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What's new?

XYplorer is continuously enhanced and updated, and a new version is released every one or two months. New features are added, existing ones improved, and bugs fixed. Technology, functionality, and interface are kept up-to-date with the latest standards and trends.

The following list shows the highlights of recent releases. Registered Users can download a detailed Change Log in the License Lounge.

Maintenance Release 9.40.0100

Released 12-Aug-2010

Bug fixes.

What's new in 9.40?

Released 02-Aug-2010

Portable Tabs. Now tabs can be made fully portable by pointing them to a portable path that is resolved depending on the context, for example %userprofile%. Portable Tabs smartly adapt their contents to the current host system.
Go to Last Target. Now the copied or moved items found in the target location are auto-selected when you go there using the "Go to Last Target" command. A surprisingly useful little service.
History Retains Selections. Now (optionally) if you return to a previous location, any previous selections in this location are restored.
Portable File Associations. Now you can define associations for files without extension. (Pro Edition Only)
Tree. Now tooltips of junctions display the Junction Target.
Scripting. This new version comes with a couple of powerful new or improved scripting commands like inputselect(), tab(), listfolder(), and report(). (Pro Edition Only)
Address Bar. Now right-clicking the dropdown arrow pops the breadcrumb menu for the current path.

What's new in 9.30?

Released 15-Jul-2010

Folder Tree. Now the tree state can optionally be fully retained across sessions. So when reopening XYplorer you find your tree exactly (all expanded nodes, selected node, scroll position) as you left it last time. Which other file manager can do this?
Thumbnails Caching. Improved cache management now auto-adjusts the cache to any renamed or moved folders. No thumbnail has to be created again anymore just because you renamed or moved a folder.
Color Filters. Now you can optionally apply the color filter patterns to files only and thus avoid that folders are colored when they match a pattern.
Image Preview. Now the frame count is displayed for animated GIFs.
Media Preview. Now you can optionally play only the beginning of a sound or video file, and then stop, loop, or auto-jump to the next file (depending on the Loop settings). The number of seconds to be played can be freely defined.
Folder Tree. Now can optionally expand or collapse the current tree node by a single click on the name. Saves you many clicks.
Creating New Files. Now you can create a bunch of new files in one go by simply entering a list of names into a multi-line edit field.
Statusbar. Now you can hide the Statusbar.
Find Files. The interface is now 100 pixels wider so that you have more space for your search patterns.
PDF Thumbnails. PDF thumbnail blow ups can now be enlarged to an actually readable size. The same holds for any other format whose thumbnails are driven by a shell extension.
Drag'n'Drop Context Menu. The new command "Go to Dragged Item" allows you to go to the dragged item's containing folder and select the item, or simply open the folder if the item is a folder. A typical use-case would be when dragging items or paths from other apps into XYplorer. It's a kind of "Go to by Drag'n'drop" -- revolutionary and very useful if you ask me.

Maintenance Release 9.20.0200

Released 05-Jul-2010

Bug fixes.

Maintenance Release 9.20.0100

Released 29-Jun-2010

Bug fixes.

What's new in 9.20?

Released 11-Jun-2010

Aliases. Aliases are user-definable variables where you can freely choose the name of the variable and their value. When you enter such an alias into the Address Bar it will be resolved to its value before further processing. A real time saver.
User Folder. Added a new special folder [User] to the Tree pointing to the current user's profile folder.
Special Folders. Now you can easily show/hide all top special folders in the Tree:
Desktop
Documents
User
Network
Recycle Bin

Toggling those folders works on-the-fly without rebuild of the whole tree.
User Buttons. Increased their number from 16 to 32.
Folder Sizes. Now you can show the number of items in each folder in the list's Size column.
Environment Variables. Now you can quickly display a list of all environment variables. Might come in handy.
Previewed Formats. Massively improved configuration interface.

Maintenance Release 9.11

Released 19-May-2010

Bug fixes.

What's new in 9.10?

