Options

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)

Display

File display

• Show hidden/system files (for experts only!)
• Use long names
• Show old 8.3 filenames lowercase (like explorer)
• Always load complete directory tree
• Tree: Press ENTER to open Dir in other window
• Show parent dir also in root of drive
• Show overlay icons, e.g. for links

Show symbols to the left of the filename

• All associated + EXE/LNK (slow, 32-bit only)
• All
• Only standard symbols
• No symbols
• EXE/LNK not on floppy
• EXE/LNK not on net

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)

Font

• File list font (Change font -Button)
• Main window font (Change font -Button)
• Dialog box font (Change font -Button)
• Symbol size e.g. 16x16

Color

• Font color:
• Background:
• Mark color:
• Cursor color:
• Cursor font:

• Others:
• Lister
• Text color
• Background color
• Selected text
• 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:

1. bytes,
2. kbytes,
3. dynamic (x k/M/G),
4. dynamic (x.x k/M/G)

• In footer:

1. bytes,
2. kbytes,
3. dynamic (x k/M/G),
4. dynamic (x.x k/M/G)

• 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

Custom columns

Custom columns configurations (sort with drag&drop)

1. Standard
2. You can add more...

Language

• Change the language
• Main menu file

Operation

Main program:

• Allow only 1 copy of Total Commander at a time
• Move icon to system tray when mimimized

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

Quick search (current dir)

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

Calculate space occupied by subdirectories

• when selecting with the space bar
• beforecopying/deleting

File comments:
Preferred type

1. files.bbs
2. descript.ion
3. DOS charset

• Copy comments with files
• Read from both

• Button: FS-Plugins

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)

FTP

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

Default transfer mode:

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

Open new connections:

1. in the active panel
2. in the left panel
3. 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

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

Packer

• Treat archives like directories

ARJ

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

LHA

• LHA packer: XXX (path)
• Use internal un-LZH if possible

RAR

• RAR packer: XXX (path)
• Use internal un-RAR if possible

UC2

• UC2 Packer: XXX (path)

ACE

• ACE (> v 1.2b): XXX (path)
• 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 (path)
• Use internal ZIP packer
• Use ZIP-NT 2.01

ZIP unpacker: "pkunzip exe" XXX (path)

• 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.

Custom sounds

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