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03.08.12 Release Total Commander 8.

01 final (32/64)
03.08.12 Fixed: The entry "Network (workgroup)" was shown with user color for en
crypted files (32/64)
02.08.12 Fixed: Inplace rename button wasn't removed after entering inaccessible
network path in current path field (32/64)
31.07.12 Fixed: Click on button in second row of button bar which opens bar as s
ubmenu multiple times -> pressed state sometimes not removed (32/64)
31.07.12 Fixed: Workaround to faulty CAB unpack dll on Linux with Wine passing u
naligned FDINOTIFICATION structure to callback (64)
31.07.12 Fixed: Lister: Could not search for English text in file encoded with I
SO-2022-JP (50220). Displayed position, copy to clip are unfortunately wrong (32
/64)
31.07.12 Fixed: Copying a folder with Shift+F5 didn't remove trailing spaces ent
ered by the user (32/64)
mproved parsing of checksum file, update result list only every 100 ms (32/64)
28.06.12 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs not working (crashing) with FTP (con
nection stored in normal sync, then launched with /S=S:stored_config) (32/64)
28.06.12 Fixed: Ignore double click in Configuration - Options - Custom columns
when the list is empty (64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Single click not working after double clicking in the listbox in
Configuration - Options - Custom columns and closing it with ESC (64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Up/Down arrow key in inplace rename field would close the rename
field by mistake (64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Abort current copy operation in background transfer manager with
"-" button -> next operation in list was aborted too (32/64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Footer with total file count sometimes not updated after selecti
ng with Shift+Home or Shift+End (64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Quick search backwards in compare by contents: There wasn't alwa
ys a beep when nothing was found (32/64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Couldn't find text in Unicode big endian files with Alt+F7, exce
pt when using "case sensitive" search (32/64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Drive panel width too small with two drive panels and two panels
above each other (64)
27.06.12 Added: Show inplace rename confirmation button also in current dir bar
(32/64)
27.06.12 Fixed: Rename path in separate tree, turn off separate tree -> access v
iolation (32)
26.06.12 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Controls were not sized correctly on initial
start (32)
26.06.12 Fixed: Use unrar dll 3.80 as unrar9x.dll because the newer one only wor
ked on Windows 98/ME (32)
26.06.12 Fixed: Crash on Windows 9x when trying to open the command line history
, caused by auto-complete (32)
26.06.12 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: Find old plugin location also when install
ing 64bit or combined plugin while only 32-bit plugin is installed (64)
22.06.12 Release Total Commander 8.01 release candidate 1 (32/64)
22.06.12 Fixed: Tab tooltips (hints) not shown in right panel with Ctrl+Tab (64)
20.06.12 Fixed: Themes off maximize, minimize, insert flash drive, restore -> dr
ive buttonbar may be drawn without background (program behind shining through) (
64)
17.06.12 Fixed: Find files: Click on title bar close button during search closed
window at the end of the search. Instead, just abort the search (32/64)
15.06.12 Fixed: When closing inplace rename with ENTER, the rename function was
called twice by mistake in plugins (64)
15.06.12 Fixed: Delete to recycle bin wasn't logged (32/64)
12.06.12 Fixed: Separate tree: Some folders may get wrong icons when tree is aut
o-expanded initially (32/64)
12.06.12 Fixed: Drive buttonbar: Catch exception when trying to load drive bitma
ps from external dll with incompatible format (64)

12.06.12 Fixed: File system plugins with custom icons loaded in background: Re-s
ubmit icons for extraction when using quick filter while icons are still being e
xtracted (32/64)
12.06.12 Fixed: When deleting with VistaDelete method, disable the Cancel button
in the progress dialog for 2 seconds, so Del+Enter doesn't immediately cancel t
he operation (32/64)
12.06.12 Fixed: After deleting folder in separate tree, the main file lists were
sometimes not updated (32/64)
12.06.12 Fixed: Deleting a folder in the separate tree sometimes didn't work pro
perly: nothing was deleted when cursor further down than the active panel had en
tries (32/64)
11.06.12 Fixed: Draw text labels with double buffering to reduce flickering with
classic theme, e.g. in copy progress dialog (32/64)
07.06.12 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Do not show alias named "RedirectSection",
and do not allow the user to create it (32/64)
07.06.12 Fixed: No custom sound was played when the delete operation using the n
ew VistaDelete method was complete (32/64)
07.06.12 Fixed: Two RAR self-extracting files open, one in each panel, edit file
in one, re-pack -> other file empty (only if the size of the two unpack modules
is different) (32/64)
07.06.12 Fixed: When uploading while TC is in background, do not try to bring it
to the front when refreshing the target directory (call Visible:=true; instead
of Show;) (64)
06.06.12 Fixed: Windows Vista/7: Call IThumbnailProvider->GetThumbnail first in
thumbs mode, because the older IExtractImage image isn't supported by some progr
ams (32/64)
06.06.12 Fixed: If user account control disabled on Windows Vista/7 and user wor
ks as restricted user, use XP "As admin" method (asking for admin user name) (32
/64)
06.06.12 Fixed: Right click on file within search results or on current drive/pa
th, choose "Configure" in x64/x32 submenu -> error about nothing selected was sh
own (32/64)
06.06.12 Fixed: Right click on file within search results (NOT after "feed to li
stbox"!) -> x64/x32 submenu wasn't working (32/64)
06.06.12 Fixed: Custom columns: maximum length of column title strings was erron
eously limited to 259 characters instead of the supported 1023 in the column edi
tor (32/64)
06.06.12 Fixed: Compare by content, search twice with Shift+F3 could result in a
n error or crash due to invalid search offset (32/64)
03.06.12 Fixed: Could not browse TAR archive containing an entry "/" (root folde
r) -> skip it (32/64)
03.06.12 Fixed: FTP downloads not working on Windows 9x/ME (access violation due
to missing function CharPrevW) (32)
03.06.12 Fixed: TC8 not starting on Windows 95 and 95b (problem with turning off
SSE exceptions) (32)
01.06.12 Fixed: Cursor not shown after launching some programs (e.g. Word, Wordv
iew) via double click and closing it -> call open function with delay (64)
23.05.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 final (32/64)
23.05.12 Fixed: Compare by content: Split display of very long lines into chunks
of 2000 characters instead of 8000 because of a bug in some display drivers (32
/64)
22.05.12 Fixed: Re-read drive button bar when restoring TC from the task bar and
a drive was added/removed while minimized (64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Search on FTP server wasn't aborted when the user clicked Abort
just while a directory list was downloaded (32/64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Right click context menu: Wait up to 5 seconds (instead of just
two) for tcmdx64/tcmdx32 to start, also reduced minimum start time (32/64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Second drive panel removed with cm_VisTwoDriveButtons while curs
or in right window -> drive panel showed wrong active drive (32/64)

