Total Commander

....or around that time...don't know the year.

I bought my licence (#524) with version 1.30e, but I had used Windows Commander for a while before that - I think my first version was 1.12.

It was totally natural for me to use WC since I came from DOS where I used Norton and Volkov Commander. (I still use Volkov Commander today too).

I like that TC has stayed true to the original NC concept - even keeping most of the short-cut keys the same. To me those short-cuts are STANDARD - with an origin way before Mickey$oft Windows Explorer.

Over time there has been a lot suggestions to change TC to do basic stuff more the Explorer way - I hope that Christian still resists.

i voted 1994. this is not the first time i used it though, but the year when i bought it.

i still have the floppy disk here.

i think it was early 1998. version 3.3x as far as i recall

Did not have PC that could Windows untill 1999...
Same year WinCmd spread roots on my computer
TC is nice but do add unicode, make background transfer manager better, and I'm totaly happy

MPS wrote:i think it was early 1998. version 3.3x as far as i recall

i take that back. it was 3.11 on windows 3.1 around late 1997/beginning of 1998

Howdy,

I guess it must be around 1995 when i started using TC (WC), but because
i got no job for a longer while, i registered years later. The registration fee
is really nothin' compared to the benefits i had over the years. Using Windows
without TC is something i couldn't stand, i guess i'd either search myself a
different hobby or completely move over to Linux, but there's no file manager that comes really close to TC on the Linux platform.

However, i'd also pay $100 for TC, which is the number one tool for me
on Win32.

Greetings,

Oliver 'Bloody' Lange.

Started to use Total Commander before Total Commander...

Well, I mean a two file windows side by side system, back in 1987 as far as I remember, on the Amiga 500, and it was called CLI-MATE. Don't know if such a two file windows system was released even before 1987... (?)

As for Total Commander itself, it was the v3.51, quite a few years later.

speaking of pre-total commander stuff...

anyone still uses norton or dos commander? (i do - NC)

anyone still uses norton or dos commander?

Well, I still use Volkov Commander http://www.egner-online.de/vc/en/intro.shtml - mostly when I boot in DOS to revive defective Windows installations.

lol ;D

i use NC when running in prompt-only mode, ie. for dos games

2 MPS
I still use a seperate DOS 6.22 machine for the old games, and it starts up with NC 4, of course.

cool! unlike windows, you always have the BLUE SCREEN with NC and it's a good thing

If we have talk about old filemanagers I shall tell, what I used before Windows Commander. It was remarkable Dos Navigator filemanager. DN was much more powerfully and more conveniently then Norton Commander (and other NC-like commanders). It had many opportunities which was not more anywhere (ex. multiwindow interface with full mouse moving/sizing/files drag'n'drop) and which appeared in WC later (colouring of files on types, etc.). Besides DN have small size and perfectly works under any Windows.

I notice the bulk of the votes range from 94-98, with nearly a steady decline from 99 onwards...I wonder if that has to do with TC's antiquated GUI?