Options

Version 7.02a

Layout

Screen layout

Show button bar
Show drive buttons

Show two drive button bars (fixed width, above file windows)
Flat icons

Show drive combobox
Show directory tabs
Show current directory
Show buttons for history list and hotlist

Show tabstop header
Show status bar
Show command line
Show functions key buttons

Flat user interface (button bar configured seperately)
Windows XP theme background (menu+all bars)

Display

File display

Show hidden/system files (for experts only!)
Use long names
Show old 8.3 filenames lowercase (like explorer)
Show parent dir also in root of drive
Show square brackets [ ] around directories
Limit width of brief view column to: XX Pixels
Sort method

Tree

Always load complete directory tree
Tree: Press ENTER to open Dir in other window

Sorting directories

Always by name
Like files (also by time)

Help texts

Show help texts for buttons (tooltips)
Show volume labels/network paths for drives
Show filename in list as tooltip if truncated
Win32-style tips with file comments (if available)
Comments from descript.ion/files.bbs
Comments from Explorer (OLE2)
[+] Button: Custom fields by file type

Icons

Show icons to the left of the filename

All associated + EXE/LNK (slow, 32-bit only)
All
Only standard icons
No icons
EXE/LNK not on floppy
EXE/LNK not on net
Show icons for special folders: Normal file system
Show icons for special folders: Virtual folders (e.g. Network)
Show overlay icons, e.g. for links

Icon Size

16x16
32x32

Icons in main menu

Show icons for commands in the main menu (16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48)
Show 3d frame around icon
Show checked items as pressed buttons instead of checkmarks

Font

File list font (Change font -Button)
Main window font (Change font -Button)
Dialog box font (Change font -Button)

Color

Font color:
Background:
Backgroun2:
Mark color:
Cursor color:
Cursor font:

Others:
Lister
Text color
Background color
Selected text
Selected background
Link color
Compare by contents:
Differences -text mode
Differences -text mode (selected)
Differences -binary mode
Differences -binary mode (selected)

Use inverted cursors
Use inverted selection

Define colors by file type
Define colors by file type (Button)

Tabstops

Show file extensions:

directly after filename
aligned (with Tab)

Tabstops

Extension
Size
Date/Time
Attributes
Comments (fixed)

Adjust Tabs to window width
Show century in date (20xx)
Use 12 hour AM/PM format
Show directory count in footer

Size display:

bytes,
kbytes,
dynamic (x k/M/G),
dynamic (x.x k/M/G),
dynamic (x k/M),
dynamic (x.x k/M)

In footer:

bytes,
kbytes,
dynamic (x k/M/G),
dynamic (x.x k/M/G),
dynamic (x k/M),
dynamic (x.x k/M)

Default-Button

Folder Tabs

Folder tab headers

Show tab header also when there is only one tab
Tabs on multiple lines
All tabs have same width
Limit tab title lenght to: XX characters
Confirm close all tabs
Close tab on double click
Ctrl+Up opens new tab in foreground
Open new tabs near current tab
Show locked tabs with an asterisk*
Activate target panel when clicking on one of its Tabs
Always show drive letter in tab title

Custom columns

Configure columns for file system

General
other (depends on filesystem plugins)

Custom columns configurations (sort with drag&drop)

Standard
You can add more...

Language

Change the language
Main menu file
Edit (Button)

Operation

Main program:

Allow only 1 copy of Total Commander at a time
Move icon to system tray when mimimized
Always go to the root of a drive when changing drives
Open files and directories with a single click
Select only the file name when renaming (not the extension)
Auto-complete paths
Auto-append suggested name

Mouse selection mode

Use right mouse button (as in Norton Commander)
Left mouse button (Windows standard)

Selection (with Gray+)

Select files only
Also select directories

NTFS daylight saving correction

Ignore 1 hour time delay

Save on exit

Directories
Panels (brief/full, etc)
Old command lines
Directory history

Calculate space occupied by subdirectories

when selecting with the space bar
before copying/deleting

File comments:

Preferred type

files.bbs
descript.ion

DOS charset

Copy comments with files
Read from both

Edit/View

Viewer for F3

Internal Viewer with file under cursor (F3)
Internal Viewer with selected files (Shift+F3)
External Viewer (Alt+F3)

Button: Associations

Default: notepad.exe

Button: Configure internal viewer (Configure Lister)

Editor for F4:

(Editor): path to your editor

Copy/Delete

Copy method (for experts only)

Use default method only (reliable, not very fast)

Buffer size for small files:

Source+Target on same disk: 1024 k
Source+Target on different disks: 128 k

Also use big file copy mode (not using cache)

Buffer sizes for big files:

Source+Target on same disk: 10240 k
Source+Target on different disks: 32 k

The following drive letters are on the same physical harddisk (example: CDE,FGH ) CDEFGHI (Partitions on C:\)
Use compatibility mode for the following drives:
XXX Enter drive letters. eg. CDEF, or *
USB sticks
Use copy+paste via explorer (only in case of copy problems)

General Copy+Delete options

Copy date/time of directories
Use Explorer delete method (faster, cannot handle comments)
F8/Del deletes to recycle bin (Shift=directly)

