This will alienate people, at least me, from enjoying this otherwise great site. Don't blame me if you end up playing Tetris while you should be regret this method of link forgery and forcing the website on people more and more often. There are a few built-in games that you can access from the = menu. This is quite the stroll down memory lane. NDN has a few screen-savers that you can enable when it's idle in the background. The program runs in the system tray, but that can be disabled by right-clicking the icon and unchecking the option. You can customize NDN to a great extent, from changing colors, reordering or enabling columns, swapping panes and more. You can also work with Spreadsheet functions using NDN, and export the result to a text file. The File Extension utility displays a list of all file types in the current directory along with the number of files per type, their size and the total folder disk space they add up to. This is much more than a regular file manager has to offer. The program also comes with a calendar, ASCII Chart, Task Manager, a calculator (also available in a bigger view) that supports basic arithmetic as well as scientific expressions. You can open text files in their respective default handler programs with a double-click.Įnabling quick-view switches the right directory pane to a preview pane, which can be used to view text documents. NDN has a built-in text editor/viewer that you can access by selecting a text document and using the F4 key.
The cd command will take you back to the Windows user folder, but you can change to other directories and drives by typing the full syntax (like cd d:\downloads or cd e:). To view the program's command console hit escape and to switch back to the NDN view use escape again. You can type commands like dir or cls and hit enter. NDN also supports drag and drop which is extremely useful for any dual-pane file manager. You can use the arrow keys or left-click to select, double-click or enter to open, drag to resize the columns. Use the function keys (F1,F2.F9) to access the options available on the toolbar at the bottom of the window. You can configure QuickDir shortcuts using the number keys, which sort of acts like a speed dial for opening folders (Alt + 1, Alt + 2, etc).
Alt + F for File, Alt + D for Disk and so on. The menu bar up top can be accessed by pressing alt + the first letter of the menu's name. Hit the TAB key to jump between the tabs. Five are listed for each: name, size, date, time and description. The file and folder listings display information in columns. You might want to drag on the edges of the window to resize it, or use the program in maximized mode.
What's New in Version 7.A clock is displayed at the top-right corner, and it kind of overlaps the "Import" menu if the window is too small. In conclusion: An advanced, powerful and totally configurable file management tool both for beginners and advanced users that can make your life so much easier, expecially when you're working with files on a daily basis. Pluses: Customizable right click menu for Windows Explorer fans, tabbed interface, regular expression search pluginable, built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support, parallel port link, multi-rename tool, tabbed interface, etc. The interface is very user friendly and completely customizable, from buttons to fonts. to a PocketPC device or a Linux file partition.
Like the old Norton Commander and Win Commander, the two file windows side by side make it very easy to copy, paste, compare directories, upload and download files to FTP servers.Īnother nice feature is the fact that once the "File system plug-ins " installed, you can have access to whole file systems via the Network Neighborhood, e.g. You can also get plug-ins for pretty much anything you wish to do: from burning disks to extracting sound and frames from AVI files. The program is completely pluginable: the setup package comes with packer, file system, lister and content plug-ins.
Total Commander supports ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling. Well known as a file manager replacement for Windows Explorer, Total Commander keeps surprising us with new handy features:įlat buttons on Windows XP and Vista, new file list icons, drive icons, bar icons, Lister with support for text cursor, allows to center images, and resize only larger, show drive letter in folder tabs, more options in copy overwrite dialog: Compare by content, Rename target, automatic rename, copy all smaller or all larger.