File Management

Secure Copy is a file transfer tool that enables you to do local and network transfer with resume support. If you have ever copied large amounts of data from one machine to another, you know that it can be time consuming and often slow down computer performance. With Secure Copy, you have the option to pause and resume your file transfers at any time. The program does not replace the standard Windows copy function but rather appears as an additional option after drag/dropping a folder or drive and only jumps into action when you select it. Secure Copy provides a compact interface as well as an advanced interface that adds additional options like file queue, detailed statistics, buffer size variations and more. A must-have tool for power users!

freeCommander is a dual-panel file explorer with many additional features. In addition to the standard file management features, it can be used to compare directories, display folder sizes, synchronize folders and more. The program can also open/create ZIP and CAB files, and open RAR files, as well as search inside those archives. You can set view filters, create folder list (for printing), change file attributes, launch a command prompt, take a desktop screenshot and more.

NexusFile is a dual-pane file manager that offers fast, color coded file management with many advanced features. You can easily copy or move files between folders, quickly navigate to favorite folders, change file and folder attributes, perform advanced renaming operations, manage archives and much more. The program offers a modern interface with customizable color schemes for file types, transparency support and custom view styles. In addition to traditional file management, NexusFile offers FTP transfers, folder comparison and synchronization, file splitting and joining, disk cleanup, file shredding, extended keyboard shortcuts and more.

WinMerge is a visual text comparison application, that allows you to see the highlighted differences between 2 text based files. It is in particular useful for comparing source codes, and offers optional support for Visual SourceSafe syntax highlighting, customizable highlight colors and more. The program allows you to go through all found differences and then merge each instance by either replacing them on the right or the left side.

AptDiff enables you to visually compare text and binary files. You can view the color-coded differences in two files side-by-side, and optionally merge lines from the left to the right or vice versa. The program can also export the side-by-side comparison to a nicely formatted HTML page for publishing on the web. Other features include file backup, customizable color coding, full Unicode support and more.

Attribute Changer allows you to easily change attributes for single or multiple files and folders. Possible changes include Read-only, Hidden, System, Archive, Compress, Index as well as file/folder dates. If you need to change attributes on multiple files, you can use the provided filter options to limit the process by date, time, size and other attributes. Attribute Changer integrates into the Windows Explorer right-click menu, and the interface is available by clicking on Change Attributes.

Visual Subst enables you to create virtual drives letters from any existing folder, allowing you to shorten the path to access the files by simply accessing the them via the newly created drive letter. For example, a long path like `C:Documents and SettingsUserMy Photosamily Album` could be easily accessed via the drive letter P:, acting as a shortcut to the actual folder. The virtual drive letters act just like any other drive letter and are accessible from all applications. Visual Subst is not only useful for convenient access, but can also become handy for developers who need to work with (script) files from another computer that use different drive letter paths in their configuration.

UltraExplorer is a Windows Explorer alternative that provides a customizable interface and additional features. You can group the file display by name, type, date or other aspects or navigate in column mode in addition to the standard view modes. You can also browse folders in tabs, filter folder content, quickly access recently used folders, maintain a list of favorites, and more. UltraExplorer also offers convenient ways to copy file names or folder paths, view folder sizes and Drop Stack to collect files from multiple locations.

FolderViewer is a Windows Explorer replacement that can be used to browse folder content, print, preview, (un)pack and organize MS Office documents, MP3 files, Photos and much more. The program integrates with IE and provides a built in browser as well as a text editor with syntax coloring, image viewer, media player, and more

Duplicate Cleaner is an easy-to-use program that helps you to find and remove duplicate files on your computer. You can search multiple folder structures at once, and set criteria that identify the duplicates. You can choose to search for exact matches using CRC comparison or use the file name, size and date as criteria. The program offers extended support for music files, allowing you to use the ID tag information (artist, title, album) to identify duplicate tracks. The results are grouped in a list and a selection assistant enables you to quickly select files based on age, audio quality, location and other aspects.

