v11.0 [Feb 22, 2012]
Copy files: The option "Keep relative paths" is now also available in search results, copies with entire path
Lister: Press F4 to open currently viewed file in user-defined editor
New environment variable %COMMANDER_INI_PATH%: Directory of the settings file wincmd.ini
cm_CompareDirs, cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: New parameter 1 to only select files which do not exist on the other side
List of open tabs: Switch between tab title and tab directory with Ctrl+Shift+A
Pseudo environment variable %$DATE% now supports an offset, e.g. %$DATE+1Y% (use %|$DATE+1Y| in parameters field)
Set a different location for DirectShow filters: wincmd.ini [Lister] Filter32dir=/Filter64dir
Windows 10 and newer: Open Windows Photo app with current directory parameter so it can switch through all images in the same folder as the opened image, configurable with PhotoAppFilter field
Bugfixes
Warning: The “cloud” plugin will only be able to support Google Drive when you create your own client id.
v10.5 [Jun 18, 2022]
- Button bar, start menu: New parameter %Q turns off automatic quotation marks around certain parameter combinations like %P%N.
- Verify checksums: Support extension .bk3 for Blake3, and arbitrary length Blake3 checksum verification.
- OneDrive folder: Show green overlay icon with checkmark for files which are marked for always being available offline.
- Lister, Compare by content: Support side scrolling by tilting mouse wheel left/right (only supported by some mice).
- Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [X] inserts text from the clipboard.
- Synchronize dirs: Show yellow progress bar in task bar when done and the comparison took longer than 10 seconds.
v10.0 [Mar 28, 2012]
General:
- Directories created by MacOS on ExFAT flash drives are now shown in TC. They were not shown because they had the inavlid attribute 8: Volume label.
- Always show hidden directory "AppData" in c:\Users\ even with hidden files disabled.
- Allow user to install key file automatically when double clicking on it..
- Add a "Zone Transfer" data stream when downloading files via anonymous FTP (Ctrl F), or HTTP (Ctrl N) from outside the intranet, like web browsers.
- When unpacking files internally or via plugins, copy "Zone Transfer" data stream from archive to unpacked files, just like the Explorer.
- New zone transfer option can be disabled via WantZoneData=0.
- Always look for key file also in c:\totalcmd, even if Total Commander is installed elsewhere.
User interface:
- Allow to use "Windows Hello" on Windows 10 to securely store master password until TC is closed. Use fingerprint, face or pin to connect again.
- Use mouse wheel to scroll through directory tabs (like in Firefox) when not using multi-line tabs.
- Zoom thumbnails with Ctrl Mouse wheel between 10% and 200% of the size configured in Configuration - Options - Thumbnails.
- Load thumbnails from EXIF data (preview image) from JPG and various camera RAW formats: Canon RAW 1-3, DNG, Fuji, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sony.
- New option "Return to locked tab root directory on tab change" in Configuration - Options - Folder tabs.
- Show "!" prefix when current dir differs from locked dir on tabs which are locked with directory changes allowed.
- New option to only execute command line when it is focused (Configuration - Options - Layout).
- When closing TC while there are unpacked temporary files, show the user the first 3 file names and their origin.
- Drop file from outside (e.g. virtual folder in Explorer) to read only directory (e.g. c:\windows): Better dialogs to allow overwrite and copy as admin.
- Automatically scale dialog boxes with the chosen font if the font needs more space than the default font.
- Ctrl L on single file now also shows the Zone.Identifier stream data for that file.
- Save displayed file types (e.g. *.txt) separately for each tab. Configuration - Options - Folder Tabs - Save displayed file types separately for each tab.
- Ctrl U and Ctrl Shift U now also swap the displayed file types if DirTabFilters=1, because they are part of the tab.
- Directory menu (Ctrl D): Option to hide menu items which begin with a user-defined character, by default a question mark '?'.
- View modes, Auto-run commands: Put '-' at the start of the command field to not execute commands on tab change, only on directory change.
- For locked folder tabs with directory changes allowed, show both the current directory and the locked directory if they are different.
Saving settings:
- When user cannot save settings (e.g. in Configuration menu or main settings), offer to copy ini files to user profile.
- For plugins in write protected directories, intercept calls to CreateFileA/W and all INI functions, and redirect write calls to %APPDATA%\GHISLER\redirect.
- Disable redirection of plugins: Add 8192 to RestrictInterface in wincmd.ini or registry.
- Specify different ini locations for specific plugins: wincmd.ini [ReplaceIniLocation] (see help).