Released 05-May-2010

Queued File Operations 2.0. Improved interface and functionality.
Now you can remove selected jobs from the queue (temporarily or permanently).
Now you can pause and restart the queue at any time.
Now you can start selected jobs out of queue order.
Animated feedback on the statusbar while background jobs are in progress.
Option to show details of each job in the queue dialog.
Option to hide completed and skipped jobs from the queue dialog.
Now you can configure which types of file operations are backgrounded for parallel or sequential (queued) processing, and which are always run immediately in the foreground.
Background Bar. New optional UI element, a mini toolbar at the right end of the Statusbar containing a single button which tells you about the status of background jobs and lets you open the Background Jobs dialog.
Find By Type. Now you can narrow down the scope of your search to only a specific type of files, e.g. image files or audio files. Highly intuitive and extremely useful little feature.
Text Preview. One-click instant preview for more than 50 different text file formats. And you can freely add extensions to the list of supported formats.
Preview. Now you can easily add any number of new extensions to all preview types (Text, Images, Fonts, Office, Web) right in the configuration dialog.
Mouse Down Blow Up on Thumbnails. Now you can configure whether left, right, or both mouse buttons trigger MDBU.
Recently Opened Items. The new command "Open..." in menu File lets you enter, paste, or select an item (file, folder, drive) to open, without the need to go there first. Recently opened items are stored in a MRU list that is saved between sessions.
In the Pro edition, the Open dialog features an OpenWith dropdown menu.
Find Files. Now you can search by the length of the file title (that's the document name without the path).
Address Bar. Now you can launch DOS commands directly through the XYplorer UI by prefixing "!" to the command e.g. "!dir".
Icons. Support for DPI aware icon sizes on custom DPI settings.
Privacy and Discretion. New option "Don't save most-recently-used lists" increases XYplorer's stealth level, together with "Don't save history" and "Don't save tabs".
Bugs fixed. Particularly an "Access Denied" issue with certain folders on Vista/Win7 is now history.

Maintenance Release 9.00.0200

Released 20-Apr-2010

New app icon and logo. Have a look...
Minor improvements to Background Processing.
Bug fixes.

Maintenance Release 9.00.0010

Released 28-Mar-2010

Bug Fixed. The Standard License Pro Key issued for v9.00 did not unlock the application.

What's new in 9.00?

Released 26-Mar-2010

Background Processing. Now you can continue working in XYplorer while heavy copy jobs are processed in the background.
Queued File Operations. Background file operations can optionally be processed sequentially (in a queue), which is often far more efficient than processing them in parallel.
Remove Diacritics. A special rename command to strip any diacritical marks from the letters in all selected item names, e.g. "Köln" > "Koln".
Raw View. Now UTF-16BE (Big Endian) files are supported when they have the UTF-16BE BOM.
Visual Filters. Now you can define a caption to each filter item and thus give complex filters a friendly name.

What's new in 8.90?

Released 09-Mar-2010

Fast Tag Search. New algorithm gets tag and comment search up to warp speed, even if you search large areas like e.g. your whole computer.
Toolbar. New button "Find by Tag" gives you one-click access to global tag-wise searches. For example, to search all local drives for items tagged "Blue" simply click "Blue" from the button's arrow menu. Should take a split second...
Toolbar. New buttons "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" let you control the font size of Tree, List, Catalog, and Address Bar.
Toolbar. Now it can be scrolled. Drag it with left or right mouse button. Or wheel it. Drag fast and you get a bit of animation when you release the mouse button.
Toolbar. Now it has an overflow dropdown. You can freely combine it with the toolbar scrolling feature.
The Nuke button is now fully configurable giving you a one-click delete just the way you like it.
New command "Paste Folder Structure" allows you to paste the folder structure (without any contained files) from folder(s) in the clipboard into the current path.
Now you can hide the main menu by pressing Alt+Up (configurable).
Preview. Added MTS (High-definition MPEG) and M2TS (Blu-ray) video files to preview.
Create new folders right through the Address Bar: When you attempt to go to a non-existing location you are prompted to create it on the fly.
Rename Files. Now you can specify replacement lists like this one Ä|Ö|Ü|ä|ö|ü>>Ae|Oe|Ue|ae|oe|ue and do any number of string-to-string replacements in all selected filenames in one go.
Find Files by Contents. Now supports Unicode text.
Shell Integration. Make XYplorer the Default File Manager by simply ticking a checkbox.

