TC has powerful file search capalities including Text & RegEx search. No more inefficient Windows searching with their slow Indexing service.
Lightning-Fast File Search with Everything (Alt+F7, then ed: or ev: plus search string).Create AVI animations from still images Select files in TC in the usual way, and use the AVI plugin (Alt+F5), with extensive configuration options (frame per second, compression, etc.).If you’re interested, drop me a note in the Comments below.) a photographer with 1000s of images in 100s of folders, I’ve written a standalone program using Ruby and FFMpeg that recursively runs through all photos in any set of nested directories and resizes them into an appropriately named subdirectory. Example: Creating Animations from Stills (For professional use-cases, i.e. Select files in TC in the usual way, and use the Graphic Converter plugin (Alt+F5), with extensive configuration options. No more need to use bloated photo-editing programs to do this. Image Resizing / Conversion in Batch mode.Configure once in TC and add to any computer where you use TC. No more need to configure Windows to autostart applications (which is non-portable between workstations). Auto start other programs when TC launches.Doing Cool Stuff with Total Commander – A Sampler
Table 4: 19 Basic Utilities integrated into Total Commander 4. There are many more conveniences.(One more before passing on: has your computer every been locked with a non-responding program, and yet Windows Task Manager itself seems stuck in the Windows processing queue behind the stalled program? Total Commander’s Task Manager plugin solves that - as long as TC is now stuck, and it rarely is, you can see all running processes, and use the DEL key to kill any that you wish. An extensive ecosystem of plugins provide hundreds of add-on capabilities, of which Table 3 lists the 26 I find most useful, everything from a built-in lightweight Phonebook app, to viewers for Word documents (without loading Word) and spreadsheets (without loading Excel) to batch converting high-res images to low-res for quick uploading or use in documents.Total Commander’s key features, in 12 screens.
The essence of his approach was to be completely self-reliant on his own portable toolbox.
He switched seamlessly between Windows (using Total Commander) and Linux (using Midnight Commander), dropped into assembly code, manually sent binary commands over a serial communication line with SST to test the handshaking protocol, and hacked his way to figuring out the protocols.
Marek’s first move after logging into the crusty Win98 machine was to install his customized copy of Total Commander (the version was 4.51 back then) which had in it everything he needed to deep dive, drill in, diagnose, stitch together, or prototype. We were collaborating on reverse-engineering the legacy BioSonics digital transducer as the first step in building a real-time embedded control system to replace the performance limited Windows 98 interface. I’ve been using TC since 2001, when I saw it in action used by the brilliant electrical engineer & programmer Marek Moszynski, professor at Technical University of Gdansk and cross-affiliated at the Polish Space Agency. Total Commander – by Christian Ghisler, configured for personal preference