Windows Explorer Freeware??

[Duddits]

Total Commander has enormous positive value, as it is de facto the best
dual pane file manager. Even the competition acknowledges that.
And it is freely available from www.ghisler.com

You haven't used Servant Salamander then, have you? (Stomps TC IMNSHO)
Although I personally use SS, discussing it in this NG is off topic which
is why I suggested a *freeware* program - Free Commander.

regards

Dud

 

[John Fitzsimons]

On 06 Jul 2005 04:33:46 GMT, "Roger Johansson" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Total Commander has enormous positive value, as it is de facto the best
dual pane file manager. Even the competition acknowledges that.
And it is freely available from www.ghisler.com

From that site ;

"Total Commander is a Shareware program. This means that you can test
it for a period of 30 days. After testing the program, you must either
order the full version, or delete the program from your harddisk."

If you use it without paying you have to do one extra click every time
you reboot, otherwise the program is fully functional.

< snip >

Warez programs are usually functional as well. As is a great deal of
stolen software.

 

[Whip.Pan]

Here's a short list of freeware apps I've been looking at recenty. Some
have already been mentioned.

xplorer2 lite
ShellGEM
Turbo Navigator
Tracker 4
freeCommander
EF Commander Free
ExplorerXP
A43
Windows File Explorer
DualXplorer
FileCommander
NexusFile

 

[Howard Schwartz]

Total Commander (see my previous postings). I write as a satisfied user;
I'm not trying to plug the program.

AGAIN - Total Commander is NOT freeware but shareware, except for
the pocket PC version.

 

[Howard Schwartz]

I'd recommend trying them all out. I myself like PowerDesk best.

So far, I have become increasingly fond of Xplorer2. Unlike
some dual pane managers it has an optional tree view. It
has a configural tool bar that I can actually read, and
a command line that can change directories or run windows/dos
commands.

It is in active development and has a user and developer
forum on its web page.

I made a major improvement to the thing that the author was
unwilling to consider: There is a dos utility (ACD) that will
autocomplete the letters of any directory on your disk and then
instantly go there. I made it interact with xplorer2 so I no
longer have to `navagate' in any way to a directory:

I just type, say, tm, and up comes a list of all the tmp directories
on the disk. I pick one and poofh - I am there in xplorer2. I can
post the method for interested parties.

This is a rare feature of file mangers for some reason: A way to
interact with the OS to the output of an OS program can be used to
goto to a directory or file. The ancient unix editor, vi, may be
one of the first to make extensive use of interaction between the
interior of the program and programs in the outer OS. Great stuff
for me, for many years.

 

[Roger Johansson]

From that site ;

"Total Commander is a Shareware program. This means that you can test
it for a period of 30 days. After testing the program, you must either
order the full version, or delete the program from your harddisk."

If the laws in your country forces you to obey that, you can only use
it for 30 days.

But most countries have no such law. In my country this is considered
freeware legally, as the owner of the program allows free download and
the program keeps on working as before.

If you reboot once every three months you have to do four extra clicks
per year, not much of a nag for such a valuable program.

It is actually a smart way to sell the program. The low nag factor
allows millions of people to use the program and they learn to love it,
and one day they pay for it, maybe not mainly to get rid of the nag
screen but to give something back to Christian Ghisler who has created
the program and made it so easily available for everybody in the world.

A successful program must have a pyramid of users, where the top of the
pyramid pay for the program, the lower parts of the pyramid are using
it for free with a nag factor. Users from the lower part of the pyramid
are moving up, becoming regular users of the program, getting used to
the idea of paying for it. Millions of new users are attracted to the
base of the pyramid because the entry is free.

I don't think that people on high horses, like yourself, is adding
anything valuable to this situation.

 

[My Name]

So far, I have become increasingly fond of Xplorer2. Unlike
some dual pane managers it has an optional tree view.

There is also a newer version available at the Simtel mirrors
than is indicated on the authors web page, version 1.3.0.2 LITE.
The xplorer2_lite_setup.exe has a modified date of Saturday,
June 18, 2005 3:36:48 PM.
The xplorer2_lite.zip file it is extracted from has a modified
date of Thursday, June 30, 2005 1:32:00 PM.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

John Fitzsimons wrote:

If the laws in your country forces you to obey that, you can only use
it for 30 days.

I said nothing about the laws in my country. The above is written by
the author. He obviously means people not to use his program for more
than 30 days if not paid for.

I don't think that people on high horses, like yourself, is adding
anything valuable to this situation.

I don't think thieves such as yourself add anything to the situation
either.

 

[Roger Johansson]

I said nothing about the laws in my country. The above is written by
the author. He obviously means people not to use his program for more
than 30 days if not paid for.

If we leave the legal side of it and enter the realms of ethics and
moral we should understand that millions of people worked to support
the programmer while he wrote the program.

People all around the world worked in mines, in the transport industry,
in the factories which make chips and computer parts, people who made
his clothes, made his food and transported it all over the globe so he
could eat it.

The software was made through a collective effort of millions of
people, most of them too poor to pay for software.

I think the author should be able to take out some reward in money, and
then distribute it as freely as possible.

In this case this is what seems to happen.

 

[Helen]

| Michael Salem wrote:
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This is a FREEware group NOT SHAREware, so take the SHAREware THERE!
People come here for information about FREEWARE all else is unwelcome.
Put OT -Shareware in the header so we won't waste precious time.

 

[John Corliss]

Total Commander has enormous positive value, as it is de facto the best
dual pane file manager. Even the competition acknowledges that.
And it is freely available from www.ghisler.com

Microsoft Office is freely available from many warez sites and from
certain binary newsgroups, but that doesn't mean it should be mentioned
in this freeware newsgroup.

If you use it without paying you have to do one extra click every time
you reboot, otherwise the program is fully functional.

The nag factor is very small compared to the value of the program.

But it's a large enough factor to label the program as nagware, and to
make it off topic in this group. What's so hard to understand about that?