Maintenance Release 8.80.0300

Released 10-Feb-2010

Fixed an UAC related issue with upgrading to v8.80.0100.
Bug fixes.

Maintenance Release 8.80.0100

Released 02-Feb-2010

Bug fixes.
Toolbar icons now with alpha transparency.
Input dialogs now resizable.
Improved UAC integration.

What's new in 8.80?

Released 22-Dec-2009

Recycle Bin Deluxe. Finally you get the Recycle Bin special folder in XYplorer as well. But not the spartan kind of bin you know from other file managers like e.g. Explorer. XYplorer's Recycle Bin gives you more...
Edit Mini Tree. Now you can directly edit XYplorer's famous Mini Tree. Add the branches you need to see and delete what's just in your way.

Maintenance Release 8.70.0100

Released 08-Dec-2009

Bug fixes.
Preview of FLAC files.
Improved customization of tab captions.

What's new in 8.70?

Released 30-Nov-2009

Metadata Search. Now you can search for files by all available metadata, e.g. version, owner, date taken, image dimensions, artist, duration and so on. Wildcards, Boolean Logic, and Regular Expressions are supported.
Tags & Comments 2.0. Now you can search for files by their tags or comments. Wildcards, Boolean Logic, and Regular Expressions are supported.
Find Files. Now you can search for files by the length of their names. You can for example find all files with names larger than 260 characters.
Find Files. The Name field now supports comparison operators.
Backup. Backup operations enhanced by making the behavior on name collision configurable.
Help. Now the help comes in Windows 7 compatible CHM (Compiled HTML Help) format.

Maintenance Release 8.60.0100

Released 11-Nov-2009

Bug fixes related to Undo/Redo.
Enhanced File Info Tips.
Improved drag'n'drop to other applications.

What's new in 8.60?

Released 03-Nov-2009

Multi-Level Undo/Redo. Now you can undo/redo the file operations Move, Copy, Rename, Delete, and New.
Action Log. Now you get a detailed log about what you have done and when, optionally remembered across sessions so you can finally find out what you did yesterday.
Wheel. Support for high-resolution mouse wheel.
Memory. Further reduced memory usage.

New Prices in 2010!

19-Oct-2009

The recent addition of power features like Dual Pane, Mini Tree, Tags & Comments, Search Results Caching, Custom Toolbar Buttons, Undo/Redo, and Action Log, will be reflected in new prices effective 01-Jan-2010:

Lifetime License Pro
    2009:  single € 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each 
    2010:  single € 49.95 -- US$ 74.95 -- £ 44.95 each 

Standard License Pro
    2009:  single € 17.50 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each 
    2010:  single € 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 26.95 each 
    
Lifetime License Home
    2009:  single €  9.95 -- US$ 14.95 -- £  8.95 each 
    2010:  single € 19.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 17.95 each 

Prices based on Euro. Exchange rates to USD and GBP as of today.

What's new in 8.50?

Released 05-Oct-2009

Manual Sorting. Now you can directly manipulate the displayed order of items by dragging them to a new position. Very useful together with batch rename operations.
Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you can define a separate script for a user button's right-click event respectively context menu.
New Folders. Now you can enter a list of new folders or whole new paths that will be created in one go.
Tabs. Now you can opt to display just the child folder names in the tab headers. Saves loads of space.
Scripting. Now you can show icons in script-generated popup menus.
Full Screen Preview/Thumbnails. Added file formats DWG and DWF (Vista/Win7 only).

