2x Explorer

2x Explorer è una semplice ed estremamente efficiente alternativa a Windows Explorer. Il programma vi consentirà di cercare files e cartelle presenti sul proprio PC.

Tra le features principali del programma:

- Dual pane layout, with intelligent communication between two independent panes
- Powerful selection engine, for easily building up selection patterns for items before file operations
- File filters, both for selecting and for displaying files
- Drivebar navigation, for accessing quickly all the drives installed on a computer
- Keyboard shortcuts for nearly all its commands, for efficient everyday use
- Complete file date information, utilising Creation and LastAccessed information as well as the normal Modification date.
- Proper path resolution, including UNC and relative paths (e.g. "C:" as opposed to "C:\")
- Printing of folder contents, find results and other statistics
- Proper file sorting, based on extension (alphabetically)
- Full drag/drop and shell context menu support, for integration with the desktop
- Separable tree view; one can have both the tree view and the two contents panes visible at the same time
- Multifunctional address bar, for specifying folder names and visual filters, plus for running windows or DOS applications.
- Dockable Thumbnail bar, for previewing popular graphics formats (jpg, bmp, gif, etc.) plus HTML and M/S Office documents.
- Efficient navigation, supporting bookmarks, folder history and internet-style back/next folder navigation
- Shell namespace browser, allowing the browsing of non-filesystem folders like ControlPanel etc. If you install a shell extension for FTP and/or ZIP content browsing, 2xExplorer will integrate with that too (does so already for zipfolders in winXP & 2000).
- Autocompletion for paths and other frequently typed information.
- Copy pathnames of selected items and preview bitmaps, simplifying clipboard transfers.
- Optional single-click activation schemes for both views and tree, to match your usability patterns.

Il programma offre inoltre numerosi tools aggiuntivi:

- Text editor/viewer. It offers whatever Notepad lacks: unlimited file sizes, font/color selection, powerful search and replace, toolbar, keyboard shortcuts etc. It also features a HEX and a RTF viewer, plus many useful tools for programmers of all sorts.
- Folder synchronisation. Forget the shortcomings of Briefcase. The dual pane layout of 2xExplorer can be used to compare the contents of any two folders. The synchronisation is based either on simple date/size information, or on full binary contents comparison. Complete sub-trees can also be examined using the unique Mirror Browsing tool.
- Find files command. This is more powerful than the standard windows item, allowing more search criteria, hence files can be located with greater precision. The search results can be fed to any of the regular panes for further processing.
- Folder subtree data. Similar to TreeSize, this feature can generate information about the number of files and associated storage for a complete sub-tree beneath some folder. The results are presented intuitively in a tree control.
- Batch file creation. Using a command template to be applied on each one of the selected files, 2xExplorer can automatically generate MS/DOS batch files ("*.bat"). By executing these scripts complicated operations can be performed on any arbitrary set of files (e.g. mass renaming of filename extensions, touching date stamp info, etc.)
- Advanced file management. 2xExplorer has built-in commands for touching file dates, splitting & merging large files, shredding for complete file destruction etc. For NTFS partitions hard links can be created, too.