Total Commander is a great two-pane file manager replacement for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move, or delete files. It includes extra integrated applications like a built-in FTP client with FXP, a renaming tool, a disk space analyzer, a file synchronizer, can pack and unpack files, compare files by content, a quick view panel with bitmap display, HTTP proxy support and more.
Total Commander 10 is compatible with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11. Total Commander is distributed as shareware with a trial period of 30 days, but will continue to function, with a subscription reminder, after that.
Total Commander features include:
- Two file windows side by side
- Multiple language and Unicode support
- Enhanced search function
- Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories
- Quick View panel with bitmap display
- ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling + plugins
- Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
- Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
- Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history+favorites buttons
- Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
- Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog etc.
- Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), password manager for ftp and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64 bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl+S)
- USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl+Shift+B), and many improvements to ftp, synchronizing and other functions
- And many more!
Total Commander 11.00 release notes:
There are quite a few changes and bugfixes in version 11. Complete list of changes.
General:
- Show searchable list of all open tabs with Ctrl+Shift+A (as in the Chrome browser) or right clicking on the rightmost edge of the tab headers
- Ignore list now supports entries for file system plugins and FTP servers (separate syntax)
- Search with "Everything": Support search in indexed subfolders
- Show full path with all parents in nested virtual folders, e.g. when accessing a phone
- Show free and total space of Android devices in the base folder
- Follow link files (*.lnk) pointing to directories relative to the current location, e.g. %WinDir%\explorer.exe ..\..\content
- Inform other Total Commander instances on the same PC when the user changes the "Start" menu or button bars
- In place rename, command line: Stop on Ctrl+Left/Right at extra non-alphanumeric characters
- Standalone Lister, search, compare and synchronize dirs can be started maximized and minimized
- New pseudo environment variable %$DATE% inserts current date and time in 24 hour format, supports template like %$DATE:YMD%
- Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [I] or [I1] to ignore dots in folder names: Entire name in [N], [E] is empty.
File operations:
- High speed packing and unpacking of ZIP and GZ files with modified libdeflate library
- Change compression rate for ZIP, GZ and TGZ directly in the pack dialog
- F5 copy: New overwrite mode "Rename older target files, skip newer"
- F5 copy, ftp/plugin transfers: Show transfer speed of the entire copy operation in the second progress bar when available
- File system plugins and FTP: Show new option "Finish copying the current file" when aborting copying
- Unpack ZIP files with ZSTD (by Facebook) compression
- Unpack .zst (ZSTD) and .br (BROTLI) files
- 7z.exe or 7zg.exe can now also be used as an external zip packer
Directory history:
- New style directory history list which is no longer based on a Windows menu
- Quick search and quick filter support
- Quick search in whole path by starting search strings with an asterisk
- Right click context menu support with many options like opening the directory in the other panel or a new tab
- Context menu, option to copy path to clipboard
- Context menu, option to remove entries from history
- Context menu, option to show all items when history thinning is enabled
- Keep track of most frequently used directories and show them in the directory history in addition to the history entries
- Keep list of frequently used directories synchronized between multiple Total Commander instances on the same PC
- New page "History" in the main settings dialog
Lister:
- Hex mode: highlighting in both text and hex representation of file content
- Copy the selection to the clipboard as hexadecimal characters, with Ctrl+Shift+C or via the right-click menu
Internal commands:
- cm_Copy, cm_RenMov, cm_CreateShortcut, cm_PackFiles, cm_UnpackFiles and cm_Edit support parameters to set dialog box options
- New tab commands: cm_RenameTab, cm_SetTabOption*, cm_SetAllTabsOption*, cm_OpenNewTabOther, cm_OpenNewTabBgOther
- New quick search commands: cm_QuickSearch, cm_QuickFilter, cm_QuickFilter 1 (restore last quick filter)
- New drive commands: cm_DriveContextMenu, cm_OpenDriveByIndex
- New command line commands: cm_ShowCmdLineHistory, cm_AddFileNameToCmdline, cm_AddPathAndFileNameToCmdline
- New internal command OPENBARMENU opens the passed .bar file as a dropdown menu
- Hotkeys defined via Configuration - Options - Misc now support commands with parameters
- Use internal commands in internal associations, .e.g. ***CM_LIST %1
Command line parameters in button bar/start menu:
- New parameter %y (lowercase) keeps other parameters and skips only list file parameters if the list is empty
- New parameter %a (lowercase) includes all selected files from both panels in list parameters like %L
- New parameter %|envvar| inserts environment variable envvar, e.g. %|windir| or %|$DESKTOP|
Download: Total Commander 11.00 | 9.4 MB (Shareware)
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