Everything you expect from a commander.

Two virtualised file lists side by side; Ctrl+U swaps them, Ctrl+Shift+U with their tabs. Column widths and the divider are dragged with the mouse and remembered, a double click resets them.

Ctrl+T, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Tab as you know them; locked tabs, tabs dragged into a new order, a » list when a row is too wide and Ctrl+Shift+A for the list of all tabs.

Natural sort or Windows' word sort, numbers by value, folders first; a click on a column title sorts and reverses. Long names are shortened with the full name as tooltip, hidden files are dimmed.

Ctrl+B lists every file below the folder, Ctrl+Shift+B those of the selection only, filled in the background up to 100 000 files.

Ctrl+Q turns the other panel into a preview that follows the cursor; a folder shows its counts and the bytes of its files.

The theme follows Windows while rCommander runs, or is fixed light or dark. Fonts and sizes per area (file list, terminal, viewer), alternating row colours on request.

One drive bar or one per panel, the drive menu on Alt+F1 and Alt+F2, volume name and free space in the drive line. Map and disconnect network drives with Windows' own dialog.

Add, open and arrange favourite folders in submenus; an entry can open a second folder in the other panel at the same time.

Every panel keeps its folder history; Alt+Down lists it. The last folder per drive is remembered, a drive the other panel shows opens at its folder.

Quick search as you know it from file commanders, with * and ? and arrows between matches, optionally hiding what does not match. Ctrl+S filters the panel, Ctrl+Shift+S repeats the last filter.

Type a command, cd somewhere or run a program in the panel's folder; Ctrl+Enter inserts the name under the cursor, Alt+F8 opens the history.

Ctrl+Shift+P finds every action by name or key, also those without a key. Tab and Shift+Tab reach every field, Alt plus the underlined letter every button; F10 closes dialogs and quits.

Copy and move with progress for the current file and the whole selection, verified with BLAKE3 on request, timestamps and attributes kept; delete to the recycle bin or for good with Shift+F8.

One job per selected item, reordered, paused and resumed; several named lists with shared lanes and limits, saved and loaded again. The queue window (Ctrl+Shift+Q) shows file, bytes, speed and time left.

Every choice of the classic overwrite dialog, plus rename to an edited proposal, a side-by-side compare over the question and resume of an interrupted copy.

Files go through the clipboard and by drag and drop between the panels and with other applications; remote files travel through a temporary folder.

Create .lnk shortcuts, symbolic and hard links and junctions; change attributes and timestamps, down the folders if you like; Space calculates the occupied space.

Create and verify checksum files, Enter on an .sfv or .sha256 checks it; split large files into parts with a .crc file and combine them again, all as queue jobs.

Name, extension, counter with start, step and width, date and time, parent folders and path parts, case from a position on: the established commander syntax, with a backslash moving a file into a subfolder.

Applied after the mask and case modes: several terms separated by |, case-sensitive or once only, regular expressions with groups.

Duplicates, taken names and names invalid on Windows are found on every file system; a plan with a conflict is never carried out.

An undo log takes back the latest run as far as it got; presets keep your rules, an optional log file records old -> new for every pair.

Alt+F7 searches by name masks with exclusions, regular expressions, text in files in several encodings, date, size and attributes, at any depth and through links with a cycle guard.

Search results land in a panel like a folder: copy, rename or delete them there.

Ctrl+Shift+F3 shows text side by side with Alt+Down and Alt+Up between differences; binary files show their first difference.

Compare directories by name, size, time or content and synchronise them in either direction with filters; through the file system layer, so also on SFTP and FTP servers.

F3 opens a Lister window that reads a page at a time, so file size does not matter; search forward and backward, go to an offset with Ctrl+G.

Binary files in hex rows, searchable by text and bytes.

Common image formats shown in the Lister with size limits against decompression bombs.

Markdown is rendered without loading anything from the network; .nfo and .diz files show their box-drawing art in CP437.

Enter or Ctrl+PgDn opens an archive like a folder, .. leaves it; files inside open as a read-only copy, F5 copies them out.

Pack into zip, 7z or tar formats, one archive per entry if you like; unpack with target, mask and conflict preset, unsafe names and links skipped.

Alt+Shift+F9 tests archives in the background and lists damaged and encrypted entries. Passwords are asked per job, never stored and never passed over MCP.