20.05.12 Fixed: New delete function to recycle bin (VistaDelete): Let the user a
bort the initial conversion of the names to OLE objects, which can take a long t
ime with many selected files (32/64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Color: Use same font (SYSTEM_FONT) as
in 32-bit version (64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Find files: Feed to listbox while quick view was shown -> quick
view wasn't always showing the new file under the cursor (32/64)
20.05.12 Fixed: Dialog box "Commands" - "System Information" didn't support acce
nted characters in printer name, user name etc. (64)
16.05.12 Fixed: Windows 8: Do not resolve links pointing to other volumes in the
form "\??\Volume{" either
11.05.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 release candidate 2 (32/64)
11.05.12 Fixed: Configuration dialog was opened twice when launching TC with ini
location read only and 0 byte (or no) ini (64)
08.05.12 Fixed: Do not call SHFileOperation with names longer than 259 character
s (to delete to recycle bin), because it always fails, and may even cause an acc
ess violation on Windows Server 2003 (32/64)
08.05.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Empty directories were not deleted when deleti
ng to recycle bin (32/64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Main window, bottom buttons: Refresh problem on Ctrl+F2 when usi
ng classic theme (64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Ctrl+D - Add current directory didn't support tabstops in folder
names when adding dir to subfolder (32/64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Enter (and ESC in 32-bit version) didn't work in inplace rename
edit when a MessageBox was open in Lister. Unfortunately the beep cannot be avoi
ded (32/64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Colors: Center color comboxes vertical
ly to ">>" button (32/64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Colors: Foreground color combobox had
wrong height (32)
06.05.12 Fixed: Connection progress dialog (FTP) couldn't be closed if the conne
ction failed (64)
06.05.12 Fixed: Default beep on first opening (with fresh wincmd.ini) of multi-r
ename tool (32)
03.05.12 Fixed: "Copy NTFS Permissions" was missing in F5 copy dialog when the N
etware client was installed (32)
27.04.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 release candidate 1 (32/64)
25.04.12 Added: SelectionFocus=1 or color: Draw focus differently when there are
selected files in that panel. Add $4000000 to only show when on not selected it
em (32/64)
25.04.12 Fixed: Unpacking file from multi-volume ZIP: Don't ask for disk change
if the file is in the last part, which contains the zip central directory (32/64
)
25.04.12 Fixed: Files - Change attributes: Date field was not focused when check
ing option "Change date/time" with the keyboard shortcut (64)
25.04.12 Fixed: The program msdev.exe was incorrectly detected as a self-extract
ing LHA archive (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: Do not re-read active panel (e.g. from background operation) dur
ing Ctrl+Tab operation, when user switches through folder tabs (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Text in "Rename mask: File name" box wasn't a
lways selected when opening the dialog (32)
24.04.12 Fixed: Windows 8: Do not resolve links pointing to other volumes in the
form "\\?\Volume{" (when double clicking on file, see fix 20.03.12 below) (32/6
4)
24.04.12 Added: AppendLnk ini option: New value 2 (now the default) sets the beh
aviour described below. Set to 0 for behaviour as in TC7.x (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: When creating *.lnk files, do not truncate directory names after
last dot, e.g. directory.ext -> directory.ext.lnk (32/64)

24.04.12 Fixed: OPENBAR command: Support double quotes around parameter (.bar fi
le), do not show "As administrator" (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: Handle OPENBAR command in button bar the same way as when specif
ying the .bar name directly (including "as menu" option and overlay) (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: Could no longer close Synchronize dirs after comparing two files
(one in a RAR), changing both, and re-packing (32/64)
24.04.12 Fixed: While a MessageBox was open in Lister or Compare by Content, TAB
didn't work in TC, and ESC in other Lister windows -> handle it manually (32)
15.04.12 Fixed: Lister: When searching repeatedly for the same string with Ctrl+
F (not F3), directly consecutive patterns were skipped (32/64)
15.04.12 Fixed: Improved layout of multi-rename tool a bit (64)
15.04.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Could no longer delete files from UAC-protecte
d dirs to recycle bin (reason: deletion per folder) (32/64)
15.04.12 Fixed: Verify checksums: ESC closed the dialog without aborting the ver
ification (64)
15.04.12 Fixed: Verify checksums: Crashed when user closed main TC and ignored w
arning about active comparison (64)
15.04.12 Fixed: Nag dialog: Some texts were now in bold by mistake (64)
13.04.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 25 (32/64)
13.04.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs by content: In the footer, sizes >2TB could not
be shown (32/64)
11.04.12 Fixed: On screens with high DPI settings, the copy progress dialog, ove
rwrite dialog and custom message dialog were incorrectly scaled (64)
11.04.12 Fixed: Right click on empty area in file lists could cause access viola
tion in file system plugins or archives. In plugins, just show "Properties" menu
item (32/64)
11.04.12 Fixed: Lister plugins: ListNotificationReceived did not pass WM_NOTIFY
messages to the plugin (64)
10.04.12 Fixed: ZIP packer, archives >4GB: The size field of the central directo
ry header was wrong (misunderstanding of specs). No problem with Winzip/WinRAR,
only 7Zip+DOpus (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Sort directories - unsorted not working correctly after counting
size with space bar (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Lister, RTF view: Switching word wrap on or off removed all text
formatting (64)
06.04.12 Fixed: File list: Do not show square bracket "]" at the end of a direct
ory if they are turned off, but the directory name itself ends with one (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Lister didn't handle the "L" key (fit only larger image to windo
w) when a plugin was active (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Help: Removed text saying that the wincmd.ini is in the Windows
directory (which is no longer the case) (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Some jpg files could cause an SSE floating point exception in Mi
crosoft's PhotoMetadataHandler when deleting with VistaDelete method -> turn off
SSE exceptions (32/64)
06.04.12 Fixed: Button bar: ENTER on button containing OPENBAR command -> focus
went back to file lists by mistake (32/64)
30.03.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 24 (32/64)
30.03.12 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] DecodePercent=0: If set to 1, decode %hex
values in user name/password in URLs (32/64)
30.03.12 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SubdirCopyOrder=4 sets order in which
files in subdirs are copied: 4=unsorted (default), 5=like active panel (no cust
om columns), 0..3 ascending by name, ext, size, date, -1..-4 descending by name,
ext, size, date (32/64)
30.03.12 Fixed: On Windows 8 consumer preview, Metro apps have strange DefaultIc
on entries which couldn't be loaded -> use SHGetFileInfo (32/64)
29.03.12 Fixed: Some jpg files could cause an SSE floating point exception in Mi
crosoft's PhotoMetadataHandler -> turn off SSE exceptions before each call to Ge
tInfoTip (32/64)

29.03.12 Fixed: Background transfer manager: The "+" button allowed to add files
from port connection although the latter doesn't support transfers in backgroun
d (it cannot handle multiple transfers in parallel) (32/64)
29.03.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with plugins not creating remote directories if
the used plugin only contained the Unicode MkDirW function, e.g. WebDAV (32/64)
29.03.12 Fixed: Pack with password: Password confirmation dialog could be confir
med with ENTER even if the two passwords didn't match (64)
29.03.12 Fixed: Command md foldername with space at end in the command line (e.
g. from Ctrl+Enter) unintentionally created dirs with space at end. Use double q
uotes to create such dirs (64)
28.03.12 Fixed: Hotkeys in dialog not working when focus on certain controls (e.
g. checkboxes) when "Punto Switcher" tool was running (64)
28.03.12 Added: Screen readers: Use same GetTextMode options also in multi-renam
e tool (32/64)
28.03.12 Added: Screen readers: Made GetTextMode=1 (tab-delimited) the default (
32/64)
28.03.12 Added: (Experimental): wcx_ftp.ini, SpecialFlags option, new value 2048
: Duplicate all characters with code #255 for servers expecting Telnet-style esc
ape characters (32/64)
27.03.12 Fixed: Unpacking multiple archives to protected dir with Alt+F9 -> elev
ation dialog was shown only as an icon in the task bar (reason: TC window was gi
ven as parent instead of progress dialog) (32/64)
27.03.12 Fixed: Unpacking RAR archive with Alt+F9 didn't pass user-specified swi
tches to external RAR (e.g. -kb to keep broken files) (32/64)
25.03.12 Fixed: "Copy dir timestamps" was copying wrong timestamp when copying a
folder with multiple subfolders (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: No thousands separators were shown in copy progress dialog for n
umber of copied files and their size (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: (Note: this was changed again on 24.4.2012) Button bar: Do not s
how triangle overlay for buttons with command "OPENBAR" when "minimized" is chec
ked. Leave out "OPENBAR" to show .bar file as menu (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: Button bar: Right click on button: Function "Edit linked button
bar" not working when using command OPENBAR (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: Crash on Ctrl+PgDn or Ctrl+Q on EXE smaller than 2.5 kBytes tryi
ng to detect it as an archive (64)
20.03.12 Fixed: Crash on Alt+F1/F2 in some rare cases (64)
20.03.12 Fixed: The breadcrumb bar could not be closed with a click outside if a
subdirectory was opened and closed with the keyboard (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: Workaround to Windows 8 bug (failure to launch any EXE files fro
m a directory which is a hard link to some other directory) by resolving the har
d links before launching (32/64)
20.03.12 Fixed: Detect Windows 8 also in system info dialog (32/64)
16.03.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 23 (32/64)
16.03.12 Fixed: Do not create names longer than 259 characters in multi-rename t
ool with LongNameCopy=3 (=long names disallowed) (32/64)
16.03.12 Added: HideRemovableNoMedia now also works in dialog "Drive not found!"
(value: 2) and Search - Drives (value: 4) (32/64)
15.03.12 Fixed: Tip window with panel width percentage value was not removed whe
n invoking the split panel from the outside (32/64)
15.03.12 Fixed: Starting totalcmd with parameter /S=L and clicking on "Cancel" k
ept the program running in the background (64)
15.03.12 Fixed: FTP logging not working if normal file logging was disabled (32/
64)
14.03.12 Fixed: Button with parameter creating list file (e.g. %L) used with %Z
within an archive returned path inside the archive twice (32/64)
14.03.12 Fixed: Button with parameter %Z%p or %Z%m used within an archive return
ed path without archive name (32/64)
14.03.12 Fixed: Button with parameter %Z%N, %Z%M, %Z%R or %Z%S used within an ar
chive returned file name(s) with relative path inside the archive (32/64)

