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XYplorer features tabbed browsing, dual panes, six key navigation, queued file operations, zip support, batch rename, a duplicate file finder, one-click previews, folder view settings, and more. Version History for XYplorer: Limitations: 30-Day Trial.
XYplorerFree, a free feature-limited version of XYplorer, was available until January 2017, when it was discontinued. Last version,, released in. Download XYplorer for Windows. XYplorer is a file manager that offers multiple tabs for easier viewing of windows as well as optimizes the time.
@ ghielbert Portable device support is currently still in heavy development for the last few weeks so it's not fully working yet and is only available in the beta versions. As for your other problems, it works perfectly for me so there might be something unique about your installation so go check out the forums and they will try to see what could possibly conflict with it. Although just to note, contrary to what you normally do in Windows Explorer, you want to Shift-Select by clicking on the file names rather than the icons. I have vs free, which I obtained a few months back to try out. While it looks and runs really well, it has a few serious flaws which will keep me from upgrading or using it at all. First of all I have trouble selecting multiple files for a move or copy when using Shift-LeftMouse, sometime I use continually. Second, I cannot simply drag an image file into a Googgle email.
I have to try 3 or 4 times until it finally drags over. Third, I simply cannot see my Canon camera when it is connected, and I don't think I can see other portable drives either. Perhaps a slightly newer version has fixed that. These are basic functions of any file explorer but they are not working properly at all, however check it out for yourself. Otherwise, in normal use I have no issues with daily tasks. Running Win7 64bit 12gb. FYI: XYplorer was not allowing me to modify the date stamp of an MP3 file, telling me the file was in use somewhere else, which it wasn't.
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I just discovered why this was happening: In XYplorer's configuration dialogue I had enabled previews for audio and video, and even though the MP3 wasn't playing at the time, just having it selected was apparently enough to block access to it, probably because it appeared in the preview tab of the info panel, which I couldn't see, since I was in the properties tab. Temporarily disabling audio and video previews solved the problem, so it's not really a bug. Just started experimenting with XY and discovered a significant issue. If XYplorer files are moved AFTER the Replace Explorer option has been used, even if the option is then disabled, Windows will still look for the files in the old location, and will return the message 'Application Not Found' when you attempt to launch it. Therefore: 1. If possible, install XYplorer in a permanent location before setting the Replace Explorer option. If it is necessary to change the location of XYplorer's files AFTER employing the Replace Explorer option: a.
Disable Replace Explorer. In RegEdit, find XYplorer. In the Command key, replace the old path with the new one. Start XYplorer in its new location and set Replace Explorer. Cool application, Andrew! I was using Explorer for several years and finally became impatient with its many never-addressed bugs.
In that application, the files can be moved without crashing the program. It would be a simple matter to have XY overwrite the old registry keys when it is moved to a new location. Keep up the good work! @Don: Thanks for the info. I updated the dependencies and unicode support settings. On the other hand, 'Application folder' follows the convention here on portablefreeware.com, even though XYplorer writes settings to a folder named 'Data' within its folder.
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Saying that it writes settings to 'Application Data' would make it wound like it writes to the C: drive. Also, this is an amazing piece of software, I've preferred FreeCommander for years, and I had no idea that XYplorer had so many great features! If you're like me and find the new versions of Windows Explorer and File Search in Vista and 7 to be horribly mangled and mutated descendants of the once pristine versions in earlier incarnations if Windows, then XYplorer is a breath of fresh air. Seriously, it's the only reason I haven't thrown my computer out the window in frustration. Don't let the lack of maintenance fool you; XYplorer Free is in my opinion still the single best freeware Windows Explorer replacement.
I've tried several alternatives, but XYplorer is the only one that handles tabs right. The Search feature (Find Files tab at the bottom) is the old Windows style, minus the stupid dog but plus dozens of new options. It also duplicates the context menu of Windows Explorer, including additional items added by programs plus many other convenient options that should have been in.
Those three features together would be enough, but it also integrates an image thumbnail browser that's better than the one in Windows or even dedicated graphics browsers (you can view thumbnails of images and all the detailed file info at the same time), a file preview for file types it recognizes, a hex viewer, directory list generator, opening the command line already set up in the folder that you're looking at, and a million other useful features that the developers threw in just for the heck of it. I still haven't discovered them all, and I've been using XYplorer for years.
You have to take some time to get used to it, but try it for a week and you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. It's now the very first thing I install on a new computer. Seems it is not freeware anymore. 'The XYplorer Freeware Edition (aka XYplorerFree) has been discontinued and is no longer available for download. XYplorerFree was virtually identical to XYplorer 5.50.0001, released 17-Dec-2006, a great file manager in its days.
However, time is going on, and it's simply not responsible to offer a lifeless piece of software without any development, without bug fixes, without adjustments to new operating systems, etc. Thank you very much for informing the webmaster of the site that linked to this page that the Freeware Edition of XYplorer is no longer available!' As a very devoted and loyal XY user of over two years, I wanted to respond to the above comments about memory usage. As a quick test, I used XYplorer 6.80.101 (paid) compared to Xplorer2 1.4 (lite/free) and had four tabs open in both. XY did use slightly more on my W2K sys (about 9% diff) at 16.5MB vs 15.1MB but this was not a perfect test case.
This difference is small enough so as not to bother me. One of the main advantages that XY has, to me, is the ability to interact on daily basis with Donald Lessau (the developer) and others in the forums, and help guide creation of new features. He is very responsive to user issues and has released a fix of the rare bugs via beta vers within the hour on some occasions. There is also a up-to-date user maintained wiki for additional documentation available. For other reviews: XYplorer was listed in March 2008 issue of PC Magazine as of the '157 Best Freeware', and was the ONLY file manager so listed.
It was also picked by Leo Laporte on Windows Weekly #37 netcast as 'Pick of the Week'.