Download Total Commander 8.00 Beta 25

Development of version 8.00 of the file manager Total Commander has arrived at the 24th beta release. The biggest change in version 8.00 is that a separate 64bit version is now also available. However, the average user will not notice much. Christian Ghisler, the developer of Total Commander, said: “The 64-bit bit version is mainly for ignorant people who think that 64-bit is better, and for some very specific usage cases (eg only 64-bit extension available, or 64-bit Windows PE with no 32-bit support). Because it all takes a lot longer than initially thought, a stable release from the 7.5 series has recently appeared, with mainly bug fixes.

What’s new?

• ZIP archives larger than 4 GB created with Total Commander have a small incompatibility (1 byte) with the ZIP standard. While there is no problem unpacking them with WinZIP or WinRAR, other unpackers like Vista’s Explorer fail. The problem has been fixed in beta 25. Existing archives can be patched with the following tool.

Total Commander 8.0 is the first version available in both 32-bit and 64-bit. Currently there aren’t many 64-bit plugins yet – I will publish them when they become available. Therefore you should keep the 32-bit version for the moment if you use plugins regularly.

A list of additions and corrections, also for previous versions, can be found in the history file.

As usual, the update is free for all registered users.