Sort and selectĬlick on the column header to fast sort by: Name, Ext, Size or Date. So you can jump to the folders you have recently watched. Like in a browser you have the Back and Forward button in the toolbar. If you want a Tab to be there for you forever you can choose RightClick and Lock this tab. Very useful in everyday work.ĭo you have some favorite folders that you use often? Press Ctrl + d and save them for later. Now you have one more folder you can easy switch to (with the mouse this time). Press Ctrl + t and it will open a new tab. But the way of thinking about it is always the same. Or press Enter on a File to open it with the associated application. You can press Enter on a Folder (yellow icon) to go into it. Move to it with the Home key and press Enter. In the old days it meant the Parent folder. Change from one panel to the other with the Tab key. Learn the shortcuts you use often and be super fast and precise. The mouse is a nice toy, but super slow and not precise. If you copy or move files the one with the focus is the Source and the other is the Destination of the operation. TotalCmd has 2 panels with files and folders. What do you expect from a File Manager? To make file manipulation easy and fast. Configuration - Optionsĭo this the first time you open the application. In the modern internet times it does not matter any more. In the old times Ghisler was working hard to have the installation so small (1.4Mb), that it stays on only one diskette. The kids nowadays don't even know what it represents. Hahaha, it still uses a blue and red 3.5' diskette icon. You can find all the information and download it here: I have bought it 2 times: one for personal use and one for my workplace. You can use it for free for a limited time (very long), but buying it for 37€ was the best purchase I ever made. I think it is now 30 years I am using it and nothing comes close to it as a practical tool. He renamed it to Total Commander or TotalCmd. After a few years he had a phone call from the lawyers of Microsoft that 'windows' is their trademark. Then a Swiss guy Ghisler had this idea to remake the Norton Commander, but for Windows. (there was not right click in the old times). You learned about mouse movements, Click, DoubleClick, drag&drop. But it was a game for kids, not a true tool. MSDOS was slowly dying and the new star of graphic user interface Windows emerged. Can you imagine typing folder/file names all day? Just plain crazy! It was very difficult to be productive without it. There was a magic tool everybody used: Norton Commander.

I was already very productive in the old MSDOS times with Intel 80286 on 6 MHz. The battle was between Z80 and Motorola MC6800 microprocessors. I grew up with Sinclair Spectrum 48 and Commodore 64 computers. Primarily for Windows, but today for Android too. I could not live without TotalCommander - the best file manager.

I make acrobatics with files all day long.

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