AutoCAD Version Explorer (AVE) enables you to browse folders that contain AutoCAD files and view thumbnail previews along with version information and other file properties. It can also export the thumbnails and file details to a HTML page with customizable column layout, zip files into an archive, and optionally integrated with Windows Explorer for convenient folder browsing from the right click menu. Standalone, no install needed.

File Commander helps you save time when organizing the files on your disk. If you find that you re moving, copying, or deleting the same files over and over, you can use it to create a simple command that does it for you with a single click. Just use the File Command interface (right click and select New Command) and specify the actions to take place (e.g move all images from this folder to the Img folder) and the next time you want to perform the action, all you have to do is click on the newly create command link in the folder. File commander supports copy, move and delete operations; it can process files by wildcard, confirm actions and automatically rename duplicates.

iColorFolder enables you to easily customize the color of each WindowsXP folder icons, using one of the standard color choices, or a custom folder skin (Aqua, Mac OS X, Vista and others). To color-code a folder icon, simply right click on it and select the color choice from the menu. You can remove the coloring just as easily by simply reverting it. The program also adds a right-click option to change the icon for a selected hard drive. (Open-Source)

JExplorer is a dual-panel file manager with integrated web browser, that provides many advanced features such as compressor/decompressor (ZIP, RAR, CAB and others), FTP file transfer, POP3 email monitor, MAPI mail sender, directory comparison, and Dial-up Networking support. JExplorer provides network support, so you can open a local, as well as a remote drive at the same time, compare files, drag/drop and more.

SWF Live Preview enables you to preview SWF files as thumbnails in Windows Explorer. It automatically creates a cache from directories (optional subdirectories) for faster thumbnail display, and allows you to select the frame to be used as preview image, as well as the size of the thumbnail. In addition, the program adds a new tab to the file properties dialog that displays detailed information about the Flash file selected, including Flash version, number of frames, compression and more.

Doc Scrubber allows you to view and optionally remove the hidden information contained in Microsoft .doc files. The information contains your registered name, editing time, revision information with names of users that have edited the file and more. While this information can be very useful for internal purpose, it may not be appropriate for distribution, so this little program allows you to scrub the file(s) and output a clean copy, or overwrite the originals.

MacVolumes is a free Windows utility to analyze Macintosh files signatures stored in Macintosh volumes index on Windows NT 4.0 or 2000. The report status lets you detect a need of reorganization to maintain good performances.

MacExplorer is an alternative free Windows explorer program to analyze Macintosh files stored on a Windows NT/2000 Server. It features automatic connection to Macintosh Servers and to the Macintosh volumes and can recognize invalid volumes. It displays and can modify the Type/Creator codes and type of the files (XPress, Photoshop, Word, etc.), allowing a Windows user to know the kind of the files without their 3 characters extensions. You can also open Macintosh files without their Windows 3 characters extensions and more. MacExplorer recognizes volumes which have been created by standard Microsoft Services for Macintosh (MacFile), Cyan Software MacServerIP and Intergraph ExtremeZ-IP.

FlexTk Express is a file management toolkit that enables you to classify and categorize files, find duplicate files and free-up storage space. You can scan drives or folders and view a report of how your storage space is utilized by file type. It automatically categorizes your files by general types (e.g. multimedia files, executables, documents etc.) and allows you to drill down further to view results for individual files types and eventually a list of all files within the group. Other features include generating of MD5, SHA1 or SHA256 signatures for files and HTML, Excel CSV and ACSII text. The free Express version is limited to 250,000 files.

SurF is a unique file manager that offers tree organized tabs, allowing you to work with multiple folders simultaneously and easily switch between them. It offers customizable view settings and quick access to standard file management features such as delete, copy, rename and others. You can also access all regular Explorer options via the standard right-click menu. Other features include real-time highlighting of changed files (briefly, for one second), support for advanced NTFS capabilities and symbolic links, network support, keyboard navigation and more.

