Must Haves: xplorer2 (file manager)

If you were a fan of Norton's Commander, xplorer2 ultimate is the modern replacement for you : )

Visit zabkat.com to take the free xplorer2 lite* or trial versions for a spin/trial. Then if you like it, snap up the ultimate license** for perpetual updates.

* lite version is totally free 32-bit for select users.

** one-off reasonable price.

Irresistible Features

These are the features one would commonly use:

• Dual pane of multi tabs of files! Layout/folders remembered of course : )

• Queued (+robust) file transfer.

• Find files or folders.

• Mass file rename. Regular expressions supported.

• Navigate compressed archives.

And a mind boggling huge list of other features! Which you may never use, haha.

Nevertheless there are still updates adding more features as time passes.

Definitely worth getting and a useful tool in any software fellow's arsenal.

Quirks

• Missing/disabled 'Map Network Drive' (shortcut: ALT-L, M): this command sometimes goes missing/disabled. This can be very frustrating and bewildering.

  • Solution: switch to a normal folder and the option will be back. This is because the command is disabled whenever the active tab is in some place where well~ 'map network drive' is not allowed... like: Desktop, viewing contents of an archive. Ideally, this shouldn't have been the case as mapping drive doesn't really have anything to do with the active tab - which doesn't switch to the newly mapped drive anyway.

• Find Files and Folders feature: if you make multiple searches, each pops up a search results window of its own. If you attempt to press ESC to cancel the search in any one of them, you will receive a weird warning about catastrophe! - Don't really know if catastrophe ensues.