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XYplorer is a multi-tabbed dual pane file manager for Windows (98, NT, ME, 2000, XP, XP x64, 2003, Vista, Vista x64, Windows 7) targeting everybody who is looking for a real alternative to Explorer. Let's focus on a number of XYplorer's usability and efficiency highlights many of which no other file manager has to offer.
It's Portable!
First of all, XYplorer is a portable file manager. It doesn't require any installation, stores all configuration data in the program's folder, and running it doesn't change your system or registry.
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Main Interface Components and Core Features
Note that in the following screenshot all elements can be hidden, with the obvious exception of the file list.
Tabbed Browsing: Have an unlimited number of tabs to make jumping around between folders a one-click affair. Rename the tabs, drag-shift them around, hide them, lock them, drag-n-drop files onto the tab headers... the tabs remember their configuration individually and between sessions, and multiple selections are retained on tab switches.
Dual Pane: Have the contents of two folders side by side, and move or copy your files comfortably and safely from pane to pane. Both panes are optionally multi-tabbed and can be arranged vertically or horizontally.
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Searches in Tabs: You often search your system for files added in the last 24 hours? You quickly need a list of all text files containing your name? Let a "finding tab" do this or any other search job at a single click!
The Address Bar accepts not just folders, but also files, URLs, and search terms. Yes, you can enter search patterns directly into the Address Bar. Simply put "?" between location and search pattern (Boolean operators and Regular Expressions allowed).
The Tree and List offer a suite of unique highlighting options to increase visual grip. Highlight Folder, Boxed Branch, Favorite Folder Bold, Highlight Focused Row, Highlight Sorted Column, Colored Grid, ... all colors are fully customizable. And then there's wildcard-configurable Color Coding for list items. Color code your files and folders now!
Catalog: Your favorite locations reside deep down in some heavily nested structures? Lift them to the surface! Your current project forces you to repeatedly ride from one end of your hard disk (or LAN) to the other? Join those ends within the flat hierarchy of a Catalog Category, and reduce their mutual distance to 18 pixels! Which means you got an easy one-click access to your most commonly used folders while maintaining a synchronized tree view! By the way, you can also drop stuff onto the Catalog's items: file management cannot get any cooler!
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In the Catalog you can combine distributed locations and items (local, LAN, web) under one heading. By a single click you can go to, copy, open, or launch them.
Or, drop items onto them to move/copy those items to folders or add them to Zip archives. |
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The Catalog as well serves as launch panel for applications and data files. A single-click will open the application, or the file with its default application.
Or, simply drag-n-drop a file onto an application listed in the Catalog, and the file will be opened by that application. |
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Info Panel: The hideable tabbed panel at the bottom provides quick access to information (file properties and previews) and action (Find Files, Reports).
If you need a fast and friendly image browser, sound browser, or video browser, it's here: Instant, one-click preview of image (incl. PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, TGA, ICO and many more, using high-quality resampling for shrinking/zooming), audio (incl. WAV, MP3, OGG, APE, etc.), and video (MPG, AVI, MOV, QT, VOB, TS, WMV, etc. ... not to forget FLV/YouTube) files, with display of detailed media information.
Find Files: XYplorer features a high-end search engine with tremendous power and amazing speed. It fully supports Boolean Logic, advanced pattern matching, Regular Expressions, Boolean RegExp (the Boolean combination of any number of Regular Expressions), whole word and fuzzy matching, content search (look for text strings inside files, wildcards supported), multiple location search, and much more...
It's a non-indexed search, so your search results are always live and up-to-date.
You can save your current search settings to a Search Template or in a Finding Tab for later one-click re-use. Very handy with complex search patterns or distributed search locations.
XP Style Search: Recently, many Windows users are frustrated with Vista's new search. Well, XYplorer's search works as you know it from XP: Enter a search term, press 'Find Now', and find what you are looking for! It's easy because you already know how to do it.
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BreadcrumbCtrl+Backspace pops up a breadcrumb that takes no screen space (it's a pop-up menu), is 100% keyboard-driven, and takes you up and down (the latter based on the recent history) relative to your current location.
Mini Tree Once again XYplorer writes file management history by introducing a breath-taking revolutionary feature, the Mini Tree.
