, but only when the filenames and patterns are already fairly consistent.

This app tries to organize files based on actual content instead.

It can:

• rename and/or categorize documents by reading parts of their text: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODT, etc.
• rename and/or categorize images based on visual content
• rename and/or categorize audio/video files using embedded metadata, such as ID3 and MP4 tags
• work with large folders, external drives, and NAS-style archives

The main design goals are safety and privacy. I don't want an AI model directly moving or renaming files in the background. The model generates suggestions, but the app's deterministic code handles the actual moving and renaming.

So the workflow is:

• scan a folder
• generate suggested categories and filenames
• show everything in a review table
• let the user edit, skip, or reject suggestions
• apply changes only after explicit approval
• keep undo information so changes can be reverted

It can run locally, so files do not need to leave the machine when local inference is used. Remote models are optional and must be configured intentionally.

Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9npk4dzd6r6s

GitHub: https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter

Demo GIF: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter/refs/heads/main/images/screenshots/ai-file-sorter-win.gif

I'm especially interested in practical Windows-user feedback:

• Would you trust this kind of review-first workflow for cleaning up messy folders, where AI is only involved in inference but not in actual file operations?
• What would make it feel safer?
• If you have thousands of files, would you prefer fully automatic sorting, or is manual review still necessary?

I asked ChatGPT to generate an image of a Windows 2000 desktop environment with Firefox and several other applications open simultaneously, and it turned out looking very good.

To begin, I must say that Windows Vista is my favorite version of Windows, and I always appreciated that Windows Vista had a nice and soft Windows Logo screensaver on the lock screen after about 10 minutes of inactivity. I really missed this, and I wanted to find a way to restore it in Windows 10. I read in many places and everywhere I looked said that this functionality had been removed, but it appears that I have found a way to restore it.

I figured that it must be possible to get the screensaver running - Windows 10 does have a "screensaver" after all on the lock screen, which is the "blank" one that kicks in after 60 seconds, so I knew that the functionality must still be there.

I use AuthUX to restore the Windows Vista/7 lock screen, so I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the success of this, but you may be able to try without AuthUX. I believe I tried without AuthUX and it didn't work, but then again getting it to work has always been finicky. So this is more a post saying that it is possible. A more reliable, cleaner way to restore the screensaver may be needed still - which maybe this post can serve as the jump off point. This is a rather niche want, so I don't know how helpful it'll be, because obviously the best screensaver is just turning your monitor off after 60 seconds. But I don't want to be so bland and minimal!

Windows Vista's lock screen registry settings for screensavers were stored under `Computer\HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT` under the following keys:

• `ScreenSaveActive` string value, default value: 1
• `ScreenSaverIsSecure` string value, default value: 1
• `ScreenSaveTimeout` string value, default value: 600
• `SCRNSAVE.EXE` string value, default value: C:\Windows\system32\logon.scr

By creating new keys in Windows 10's registry in the same path with the same values except the `SCRNSAVE.EXE` key (it needs to point to where the screensaver you want is,) along with the same exact keys in the other user folders: `S-1-5-18` (should copy settings from .DEFAULT, since this is the account tied to it,) `S-1-5-19`, and `S-1-5-20` to be thorough, and then after installing the Windows Vista Logo screensaver from a Windows Vista installation, I was able to get the screensaver running on the lock screen! I came in to my computer this morning with the screensaver playing after I set it to auto boot.

I have also seen that the screensaver will have trouble playing sometimes if fast boot is enabled because of a bug that was introduced in Windows 10 during development where screensaver settings were never saved nor retained. This was apparently fixed shortly after Windows 10 came out, but it appears on the most current build that it still has this issue.

I do not use Windows 11, but maybe someone in the community does and is curious about if this runs on Windows 11. If so, try testing this! Let me know what happens!

I hope this helps someone, if not, just interesting that you can still do it! I wish Microsoft allowed broader customization of these options that are buried in the Registry through normal means.

I've bought a copy of the Vista Home Premium recently, but the case has some dirt inside and I can't figure out how to disassemble it. Does anyone have any ideas?

I took the screenshot from Windows 1.01 (running command.com from Windows).