Lister:
- New DirectShow media player in Lister, replacing the old one based on Video for Windows (can still be chosen via configuration).
- Support full screen playback via double click or Alt Enter, leave the same way or with ESC.
- Change audio and subtitle streams via context menu.
- Configure preferred DirectShow filters via Lister configuration (3rd Tab).
- Show chapters as tickmarks below seek bar, jump there with Ctrl PageDown/Ctrl PageUp.
- Buttons to jump backward/forward by x seconds (default 10s and 60s, configurable via right click).
- Preload DirectVobSub filter if the source filter has a pin "Subtitle".
- Allow to use LAV filters and ffdshow filters without installing them, by putting them in subdir filter32 or filter64, respectively.
- Save last playback position of the last played tracks longer than 10 minutes.
- Keep sound pitch constant when changing playback speed, using custom DirectShow filter based on open source SoundTouch.dll.
- New option "Additional multimedia file types" and "Additional Irfanview/Xnview file types".
Search:
- Internal regular expression library updated to latest version (faster, more functions).
- Warn user when he enters a text in "Find text" which cannot be converted to ANSI and/or ASCII (if checked).
Synchronize dirs:
- Allow to use regular expressions and saved searches, with options where to apply them, e.g. one side, both sides, etc. via button [1x].
- New context menu items to show file context menu and file properties, and to edit left/right file.
- Show exclamation mark in button "Singles" or "Duplicates" if it isn't down when opening the dialog.
v9.5 [Nov 8, 2019]
User interface:
- Dark mode, starting with Windows XP, full support with Windows 10 1809 (Fall 2018), inofficially also with older Windows versions (ForceDarkModeOptions=1).
- Mouse cursor now jumps to default button if this is enabled in Control Panel under "Mouse".
- Show up to 3 connected USB devices without drive letter (e.g. phones, tablets) also in drive buttonbar.
- Increased directory history length to 200 (configurable via HistoryLenStored).
- History: Only show directories in which the user performed some operation (configurable). Alt Shift Down arrow shows full history.
- Drive dropdown list, drive buttonbar: Show "eject" overlay over drive icon for removable drives.
- When scrolling through file lists with the keyboard, keep a margin of 4 lines above/below the current position (configurable).
- Directory panels: Show <LINK> for hard links/soft links to files instead of 0 size.
- Ctrl Q quick view: Show contents of link target instead of lnk file content.
- Configuration - Options - Display: New option "Append \" to show folders as Folder\ instead of [Folder].
- Internal associations: Optional: Add extra verbs from ALL matching filters, default "open" only from the first match.
- Show "New" submenu also in context menu for [.] entry, to create new file in current directory.
- Windows 10, context menu: Menu item "Share" didn't do anything -> handle it internally.
- Quick search dialog: Clear search with Ctrl Y.
- Right click on directory tab -> "Recently closed tabs".
- Show location of Total Commander EXE file in about box.
File operations:
- Archives: Choose codepage when unpacking files, e.g. to unpack names with cyrillic characters. Show [Auto] or chosen encoding in tab header.
- OneDrive folder: Handle folders appearing as file system links.
- F5 copy dialog: Support directory hotlist (Ctrl D).
- Create CRC checksums: New options to use Unix format, and to always use UTF-8.
- Support substrings from environment variables, e.g. %variable:~2,3%.
FTP / File system plugins:
- Transfer from FTP server to FTP server with F5: Option to copy via local PC.
- Transfer from/to FTP/FS plugins: Support copy filters like the local file copy function, e.g. *.txt | excludeddir\.
- FTP, upload/download with F5 - F2 in background: Support client certificate.
- RestrictInterface=6144: Disallow all plugins, or 4096: Only allow plugins with a valid digital signature.
Multi-rename tool:
- New placeholder [c] = number of files in list.
- New placeholder [S] = file size.
Alt F10 tree:
- Option to use 'Everything' to load the tree.
- Combobox to change drive, open with Alt F1 or Alt F2.
Search:
- Search with 'Everything': Show percent of the search results transferred to Total Commander.
- Improved search in Office xml files (e.g. .docx, .ods etc): find accented characters.
- Automatically check 'Everything' option when using prefix ev: or ed: in search field.
- Option to search in search results only.
- View previous search results.
Lister (F3):
- Define which view method and plugin should be used when opened, separately by file type, e.g. all jpg files with internal image viewer.
- Press '8' to show preview as the Explorer (uses IPreviewHandler or IThumbnailProvider if the former isn't available).
- Support printing of JPG/PNG/GIF in Lister with internal image viewer.
