Total Commander Use tutorial

After you've configured total Commander, start a magical and efficient journey!

Below is a tutorial on using Total Commander Basics! (Just finishing, not original)

I. Commonly used operations such as view, copy, move, delete exit has been listed under Total Commander, select a good file and click the appropriate button or press the appropriate shortcut key (F3~f7) to complete the operation. You can also use the mouse as the same as Windows drag to complete, with the left button directly in the two-window haulage is a copy, right-click the same as in the Explorer to drag the first to select their own actions. Two.Directory Switching1) There are two buttons at the top right of each file window,"\" button to the root directory (shortcut CTRL + \)，".." button to the top level directory (shortcut key back Space)。 2) The Windows Explorer directory tree is certainly not a decoration, it is convenient to use it in a layer of tree-like directory. The collection design greatly reduces the difficulty of locating the total commander without the directory tree. According to the 80/20 principle, in hundreds of folders, we often use less than 20 folders, as long as the 20 Files folder in the collection can avoid a lot of waste in the search for folders time. Press the shortcut keyCtrl + DOKadd a common directory to your favorite folderMedium: Generally will be the desktop as a common directory, and then according to their own preferences for their own settings, only select a few commonly used Oh! Double-click the left mouse button on the title bar of the file window to open the Favorites folder.Double-click the column header of Total Commander (Ctrl + D) to open, add, or remove Favorites, it's easy to jump between common catalogs, but when the list of added catalogs gets longer, the author of Total Commander has taken this into account and he allows usAdd a sub-menu。 First add all the directories to favorites, then double-click the column header Select "Configure", with "Add submenu" to increase the parent directory, with the left mouse button directly drag the added directory below the parent directory can become its sub-menu (small series randomly tested a folder, and then use crtl+d+z+ Z will quickly reach the common folder shown in the small part, as for why Z, because z off the hand recently, the small series is too lazy. (The crtl+d+1 configuration is the desktop) insert the "&" symbol in the title of the project and you can set a hotkey for it. If the target path is checked, thenthe folders on both sides are opened according to the directory of their choice., there is no choice in this small series. 3)Ctrl +→ or ←, the folder under the cursor or the compressed package opens in another window。 4) Alt +↓ displayHistory Folder, Alt +← toPrevious visited directory, Alt +→ tothe last visited directory. Three. Select File below is the menu bar of some of the methods of selecting files, followed by a shortcut key to demonstrate.  Very convenient to use, remember shortcut keys OH. 1) If you want to quickly find files with"+" on the keypad expands the selection of the specified type of file, "-" reduces the selection of the specified type of file, for example, you can use "W*.*|*.bak *.old" to select all files that start with "W" but end with ". Bak" and ". old". （Look, it's a keypad .) 2The "+" on the CRTL + keypad is all selected. The "-" on the CRTL + keypad is all canceled. "*" invert the selection, Alt + "+" on the keypad to select all files with the same extension. 3) Note: When you switch to a non-current file window, click the title bar of the window and click the file directly to lose the selection you just made.  Four. multiple files in batch rename the selected file, there are several files that need to be renamed, you can select batch rename in the file options, or press the shortcut key CTRL + M to select batch rename. You will then get a dialog box that you can set yourself to your own needs.  The general use is the counter, or plug-in. Its use is very simple, here are two tips: 1, the counter is in the order of the file to work,drag with the mouse or use the SHIFT + arrow keys to arrange the order of the Files。 2. Even if the Rename tool is closed, you can undo the last rename operation, open any file with it, and click the Recover button. Five. compressing files

When you compress a file, right-click the file you want to compress, and under the Copy command, you can see the file Compression command (shortcut key ALT + F5）。 Total commander skillfully blends the advantages of other compression programs. Like many installers have multiple files, they are all saved in a compressed package. Double-click on the installer, then "unzip all files and execute" and return to total commander when the installation is complete click "OK" and the resulting temporary files are automatically deleted. If you modify the contents of the temporary decompression file, total commander will be prompted to re-compress the modified content into the compressed package. The files in the ZIP archive can be renamed directly, and you can right-click the file to see the Rename command. In total commander, all compressed files can be accessed as double-clicks as folders, but sometimes we want to use professional compression software to open what to do? Very simple, right-click the compressed file, select the top of the file name in bold, then you use the default associated software to open the compressed package.
Six. Unzip the package can be like a folder double-click Open, the file to be extracted with the left mouse button to drag to another window. Total Commander can extract multiple files at once, and you can put the files in each package into a folder with the same name as the compressed package, in the Decompression window, select "Unzip each compressed package to their respective directory" can be achieved. If you want to use the compression software installed in the system to open the package, right-click on the file, select the top bold file name in the menu, or select the file and pressShift + EnterKey. For self-extracting files, press CTRL + Page down after the file is selected to open. Note: Total commander the target directory when compressing the uncompressed files and splitting the files is usuallythe current directory in another file window。 Seven. Built-in viewer

