Total Commander

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Total Commander
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Total Commander 6.03a running on Windows 2000
Developer: Christian Ghisler
Latest release: 6.56 / 3 January 2007
Preview release: 7.00 RC1 / 22 March 2007
OS: Microsoft Windows, Windows CE
Use: File manager
License: Shareware
Website: www.ghisler.com

Total Commander is a shareware Orthodox File Manager (OFM) for Windows. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a multi-rename tool.

At one point, Total Commander was called Windows Commander; the name change was necessary because Microsoft holds the trademark on "Windows".

This application is written by Christian Ghisler in Delphi 2 (32-bit version) and Delphi 1 (16-bit version). The program is extensible by programmers via an open plugin-API and it has the ability to bind external programs for viewing or editing files. Many plugins are freely available for e.g. different packer formats or fileviewer for special fileformats.

A freeware version of Total Commander also exists for Windows Mobile.

The main version is shareware – the user should register or delete it within 30 days. The unregistered version nags for registration every time it starts, but it retains full functionality, even after the 30-day trial period.

One notable feature of Total Commander is that in addition to allowing access to Windows partitions, there is a plugin that allows users to access both EXT2/EXT3 and Reiser partitions on the same machine. Hence, for dual-boot machines with Windows and Linux, Total Commander allows robust access to files stored on the Linux partition while running Windows.

The download is about 2MB; available in both 16- and 32-bit versions, for the various versions of Windows, and works just as well on Linux using WINE. Linux users may also want to consider using Krusader, a similar but open source product for Linux/Unix systems running KDE.

Total Commander is more similar to Dos Navigator than to Norton Commander.

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