14.03.12 Fixed: Text labels in FTP toolbar had wrong colors after turning XP bac
kground on and off in Configuration - Options - Layout, but only with drive butt
on bar turned off (64)
13.03.12 Fixed: When renaming a file in file system plugin failed, the resulting
error dialog wasn't modal (32/64)
13.03.12 Fixed: Failed to read NTFS timestamps from RAR archives (just the DOS t
imestamps were read), so no odd seconds were supported (64)
09.03.12 Fixed: Do not update target for each archive when packing (moving) each
selected dir to a separate ZIP archive (32/64)
09.03.12 Fixed: Ctrl+F5 (reverse search direction) not working in Lister (64)
09.03.12 Fixed: Set CheckUsbHdd=0 in wincmd.ini if the check whether a harddisk
is connected externally takes longer than half a second, and the user hasn't set
CheckUsbHdd=1 manually (32/64)
08.03.12 Fixed: Icon thread (used to load icons and calculate dir size in backgr
ound) may stop when adding files to background transfer manager (32/64)
07.03.12 Fixed: Unicode names in ZIP and RAR files not decoded correctly (due to
bug in Free Pascal) (64)
07.03.12 Fixed: When packing each selected file/folder to a separate archive, th
e selection was no longer cleared after packing (32/64)
07.03.12 Fixed: When packing with option RemovableInTemp=1 and the user aborts t
he copying of the new ZIP from TEMP, allow user to continue copying. Erase parti
al ZIP when aborting (new zip in TEMP is not deleted) (32/64)
07.03.12 Fixed: Installing a plugin twice in the same session didn't find the pr
evious installation if the existing plugin path contained an environment variabl
e (64)
06.03.12 Fixed: Wrong text color in inplace rename edit box in synchronize direc
tories (file list text color instead of system text color) (32/64)
06.03.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs and compare by content could not handle names l
onger than 259 characters due to length limit in edit box (64)
06.03.12 Fixed: Support copying of directories with spaces at the end (32/64)
02.03.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 22 (32/64)
02.03.12 Added: (Experimental) Change font for tooltips separately: wincmd.ini,
resolution-specific section, FontNameTip, FontCharsetTip, FontSizeTip and FontWe
ightTip (TC uses the dialog box settings if these are not present) (32/64)
02.03.12 Added: Options to set format of LB_GETTEXT result (for screen readers):
wincmd.ini [Configuration] GetTextMode=0: Delimiter: 0: space, 1: tab, 2=<cr> 3
=<cr><lf> 4=like 2 5=like 3. 4&5 show fields with column headers (tab-separated)
, e.g. Name:<tab>Filename<cr>Size:<tab>10k (32/64)
01.03.12 Fixed: Inactive focus rectangle not redrawn correctly when user closes
inplace rename edit box by clicking in other panel (32)
01.03.12 Fixed: When starting TC maximized, extensions could be shown attached t
o names by mistake because the calculation returns -1 for the name column width,
which means directly after name (32/64)
29.02.12 Fixed: Installing a plugin a second time didn't find the previous insta
llation if the existing plugin path contained an environment variable (32/64)
29.02.12 Fixed: FTP: Displayed file sizes invalid (far too large) when using a t
emplate (64)
29.02.12 Fixed: When uninstalling 64-bit version, UNRAR9X.DLL from a 32-bit vers
ion in the same directory wasn't removed. Cannot remove 32-bit links because the
y may be pointing to a different directory (64)
29.02.12 Fixed: Use timer to show inplace edit box in synchronize dirs in a simi
lar way to the main program, otherwise double clicks do not work always (32/64)
29.02.12 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter still selected the entire command line when it had th
e focus AND Ctrl was released before the Enter key (64)
29.02.12 Fixed: Packer plugin configuration dialog: Show "File x not found" erro
r when the user enters a non-existing plugin name manually (32/64)
29.02.12 Fixed: Don't set cursor in source window when user closes inplace renam
e box by clicking in other panel (64)
28.02.12 Added: Log function for icon thread: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DebugIc

onThread=1 to allow test why icon extraction or dir size calculation hangs (=2 f
or more details) (32/64)
26.02.12 Fixed: Changed Lazarus code to draw menu bar background area correctly
(just the empty area) (64)
26.02.12 Fixed: Menu background was drawn incorrectly with classic theme (64)
26.02.12 Fixed: Menu wasn't drawn disabled with classic theme when TC/Lister did
n't have the focus (64)
26.02.12 Fixed: On some computers, changing themes causes problems with main men
u bar (menu items have 0 width) -> try to call DrawMenuBar with a timer, also tr
y normal width if theme width returns 0 (64)
26.02.12 Fixed: Inplace rename edit box in sync tool was using the wrong colors
(instead, use standard window text and background) (32/64)
22.02.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 21 (32/64)
22.02.12 Fixed: Unpacking from CAB file with active quick filter (Ctrl+S) could
unpack some of the hidden files too (32/64)
22.02.12 Fixed: Main menu with themes turned off: Use colors COLOR_MENUTEXT and
COLOR_MENUBAR instead of button colors for owner-drawn menu (flat menus only) (6
4)
22.02.12 Fixed: Start tcmadmin.exe with "runas" verb on Vista and newer to ensur
e that it's loaded with admin rights (32/64)
21.02.12 Fixed: When deleting to recycle bin with the new delete method, TC repo
rted a non-empty directory also in case of hard links (although it would just de
lete the link, not the files inside) (32/64)
20.02.12 Fixed: Lister started with zero width/height if the user didn't save th
e size in older beta versions (64)
20.02.12 Fixed: Clear USB HDD detection cache only when receiving volume arrival
or removal notifications, not on any WM_DEVICECHANGE (32/64)
17.02.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 20 (32/64)
17.02.12 Fixed: Compare by content dialog not shown correctly with right to left
language when starting with 2 panels above each other (64)
16.02.12 Fixed: Move file with F6 - F2 to a directory which didn't exist yet ->
focus could get lost (32)
16.02.12 Fixed: Shift+Tab in left panel with no separate tree panel -> input wen
t to right drive list by mistake (64)
15.02.12 Fixed: TC wasn't following hard links (junctions) any more which were l
ocated on a remote network drive (32/64)
15.02.12 Fixed: Compare by content: Turn off drawing while pasting a large amoun
t of data (more than 1 kByte) (32/64)
14.02.12 Fixed: Save search results: Overwriting a saved search would list the i
tem twice if there were accents in the name (64)
14.02.12 Fixed: Only partially: Ctrl+A in command line after choosing item from
auto-suggest would not select anything. Note: Due to some obscure Windows bug, t
he command line may be emptied by Ctrl+A (32/64)
14.02.12 Fixed: Printing and print setup not working in Lister and Print directo
ry list when printer name contained accents (64)
14.02.12 Fixed: tcuninst.exe didn't remove the newly added unrar9x.dll (32)
10.02.12 Fixed: Internal associations and color dialogs were too small (but coul
d be resized) (64)
10.02.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 19 (32/64)
10.02.12 Added: Include both new unrar.dll for Windows 2000 or newer, and unrar9
x.dll for older Windows versions (32)
09.02.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, rename file: Select only file name if RenameSe
lOnlyName=1 is set (32/64)
09.02.12 Fixed: Compare by content, files > 1MB: Open file with "deny write" opt
ion to avoid problem with file mapping (32/64)
08.02.12 Fixed: Prevent floating point exception (without using try..catch) in d
ate/time compare function in case of invalid timestamps from some network drives