Maintenance Release 8.40.0100

Released 15-Sep-2009

Bug fixes related to Hotlist and Search Templates.

What's new in 8.40?

Released 14-Sep-2009

Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you have 10 easily customizable user buttons. You define how the button looks and what it does when pressed. (Pro Edition Only)
Search Results Caching, Part 2. Now you can store search results in a file and load them back into the list at any point in future via the Search Templates dialog.
History and Recent Locations. The implementation of these important navigation tools has been redesigned from scratch.
Toolbar. New button "Recent Locations" pops a menu with the 10 recently used locations.
Line Numbers Column. Width now auto-adjusts based on the number of items in the list, and the color is now fully configurable.
Cleaner Menus. The main menu has been reorganized to improve usability.

What's new in 8.30?

Released 31-Aug-2009

Search Results Caching. The results of time-consuming searches can now be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions.
Dual Pane. Now you can easily move or copy tabs between the panes.
Spot & Jump. Quickly jump to any item in a large list, just as you know it from your web browser's Find Bar.
EXIF Stamping. The new command "Set Modified Date to EXIF Date" sets the Modified date of each selected image file to the file's EXIF date (Exchangeable Image File Format).
Configuration. In the new section "Features" you can control some of the advanced functionality of XYplorer and disable features which you do not use or wish to see.
Home Edition. The new "Lifetime License Home" buys you everything the current Pro Edition has -- apart from a handful of advanced features -- at an incredibly low introductory price.

New Prices!

30-Aug-2009

Prices have been adjusted for current international exchange rates. The result is a 15% PRICE CUT for customers paying in Euros:

Standard License 
  BEFORE:  single € 19.95 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each 
     NOW:  single € 17.50 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each 

Lifetime License 
  BEFORE:  single € 34.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each 
     NOW:  single € 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each 

What's new in 8.20?

Released 12-Aug-2009

Large Toolbar Icons. Now you can toggle large or small toolbar icons.
Sticky Selection. A safe and comfortable multiple selection style for huge file lists.
Thumbnails display smoother and even faster than in 8.10.
M4R Preview. Now *.m4r files (iPhone ringtones) can be previewed.

What's new in 8.10?

Released 30-Jun-2009

Thumbnails. Now you get thumbnails for non-picture files like PDF, HTML, MHT, EML, MSG, Office, and Video files.
Thumbnails were slow in previous versions. Now they are extremely fast.
The Full Screen Preview (F11) now works for HTML, MHT, URL, NWS, EML, and MSG files in perfect original size quality.
Scripting command Report now supports meta properties like Title, Author, Comments etc.
Jump To Item. Quickly jump to any item in a large list, just as you know it from your web browser's Find Bar.
Improved support for Overlong Filenames.
Dual Pane related bug fixes.

What's new in 8.00?

Released 15-Jun-2009

Dual Pane. Look at the contents of two folders side by side. Both panes are multi-tabbed and can be arranged vertically or horizontally.
Overlong filenames supported. All fundamental file operations now work with extremely long filenames (longer than 260 characters).

Maintenance Release 7.90.0260

Released 12-May-2009

Bug fixes related to Scripting (if, while, break, continue).

What's new in 7.90.0250?

Released 05-May-2009

Folder Thumbnails. Now, in Thumbnails view, folder icons optionally display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.jpg/png/gif", or of the first found *.jpg image.
X close buttons on tabs. Now the tabs optionally show X close buttons.
Scripting. Now the important control structures while loop and if/elseif/else block are supported.
Scripting. The new "rotate" command brings lossless rotation of JPEG images to your home.
Scripting. The new "tag" and "comment" commands join the powers of scripting and Tags & Comments.
Performance. Lots of network related performance improvements.

Maintenance Release 7.90.0120

Released 12-Feb-2009

Bug fixes related to Tags and Comments.

What's new in 7.90.0100?

Released 02-Feb-2009

Tags and Comments. The latest XYplorer lets you assign tags and comments to specific files and folders.
Visual Filters. Now you can define any filter to apply only to files yet show or hide all folders.
Scripting. Now the so-called Heredoc syntax is supported.

