Multi Commander
Multi Commander is a multi-tabbed file manager and is an alternative to the standard Windows Explorer. It uses the very popular and efficient dual-panel layout.
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Features
Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Copy & paste actions
- Ad-free
- Plugin API
- Folder Size
- Dark Mode
- Support for scripting
- Built-in viewer
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Portable
- Windows-explorer
- Folders
- Integrated Search
Tags
- explorer-replacements
- Tabbed File Managers
- portable-file-managers
- view-tags
Multi Commander News & Activities
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What is Multi Commander?
Multi Commander has a lot of file manager features. This list It is not even close to complete. There are so many features and tweaks in Multi Commander that not everything can be listed here.
Layout • Dual Panel • Tabs • Commander styled keyboard/mouse setup • Windows Explorer styled keyboard/mouse setup • Customizable colors • Customizable keyboard • Customizable mouse • Clickable crumbbar • Commandline field for quick commands • Quick launch bar • Alias • Button panel • Log window
File System Browser • Fast Selection/Deselection of multiple files using filters • Set view filter to minimize files that should be shown. • Go to next/previous sibling folder with ctrl+pgup/pgdn • Load/Save current selection to memory or file • Restore previous copy/move selection with num+/ • Compare panel and select Duplicates, Missing, Newest • Hotpath to fast go to user defined paths • Back/Forward to go to location in previously visited • History button to show the latest location you been at for fast access • Command line command to fast go to path • Edit path field to change path • Disconnect usb/remote device from inside Multi Commander • Quick search window to do inplace search for file/folders • Show files and folder in detailed or list or thumbnail list mode
File System • Browse local harddrives • Browse network servers/shares • Plug-ins expands the filesystem. • FTP (with SSL/TLS Support) • Browse the Registry as a filesystem • Browse archives (Zip, 7-Zip, Rar, Tar, gz, bz2 ) • Show file properties as columns
File Operations • All file operations are run in background. Do not hang/block the main window. • Delete files and folder • Delete to recycle bin • Delete files inside archives (eg Zip) • Copy • Move • Rename • Multi-Rename
Full list of features: http://multicommander.com/features/features-overview
Multi Commander information
Developed by
Mathias Svensson Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 3.6Alternatives
83 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Propably the best Windows Explorer Alternative you can get for free, at least in my opinion.
It has loads of possibilities to customize views and behaviour (but can sometimes be a bit awkward or confusing)
It takes a bit time to get used to, but then it is really nice to use.
And the best: its free, has no ads, and is highly customizable.
I would totally recommend it
Truly awful. I've used loads of different file managers on different OSes and this is the worst by far. There's no logic to the menu system, the settings don't save, it doesn't matter how you set the panes up they start as 50/50 all the time. You're better off sticking with Windows Explorer than using this.
Way back when, there was a OS named neXT. One most common thing on it was its so called "Dock" for program launching. When Steve Jobs saw it, he knew that it was what he wanted for his new MAC-OS: And there came OSX. Well he made it fancy. Glass Buttons, Flyouts etc... good for sales... but the simplified logic and the clean appearance was gone. I see the same happening with file commanders. Windows Explorer... eeeek !!! Multi Commander is absolute true to what was proven right once ! Remember Directory Opus 4 on Amiga ? That is how filemanagement is done right ! Multicommander preserves that clean logic to the Windows World. Very well done Mathias Svensson ! BIG KUDOS ! ..... Some people seem to be stuck to MS explorer philosophy. To those: look behind the horizon ! Try to digest how this is meant. And to the "Brutalism" comment: For you was the MAC story above... please try to understand how simplicity can sometimes be just better than fancy... effectivity is key here. For me this Filemanager is simply brilliant, period. When the Amiga times ended back then, i missed Directory Opus 4 desperately. Now i feel like, it is kinda back, well at least its concept is. Thank you Mathias !!
Gawd-awful ugly. It's 20th Century Win3.1 Brutalism. Perhaps it works but I just can't stand to look at it. Maybe this is why people switch to Macs.
Edit: sigh It does work fairly well although some interface elements can't be enlarged or modified (ie, tiny buttons). Perhaps I'll get used to it. Added a couple of stars. But it remains pretty darn ugly.
Good features are inherent, but they are inconvenient to use. It is not user-friendly and not sophisticated.
No "Find File" Search Toolbar 6/6/22 I see there is a very visible Find Icon. Maybe I didn't have latest version.. what's more, there's more types of search. Raising 2 star, maybe another later.
My VERY favorite Windows Explorer alternative. It's like Windows Explorer, Dolphin, QtTabBar all rolled into one! HIGHLY recommend for the tweaker/power user/hacker. Plug-ins and scripting help round out this as-close-to-perfect-as-possible well-crafted piece of software architecture. Add to the fact it's free and you have an award-winning file and system management champion software!