(32/64)
08.02.12 Fixed: Directory hotlist, add directory to submenu: Handle also malform
ed menus with more closing markers '--' than opening markers '-menuname' (32/64)
08.02.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not open inplace rename edit box when user
clicks on the other side of the same line while already renaming (32/64)
08.02.12 Fixed: Delete empty lines at the end of a tooltip (32/64)
08.02.12 Fixed: Small error in word wrap function used in tooltips causing word
wraps at unwanted locations (32/64)
07.02.12 Added: Searching with search list in "Search in" field (e.g. @c:\path\s
earchfile.txt) now also accepts wildcards and regular expressions (32/64)
07.02.12 Added: FTPS: Support encrypted data connections even after CCC command
(clear command channel) (32/64)
07.02.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Rename file by click on current file not worki
ng when files were hidden with the arrow buttons above that position (32/64)
07.02.12 Fixed: Memory leak when searching with regular expressions (32/64)
05.02.12 Added: Also show harddisks attached via firewire/IEEE1394 as external d
rives (32/64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Do not follow links when searching, copying etc. if the target c
annot be determined due to missing user rights (32/64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Could not unpack from header-encrypted RAR when using wildcards
other than *.* (32/64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Increased default width of multi-rename tool a bit (32/64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: File disappeared from list when renaming it wi
th DrivesExportUpcase=1 and DrivesShowUpcase not set (or 0) (32/64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Color: Some strings were missing in En
glish version (64)
05.02.12 Fixed: Crash in standalone sync when closing rename box with ESC (32/64
)
05.02.12 Fixed: Moving cursor over main menu item while TC was in background ->
other menu items would disappear (64)
03.02.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 18 (32/64)
03.02.12 Fixed: Start minimized with position saved as maximized, restore -> rig
ht panel height may be wrong (64)
02.02.12 Fixed: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): Error when clicking on "Add" more th
an 6 times (problem with subclassing of dialog controls) (64)
02.02.12 Fixed: Button bar: Use same code to get icon for button when adding it
via "Change >>" button as when using drag&drop, also add double quotes if necess
ary (32/64)
02.02.12 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Make Search&Replace groupbox a bit wider than
the name groupbox, so the beginning of the "Subst" option is visible by default
(32/64)
02.02.12 Fixed: F3 on some JPG images opened empty lister on Windows XP, use tim
er to force refresh (32/64)
01.02.12 Fixed: Error reading external .dbg files to analyze debug logs sent by
users (64)
01.02.12 Fixed: When adding items to submenu in directory hotlist, use ANSI func
tions to move entries if the ini is ANSI (32/64)
01.02.12 Fixed: Closing various dialogs (e.g. date/time choose form) could bring
other programs to the foreground (Lazarus problem not calling inherited form me
thods) (64)
01.02.12 Fixed: Nag screen was resizable (64)
01.02.12 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Disable button for list of saved settings (and
F2) while a comparison is in progress (32/64)
01.02.12 Fixed: Main menu: Increased distance between command and hotkey a bit w
hen there are no separators (32/64)
29.01.12 Fixed: TC would sometimes change to drive C: when removing a device of
type PORT, not only in case of a harddisk (32/64)
29.01.12 Fixed: Updated unrar64.dll to latest version. Can't update 32-bit unrar
.dll because it no longer supports Windows 9x/ME/2000 (64)

26.01.12 Fixed: When changing the sort order in thumbnails view, the cursor didn
't scroll into view when in the first row (32/64)
26.01.12 Fixed: FTP connection details: Also keep surrounding single quotes arou
nd remote directory if user enters them (32/64)
26.01.12 Added: CheckUsbHdd=1 in wincmd.ini [Configuration]: Turn on/off check w
hether a harddisk is connected via USB, and show it with different icon (32/64)
26.01.12 Fixed: Cache check whether a harddisk is connected via USB (for differe
nt icon) to speed up opening of drive dropdown combobox (32/64)
26.01.12 Added: InplaceRenameSync=1 in wincmd.ini [Configuration]: Turn inplace
rename in sync by left clicking on/off (32/64)
25.01.12 Added: Rename files directly in synchronize dirs (currently only in the
file system), Hotkey: F6 and Shift+F6 (32/64)
25.01.12 Fixed: Right to left text in file names not shown correctly in print pr
eview (32/64)
24.01.12 Fixed: Make sure the right drive buttonbar isn't created twice when tur
ning it on (due to resizing problems) (64)
24.01.12 Fixed: Compare by content: Do not show warning "Files modified" twice i
f the file was modified again while the dialog was shown (32/64)
24.01.12 Fixed: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): Dropdown menu with list of submenus
was shown too high (64)
24.01.12 Fixed: Main menu bar text wasn't grayed out when the window didn't have
the focus with menu bar theme turned off (64)
24.01.12 Fixed: Select files ("+" key): When clicking on the "Define" button, a
selected filter name was passed incorrectly to the opening dialog when containin
g accents (64)
23.01.12 Fixed: Support FTP command CCC in connection settings (send commands) t
o switch to clear after login, e.g. for NAT support (32/64)
22.01.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 17a (32/64)
22.01.12 Fixed: Explicitly adjust header widths on restore if the screen resolut
ion was changed while TC was minimized (64)
22.01.12 Fixed: Colors were saved incorrectly (due to bug in Lazarus str() funct
ion) (64)
22.01.12 Fixed: Adding item to directory hotlist: Selecting submenu not working
when opening the submenu twice (32)
22.01.12 Fixed: Adding item to directory hotlist submenu or removing any item co
uld remove all remaining items too (32/64)
20.01.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 17 (32/64)
20.01.12 Added: Let the user change more colors in Configuration - Options - Col
or (32/64)
20.01.12 Fixed: When copying in background, show user account control (UAC) dial
og on the main form, otherwise we just get a blinking icon in the taskbar (32/64
)
19.01.12 Fixed: When copying comments with files, the descript.ion file could ge
t additional blank lines (already in TC 7.56) (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): Option to add a new entry directly t
o a submenu of the list. Will be added at the end of the list, but before any co
ntained submenu (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Search function: When restoring the last search result, also res
tore the cursor position and top index in the list (32/64)
19.01.12 Added: Show harddisks connected via USB with removable disk icon, just
like USB sticks (32/64)
18.01.12 Fixed: When copying folders with admin rights where the number+size cou
ldn't be determined, show number of copied files and bytes without the totals (3
2/64)
18.01.12 Fixed: Starting TC minimized with position stored as maximized -> windo
w was completely empty, except for the menu bar (64)
17.01.12 Fixed: Main menu bar text wasn't greyed out when the window didn't have
the focus (64)