What's new in 7.90.0050?

Released 12-Jan-2009

Dramatically increased startup speed!
Spot: Highlight any strings in Tree and List.
Media preview got Play/Pause/Stop buttons.
Media preview now supports A-B Repeat.
Scripting enhanced: run and wait, and html().

Maintenance Release 7.90.0010

Released 18-Dec-2008

Bugs fixed.

Maintenance Release 7.90.0002

Released 13-Dec-2008

Bug fixes related to Mini Tree.

What's new in 7.90?

Released 08-Dec-2008

Here's a killer feature for you: Mini Tree!
Quick Searches now support multiple locations.

New Prices!

28-Nov-2008

Prices have been adjusted for current international exchange rates, and also due to the current global economic crisis. The result is a BIG PRICE CUT, especially for customers paying in US$: The Lifetime License went down from US$ 59.95 to US$ 44.95!!!

Standard License 
  BEFORE:  single € 19.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 14.95 each 
     NOW:  single € 19.95 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each 

Lifetime License 
  BEFORE:  single € 39.95 -- US$ 59.95 -- £ 29.95 each 
     NOW:  single € 34.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each 

What's new in 7.80?

Released 06-Nov-2008

File Search now combines Boolean Logic with Regular Expressions.
History per Tab. Optionally each tab maintains its own history.
Scripting. Now there are global variables.
File Search by Contents now supports pattern matching.
Reporting. Now you have fully customizable one-click reports.

s 7.70?

Released 15-Oct-2008

New Address Bar Deluxe with icons and optimized usability.
Color Filters 2.0. Now you can define the backcolor of items.
Unicode support is now complete for all parts of the application.
Speed. Browsing folders and finding files got faster again.
Scripting. Now with math, logic, and functions.

What's new in 7.60?

Released 09-Sep-2008

Scripting meets File Search. The new LoadSearch command is the nexus of two of XYplorer's strongest features: Scripting and File Search.
Scripting meets the Web. The new Download command enables you to download any internet content straight into your file manager with a single click or keyboard shortcut!
Scripting Syntax. String and variable handling has been massively improved.
The release package now includes a sample Catalog.
Copy Image. A new command allows you to copy the image of an image file directly to the clipboard without first having to open the file in an image viewer application.

What's new in 7.50?

Released 25-Aug-2008

Folder View Settings. Lets you save the view settings (view type, sort order, column layout...) of any particular folder and have them automatically restored whenever you come back to this folder. Great feature, saves a lot of time. And contrary to Explorer, in XYplorer it actually works!
Thumbnails View. The thumbnails view mode has been redesigned. Now they are framed by a white margin.
Scripting. A new "timestamp" command gives you programmatic control over all three file dates of any file or folder on your system.
Start Up. Now you can select the Application Data Path using a command line switch. This means you can have any number of totally independent configurations for one single executable. Choose your preferred work environment via a simple Windows shortcut!
Tabs. List Style (line numbers, auto-size, grid...) and Column visibility are now tab-wise.
Now the Catalog can be moved above the Tree.
Rename Preview. The size of the preview window now automatically adjusts to best fit the info.
Batch Rename. New "Increment On Collision" switch (/i). Automatically avoids collisions with existing files.

What's new in 7.40?

Released 28-Jul-2008

New optional date format shows last week's days, "Yesterday", and "Today" in the file list. One small step for a programmer, one giant leap for usability.
Quick File View: Quickly view the textual or binary contents of the currently focused file.
Type-ahead find now optionally works on the sorted column.
Compare files much faster.
NOTICE! Users of 7.30 are urged to upgrade to 7.40 since the Compare algorithm in 7.30 had a bug that made it unreliable when comparing files larger than 80 MB.

What's new in 7.30?

