Want to transition from Total Commander to Windows Explorer. Any help?


  1. xcr
    Posts : 58
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
       #1

    Want to transition from Total Commander to Windows Explorer. Any help?


    Like a basic tutorial of being a mid-level or little more advanced user of it? Best practices?

    Not hing special, really, just to replace Total Commander as a general file manager. (Which means, how to best do the two panel things with the Windows Explorer layout?)

    OK, maybe 2 things:

    1) Somehow it showed files (w/ number in their names) not in alphabetical order, like:

    3[...]
    2[...]
    4[...]

    Instead of

    2[...]
    3[...]
    4[...]

    As 7-Zip showed them correctly.

    2) I need the ability to add something like 2 associations to a file type.

    Example: I associated checksum files to an external checksum solution (Rapid CRC, pretty cool). In Total Commander I hit enter and it run the checking, while I could also quickly view or edit the same file with F3/F4. How to do this in Windows Explorer?

    A search did not find what I was looking for.
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  2. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
       #2

    I don't think you'll find Explorer anything like Total Commander. You could add QTTabBar to get a multi-tabbed interface. But it's not going to be designed for push button actions like a file manager.

    You could try FreeCommander as alternative. It has a very nice file renamng tool and is multi-tabbed and free, Also the folder sync tool is excellent.
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  3. Posts : 1,519
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.10, Linux Mint 17, Windows 10 Pro TP
       #3

    With Windows, even some versions of Linux and with Mac OS X, clicking the column heading such as Name, Size, Date, etc., will rearrange the listing, same goes for most E-Mail Clients and Webmail. When I have issues with a listing I either change the name of a file by one character or add a ~ at the beginning which puts that file above others. Sometimes having file names with 1, 2, 3, etc., in the list requires adding a 0/zero before the number, usually the longer a number the more consecutive the list will be.
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  4. Posts : 5,092
    Windows 7 32 bit
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