to view multiple files at once, select multiple files and press F3, shortcut n opens the next file , p opens the previous file , ESC or Q exits. F3 in addition to viewing ordinary text files (Word file small test seems to be garbled), it can also view the Web page (*.htm), it can automatically remove a variety of HTML tags, leaving only text content, and the original link can still be used, ie start slowly, with it can be. In particular, when viewing a large number of files, a double-click is really exhausting, with total commander's built-in viewer you just use the mouse with the SHIFT key to select all the files you want to see, and then open with F3, the following can be used "P" key to view the previous file and "N" key to view the next file.

The viewer itself only supports images in BMP format, but with the Irfan software it can view dozens of image formats, which is no less comparable to ACDSee. In addition it supports a variety of multimedia files, such as AVI, WAV, MP3, if installed DivX decoder even MPEG4 can see! It's actually a Media Player,media Player with no luxury skin that can put it. Try it. Ctrl + Q，（The premise is not to conflict with other hotkeysIt allows you to view the file on the other side of the window, even if the F3 is not necessary, just want to see the file, the content of the file appears on the other side of the window. To completely put the contents of the view into the window simply adjust the built-in viewer to "wrap" and "image fit Window". Just let your next friend see this movie File Manager:) in fact, the above file is not too many words can be passeddouble-click to open the program with default opener, this opens according to your preference. Eight. Modify Time Properties Select one or more folders to open the menu "file" → "Change properties". Nine. Quick location in Windows Explorer you just press a letter and you can immediately locate the file or folder that starts with the letter in the current directory. Total Commander This fast positioning feature further, you can enter the file name all to locate files.  See the last item in the Quick Search column in the "How to" tab in the "Configure" window of the total Commander configuration: "Letters (for Quick Search window)". 10. Add Shortcut Toolbar Add shortcut on desktop shortcut block beautiful wallpaper? or using someone else's computer to make it easy to create a table shortcut? No matter, you can put the shortcut on the daily mandatory Total Commander toolbar, just drag the file or folder left-hand to the toolbar.  In total commander you can easily add your favorite files, directories, and programs to the toolbar. ClickAdd, and then in the clickchange: Insert file name, you can put some programs on the toolbar to achieveQuick Startof the target land. , QQ Music is placed in the Quick Start bar. Eleven. SFV and MD5 Check (This feature is not currently testedFrequently downloaded from FTP friends to. SFV and. MD5 two files must not be unfamiliar, both of these files are often used to verify whether the downloaded files are consistent with the original file. In order to use these two files, you may need to download a small software flashsfv or other small things, although the software is not big, but every time the system has been installed can never forget. Total Commander has integrated the ability to verify and make SFV files and MD5 files, and you can simply double-click the. SFV or. md5 file, and verify that all files that do not pass the checksum are automatically selected, in full commander. You can also make these two files directly with total commander. Twelve. More tab windows while Total Commander has two windows compared to a single window in the explorer, it often doesn't meet our needs, so you'll need to open multiple windows like a multi-window browser. The new window is simple, just pressCtrl + TKey, you can create a new window. UseCtrl +↑Opens the currently selected compressed file or folder in a new window. 13. Note If you enter the installation directory into the TC, put your mouse on each file to stop and you will find a yellow hint box popping up to tell you what this file is for. This is probably what you've always wanted but Microsoft has never given you a feature--file comments. ACDSee very early on this feature, casually annotate the picture, but it is only a view of the software, the scope of application is very limited, TC as a substitute for a resource manager, perfectly compatible with the ACDSee annotation file format, in any of the files you want to comment on the file pressCtrl + ZYou can add a comment, and the contents of the comment are placed in a hidden file named Descript.ion in the current directory. If you need to use this feature, you need to display it under Configuration optionsCheck the hint text, basically all of the basic use is exhausted, I think the most important thing isThe first basic operation is the second directory switch.

Total Commander Use tutorial