OT: Looking for an alternative to Windows Explorer (file manager)

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Does anyone here found an alternative program to Windows Explorer (file manager)?

My laptop has Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

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ZTreeWin

 

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www.freecommander.com

 

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I have a couple of colleagues who swear by Zabkat software's Xplorer2 as their file manager.

 

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Total Commander, available as shareware here:

http://www.ghisler.com/

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dogleg43 said:

Does anyone here found an alternative program to Windows Explorer (file manager)?

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No-one has asked the question "Why ?"

Is there something that you want that Windows Explorer doesn't do ?

 

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What explorer cant do, for example change filenames in bulk. Also missing some more advanced search feature.

 

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daba said:

No-one has asked the question "Why ?"

Is there something that you want that Windows Explorer doesn't do ?

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Can't do Tabs...but there are third party extensions that can add this feature. Imho it's absolutely essential for effective file browsing and management.
I use free commander.

 

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I'm already so used to opening multiple windows panes and just dragging and dropping files. Changing file names in bulk seems pretty useful though.

 

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alive15 said:

I'm already so used to opening multiple windows panes and just dragging and dropping files. Changing file names in bulk seems pretty useful though.

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Of course, you can do that using REN through the Command Prompt.

 

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Bit_Bucket_07 said:

Of course, you can do that using REN through the Command Prompt.

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But with say "total commander" you can see the results before acutally applying them, which could be cruicial to not scr*****g up.

The cmd is great for lots of stuff, but not that forgiving.

 

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