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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $24.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 12,574
- Downloads last week: 23
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 33 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on November 25, 2008
XYplorer is a versatile file management program that gives users plenty of options for organizing and maintaining their files. With both basic and more advanced features, this program is a good choice for users at all levels.
The program's interface is fairly attractive and intuitive. Frequently used functions are represented by nice graphical buttons, and other features are organized in drop-down menus. We liked that the interface is so customizable, with plenty of options for viewing and working with files. Users can view files as lists with or without details, or as icons or thumbnails. The dual-pane view allows users to work in two different areas of their machines at once, easily moving files between them, and an optional info panel provides detailed information about each file. As for features, XYplorer has plenty. Some are quite simple: users can search files, color-code file names and add comments, and create lists of favorite files and folders. More experienced (or adventurous) users will enjoy being able to automate tasks using the program's scripting feature, and we especially appreciated the crash course in scripting that the built-in Help file provides. The program seems to have been designed with the needs of both novice and advanced users in mind, and it balances these two ends of the spectrum well.
XYplorer has a 30-day trial period. It comes as a zip file, but installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to all users seeking an intuitive and multifeatured way to manage their files.
Publisher's description
From Donald Lessau :XYplorer is a multi-tabbed dual pane file manager for Windows, featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. XYplorer is a portable file manager. It does not require any installation, stores all data in the program's folder, and running it does not change your system or registry. XYplorer features Tabbed Browsing, a powerful File Search, Folder View Settings, the Mini Tree, User-Defined Commands, Scripting, File Tags and Comments, one-click Previews of all important image, audio, video, web, office, and font file formats, the Catalog (a powerful Favorites Panel).
What's new in this version:
Version 8.50 adds Manual Sorting, i.e. the possibility to manually resort the file list by drag-and-drop.
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Version: XYplorer 8.50
"Color your world! (Or at least your files!)"
Pros: I love the ability to color each drive in the tree. The Catalog and scripting functions make this a very flexible and fast file explorer. Click on Computer in it and gives full list of all drives and totals up amount of space available.
Cons: Not really a con but would like Color from tree drive to show in pane also to make clicking on right one easier.
Summary: I really enjoy this product, as you can run it off a USB drive. File size installed is like 4.5MB. You can make your own scripts with built in scripting to do whatever you can think of. The Catalog makes it easy to run your scripts with a simple ... read more >>
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Version: XYplorer 8.50
"How windows exporer should have worked. Wonderful"
Pros: I am able to see the file extention
Various View options
Lovely preview pane
Gives more file details than any other file manager I have usedCons: Not many, maybe the colours (option to change) was distracting
Summary: Great program, one of the few worthy of buying!
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