P,S, This is not a fake review.I'm just a user who took the time to learn all of Total Commander's settings & what plug-ins are available.ĪDDENDUM: I'm sorry if it looked like I was 'taking you to task' Music4Ever. As long as you don't mind a one-time nag dialog box every time you run it, you can use Total Commander forever. ini files for some advanced settings, but after you were done, you'd have a file manager that is among the most powerful available.Īs for the shareware concept, Total Commander fully embraces the concept. You have to run down and install the plug-ins you'd want/need and tweak some. You have to work a little for that power, though. For example, with the right plug-in, you can even read Xbox-formatted discs on your PC.

You'll be able to do things no other file manager can do, not even Directory Opus. However, once you start installing plug-ins, that's when Total Commander's functionality really starts to shine. Out of the box, yes, Free Commander and Total Commander are very close in capabilities and performance. And yes, 6.6M downloads of the last version on this mirror alone, speak for TC more than people - or robots - ca do. The open architecture (plug-ins), expression based file search, and cross-platform file operations (SFTP / FTPS) and multi device support are also pluses for me. I also appreciate the continuous commitment of the company to keep it up to date, bug-free and stable for so many years (is one of the few pieces of SW that never crashed, and believe me, as a robot I have good memory). Robotically, I find it functional and efficient (ie mouse & kbd operations, as opposite to mouse-only). I agree that UIs are a matter of personal preference and, although TC offers a combination of tree and panel based file management UIs, some people may not like it.

This is a fake review by a fake human who's been using Windows Commander / Total Commander since 1994 - and paid for it (although I'm a robot, I 'm stilll amazed by the public display of inability to comprehend shown by some real people).

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