17.01.12 Fixed: ActiveRight=1 not working with both command line and drive combo
boxes disabled (64)
17.01.12 Added: Copy function: Show warning at the end if some directories could
n't be opened for copying (32/64)
17.01.12 Fixed: Copy function: Number of files/folders to copy was incorrect if
the directory size had been calculated before opening the F5 copy dialog (e.g. w
ith spacebar) (32/64)
17.01.12 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter selected the entire command line, but only when it ha
d the focus (64)
17.01.12 Fixed: Search function: Infinite loop detection (due to junctions) not
working when searching for e.g. xyz (but worked for e.g. *.xyz) (32/64)
17.01.12 Fixed: Multimedia buttons like "Mute" were passed twice to Windows when
the 64-bit version was in the foreground (64)
17.01.12 Added: Show special warning when user tries to install a 32-bit plugin
in Total Commander 64-bit (64)
13.01.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 16 (32/64)
13.01.12 Fixed: Alt+F1/F2 drive combobox: Don't use user-defined background colo
r for closed combobox on Windows Vista/7 (64)
13.01.12 Fixed: Get symbolic link target: Support also links of type IO_REPARSE_
TAG_SYMLINK, not only IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT (32/64)
12.01.12 Fixed: Directory lists with more than 65535 items could not be scrolled
by dragging the scrollbar (32/64)
12.01.12 Added: Hints in multi-rename tool for options 1x and [E] (only shown wh
en translation exists) (32/64)
12.01.12 Added: Allow to translate new media audio remote menu (32/64)
12.01.12 Fixed: Problem with focus following the mouse cursor in internal associ
ations dialog -> use PostMessage for child dialog (64)
11.01.12 Added: Change attributes: F2 Load/Save combobox: Set width to longest s
tring if more than combobox width (32/64)
11.01.12 Fixed: Quick view (Ctrl+Q) in temporary panel: Only reload preview if t
he link target actually changed (32/64)
11.01.12 Fixed: Could not scroll through dropdown combobox list with cursor keys
if the list contained the same line twice - it always jumped back to the first
of the two (64)
10.01.12 Fixed: Inplace rename: option "Select only the file name when renaming"
still not working when user pressed ENTER to invoke it (e.g. command line, cont
ext menu or button bar with keyboard) (64)
10.01.12 Fixed: Create dir in ZIP: Cursor wasn't placed on directory when creati
ng dir in right panel (32/64)
10.01.12 Fixed: Command line dropdown list did not use the correct colors when u
ser defined different list color (Bug in Lazarus) (64)
10.01.12 Fixed: Command line dropdown list had only 8 visible entries instead of
20 (64)
10.01.12 Fixed: Moving cursor over current path with breadcrumb bar turned off c
ould make font darker (due to font smoothing) (64)
06.01.12 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 15 (32/64)
06.01.12 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CopyDirsAsAdmin=1: When a directory c
annot be copied, then: 0: skip it, 1: ask user, 2: always try as administrator (
32/64)
06.01.12 Added: Copy function: Show error when a directory cannot be entered, al
low to use "As admin" and "All as admin" functions (32/64)
05.01.12 Fixed: Search function: Infinite loop detection was not working (it wor
ked in other functions like "calculate occupied space") (32/64)
05.01.12 Fixed: cd c:\path\file.zip did not place cursor on "file.zip" if the fi
le wasn't a valid archive although it had an archive extension (32/64)
05.01.12 Fixed: Internal ZIP and TAR packer: Do not stop packing when moving fil
es to archives, one archive per file/folder, and at least one file is write prot
ected. Instead, report error after packing all files (32/64)

05.01.12 Fixed: When minimizing and restoring TC while the cursor was on the las
t file, the last line became only partially visible (64)
04.01.12 Fixed: Menu hotkeys displayed in the main menu could be slightly cut on
Windows Vista/7 (where they are right-aligned) (32/64)
04.01.12 Fixed: Reduced flickering when loading Lister (caused by ShowInTaskbar:
=stAlways) (64)
04.01.12 Fixed: Inplace rename: option "Select only the file name when renaming"
not working when invoked via right click menu or command cm_renameonly - use a
timer because something(?) is re-selecting the entire name (64)
04.01.12 Fixed: Try not to handle mouse move messages while context menu is open
(problem only affects tablet PCs with SingleClickStart mode - untested) (32/64)
29.12.11 Fixed: FTP connection details: Keep surrounding quotes around remote di
rectory if user enters them (32/64)
29.12.11 Fixed: Default beep when closing master password dialog with ENTER also
when secure input was disabled (64)
29.12.11 Fixed: Always release mouse capture when moving mouse over list window
while left button not pressed, otherwise clicking in other panel may fail (64)
23.12.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 14 (32/64)
23.12.11 Fixed: Beep when starting TC again with option "only one instance" (64)
23.12.11 Fixed: Resizing TC with active thumbnails view could put cursor on a di
fferent file (32)
23.12.11 Fixed: Starting TC with parameter /S=L:Ppluginname didn't find the plug
in if its name was stored as pluginname.wlx64 instead of pluginname.wlx in wincm
d.ini (64)
23.12.11 Fixed: Double quotes around names were not preserved in UTF-16 Unicode
ini files (32/64)
23.12.11 Fixed: Copy+Paste in button bar not working with Unicode if the bar fil
e was UTF-16 Unicode (32/64)
22.12.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Dialog would react to ENTER also after closing
"Wait for external compare tool" dialog (64)
22.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Faster deletion to recycle bin on Vista/7 by d
eleting each directory as a whole instead of each file (32/64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Inplace edit not closing when clicking on file outside of the ed
it box after using inplace path edit once (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Ctrl+F FTP connect dialog: Increase redraw speed when clicking o
n entries in the list (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Ctrl+F FTP connect dialog: Enable double buffering when drawing
the list to reduce flickering when themes are disabled (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Could no longer run TC minimized (bug in Lazarus) (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Remove selection from a file, then use quick search (quick filte
r off) -> the previously unselected file appeared selected (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Master password input dialog: ENTER key was seen as a character
when not using the secure input method (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Lister: "Go to %" could only be reached with Alt+%, no longer wi
th % only (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Lister: Search dialog controls overlapping in Windows classic th
eme (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Percentage in tooltip wrong (fractional value only) when moving
the splitter between the two panels with Shift pressed (64)
21.12.11 Fixed: Moving the splitter between the two panels moved the caret (keyb
oard cursor) to the right panel even when the left panel wasn't too thin (32/64)
18.12.11 Fixed: Dir tabs: Tab tooltip (hint window) could be shown for hidden ta
bs outside of the TC main window (32/64)
18.12.11 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Icons: Draw frame around sample manual
ly because it's not drawn by Lazarus (64)
16.12.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 13 (32/64)
16.12.11 Fixed: Column widths wrong when changing the screen resolution while TC
is minimized (64)

16.12.11 Fixed: Background button was shown for some packer plugins even if they
didn't support background unpacking, as long as the plugin was never used for p
acking (32/64)
15.12.11 Fixed: Shift+Click after selecting with Insert would select the wrong r
ange (64)
15.12.11 Fixed: F5-F2 copy in background: Show the warning dialog when appending
a file to another as child of the main form so it's not hidden behind it (32/64
)
15.12.11 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Icons: Sample icon wasn't visible init
ially (64)
15.12.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: F2 Load/Save combobox: Set width to longest s
tring if more than combobox width (32/64)
15.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: F2 shows list of saved synchronize options (32
/64)
14.12.11 Fixed: Virtual drives did not show up in the breadcrumb bar (32/64)
14.12.11 Fixed: "Select all" function (to select text in edit boxes) not working
on some Asian windows versions (Lazarus problem) (64)
14.12.11 Fixed: Side scrolling custom columns view: Distorted display of inactiv
e focus rectangle (32/64)
14.12.11 Fixed: Hide inplace rename box when scrolling vertically in the file pa
nel surrounding it (32/64)
14.12.11 Fixed: DEL/F8 on [..] updir items caused error "No files selected" twic
e on Windows Vista/7 (only if VistaDelete not disabled) (32/64)
14.12.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Hide filter symbol as soon as a new comparison
starts (32/64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Dialogs were mirrored on Hebrew or Arabic windows even when usin
g English language due to change in Lazarus (64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Selecting files with Shift+Click could select wrong range immedi
ately after F5 copy operation (32/64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Ignore NethoodStyle option on Windows versions older than Vista,
it doesn't work (32/64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar was causing again icons in the task bar (64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Ctrl+F dialog: First item in list was selected in addition to it
em under cursor (64)
11.12.11 Fixed: Various index out of bounds errors in listboxes due to Lazarus u
pdate (64)
09.12.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 12 (32/64)
09.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NethoodStyle=0..2 set style of Networ
k Neighborhood: 0=Windows-Standard, 1=additional XP-style subfolder, 2=only XP-s
tyle (32/64)
09.12.11 Fixed: Still some mouse cursor flickering when comparing two archives b
y content in synchronize dirs (32/64)
09.12.11 Fixed: Show warning about non-empty folders also when deleting to recyc
le bin with VistaDelete=1 (this shows all warnings BEFORE actually deleting anyt
hing) (32/64)
08.12.11 Added: Installer can now be set to install TC invisibly (e.g. from some
init script): install.inf [auto], auto=1 and hidden=1 (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MediaRemote=1 use windows media remot
e to control TC (default: 0): Cursor+OK as usual, <- Backspace, i directory hotl
ist, >| Tab, |< Ctrl+Tab, Play/Pause Command menu, Stop ESC in dialogs, select f
ile in lists (32/64)
07.12.11 Fixed: Disabled UC2 packer because it's not available in 32-bit or 64-b
it, so it cannot be run on 64-bit Windows (32bit on Win64/64)
07.12.11 Fixed: Problems showing inplace rename when separate tree visible (32bi
t: Only when moving window outside the screen and back) (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: When auto-installing a plugin with translated description, suppo
rt also other codepages than the current user codepage (32/64)
07.12.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareDeleteBak=1: Delete .bak files
when closing "Compare by content". Note that only the last created .bak file fo