Refresh

Auto-Refresh when activating the program

No refresh for these drives: XXX
Do not remember these drives on exit: XXX

Auto-Refresh when the file system changes

Refresh when files are created, deleted and renamed
Also when size, date, or attributes change
Put added files at the END of the file list (default: sorted)
Don't &react to updates while in the background
Update footer (total number of files)
Update header (free disk space)
No refresh for these drives: XXX

Quick Search

Quick search (current dir)

Ctrl+Alt+Letters
Alt+Letters
Letter only
Letters - with search dialog
Disabled

Exact &name match:

Beginning (name must start with first typed character)
Ending (last character before a typed dot . must match)

FTP

10 Number of times to retry if FTP server busy
5 Delay between retries (seconds)

Default transfer mode:

Automatic
Binary (archives, doc etc.)
Text (plain text, html, etc.)

Open new connections:

in the active panel
in the left panel
in the right panel

Create a log file: (path to your logfile)
All uploads/downloads in background
Use passive mode by default
PORT mode: only use ports from limited range: 10000:11000
Compress during transfer (MODE Z)
Not on LAN
Auto-resume transfer if no data received for: XX s

Plugins

Download new plugin from ghisler.com
Opens your default WEB browser with the plugins page.
Installation: After downloading the plugin ZIP file, open it in Total Commander with ENTER and follow the instructions

Download-Button

Packer Plugins (.WCX)
Packer plugins are used to open archives not supported internally by Total Commander

Configure-Button

File system plugins (.WFX)
File system plugins allow access to disk inaccessible by Windows, e.g. Linux file systems, or to external devices like Palm/PocketPC.

Configure-Button

Lister plugins (.WLX)
Lister plugins allow to display file formats like images, spreadsheets. databases etc. in Lister (F3,Ctrl+Q)

Configure-Button

Content plugins (.WDX)
Content plugins allow to display extended file details like mp3 tags or image attributes in file lists, or use them in search and rename tool.

Configure-Button

Thumbnails

Thumbnails: general
Database Location (leave empty to disable caching):

XXX (Path to thumbnail database location)
Default -Button

Copy/delete thumbnail with files
Show custom fields below thumbnails (e.g. image size):
XXX "...more Tabstop header -details"
Add-Button
Thumbnail size: XXX x XXX Pixels
Fields by type -Button ..."Custom fields by field type"

Loading Thumbnails:

Get from Lister plugins for: *.*
Use Explorer method (OLE2) for: *.* | *.htm *.html
Get from Irfan-/Xnview for: *.*
Plain Text file thumbnails for: *.txt *.ini

Compact thumbnail database

Remove thumbnails for no longer existing files
Remove thumbnails for currently ejected CDs
Remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks (e.g. Network, USB)
Start (Button)

Log file

File operation log file

Create a log file: XXX

Log operations:

Copy/Move/Create shortcut
Delete
Create/Delete folders
Pack/Unpack/Test archives
File system plugins

Operation status

Log successful operations
Log errors
Log skipped files (when choosing skip or skip all)

Log file rotation:

Never (always log to same log file)
Every day after midnight
When the log file becomes larger than XXX kBytes

Keep a maximum of XX log file copies

Ignore list

Ignore (don't show) the following files and folders:
list of ignored dirs / files
Save in: XXX
Add selected names with full path (Button)
Add selected names (Button)

Packer

Treat archives like directories

ARJ

ARJ packer: (path to your ARJ-packer)
Use internal un-ARJ if possible
Pass long filenames to ARJ (ARJ 2.55 or later required)

LHA

LHA packer: (path to your LHA-packer)
Use internal un-LZH if possible

RAR

RAR packer: (path to your RAR-packer)
Use internal un-RAR if possible

UC2

UC2 Packer: (path to your UC2-packer)

ACE

ACE (> v 1.2b): (path to your ACE-packer)
Use internal un-ACE if possible

TAR

Create TAR archives for Linux (unchecked: for SunOS)

Additional packers

Packer plugins "Configure packer extensions WCXs" (Button)

Zip packer

ZIP

ZIP packer: "pkzip.exe" XXX (pathto your ZIP-packer)
Use internal ZIP packer
Use ZIP-NT 2.01
ZIP unpacker: "pkunzip exe" XXX (pathto your ZIP-unpacker)
Always use internal unzipping (if possible)

Internal ZIP compression (0-9)

normal compression (6)
maximum compression (9)
fastest compression (1)
other: XX (0=none)

Directory for temporary files (internal ZIP)

default("set temp=" in autoexec.bat)
other: XXX (path)

Additional settings

Use 8.3 short filenames
Open partial ZIP files
Set ZIP to newest file date
Keep damaged files (bad CRC)

Misc.

Get confirmation before:

Deleting non-empty directories
Overwriting files
Overwriting/Deleting read-only files
Overwriting/Deleting hidden/system files
Drag&drop (copying files with mouse)

Redifine hotkeys (Keyboard remapping)

Hotkey:

Control
Alt
Shift
(user defined)= F1, F2, F3 etc.

Alias: XXX

Command: XXX

"Command browser" (Button)
Assign (Button)

Custom sounds

Configure-Button
Only play for long operations: >(bigger than) 10 s

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