The Mini Tree displays only the paths you have actually used. You might call it a tree shaped history. It makes browsing blindingly fast (it's instantaneous even with deeply nested subfolders), it makes the tree ridiculously small, and it makes you feel like being back in control (because you look at just the folders you are actually using, instead of being avalanched by all the folders that have accumulated on your drives over the years).
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Tags and Comments Tags let you give colors and labels to individual filenames. Optionally by a single click right besides the filename. Additionally, comments of virtually any size can be attached to your files and folders.
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HotlistCtrl+H pops up the Hotlist, a smart interface to your history, with the intention to present the history in a way that makes it as easy as possible to quickly go back to one of the places you have recently been. Probably the single best usability innovation in file management since the invention of tabbed browsing. If you experience it once, you'll never want to miss it again...
Drop-Text-To-File You can drag-n-drop a selectable text or data chunk from any other application onto a folder in XYplorer, where it will be automatically converted into a *.txt-file or an *.rtf file, depending on the content. Yet another XYplorer-only feature. Drop-Messages-To-File Drag-n-drop messages and attachements from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them to files with automatically coined template-configured names! Nothing less than a brand-new outlook on message-management. Customizable Keyboard ShortcutsCustomizable Keyboard Shortcuts for more than three hundred functions. 
All of XYplorer's keyboard shortcuts have been smartly defined by default, yet you can now fully (re)define them as you wish. Incidently every user of XY can have their own & unique shortcuts defined. You can use any combination of Ctrl/Shift/Alt (incl. none) with almost any key on your board, and can assign as many different shortcuts as you want to each of the functions. The shortcuts are saved in a separate file (in app path) that can be distributed among users.
The Customize Keyboard Shortcuts dialog closely follows the de facto standard for such interfaces in Windows applications, so you'll immediately find your way. With some very useful additions: there's a short descriptive text for each function, and you can create a "cheat sheet" of all current shortcuts and commands in various layouts.
Learn more... Len ColumnA "Len" column shows the length in characters of each filename (incl. full path) right in the file list. Now you can easily spot over-long filenames that might make trouble when burning CD-ROMs.  Batch RenameIn the context menu of each file you find a rich selection of rename options. 
All batch rename operations come with a detailed preview, including detection of possible conflicts. 
User-Defined Commands (UDCs) Write your personal file management routines in the most user-friendly way. Go To, Open, Open With, Copy To, Move To, Rename ... wrap those tasks into UDCs, and have them magically appear in the new "User" menu. Give them catchy captions, and assign keyboard shortcuts to them. UDC means: Reduce your daily routines to simple keystrokes!
Define the command as you need it...
... and a new menu item is auto-magically created! Now you may assign keyboard shortcuts to this item as you like.
Of course, the number of UDCs is not limited, they are retained between sessions, and they are portable between computers. As always, no registry is involved here.
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Scripting Advanced solutions for advanced tasks. Spend time once (writing the script), save time forever after (using the script). What about this:
Create a fully formatted HTML document containing the list of files you are currently looking at in your file manager, with a single click.
Look up the title of the currently selected file in the IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base), with a single click.
Convert all Umlauts contained in the currently selected text file, with a single click.
Transfer the content of your digital camera SD card in its new folder renamed by today's month, with a single click.
Save all last years .doc files in a zip file named doc_backup_07.zip, with a single click.
Seemless TeraCopy Integration.
Download a specific file from internet without using a browser.
Open the first URL contained in the clipboard.
Copy any file on your computer to "here" (to the current working directory).
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Configurable ToolbarA Configurable Toolbar with lots of powerful buttons, many of them with a specific context menu. The Up button, for example, features a popup breadcrumb menu:
Portable File Associations XYplorer makes your double-click portable! It can maintain any number of private portable file associations independently of the global ones defined in the Windows registry. These associations are stored in the app's local INI file, which allows you to travel with your own home-grown file associations. Keeping the promise of thumbdrive file management: Home is where your double-click is!
See also Portable Openwith Menu...
My Network Places, Server Management Network servers can be cached and remembered between sessions! This means: (a) Servers load at the speed of light; (b) Servers outside the primary workgroup that have been entered via Address Bar are remembered and don't have to be entered ever again; (c) You can easily add/remove servers to/from My Network Places and thus list only the servers you actually need for your daily work.
