Reviews of FreeCommander

1. 
   acmetech

   Reviewing 2009.02 (Apr 19, 2009)

   Works great, and it's free. Got me around a Vista Run As problem (when an Explorer window's already open).
   
   The mercenary claiming it's always better to pay $ should rate his own favorite software at 2 stars because (by his stupid reasoning) it cannot be as good as $100 software.
   
   Thank you!!
2. 
   FixXxeR

   Reviewing 2009.02 (Mar 13, 2009)

   It's free so it gets a point, but other than that, the real "Total Commander" beats this hands down. For only $38, total commander is far more worth-while of an investment, given the instability and history of "lack of longevity" of the freeware alternatives. 2/5 I feel is adequately justified based on pricing alone. Free != 5 star rating
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 2009.02 (Feb 24, 2009)

   I don't use explorer if I can at all help it and have installed total commander as it will replace, as it were, explorer. I tried to delete 4 gigs of wav files that were in many different folders and it just couldn't do it via search to listbox.
   FreeCommander did this without a hitch directly from the search box. And it is totally portable. FC uses approx. twice as much memory but has always had a rather user friendly gui aside from the previous issues I had with plugging in ext drives (had to close and reopen fc to see them).
   welcome back
4. 
   DudeBoyz

   Reviewing 2009.02 (Feb 23, 2009)

   Not as rock-stable as I think it could have and should have been. Development just sort of petered out on this version. There were a lot of bug reports that did not seem to get any attention. They should have been addressed.
   
   Now on the forums, you can read that they are stopping development of this "branch" and creating a new product from a new code base. I don't know if they will simply go through all the code and features they used on this 2009.02 and earlier, just duplicating the logic, or if they are going to start completely from scratch, even leaving the logic behind.
   
   No matter what though, this could end up being the last update for quite some time. That's disappointing, but the product is still rich in function and it's still free, so a 4 is deserved.
   
   I hope they release the code for this update to Open Source so others can work to bug fix and make the code more stable and efficient while they work on the new code base.
   
   The day they lock down the source code for 2009.02, I think that would be a good time to take that steop. If the 2009.02 branch is done for real, and will no longer be changed and/or maintained, Open Source it should be, imo.
5. 
   teranova52

   Reviewing 2008.06c (Sep 23, 2008)

   I removed all the top toolbars to made it less clattered .
   
   And now the funny stuff .. i copy a folder , then delete the copied folder , and the software dropped to taskbar by it self ?? hahaha do we need the Ghost busters or what !!

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