Importing a previously exported .tar file If you've used the export feature to backup one of your WSL Linux distributions, then there's a good chance you might also want to use it at some point.

DiskInternals Linux Reader Pro provides safe, nondestructive access to Linux files from Windows. The source files remain unchanged, as access is exclusively read-only.

Microsoft also says it's investigating user reports of the latest Windows 10 2004 security patch breaking WSL 2.

Windows 10 now allows you to mount physical disks formatted using the Linux ext4 filesystem in the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.