Favorite Files

1. 7-Zip (32-bit)
2. AutoHotkey
3. Bart's PE Builder
4. DAEMON Tools Lite
5. Diff Commander
6. FinePrint
7. Foxit Reader
8. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
9. Media Player Classic for Windows 2000/XP
10. Picasa for Windows
11. System Explorer Portable
12. UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables) for Windows
13. ZTreeWin

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - System Explorer Portable

   3.0.2 (Jul 1, 2011)

   - CTRL+TAB for switching tabs
   
   Excellent, little by little the author is starting to use standard Windows keystrokes :-). I hope one day he'll also get rid of the "Main" menu and call it
   "File".
   
   Please.... I have two decades of Alt+F in my hands and brain, don't
   be "creative" in that area.

2. 
   Review - System Explorer

   2.0.6 (Jan 13, 2010)

   @wj32
   >@vujnovic and @cyberknutt: Are you a developer? If not, don't assume too much. >Here's a quote from the Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines: "For >programs that create or view documents, use the standard menu categories such >as File, Edit, View, Tools, and Help." Does System Explorer create or view >documents? No.
   
   Not sure if being a developer or not matters here (30+ years in computing). The point is that 99% of the Windows UI respects these key conventions and allows many of us to touch-type rather than use the mouse and the eyes. True, there are no files to open/save under File, but many other tools still use that first item as such, even if there is just an Exit option. And hijacking Alt+SPACE is totally unacceptable...

3. 
   Review - System Explorer

   2.0.4 (Dec 29, 2009)

   Looks nice but I find it totally unusable! Let me explain: I hit Alt+F and Alt+SPACE+X dozens of times every day since I am a keyboard freak. Your
   application forces me to use the mouse for standard navigation established decades ago - you must be very young :-).
   
   PLEASE do not hijack these key combos and replace the "Main" menu with the standard "File" menu. Read up on basic Windows UI design.

4. 
   Review - ZTreeWin

   1.50rc19 (Nov 25, 2005)

   Patnet,
   
   If you are a basic user you are not missing much,
   as it may well overwhelm you -- but if you are
   anywhere close to a power user, you are missing
   EVERYTHING by not at least trying this tool for a
   day or so. Devote it one day, it will pay you back
   in years of saved time and effort.
   
   I do roughly 90% of all my interaction with a PC
   with ZTree.
   
   http://vujnovic.free.fr/ztw/index.html

5. 
   Review - Radeon Omega Drivers

   2.6.53 (Jul 27, 2005)

   Google Earth realease notes state that Omega drivers
   are not supported with ATI cards. Anyone tried it?

6. Comment - Top 10 Windows 7 Features #4: A worthwhile Windows Explorer

   2.6.53 (May 22, 2009 - 5:17 PM)

   "I hate to sound like an old curmudgeon, but there has never been a file manager as easy or useful as XTree Pro for DOS. The Windows version was seriously flawed, because it did not block the keystrokes used by Microsoft, and allow the key sequences already established, along with all the other DOS defaults, but it still used the same ideas - I have yet to find any other that has that usability, though xplorer² comes close."
   
   Stop looking, it's been here for years: http://www.ztree.com/ :-)
   
   100% compatible with XTree keystrokes and UI paradigm, but Unicode aware, with macros, incredible history recall, Application menu with many tokens. Lightning fast console 32-bit app, split screen, branch view, global view (ALL disks in a flat few, for example).
   
   There is a large following of power users (others, don't bother): http://www.ztw3.com/forum/forum.php
   Most have 15-20 years of admin and similar experience. I use ZTreeWin exclusively for everything.

7. Comment - Vista Beta Offers Peek at Aero Interface

   2.6.53 (Jul 29, 2005 - 3:57 AM)

   Your approach is what I've been doing for years -- but your tweaks are limited to your own PCs, right?
   
   What if you have to visit/work on 10's of 95/98/2K/XP machines that you can't customize? You are back to the old, slow, vanilla interface(s).
   
   ZTree travels with you on a floppy/USB key/CD/network with all your tools, scripts, keyboard macros and customizations. You have your own UI working everywhere you go and no longer have to worry about the latest skins/icons/themes that disrupt work for *power* users every few years (no matter how aesthetically pleasing they may be).
   
   If you don't consider yourself an advanced PC user, don't even bother with ZTree -- there is a learning curve to climb for regular mouse-clickers :-)
   
   http://vujnovic.free.fr/ztw/index.html

8. Comment - Vista Beta Offers Peek at Aero Interface

   2.6.53 (Jul 28, 2005 - 9:47 AM)

   A note to Kramy:
   
   You sound like a sensible power
   user tired of GUI eye-candy getting
   in the way of productivity and
   speed.
   
   If you want immensely powerful file
   searches, renaming, moving, macros,
   and other GUI- and Registry-free
   file management operations, get:
   
   http://www.ztree.com/html/news.htm