ExamDiff is a tool for visual file comparison of two text or html files. After selecting the two files to compare, ExamDiff will display them in a split screen and highlight all the differences The program offers a variety of handy features, like copying of text from the comparison panes via drag and drop and one push re-compare function which attempts to leave the viewer s focus in the same place as before the re-compare. ExamDiff can also remember a user specified number of last compared first and second files and saves the file differences in a standard UNIX DIFF file. The interface is clean,compact and there are several options to customize the comparison process, for example by ignoring white spaces and more.

SetFileDate enables you to easily change the Created, Modified and/or Accessed date and time of one or more selected files. The additional folder mode allows you to change the dates for entire folder with subfolders at once, optionally limiting the change to certain file extension and name.

Folder Size is a handy shell extension that adds a `Folder Size` column to the Windows Explorer which displays - you guessed correctly - the total size of the folder in the details view. You can sort the column just like any other column, and use it to replace the standard File Size column since it also displays the size of individual files. A simple enhancement that should have probably come with Windows from the start.

V-Grep is a text search and replace tool with support for Regular Expressions, that enables you to find text occurrences based on simple a simple string match or complex patterns and replace them with a new word, sentence or value. The program is designed to provide a Windows version of the Unix GREP command, and includes a guide to Regular Expressions, as well as a testing tool to practice and verify complex search patterns. The results are presented with highlighted result matches and excerpts, and can be exported to text or HTML. You can further drill into the result set by opening individual results and perform search and replace inside a single file, or batch replace within the entire result set.

SizeMe enables you to easily calculate how many CDs, DVDs or other media you need in order to burn a selected directory. The program creates a layout to fill each disc up as much as possible, which you can simply drag and drop to your CD/DVD burning software and start to burn the media. You can also create ISO images from all or selected media collection, so that you can burn them later.

File Sieve is a small tool that can take the files from a directory and copy or move them into a new folder, while creating subfolders from A-Z and sorting the files into them based on their name (first letter). The program can come handy if you want to organize files for archiving, or to put them on a CD.

Pablo Commander is a Norton Commander clone, that offers a side-by-side Explorer view. It enables you to compare the contents of two folders, drag and drop files across panes, filter the display, display the content of an FTP site and more. The program is lightweight and does not easy to use, as it uses an interface that is very similar to Windows Explorer, and also integrates the Explorer right click menu.

CSDiff is a visual file comparison tool, that allows you to easily spot differences between two different versions of a (text based) files. The program present the changes in an easy to understand display, that shows you the removed lines, as well as newly added parts. You can also compare entire folders and create HTML output from the results.

SnapFolders allows you to easily create shortcuts to your favorite folders with a single click. You can choose to open the folder in a two-pane Explorer windows or the regular one folder view. The shortcuts you create with SnapFolders are automatically placed on the Start Menu or a side menu to the Start Menu. SnapFolders uses regular Windows shortcuts, you could do the same by dragging a folder from Windows explorer to the Start menu, however this application makes it a little easier and also lets you define additional options that allow you to customize the behavior.

Intelligent Copier is an automatic file mover and copier. It offers a window that you can drag files onto, and will then copy or move them based on your settings. For example, you could choose to move all .mp3 files into the C:Music folder or copy any .doc file into your My Documents folder etc. In addition, you can automatically skip a file that is older than an existing one or to overwrite existing files. Intelligent Copier runs in the system tray and can log all actions for later reference. Free for personal use.

WilLoW and Boupy is a utility to manage and index your removable disc collection (CD, Audio CD, Hard Drives, DVD, Lan Drives...) It offers special support for mp3 files, including features like tag editing, playlists, file renaming and more. The program is not limited to mp3 files though, but can be used for many other types of media files as well. You can also save lists as HTML files, and use the AutoDJ feature to choose music for you. Requires WinAmp if you want player support.

Universal Viewer (ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports a wide range of formats. It integrates many existing viewers that are installed on your PC, and allows you to use a HEX, Text or Binary view for any unknown file types. By default, the program can open all file types supported by Internet Explorer and MS Of