FreeCommander 2009.02b

Rated 50/50 by ycur at Nov 9, 2010

1. The program is loaded with a ton of features.2. FreeCommander opens quickly from an icon in the system tray.3. If you close the program and later reopen it FreeCommander will start anew from where it was closed.4. Ok user guide & some tutorials 1. In the short period that I've been using this program I haven't discovered anything to complain about. This past year I was asked by a friend to recommend a free Windows Explorer replacement program. As I use Directory Opus, a capable and highly customizable shareware program, I was at a loss to immediately give him a good answer. I set out to find him one. Over the next few weeks I tried out quite a number of file manager/windows explorer replacement programs and eventually came back to him with my answer ...... FreeCommander. While this program can be described as in the style of the old 2 pane Norton Commander it also has a file tree that that can be added to each pane. This is a very nice feature. I found FreeCommander to be a very feature rich program that could be customized nicely by its numerous options, and unlike most every other free programs in this genre it had an overall nice feel about it. There are a number of other Windows Explorer replacement programs that have a feature or two that this software lacks, but no other freeware program was FreeCommander's equal when looking at the whole package. I wouldn't hesitate recommending this program as it beats Windows Explorer every way imaginable.

Rated 40/50 by daniel_cnet at Dec 27, 2010

They are a lot of options to make it work the way you want. The quick view is very handy but sometimes get in the way of managing files like we can`t delete file when quick view is active ect. In the new release 2009.02b they are some bugs on it so i still use version 2009.02a.

Rated 50/50 by martinyk at Jan 20, 2011

This is my favorite free alternate to Total Commander None I know.

Rated 50/50 by sonnyboy92 at Jan 25, 2011

Best file manager I ever got on my pc, works for me even better than the good ole' Total Commander, not to mention that this one is actually free.Plus it's easy to use and offers extensive and extremely useful features.Thumbs up for this one! None that are remotely worth mentioning

Rated 50/50 by bcoulam at Mar 29, 2011

All the features I need for free!: Dual panes, dual trees, lockable and renameable tabs. File name filters Multi-file renamer with all sorts of powerful options Supports tools that integrate with Explorer shell Breadcrumb navigation Much more. Not the prettiest app, but it gets the job done and works the way I think. It has never been a hindrance to my productivity in any way. Three years ago I joined a new employer that was using Subversion. I chose Tortoise SVN as my interface into it. It has nice integration with Windows Explorer through shell extension, but I hate Windows Explorer. Was using xplorer2 (zabkat) at the time, but it did not have the shell interface, so the Tortoise SVN overlays were missing. So I went looking for a new file management tool. It had to be dual pane. It had to have mass file rename features. It had to have lockable tabs (so highly-trafficked directories could be permanently set, eliminating many minutes per day of directory navigation). It had to make it easy to copy the selected file(s) name, or full directory path, or full directory and file name. It had to have filters to quickly find files of interest in directories with thousands of archived files. It had to support the things Windows Explorer alread did (like details, tree view, thumbnails, etc.) It also had to have a quick viewer. It had all this and so much more, for free! As a database designer, developer, tuner and technical author, I find there are 3 tools that are open and used all day, every day, and FreeCommander is one of them. It is so indispensable, when I recently upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and found a glitch between Tortoise SVN and FreeCommander, I chose to downgrade to 32-bit just to be able to continue using FreeCommander. Buy this tool! Oh wait, it's free. Donate generously to the developers!