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Show only the servers you need to see, and show them in no time! No more scrolling through the 3,629 servers in the company network. |
Visual FiltersApply Visual Filters to the file list. Control what you see by stating simple wildcard patterns like *.txt. Multiple Patterns, Inversion, and Regular Expressions are supported.
The Visual Filters are per-tab and, as virtually all XYplorer settings, retained between sessions. New Items MenuA fully portable and easily configurable "New Items" menu that vastly surpasses the possibilities of Explorer's "New" menu.
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You can freely place any files or folders (with contents if you like!) of your own choice and making in an application folder called "NewItems".
XYplorer scans this folder and fills the submenu Edit/New Items with all items found in this folder.
Now a simple click on one of these menu items will create a copy of the item in the current location! Like "Copy this here now!" -- an incredible time saver! |
Date Format "Age"Modified Date, Created Date, and Accessed Date are shown right in the file list. Optionally in the unique Age format, which immediately tells you how old a file is (as opposed to when it was born).
Other Features
Thumbnails of image files can be shown right in the details view, introducing the unique " Mouse Down Blow Up" functionality which allows you to popup an image in original size just by holding the mouse down on the thumbnail. Check out a Video.
Preview of *.TGA (Targa), *.DNG, and *.NEF files.
Instant Font Preview of installed and uninstalled TrueType and Type-1 font files (displaying detailed font information).
Instant Preview of Office files, and of HTML, MHT, PHP files (including configurable server mappings) with printing option.
Instant display of complete file/version Information for each selected file.
Support of Icon Overlays (as for example used by TortoiseSVN, a Subversion client, implemented as a Windows shell extension). File Info Tips and MP3 Info Tips: extensive file information (depending on file type and individual file up to 35 fields!) pops up when you move the mouse over a file's icon.
Special MP3 service: instant ID3v1.1-tag view and edit, plus automatic filename to ID3v1.1-tag routine.
Sorting files... you are in full control. Easily choose what is sorted how and in which direction.
You have a Column-wise Selection Filter. Which means you can not only e.g. select all GIFs by entering "*.gif", but "modified:*2007*" selects all items Modified in the year 2007, and "type:Vis*" selects all items of a Type starting with "Vis". Instant Raw View (ASCII and HEX) for all files, including text extraction from binaries (the fastest on the market since years).
Generate various sorts of file system Reports (to clipboard, file, and printer -- we're talking about one-click directory print-outs here).
Export extended file information of whole directories (or even directory trees) to CSV-formatted files.
Autosize Columns: Optionally, file list column widths automatically adjust to their current contents.
On-the-fly Font Sizing: Hold Ctrl and wheel your mouse to quickly change the application's font size to either see more information in the same space or go for more detail to relax your eyes. Check out a Video.
Excellent Windows shell integration: file associations, context menus, drag-n-drop, copy/cut/paste files via clipboard, environment variables.
Highly customizable display formats for file size and date information.
Support for showing directory sizes. Many are missing it in Explorer, here it is: The total size of each folder including all of its contents can be seen right in the file list.
Folders with no items inside are marked by "-" (minus)
Optionally, for each file and folder, the real disk space used is immediately displayed.
Start Where You Stopped: Remembers last folder, sort order, scroll position, column widths, and selected files per-tab and cross-session.
Browser-like history functionality. There's a global history and an individual history for each tab.
Can define favorite folders and files.
Extended Context Menu: A large suite of useful commands added to the standard file context menu, including Copy To, Move To, Copy Filename with Path, Copy File Properties, Copy Large/Small Icon, Multi-file Rename (optionally using Regular Expressions).
Icon-extraction, multi-file time-stamping and attribute-stamping.
Full support for drag-n-drop and wheel mouse.
Made to handle heavy-duty jobs.
Small, fast, and RAM-friendly.
By the way, XYplorer is pronounced X-Y-plorer or Zaiplorer, you choose.
Meta Features
The main development goal is a to create, maintain, and improve an application that saves your time, energy, and money.
XYplorer's development is under constant supervision by a board of highly qualified power users, hence you can count on a high degree of usability, stability, and reliability.
Fast and easy handling. Less than 20 seconds from unpacking to using. No plugins needed. Interface closely follows Explorer standards. Intuitive handling, no reading necessary. Start working in no time.
Quick 24/7 support.
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