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.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
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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
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
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File Management • DevelopmentPlatform details
Windows: Multi Commander works on Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / Windows 7.
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- file-management
- scripting-support
- Tabbed File Managers
- portable-file-managers
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Multi Commander
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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Multi Commander, and it has gotten 96 likes
- Developed by Mathias Svensson
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 4
- 69 alternatives listed
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View allMulti Commander was added to AlternativeTo by on Aug 4, 2011 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2021. Multi Commander is sometimes referred to as MultiCommander.
I'm using file managers for ages. Mainly those with two-pane layout cause it's the most convenient for me. So far Multi Commander is the only one (freeware) that does not make me mad after few weeks of using. Although it's still in active development (with stable releases) it has many well build features. Lot's of configuration options that help to customize looks and behavior of MC. It speeds up my work with files. I can recommend it to everyone looking for a freeware file manager.
I was comparing MC to other file managers I was using in past few years: Ac Browser Plus (full version, unfortunately discontinue), Total Commander (trial...), Unreal Commander, NexusFile, Alt Commander, Double Explorer, CubicExplorer, FreeCommander, FileAnt, Gekko Commander, Nomad.NET and probably few others I don't remember.
I've been looking for this kind of tool for ages ! It has everything I wanted :
The only thing I could regret is to be only available on Windows, but all other advantages are worth using differents file managers on my various OSes.
[Edited by sfonteneau, June 25]
I've been using FreeCommander for sometime and I can't believe I did not come across this one.
Multi Commander is a more powerful alternative to Windows Explorer (Feb 4, 2013)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2026749/review-multi-commander-is-a-more-powerful-alternative-to-windows-explorer.html
Multi-Commander, a multi-tabbed file manager for Windows (August 7, 2014)
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/multi-commander-review-download
Multiple pane file management is just a lot easier, plus this program offers a ton of other capabilities: ftp, zip, image conversion, folder sizing, etc., etc., etc.