Finding a suitable alternative to Windows File Explorer is not difficult. One aspect Microsoft needs to improve in the next version of this operating system.

Double Commander is a two-panel file manager available for Windows and Linux platforms that simplifies file management with a series of small features.

The first is that the application can customize the columns displayed on each panel. At first glance, the most useful columns are those for file attributes or permissions (yes, permissions are not just a UNIX system issue).

The second is the possibility to select and deselect files using masks and compress them using an integrated compressor compatible with ZIP, TAR, GZ and TGZ formats.

Double Commander uses a toolbar similar to Norton Commander in MS-DOS, allowing you to perform various actions on files by simply pressing the corresponding keys. For view (F3), Double Commander includes a file viewer/editor that allows you to view file contents in text, binary, and hexadecimal modes.

The viewer is especially useful for web developers as it can highlight programming syntax for various languages ​​such as ObjectPascal, Java, C, PHP, SQL, HTML, XML, UNIX script, TEX, Perl, CSS, Lazarus form definitions am.Such

An application that simplifies file management in Windows provides these and many other features.