Compare by content:
- Set color for underlined search results.
Synchronize dirs:
- Use Ctrl PageUp/PageDown to jump to next/previous directory.
Internal commands:
- New internal commands with parameters: LOADSELECTION, SAVESELECTION, SAVEDETAILS plus ANSI/Unicode versions.
- cm_ModernShare allows to use the new Windows 10 "Share" context menu item directly.
- cm_ChangeArchiveEncoding to open the archive encoding popup menu.
- cm_MoveTabLeft and cm_MoveTabRight to manually move current tab.
v9.5 [Oct 18, 2019]
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 13 for Windows available: January 15, 2020: Total Commander 9.50 beta 13 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 12 for Windows available: January 8, 2020: Total Commander 9.50 beta 12 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 11 for Windows available: December 30, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 11 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 10 for Windows available: December 18, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 10 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 9 for Windows available: December 11, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 9 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 8 for Windows available: December 4, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 8 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 7 for Windows available: November 27, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 7 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 6 for Windows available: November 20, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 6 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 5 for Windows available: November 13, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 5 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 4 for Windows available: November 6, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 4 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 3 for Windows available: October 30, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 3 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 2 for Windows available: October 21, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 2 is now available for download. This is a bugfix version.There are many new functions in Total Commander 9.50.
- Total Commander 9.50 beta 1 for Windows available: October 16, 2019: Total Commander 9.50 beta 1 is now available for download. There are many new functions.
v9.1 [Oct 5, 2017]
Two file windows side by side
Multiple language and Unicode support
Enhanced search function
Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories
Quick View panel with bitmap display
ZIP, 7ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plugins
Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history favorites buttons
Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog etc.
Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), password manager for ftp and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64 bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl S)
USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl Shift B), and many improvements to ftp, synchronizing and other functions
v9.0 [Feb 14, 2012]
Two file windows side by side
Multiple language and Unicode support
Enhanced search function
Compare files (now with editor) / synchronize directories
Quick View panel with bitmap display
ZIP, 7ZIP, ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2, TAR, GZ, CAB, ACE archive handling plugins
Built-in FTP client with FXP (server to server) and HTTP proxy support
Parallel port link, multi-rename tool
Tabbed interface, regular expressions, history favorites buttons
Thumbnails view, custom columns, enhanced search
Compare editor, cursor in lister, separate trees, logging, enhanced overwrite dialog etc.
Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), password manager for ftp and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64 bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl S)
USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl Shift B), and many improvements to ftp, synchronizing and other functions
v8.5 [Sep 5, 2013]
- File icons are now completely loaded in the background, so they should no longer slow down the user interface
- More speed improvements when reading directories (icons, shared folder overlays)
- FTP rename file (Shift F6): Show overwrite confirmation dialog if target exists
- FTP: Faster upload in fast networks by using a dynamic upload block size.
v8.5 [Aug 30, 2013]
- File icons are now completely loaded in the background, so they should no longer slow down the user interface.
- More speed improvements when reading directories (icons, shared folder overlays).
- FTP rename file (Shift F6): Show overwrite confirmation dialog if target exists.
- FTP: Faster upload in fast networks by using a dynamic upload block size.
v8.0 [Feb 9, 2012]
This version mainly corrects bugs, there are no major new features.
v8.0 [Dec 14, 2011]
-Unicode names almost everywhere, long names (>259 characters), password manager for ftp and plugins, synchronize empty dirs, 64 bit context menu, quick file filter (Ctrl S)
-USB port connection via special direct transfer cable, partial branch view (Ctrl Shift B), and many improvements to ftp, synchronizing and other functions
-Bug fixed
v7.5 [Feb 5, 2009]
-Button bar right click menu: Option to run a program as administrator
-Find files: Keep last search results when using "Go to file" or "Cancel"
-Lister and Compare by content: Auto-detect UTF-8 files by their content
-Official support for Windows 7 (32 bit and 64 bit)
-Full Unicode support in most functions where it is possible, including FTP, ZIP packer, and plugin interfaces
-Help file now by default in HTML format (CHM). The old HLP file is still available online
-Support for file names longer than 259 characters (up to 1022) in most file operations
-The current directory above the file lists can act as a clickable bar ("breadcrumb bar")
-Protect the stored ftp passwords with a master password using AES256 encryption
-Start Lister, compare by content or synchronize dirs directly via command line parameters
-Comments (Ctrl Z) can now have a max. length of 4095 characters, and support line breaks
v7.0 [Jun 21, 2007]
Thumbnail view, custom columns, content plugins, enhanced search