Released 30-Jun-2008

After two years of continuous development Catalog-based browsing finally takes over: Now you can hide and switch off the Tree and browse via Catalog only.
Quick Compare: Quickly determine whether two files are same or different.
Support for Hard Link creation.
List Management: Now you can move items to new list positions via drag-n-drop. Big plus in usability.
In version 7.20 the mouse wheel did not always work depending on the manufacturer. Fixed.
New command "Open Folders in Tabs" allows you to easily switch sets of tabs.

What's new in 7.20?

Released 09-Jun-2008

Support for editing Unicode filenames.
Warp speed through new "treeless browsing".
New popular button "Copy Path/Name".
New submenu "Shortcut Target".
Faster startup.

What's new in 7.10?

Released 04-May-2008

Portable Openwith Menu (POM). The v7.10 highlight! A single click or keyboard shortcut pops a context specific menu presenting an array of applications to open the currently selected file(s) with. This menu draws its contents from your Portable File Assocations setup, so it is portable as well, and utterly easy to manage.
Flexible Width Tabs. Flexible width for named tabs saves precious screen space.
Associate Files with Scripts. XYplorer's Portable File Assocations (PFA) learned to deal with scripts.
Favorites with Captions. "Transparent PNGs" is a little easier to read than "E:\Development\TestFiles\Media\Image-Formats\trans\png\ARGB 32bit\", ain't it?
New command "Copy Item UNC Path/Name(s)". Copies the full path of all selected items, using the UNC path for items located on a mapped drive. If your are working in a network you'll love this one.

What's new in 7.00?

Released 31-Mar-2008

Scripting. Ultimate file management efficiency. Roll your own custom commands, wrap them in an XYplorer Script file (XYS), or a User-Defined Command, and trigger them by just a click or a keystroke. Can't get any better? It can! Share scripts with colleagues: Just drop a script file into your app folder and fresh plug-in commands are at your finger tips.
Now tabs can be iconized. Shrunk to the size of an icon. A mind-blowing space saver.
Now you can freely determine XYplorer's application data path and thus banish any UAC (User Account Control) issues.
Now you can search for folders by size.
Now you can turn a text or image from clipboard directly into a new file.
Now there's secondary sorting. Simply hold Shift while you click on a column header to sub-sort the file list by this column.

What's new in 6.80?

Released 04-Jan-2008

Now you can drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog.
Targets of shortcuts are shown in File Info Tips on mouse hover.
Now you can one-click jump to the target of a shortcut.

What's new in 6.70?

Released 14-Dec-2007

User-Defined Commands (UDC): The new command category "New" gives you unprecedented one-click control over creating new files and folders (blank or cloned from existing ones). This includes the invaluable "Copy Here" functionality by which you can recreate duplicates of any existing file or folder in your current location.
Now all UDC submenu items have icons.
Added preview and thumbnails for DNG (Digital Negative) and NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) files.
Network: Finally, there's the logon dialog!
Network: Enhanced support for hidden shares.

What's new in 6.60?

Released 19-Nov-2007

User-Defined Commands now fully support command line parameters! Pimp up your single keystroke to sciencefictionesque kill power. Pack all selected files into a zipped archive with an automatic name depending on the current date? One keystroke! Print a DOS style directory listing of the current folder to a file or printer? One keystroke! Welcome to one-keystroke-paradise.
The Catalog Application Launch Panel now fully supports command line parameters. Here's one-click heaven for the mousy man!
User-Defined Commands now include all the important mass rename functions. For example, you can convert an item to another file type (extension), or clean all selected file names of certain characters, by a single keystroke/mouse click.
Added an alternative interface to assign custom keyboard shortcuts to native and user-defined commands in a fast and intuitive way.
Dropping messages from Outlook / Outlook Express is now up to a hundred (!) times faster than before!

What's new in 6.50?

Released 05-Nov-2007

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!
Backup from Catalog: The new capability to backup whole Catalog Categories provides nothing less than a one-click backup of distributed sources.
Serial Rename: when renaming, press Tab to apply the changes and immediately start renaming the next item.
String Search: Now you can find all files NOT containing the given text string.
Color Code the Tree. System, Compressed, Encrypted, Read-Only, Junction, etc ... you choose the colors.

