Like pretty much every color/font setting for every element there is, is configurable. Just the fact you can create a customized toolbar, not just of the buttons they provide but that you can create your own buttons using the extensive internal commands available is great.
For me, xplorer2 is essential.įor more reader tips, tricks, and favorite Explorer alternatives, hit up the full comment thread here.A major version only comes out every couple years, but yeah, you do.
When I’m explaining to friends and family how to move files from, say, a digital camera to their computer, it’s much easier with dual panes (triple pane if you count the file tree, I suppose). I don’t understand why Microsoft has not incorporated a dual pane model into Explorer. Love it to bits.Īlthough nobody wrote a lengthy review of it, I’ve tried XYplorer and other alts over the years, I just keep going back to Opus for sheer customization and configuration. , easy one mouse click, Double click the desktp, a new lister appears, Cmd line from this DIR, easy, I know its expensive for the initial outlay, but I will never dessert it. print the DIR, easy, change all the file names to caps and lower case, format the text remove the _ and. I’m a sys admin and hate the single pane (pain) explorer view, source and destination is what I need, with multiple trees if required, and the ability to macro command anything I need. Scott weighs in with his favorite features:ĭirectory Opus, again and again and again. Shawn had us at the whole portable file associations bit-that sounds like a fantastic feature! The scripting system allows me to automate my home config and my usb config and keep them in sync. I really did not want to spend money and I really liked Qdir and Cubic but I needed more. You can get a lifetime license for 50% off. I have seen it twice since I bought it early this year. It comes up for sale every couple of months. It can be as complicated and techy as you want or just as simple as you want.Īs for the price, just watch Bits Du Jur. Just so many features that make this the best explorer for anyone. XYplorer has colored files by extension, custom color file tags, colored branches of the directory tree, an excellent search system, custom labels, favorite files / folders.
The user buttons can run apps, run scripts, open folders, almost anything and are portable aware. This allows you to have a smaller, cleaner, directory tree made up of only directories you use, or are interested in at that moment no more giant structures to scroll through looking for things.
Example: define the extension PDF to open PDFXchange viewer off or your usb stick running XYplorer. You can also have portable file extensions (totally awesome).
You can write scripts to manage files, change the explorer itself, pretty much anything. You can, for example, write a script, and assign it to a button, that switches between various configs of the toolbar. It also has a build in scripting language that allows you to do anything. It can be configured to look like windows explorer, a dual pane norton commander clone, or a tabbed explorer or some hybrid. XYplorer is constantly being developed – almost daily.
XYplorer – just the best and I have used pretty much everything listed here by everyone.