Download Total Commander 9.00 release candidate 2

The second release candidate of Total Commander version 9.0 has been released. This program can be used as a replacement for Windows Explorer. Splitting the image in half makes it easy to copy files, but the program can do much more. There are various ways to modify files, there is a built-in ftp client and a multirename tool, and there is support for a large number of compression formats. Furthermore, the functionality with plugins be expanded. The program is small and does not need to be installed to use it, so it is easy to use it anywhere.

In version 9 we find, among other things, a few cosmetic changes. For example, system icons are now used instead of the internal ones and a new menu bar has been placed between the two file screens. In addition, a large number of small improvements have been made. According to Christian Ghisler, the release candidates are stable enough for daily use, but there are still a few small wrinkles that need to be ironed out. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Added:

• Separate quick view (Ctrl+Shift+Q): Show * behind “Lister” text to distinguish the quick view window from normal Lister windows (32/64)
• New icon library for main menu and button bars is now included also in 48×48 pixel size (16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48) (32/64)
• Synchronize dirs: Compare by content: Compare single files from each side by selecting just the two files and choosing “Compare…” from the context menu (32/64)

Fixed:

• Separate quick view (Ctrl+Shift+Q) would not open maximized (after being stored via menu) (32/64)
• Show big link icon for LNK files (instead of default file icon with/without link overlay) when icons for EXE/LNK are disabled (32/64)
• Use button bar tooltips from English if there is no INC file for a language, and the command isn’t in the main menu either (32/64)
• Search dialog showed up with narrow unresizable window on Windows 9x/ME (due to bugfix for Windows 10 on 05.09.16) (32)
• Show vertical button bar when using 2 panels above each other (Vertical arrangement) via menu Start – Vertical button bar -> context menu items for vertical bar were missing (32/64)
• Automatic column width in file panels wrong when using 2 panels above each other (Vertical arrangement) and vertical buttonbar (32/64)
• Hover with mouse over buttonbar, using flat unstyled buttons -> do not draw current button frame over button which is already down (32/64)
• Updated installer for CD version to functions of new self-extracting installer (32/64)
• The uninstaller didn’t remove some newer files (32/64)
• Alt+F10 tree wouldn’t save paths longer than about 500 characters (32/64)
• Dialog for choosing the default icon library: Show icons centered horizontally (32/64)
• Vertical button bar: Open overflow menu (bar too high), right click any item -> menu to edit main bar instead of verical bar was shown (32/64)
• Checkboxes in text search section of search dialog were too high, causing overlap (64)
• Switch from full view with custom view mode to tree -> custom background color remained below tree items (32/64)
• New default non-bold font was never used for new users because the installer was writing to [Configuration] -> use new font if FirstTime=0 wasn’t set on first TC start (32/64)
• Press SPACEBAR on folder -> ‘?’ was no longer shown in size column until the size was calculated (32/64)
• Some USB link cables seem to need other GUID to connect (32/64)
• Passing plugin name via command line no longer worked, eg TOTALCMD.EXE /o /r=”\\\Secure FTP” (32/64)
• Compare by content, local file with ftp, save remote, return to TC -> panel could switch from ftp to local directory on some Windows versions (32/64)
• tsclient drives were sometimes not appearing when connecting to remote computer where TC was already running (32/64)
• No drive tips in drive dropdown combobox for tsclient drives (32/64)
• Icons for tsclient wrong when using icons from Explorer – use icons displayed in \\tsclient path instead (32/64)
• Alt+F10 tree only showed root level when using natural sorting+sort dirs by name options (32/64)
• Search function: Load/Save last search options (checkboxes) each time when opening/closing the search dialog, to better support standalone search (32/64)
• Start TC with fresh INI and without key -> dialog to choose default icon library was shown the first two times TC was started, not just the first time (32/64)
• Search function: Ignore “Search in” field when using ev: prefix, otherwise Everything would be called for each given start path (32/64)
• cm_LeftViewModeList, cm_RightViewModeList and cm_SrcViewModeList now accept a view mode number>0 or view mode name as parameter in button bar, starter menu, or internal command (32/64)
• Right click on tab header, open tab in other panel -> view modes were not copied. Note: Locked state will NOT be copied! (32/64)
• Configuration – Options – Icons: Switching from internal to Explorer drive icons only changed the drive bar and tabs, not the drive dropdown combobox (32/64)
• Close TC while a locked tab was the active tab, then start TC with parameters /T /L=”c:\directory” -> the locked tab sometimes lost the ‘*’, and the new tab had the wrong tab title (32 /64)
• Left panel: Set view mode which shows/hides icon in tabs, causing the number of tab rows to change -> file panel wasn’t resized correctly (32/64)
• Search function: Drives dialog not working in x64 version (test dialog shown) (64)