Ghisler needs and deserver out full support to keep developing and offering this great tool and that is why I purchased my own copy and encourage everyone else to do the same. With the Power Pack TC can be run from a network share or a portable drive without any reconfiguration or installation. WinZip? Who needs that crap? FTP client? Built in too. I try to pitch TC to them all the time, but very few are capable of understanding that keyboard is way faster and more precise than a mouse for file management and similar operations. I feel sorry for all those drag-and-droppers around me every day - they are so painfully slow and clumsy. Let me put it this way: If TC ceased to exist or I could not use it any more my job efficiency would be greatly diminished and I'd be forced to find a suitable replacement (or a better OS) fast. Just compare this list of characteristics with the features of any other application and you will get the most feature-rich and the most powerful Windows application. Total Commander PowerPack is the most powerful Windows utility you can get for free. You can pay $34 or you can use it for free, if you don't mind clicking on a button everytime the application starts. * mount disk images as additional virtual drives in system * view and edit files on ext2 partitions (useful to manage files on Linux partitions from Windows) * view/edit/kill processes that are running currently on the system * synchronize your local computer with atomic time via Internet * shows informations about solar and moon dates, celebrations and calendars * count the size of all files in a directory * create a list file with all selected files and directories * decompilation of 32-bit PE executables (EXE SCR) and libraries (DLL OCX CPL BPL), resource files (RES DCR) * AES encryptor (encrypt/decrypt files with 128bit key using password or keyfile) * document viewer that supports: text files, source code files (Assembler, C++, CSS, Delphi, FoxPro, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, SQL, XML), HTML, RTF, Word documents, Excel sheets, OpenOffice documents, executable files, DLL, INI files, registry files, image files (PNG, JPG, GIF, Paint Shop Pro, BMP, PSD, ICO, CUR, ANI, MAC, WMF, EMF, PIC), Flash, media files (MP3, WMA, OGG, AVI), database files (FoxPro, dBase, Paradox, Access, MySQL, CSV), archives (RAR, ZIP, TAR, GZ, 7zip, bzip2), disk image files (ISO, BIN, IMG, NRG) * split files (useful if you want to send a large file by email) * advanced file search with regular expressions * every pane can have as many tabs as you want

* file-manager inspired by Norton Commander, but with a modern Windows interface

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