r each side is deleted (32/64)


07.12.11 Fixed: F5 copy dialog: Show again also files in auto-complete list if o
nly one file is selected for copying (32/64)
07.12.11 Fixed: Unloading tcunzl64.dll before stopping icon extraction seem to h
ave caused crashes on some user's computers (64)
07.12.11 Fixed: Quick search with Alt+Letters: Menu items directly on the menu b
ar would still be executed if the hotkey matched (64)
07.12.11 Fixed: Main window: Ignore the font script (e.g. Cyrillic) chosen by th
e user on NT-based systems, use DEFAULT_CHARSET because it's Unicode anyway (32/
64)
06.12.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Option <Default> did not reset the checkboxes
"1x" (only once) and "[E]" (also in extension) (32/64)
06.12.11 Fixed: FTP upload: TC could try to resume upload although the user chos
e "overwrite", if the connection was lost before the upload started (32/64)
06.12.11 Fixed: Inplace rename confirmation button disappeared when the cursor w
as at the right edge and the user pressed cursor right (32/64)
06.12.11 Fixed: cm_EditPath, Encode file ,Synchronize dirs: Do not start operati
on on ENTER in auto-complete dropdown list (64)
06.12.11 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] PreferIPv6=2 tries the server addresses in
the order the name server sends them (IPv4 and IPv6 mixed) (32/64)
06.12.11 Fixed: Quick search: Cursor was no longer placed at the end when re-ope
ning an active quick filter (32)
04.12.11 Fixed: F5 copy dialog: ENTER on "F2 Background" button had same effect
as ENTER on OK button (64)
04.12.11 Added: Switched to new Lazarus build with fpc 2.5.1 - may cause various
incompatibility problems, please test thoroughly! (64)
02.12.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 11 (32/64)
02.12.11 Added: (Experimental) On Windows Vista and newer, show subfolder in Net
work Neighborhood with "Entire Network" (as on Windows XP - doesn't seem to cont
ain anything on some systems) (32/64)
01.12.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: In the footer, show number of displayed AND to
tal files when a filter is used, otherwise just one number as before (32/64)
01.12.11 Fixed: Problem with selecting partial name in Chinese file names (e.g.
F5-F5 or Shift+F6-Shift+F6) (64)
01.12.11 Fixed: Right to left languages: Show group boxes right-aligned too, e.g
. in main configuration dialog (32)
01.12.11 Fixed: Could no longer pass parameters to external unpacker by giving t
hem after the target path, e.g. c:\target -kb or "c:\target -path" -kb (32/64)
30.11.11 Added: InplaceOkButton=2 shows confirm button to the left of the edit b
ox, where the icon is normally shown (32/64)
30.11.11 Fixed: Color filters without a "_SearchFor" entry no longer worked in b
eta 10 (32/64)
30.11.11 Fixed: Right to left languages: Some controls were misaligned in the se
arch dialog (32/64)
29.11.11 Fixed: F5 copy dialog: Only show folders in auto-complete suggestions,
because the sort order couldn't be fixed (32/64)
29.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Using Home/End/Cursor left/right with cursor enabled cou
ld leave remainders of the cursor in the text when the window itself was scrolle
d (64)
29.11.11 Fixed: Show inactive text cursor also in active window during search an
d other dialogs (but not when showing the copy progress dialog) (32/64)
29.11.11 Fixed: Exif rotation incorrect for rotation flag 5 and 7 (32/64)
29.11.11 Fixed: Crash viewing bitmap file with RLE4 compression (Lazarus bug) ->
use GDI+ to load all bitmaps (64)
29.11.11 Fixed: Jump to bookmark in html when loading not working if the html fi
le was UTF-8 encoded (32/64)
29.11.11 Fixed: ENTER key no longer worked in synchronize dirs result list (64)
27.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content of large binary files: Avoid that the window
freezes after a few seconds, causing the progress bar to stop. Note that binary

compare only counts the differences! (32/64)


27.11.11 Fixed: Inplace rename box width incorrect for folders when using Russia
n user interface (32/64)
27.11.11 Fixed: Moving separator to 0% while cursor in left panel -> put cursor
in right panel (32/64)
27.11.11 Added: Do not move TC to the tray when the user minimizes it via task m
anager and there is a popup window open in TC (32/64)
27.11.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: While comparing archives by content, show curs
or with wait with busy sign beside it instead of switching between cursor and bu
sy sign (when unpacking) (32/64)
27.11.11 Fixed: FTP upload many small files, or delete files - progress bar and
names were shown only rarely, because winsock called the callback function less
often than in 32-bit (64)
27.11.11 Fixed: Drag file to breadcrumb bar dropdown list always copied the file
, even when shift was pressed (64)
27.11.11 Fixed: Inactive cursor had white lines between the dashes instead of th
e background color (visible e.g. when using a black file list background) (32/64
)
27.11.11 Fixed: Trying to get floppy drive type may fail with ERROR_MEDIA_CHANGE
D when a floppy is in the drive -> just call the function a second time (32/64)
25.11.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 10 (32/64)
25.11.11 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='G'+256*'W': Same as with 'G'+256*'
A', but data is returned as UTF-16 Unicode. dwData of return is 'R'+256*'W' (32/
64)
25.11.11 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='G'+256*'A' and lpData pointing to
command to get back WM_COPYDATA with various info. Supported commands A: Active
side (returns L or R), or two byte command: first byte: L=left, R=right, S=sourc
e, T=target. Second byte: P=current path, C=list count, I=caret index, N=name of
file under caret. dwData of return is 'R'+256*'A' (32/64)
25.11.11 Added: New environment variable %COMMANDER_EXE% pointing to the Total C
ommander program (totalcmd.exe or totalcmd64.exe) (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: FTP, delete connection: Function wanted to delete also the item
below the deleted one (64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Footer not updated in the following special case: Brief view, Cu
rsor down, Ctrl+A, Insert, Ctrl+Num+"-", Cursor up (64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Log file rotation by date (daily after midnight) not working (64
)
23.11.11 Added: When dragging mail from Outlook to TC, and a mail with the same
name existed, TC only offered to retry or abort (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Press ENTER in autocomplete dropdown list in various dialogs (e.
g. change button bar) -> dialog was closed (64)
23.11.11 Added: Allow to use 64-bit plugins also when the wincmd.ini is read onl
y, so the [???64] sections cannot be written (64)
23.11.11 Added: Start TC with a larger default size if the size wasn't saved, ma
ke sure the window isn't partially hidden by the task bar (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: TC could crash on Windows XP with cleartype enabled (64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Icons of file system plugins not loaded if the path to the plugi
n contained an environment variable (64)
23.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AlwaysAsAdmin=1: Once the user has co
nfirmed any operation with "All as administrator", this is applied to all other
file operations too until tcmadmin is unloaded (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Unpacking multiple archives with Alt+F9 to a protected folder no
t working with option "Unpack each archive to a separate subdir" (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Unpacking multiple archives with Alt+F9 to a protected folder cr
eated one progress dialog per file, didn't remove them all (32/64)
23.11.11 Fixed: Last used packer was not read from ini value LastUsedPacker when
packing files from one archive into another (64)
22.11.11 Fixed: Closing standalone synchronize dialog could sometimes take more
than a second (64)