What's new in 6.40?

Reviewed 13-Oct-2007

XYplorer is reviewed in Windows Weekly 37 (October 13th, 2007) with Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte. Download the Podcast (the review starts at 1:06:00 and runs about five minutes).

Released 10-Oct-2007

New GUI. Ux theme visual styles are now (optionally) applied to all interface elements.
Major re-design of the configuration dialog.
Added a new license type, the "Standard License", which costs only half of the big "Lifetime License".
Now you can drag-drop items onto *.BAT and *.CMD files. Of course, this works also with Catalog items as drop targets.
Finally complete support for dropping from archives of all types.
Now you have "Tips of the day" at your finger tips (Shift+F1). And more: you can easily add and manage your own tips (in your own language if you want)!
Support for NTFS junctions, including configurable color coding to make them visually stand out.
The Backup file operation now preserves all three dates (modified, created, accessed) in copied files and folders.
The New Items interface now supports date variables, just another revolutionary time-saver.
Enhanced compatibility with high contrast color schemes for visually impaired.
File Info Tips now display "Version Information" for all files that have one.
Media Preview: added support for the file extension DIVX (DivX Movie).

What's new in 6.30?

Released 02-Sep-2007

Rename Special: All bulk rename operations now come with a detailed preview, including detection of possible conflicts.
Rename using Regular Expressions: Now you may use inline comments of format (?#comment) within your Regular Expressions.
Added option "Minimize to tray on X close".
Smoother tab cycling through delayed browsing.
File Info Tips completely rewritten. No more freezing effect when hovering AVIs or PDFs.
Network browsing did not work as expected under Vista in version 6.20. Now it works again, and much faster than before.

What's new in 6.20?

Released 14-Aug-2007

The Catalog now is a full-blown "Open-With-Panel" where you can one-click-open any files with any application without changing or referring to the registry.
Image Preview: now you choose between Speed and High Quality Image Resampling.
Easily select between three different search modes: Standard, Boolean, Regular Expression.
New "Len" column shows the length in characters of each filename: easily spot over-long filenames that might make trouble when burning CD-ROMs.
New toolbar button to "Hide Folders in List". For those moments, when you need to see only the files, not the folders.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts for touching filestamps: Set Modified, Created, and Accessed Date to Now.
Instant preview of Office 2007 file types.
Notable general performance speedup.

What's new in 6.10?

Released 10-Jun-2007

Image preview: Highest-quality resampling now even with huge pictures.
Dbl-click on empty space goes up one level (optional).
Quickly find all empty folders within a given path.
Better Vista integration.
Better application icons.

What's new in 6.00?

Released 17-May-2007

Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts for more than 300 functions.
Radically reduced memory usage.

What's new in 5.80?

Released 05-Mar-2007

Ctrl+Shift+Wheel to increase/decrease the row height in List, Tree, and Catalog on the fly.
Added preview of *.tga (Targa) files.
Now Catalog, Address Bar, Favorites, and Goto accept relative path syntax and are hence fully portable. Home is where XY is.
Catalog now serves as one-click launch panel for applications as well as for items opened with associated applications.
Now you can drag'n'drop files onto Catalog items that point to applications to open those files with those applications.
Now drop-on-zip is supported in List and Catalog.

What's new in 5.60?

Released 31-Jan-2007

Batch Rename now with new smart simple mode.
Full Screen Preview (F11) of images massively enhanced.
Outlook Drop: enhanced and bug-fixed.
Find Files now with "Loose Boolean Match": e.g. "work 2006" will find all items that have "work" and "2006" somewhere in their name (regardless of the order).
Media Preview: new "Play Next" mode automatically plays next media file in current list when current one has finished.
Network browsing much faster.
New License Key. Registered users that want to upgrade to 5.60 should visit http://www.xyplorer.com/key.php for a smooth automated key transition, or contact support for personal assistance.

