Christian Ghisler - (Shareware)
Total Commander offers an alternative to the Windows Explorer offering many useful and interesting features that makes it more preferred among the users.
Total Commander is a reference when it comes to management of the files and / folders.
Acting like a file browser, it can quite make the presentation and management of windows. The application includes many features such as copy, move, rename, drag and drop, delete (to trash or permanently) files or folders, connect to FTP servers, direct access to Network Neighborhood, and more. It is also possible to share a large file into several small to gather thereafter filer can handle RAR, ZIP or ACE, for example formats, is also present.
Total Commander can include limiting the transfer speed to avoid overloading your hard drive.
The dual display panel allows user to view two different directories , a benefit that is immediately captures the interest , including copying files .
The software also includes advanced features very valuable as the ability to synchronize two directories , search for duplicates , browsing in the archives (and with many formats unlike Windows that supports the ZIP standard) or the integration of a FTP manager . Plug- ins can be added, as OOSimple Viewer a viewer for the Apache OpenOffice .
10.06.09 Fixed: Delete with option "All as admin", then "Skip all" when a file is locked -> empty dirs which could be deleted as admin were skipped too
10.06.09 Fixed: Couldn't edit Unicode alias commands in Configuration - Options - Misc.
10.06.09 Fixed: Not all comboboxes supported Unicode yet
10.06.09 Fixed: Master password input dialog: Use ToUnicode() to support special Romanian characters (may cause different master password than in Beta 4 or older!)
10.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Saving the option "Only selected (in main window)" didn't work on Windows 9x/ME
09.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Disable option "only selected" if one panel is in branch view (it doesn't work correctly then)
09.06.09 Fixed: Vista: Could not enter certain Romanian characters (to the right of 'L' on Romanian keyboard). Reason: They only work with PeekMessageW/DispatchMessageW!
09.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Better contrast of blue and green text when item selected, especially on Vista (use the color with the highest contrast out of 3 possible colors)
09.06.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Play user-defined sound for "copy complete" or "delete complete" when sync copy/delete operation ends
08.06.09 Fixed: Try not to show "out of resources" error if totalcmd.exe unreachable when loading a dialog with embedded images
08.06.09 Fixed: Buttons with images: Try to support transparent images only on Windows 2000 or newer, NT4 may fail to load image lists
07.06.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow to save option "Only selected (in main window)": If checked, TC offers to save the selected names in a list file
07.06.09 Fixed: Combine files, decode file: correctly handle relative paths like ".."
07.06.09 Fixed: Auto-complete in F5 copy confirmation dialog: Do not expand environment variables like %temp% because they aren't expanded when copying either
07.06.09 Fixed: Drive dropdown list icons can cause crash on NT4 with some display drivers -> turn off icons if this occurs
07.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Search backwards with Shift+F3 didn't work in plugins
07.06.09 Added: External quick filter support (tcmatch.dll): MatchGetSetOptions informs dll about quick search options and returns sum of: 1: override internal search, 2: no leading/trailing asterisk, 4: file name with path, not just name, 8: allow empty result: longer search strings can return more results
05.06.09 Fixed: When unloading a control, put released object instance at the end of the free list so it's re-used last (to increase stability)
05.06.09 Added: F6 move: Allow to turn off warning which is shown when the user enters by hand a dir name which already exists: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MoveToDirWarn=0
05.06.09 Fixed: Access violation when renaming very long directory (>1000 characters long). Reason: UTF16->UTF8 conversion function didn't 0-terminate string which was too long
03.06.09 Added: Windows 9x: Pass long names to batch files although command.com is a 16-bit program (but one which is known to support long names)
02.06.09 Fixed: ZIP: Problems with archive having both AES and UTF-8 extra field (cannot pack, extra field lost when adding files)
02.06.09 Fixed: No error shown when user tries to copy file with alternate streams to dir with only these rights: create/write files, read, execute (Reason: CopyFileEx returns false, but GetLastError returns 0)
02.06.09 Fixed: Tree view: Wrong sort order of accented characters when using sorting mode "Alphabetical, including accents"
02.06.09 Added: Installer, update mode: Only install languages where the lng or mnu file was already installed
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Could not reach last line after disabling word wrap if there was no scroll bar with wrap, but there is one without wrap
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Custom code page selection also had influence on Unicode and UTF-8 views (font substitution)
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister started via /S=L parameter: Groupboxes didn't have any border
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Do not update codepage menu (custom encodings) while codepage menu disabled (e.g. when using a plugin in full screen)
01.06.09 Fixed: Unload tcmatch.dll when auto-installing to TC directory, otherwise an update of the quick search dll will fail
01.06.09 Fixed: Drive dropdown list: For width, use maximum width of characters 'm' and 'w', not just of 'w' because 'm' is wider in Arial
31.05.09 Fixed: Delete as admin could still stop after deleting a dir as admin
31.05.09 Fixed: Could not delete junctions to folders if it required admin rights
31.05.09 Fixed: Copy+Paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V): Execute 'paste' in background thread because it hangs on Vista when pasting large files
31.05.09 Fixed: Compare by content, hex mode: Replace chars between #00 and #31 by a dot if the char has 0 width (variable width font) or has different width than default (fixed width font)
31.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: incorrect handling of minimum size when maximizing and restoring the dialog
29.05.09 Fixed: Delete dir with zip in it on one side while that zip is opened on the other -> other side not refreshed
29.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, empty dir mode: Right click menu - "set copy direction" sometimes unselected too many files
29.05.09 Fixed: Leaving old style fully expanded tree view could cause access violation in tree update thread
29.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with encrypted archives not working (wrong error about Unicode support shown)