22.11.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: F2 list was not sorted by name (64)
22.11.11 Added: Alt+F10 tree: If TreeFileLocation isn't set, save the tree in th
e same location as the thumbnail cache in the following cases: 1. network shares
, 2. the drive containing the windows directory (revert to default with TreeFile
Location=%R%treeinfo.wc) (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Find files, load/save search: Put character '>' in "Search for"
or "Search in" box and save the search -> when loading, the field with this char
acter is NOT loaded (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Alt+F3 or F4: If the editor isn't found, show the name of the pr
ogram which isn't found (32/64)
22.11.11 Added: Verify CRC checksums: Allows to check the checksum of a single f
ile by putting the checksum in the clipboard and using Files - Check CRC checksu
ms with the file to be checked (32/64)
21.11.11 Fixed: ESC or clicking outside inplace rename box renamed the file anyw
ay (64)
21.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] InplaceOkButton=0 turns off the butto
n to confirm the inplace rename (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Show button to the right of the inplace rename edit box to confi
rm the renaming with the mouse (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Lister: Jump to bookmark in html when loading from command line
e.g. TOTALCMD.EXE /S=L:T5 file.html#bookmark (32/64)
20.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show number of filtered out files in the foote
r (right side) with filter icon (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: New internal command cm_100Percent to show one panel at full wid
th (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Support SSL-encrypted ftp server to server transfers by sending
the server the SSCN ON command if the server reports it via FEAT, otherwise try
CPSV (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Connect to FTP or HTTP: Always try all IP addresses as long as c
onnections fail. By default, this will now also support IPv6 on Windows Vista/7
(turn off with PreferIPv6=-2) (32/64)
17.11.11 Added: Support environment variables also in ignore list (32/64)
16.11.11 Fixed: FTP, add new connection: Connection not added when closing dialo
g with ENTER (64)
16.11.11 Fixed: Default beep when closing command browser with ENTER or ESC with
cursor in search box (64)
16.11.11 Fixed: The position of the command browser (e.g. when clicking on magni
fying glass icon in "Change button bar") was not remembered (64)
16.11.11 Fixed: XP only: With InactiveFocus=1, starting quick search with search
dialog could leave behind an inactive cursor (32)
16.11.11 Fixed: Totalcmd crashing on ReactOS (reason: problems with ANSI calls t
o Unicode combobox) (32)
16.11.11 Added: Lister (F3): Use Irfanview/Xnview to load internally supported i
mage type (e.g. *.bmp, *.jpg) if it is listed in IViewAdditionalTypes variable (
32/64)
15.11.11 Fixed: Tab key not working in dialog box "Verify Checksums" to switch t
o up/down button (64)
15.11.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] AutoRotate=0 turns off automatic rotation of
JPG images according to the EXIF orientation value (32/64)
15.11.11 Added: Compare by content: Show compare progress bar and percent done i
n footer (32/64)
15.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Increase load speed (slowdown caused by try.
.except block) (64)
15.11.11 Fixed: Numerical values from wincmd.ini were not read if there was text
behind them, e.g. comments in the form ;this is a comment (reason: bug in Lazar
us function val) (64)
13.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content: "Copy to clipboard" in ANSI text not working
(64)
13.11.11 Fixed: Lister: End key in large images (>1000 pixels high) didn't jump
to the very bottom (32/64)

13.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Memory leak loading images via GDI+ (32)
13.11.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Comments of folders were not deleted with the
folders (when option to copy comments with files was set) (32/64)
13.11.11 Fixed: Shift+F6 rename in full view: Edit box had wrong width when not
using the default (show as bytes) for the size column (32/64)
13.11.11 Fixed: Lister: F5 key was handled twice, once by the menu hotkey, and a
gain by onKeyDown (64)
13.11.11 Fixed: Pressing TAB in auto-complete window selected first item from th
e list even if none was selected (or the next item if one was selected) (64)
11.11.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 9 (32/64)
11.11.11 Fixed: F5 copy dialog: Do not start operation when clicking on an item
in auto-complete (64)
11.11.11 Fixed: Command line: Do not execute it when clicking on an item in auto
-complete (32/64)
10.11.11 Fixed: Wrong progress shown when copying a folder where the size shows
a question mark (=counting folder size with Alt+Shift+Enter) (32/64)
10.11.11 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment: Confirming new comment with Ctrl+Enter adde
d line break at the end of the comment (64)
10.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Selecting text by double click not working correctly in
Unicode file without BOM (32/64)
10.11.11 Added: (experimental) Compare by content: support files >2 GB (64)
10.11.11 Fixed: Master password input: Turning off secure input mode now also al
lows to input passwords via IME (e.g. Korean) - this is not supported in secure
mode (32/64)
09.11.11 Fixed: Master password input: Clear the typed character before calling
CallNextHookEx (older versions didn't call CallNextHookEx, but Windows did, so o
ther programs could see the keys too) (32/64)
09.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Don't allow to switch to display type '5' (html) while v
iewing a directory -> beep, switch to UTF-8 (32/64)
09.11.11 Fixed: Some USB floppy drives were not correctly recognized (they retur
ned media type 17) (32/64)
08.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Switching to image/multimedia manually with '4' key -> p
lugin could no longer be closed with e.g. '1' key (64)
08.11.11 Fixed: Hide compare by content window before re-uploading file to FTP s
erver (was causing lockups to some users) (64)
08.11.11 Fixed: Network neighborhood: Entering a plugin with a default custom vi
ew not working when in thumbnails view (32/64)
08.11.11 Fixed: Don't use VistaDelete method if file cannot be found, e.g. becau
se it's in a directory belonging to a different user (32/64)
08.11.11 Added: (experimental): Quick search with Korean characters (mode: lette
rs or letters with search dialog): Show IME window in lower left of the listbox
instead of using a floating window (32)
08.11.11 Fixed: Re-opening quick search with Ctrl+S would select an earlier quic
k filter string (64)
08.11.11 Fixed: With InactiveFocus=1, brief view on both sides, switching away f
rom TC and back could show the focus frame in the footer (32/64)
07.11.11 Added: Lister: Auto-rotate jpg images loaded via GDI+ to the angle stor
ed in the EXIF information (32/64)
06.11.11 Fixed: F3 on a directory -> the display type was shown as binary instea
d of utf-8 (32/64)
06.11.11 Fixed: Ctrl+Q or F3 on a directory -> the text could be scrolled with P
ageDown (32/64)
06.11.11 Fixed: Inactive focus rectangle was drawn during copying each time a fi
le or folder was copied (32)
06.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Paste from clipboard not working with Unicod
e text into ANSI files either (64)
06.11.11 Fixed: XP only: When using InactiveFocus=1, inactive cursors may appear
in the active panel on quick search, when switching panels etc. (32/64)

04.11.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 8 (32/64)