What's new in 5.50?

Released 17-Dec-2006

Drop messages from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them to files with template-configured names... and now it also works for Outlook 2003 ff.
Media Preview: added *.flv (Flash Video) format. Which means: now, XYplorer can offline-replay YouTube videos.

What's new in 5.40?

Released 11-Nov-2006

Visual Filters now work in Find mode, too.
New usability jewels "Select by Selected Type(s)" and "Filter by Selected Extension(s)".
Drop messages from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them to files with template-configured names.
One-click-copy distributed items onto the clipboard. You won't find this killer feature nowhere else.
One-click-store search results for later review/reuse.
Mind-blowing speed improvement in network browsing.
Added support for non-latin characters in file names.
Added automatic path name completion.
Added support for hidden shares.
Now items can be copied from the Catalog.
Added "Default Tab" functionality.
Better custom color management.
Again great general speed improvement.

What's new in 5.20?

Released 16-Oct-2006

No more GDI+ dependency. XYplorer now runs on systems without GDIplus. XYplorer now runs even on Win95. XYplorer uses even less memory than before.
Revolutionary keyboard-driven popup-Hotlist.
Revolutionary keyboard-driven popup-Breadcrumb.
Revolutionary Drop-Text-To-File.
"Quick Visual Filters" via the Address Bar.
"Delete (Skip Locked)" command.
Destination paths may contain Date Variables, making dated Backups a one-click affair.
Support of common Windows environment variables.
Dropping items/attachments from Outlook and Outlook Express is now supported.
"Show Space Used" option for all listed items.
In-place tooltips for clipped items.
Super-fast thumbnail creation.
Vastly improved performance in many other parts.

What's new in 5.10?

Released 26-Aug-2006

Private portable file associations.
Visual Filter now recognizes RegExp patterns.
Find Files: multiple patterns and locations can now be separated by ";" (semicolon).
Extended "Browse For Folder" dialog (new UI).
Now all drop-down lists have auto-complete.
Added keyboard-driven Move To (Shift+F7), Copy To (Ctrl+F7), and Backup To (Ctrl+Shift+F7) dialogs.
Added view "List" (wrapped column).
Now there is an official Portable Package.
Selection Filter now allows multiple patterns in one go.
Increased space for image and video preview.
Video Preview: added resize-while-u-watch.
Sound preview now with volume control.
New handy "Copy Here with Suffix Date".
Greatly improved Batch Rename.
Calculate Folder Sizes much faster and cooler.

What's new in 5.00?

Released 02-Jun-2006

Massive load time speed up.
Reduced memory consumption.
Menu Edit/Paste Special: added "Paste Here To New Subfolder...". Lets you paste any files currently found in the clipboard to a newly created subfolder of the current folder (the one that's displayed in the main title bar). Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V. Very nice feature. In fact, I'd say: Once again pioneering file manager XYplorer delivers an innovative friction-lessening high-efficiency solution that skyrockets the art of file management into yet another orbit of usability.
Menu View/Tab: now you can lock your tabs to a "Home Zone", which includes the home path and all its subfolders (in other words, the home branch). You can freely move inside the home zone and stay inside the tab, but if you browse to a destination outside the home zone, the tab stays where it is and a new tab will be automatically opened. Kind of soft-locking.
Added color-coding by file attributes.
Network Places On Demand: now you can browse to servers outside the local/primary workgroup/domain. Simply enter them (or items located on them) into the Address Bar, or browse to them via Catalog or Favorites. If reachable they will be automatically/on-the-fly added the My Network Places node in the tree.
Now network servers are remembered between sessions. This means: (a) Network servers load at the speed of light. (b) Servers outside the primary workgroup that have been entered via Address Bar are now remembered and don't have to be entered 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.
Added the Catalog: a hidable favorites panel below the tree by which you can 1-click-navigate and on which you can drop stuff.
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