Reviews of Total Commander

1. 
   B__B

   Reviewing 7.04a (Apr 7, 2009)

   Total Commander is a must have for any power user, and for me also a long time friend!
2. 
   plasticpig72

   Reviewing 7.04a (Jan 1, 2009)

   In a league of it's own, I would never be without it - and DudeBoyz you can change it to select files as in windows.
3. 
   laptopy.net

   Reviewing 7.04a (Sep 21, 2008)

   Classic app, cant live without it
4. 
   tomkaten

   Reviewing 7.04a (Sep 18, 2008)

   My first reaction to seeing Explorer when I reinstall Windows for some pals ? WTF is this ? I've been using TC since the first version I think. It's a part of me, I can't imagine Windows without it.
   
   To people who complain about the interface... We don't need skins and crap like that, thank you. We want functionality and we have it. Everything bold ? Ever heard of "options", my friend ? Takes 5 seconds to change it.
   
   I think I've tried every file manager available for Windows, almost hoping to find something better than TC. Unfortunately, such a piece of software doesn't exist yet.
   
   TC is incredibly light on system resources, it starts up in a flash and everything it does is lightning fast. Its archive support is about the best there is.
   
   To the guy who said that TC changed file associations for archives... I'm sorry, but TC doesn't do that, it just handles the known archives by itself, which is one of the things that makes it awesome. You can rename, execute and read documents inside archives (with temporary extraction or repack).
   
   I associate it with Universalviewer for F3 (default view) and with Metapad for edit (F4) and everything is peachy.
   
   Long live TC !
   
   P.S. A couple of things I missed the first time...
   
   Some reviewers were complaining about TC's speed when copying files. They don't seem to understand the program too well. It's the only file manager I've seen in which you can modify the cache sizes for same disk and different disks copying.
   
   Try setting your cache about 10 megs or so for same-disk copy (different partitions, don't forget to specify them lower in the same config screen). It works great and doesn't induce much display lag (setting it much higher causes the copying process to become jumpy, because large chunks of data are read and written). I found that 32 KB for different disks works great, setting it higher that 128 KB seems to have quite an impact when copying to/from USB disks.
   
   One more thing that attests to the awesomeness of TC... We use it en-masse at work (corporate licensing agreement I guess). Internal NAT. No FTP program I know of can access an outside FTP server in these conditions (behind a squid/http proxy). None except TC. It's the only program that has a "HTTP proxy with FTP support" option. Just great.
   
   I've switched to Vista 64 Ultimate recently and I was really scared I might have to give it up, but lo and behold, it works fine in 32-bit emulation. I was tempted to use Speed Commander for its native 64-bit support, but I couldn't live with it. It's not bad by any means, it's just... less than TC :)
5. 
   .0

   Reviewing 7.04a (Aug 10, 2008)

   this is the original. smart, clever, functional. everything else has failed the test when it comes to serious business. most clones are not even half that functional or using inbuilt windows features. maybe you need some time to find out what this little proggy is capable of, but if you find out, you possibly love this tiny piece of code. well, i do. whatever. this prog is really worth the money. and as already said, a must have.

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