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It's got the same familiar Norton Command dual-pane view with the quick switching with "Tab" feature. There's so much goodness in xplorer 2 I will have to blog about it separately. My other favorite Explorer Replacement is xplorer 2 from Zabkat. It'll take a while to get used to, but wow, you can fly once you've taken off. Some of my favorite features? Start it up and press Ctrl-UpArrow for a while, then Ctrl-DownArrow. The first is FAR and the real story is it's plugin support. The best ever, even, there's no question of that (Seriously, get on board, the PowerShell is poised to take over the planet, but I digress.) but if you really want to stop dragging files around in Explorer and start doing some serious damage, take a look at these potential additions to your tools list.
#Ztreewin compare windows#
Misha Bergal emailed me recently reminding me of FAR, a text-mode Norton Commander clone with Windows long filename support. You think I'm fast now, back in day™ I was fast as lightning on a stac'ered 386sx. If you have a thousand icons on your desktop, then uh, never mind." The Norton Commander is the most useful DOS program ever written" says the Commander Homepage, a site dedicated to Norton Commander. Whoops, I forgot to put a disclaimer up front that this protip is only for "power users" or greater. But it is well worth learning if you’re going to be using Windows for a while. The difficulty in learning the program is due to it being entirely hotkey-driven, and the hotkeys, invented in the DOS era, don’t fully correspond to anything you’re familiar with. ZTreeWin may be overwhelming at first, especially if you’re fixated on using the mouse for everything. So, for example, I could view all the files within a directory branch in a single pane, filter the view to show only files with certain extensions, reduce those by date range, reduce further by a text search, then take the results, regardless of what directories the files in the resulting group are actually in, and 7-zip them (with or without relative paths), all within a few seconds.Īfter my boss witnessed me perform such operations with ridiculous ease, I was summoned on many occasions to solve tedious little problems that would have taken hours using the standard Windows GUI.
#Ztreewin compare archive#
It can be configured to invoke virtually any archive utility, like 7-Zip, within its uniform interface.