04.11.11 Fixed: Calculate height of Shift+F6 rename box only from font height an
d difference between combobox height and edit box (within combobox) height (32/6
4)
04.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: When comparing two solid RAR archives or two p
lugin archives with each other, unpack the right archive, calculate SHA1 checksu
ms, then unpack the left -> much faster (32/64)
04.11.11 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also support "by content" with packer plugins,
if the plugins supports the PK_CAPS_SEARCHTEXT capability (e.g. 7zip) (32/64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Show "access denied" error if file is locked
by another process (32/64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Compare by contents function: make it faster by optimizing timecritical loop, turning on free pascal optimizations (64)
03.11.11 Added: (experimental): InactiveFocus=1: Use a different pattern and bri
ghtness from the normal focus rectangle to distinguish it easily (32/64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Footer not updated when selecting the last item (or the first in
the root) in a file list with Shift+Cursor up/down (64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Paste from clipboard not working with Unicod
e files (64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Lister: Triple click to select entire line didn't work (required
4 clicks) (64)
03.11.11 Fixed: File system plugins: No icons shown in thumbs view when delay-lo
ading them (plugin returns FS_ICON_DELAYED) (32/64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Right to left languages: Make status lines right-aligned in sear
ch and compare by content (32/64)
03.11.11 Fixed: Mini-numbers in column headers (shown when sorting by additional
columns) were shown as black squares (64)
03.11.11 Added: (experimental): wincmd.ini [Configuration] InactiveFocus=1: show
focus in inactive panel (or InactiveFocus=RGB value for setting the color manua
lly) (32/64)
02.11.11 Added: Lister: F3 can now also open directories (only in the normal fil
e system), just like Ctrl+Q (32/64)
02.11.11 Fixed: Lister wasn't resized to the width/height of the video or music
window (64)
02.11.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: New option "[E]": If unchecked, the search st
ring will be replaced only within the name part, and not the extension (32/64)
02.11.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: New option "1x": When checked, only the first
occurrence of the search string will be replaced (32/64)
01.11.11 Fixed: Make VistaDelete=1 the default ONLY if the user hasn't disabled
delete confirmation dialogs in Recycle bin properties (32/64)
01.11.11 Fixed: Dialog box: Associate - Edit type: Icon looked ugly -> use TPain
tBox and draw it ourselves (64)
01.11.11 Fixed: Dialog box: Associate - Edit type: Icon had white background (32
)
01.11.11 Fixed: Lister without plugins: F3 on icon file didn't always load the r
ight size, e.g. 16x16 instead of 32x32 (32)
01.11.11 Fixed: Search dialog: When maximizing, the "Search in" path could chang
e to one in the history (32)
01.11.11 Fixed: Korean quick search not working correctly with more than 2 chara
cters (64)
30.10.11 Fixed: Mouse scroll wheel not working correctly in Ctrl+Q quick view (6
4)
30.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Removing the scrollbars by maximizing the window didn't
scroll the bitmap to top-left (64)
30.10.11 Fixed: UseTrash=0: Shift+Del not working with VistaDelete=1 (32/64)
27.10.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 7 (32/64)
27.10.11 Fixed: Scroll in compare by content jumped by large values in long file
s (64)
27.10.11 Fixed: Floating point SSE exceptions could occur in some plugins (htmlv

iew) (64)
26.10.11 Fixed: Wrong background color for jpg/png/gif files if background color
wasn't white (32/64)
26.10.11 Fixed: Draw icons and metafiles with double buffering to avoid that the
y overlap each other (32)
26.10.11 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack, external packer (e.g. WinRAR) -> hotkey for backgro
und button didn't work (32)
26.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Header of size column was right-aligned (64)
26.10.11 Fixed: FTP reconnect with encoding set to "auto-detect": Initially, use
r name and password were sent with local encoding (ANSI). On reconnect, the dete
cted encoding was used by mistake (e.g. UTF-8) (32/64)
26.10.11 Fixed: Start program within archive with Shift+Enter -> noclose.exe was
called with parameter /C by mistake (32/64)
25.10.11 Added: Auto-complete: Always append backslash to folders, except in mai
n window command line (32/64)
25.10.11 Fixed: Custom columns configuration dialog: Center over main window (64
)
25.10.11 Fixed: Configuration: User-defined hotkeys not saved if main ini read-o
nly, hotkey section redirected and user didn't press the "checkmark" button (32/
64)
25.10.11 Fixed: Tree browse dialog in "synchronize dirs" and "find files" (opene
d via >> button) not resizable as in 32-bit version (64)
25.10.11 Fixed: Footer (status line) not updated after copying when the selectio
n is removed (64)
25.10.11 Fixed: Recent printer name fix (18.10.11) caused crashes and missing fo
nt errors, mainly on XP (32)
23.10.11 Fixed: Quick search in synchronize dirs: Allow quick search window to o
verlap task bar, also fixes problems with multiple monitors (32/64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Lister: F7 not working with combinations of Ctrl (search backwar
ds) or Shift (find next) (64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Shift+F3 or Shift+F5 didn't search backwards if there wa
s no search string yet (32/64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Quick search (letters+search dialog) not working correctly with
multiple Korean characters due to bad cursor positioning (64)
23.10.11 Fixed: The fix "Quick search with Alt+Letters would close" (described b
elow) was disabled by mistake (64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Minimize and restore "compare by content" or standalone "synchro
nize dirs" -> window had height of title bar only (Lazarus bug when Constraints
set) (64)
23.10.11 Added: SameScreenAsTC=1 now only works with modal dialogs (child window
s of TC). For Lister, add 2, for Compare, add 4 (=7 for all 3) (32/64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Removed a few more unwanted Ding sounds from dialogs (file assoc
iation details, icons) (64)
23.10.11 Added: Open files with extension .cmd in command processor which remain
s open with Shift+Enter (NT based systems only) (32/64)
23.10.11 Added: Make VistaDelete=1 the default on Windows Vista or newer (32/64)
23.10.11 Fixed: Press F5/F6 with alwayscopyinbackground=2 set: ENTER always copi
ed in the foreground, while clicking on OK worked correctly (64)
21.10.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 6 (32/64)
21.10.11 Fixed: Font preview in main configuration dialog may be wrong (64)
21.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SameScreenAsTC=1 shows all resizeable
dialogs (where TC remembers the position) on the same screen as the main progra
m (32/64)
21.10.11 Fixed: Quick search with Alt+Letters would close when using Alt also wh
en the quick search dialog is already open (64)
19.10.11 Fixed: Tab not working in quick view panel (Ctrl+Q) (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Wrong printer name (with port) passed to plugins when changing p
rinter default within lister and then choosing "print" (32 only)
18.10.11 Fixed: Shift+F6 in place rename: There was still a small difference in

height between 32-bit and 64-bit (64)


18.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Set cursor to default (arrow), otherwise some plugins li
ke imagine show the wrong cursor on toolbars (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: With DriveTipDelay>0, opening the other drive drop down combobox
while the first was open didn't show the drive tips (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: ENTER on a line in the file list opened the qu
ick search dialog instead of the sync copy dialog (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Files - Split not working with fractional values, e.g. 5.5 MB (6
4)
18.10.11 Fixed: Quick search dialog in synchronize dirs was shown at the top ins
tead of the bottom of the list (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Quick search not hidden when switching to other program (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Starter menu: Hotkeys not working properly if a menu item starte
d with that hotkey (no '&') AND had a shortcut like Ctrl+Alt+F1 defined (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Open "compare by contents" with a delay (via P
ostMessage) to avoid that it appears behind the TC panel initially (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Ding sound when starting rename with ENTER wh
ile cursor in name or search/replace box (64)
18.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: "Name" field sometimes empty after closing an
d re-opening the tool (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Draw toolbar panel background on menu bar, Windows XP only (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: The nag screen (unregistered version) wasn't translated (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Drive button bar, non-flat buttons: Drive letters were shown dis
placed to the right by 2 pixels (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: DriveTipDelay option in wincmd.ini (separate drive tip panel) wa
sn't supported yet (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs dialog crashed on resize (auto-complete problem
) (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: FTP: Double clicking on FTP log list in main window opened Liste
r with the list behind the main window (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Double click on pair of files -> compare dialo
g would initially appear behind the sync tool -> use PostMessage to delay-open i
t (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Changing user interface language no longer worked correctly: Sta
rt menu not translated, font encoding not changed, configuration dialog not tran
slated (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Ding sound on ENTER in FTP connection details (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Ding sound when starting FTP connection via Ctrl+N dialog and EN
TER (64)
16.10.11 Fixed: Ding sound when executing command line with ENTER with auto-comp
lete off (64)
14.10.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 5 (32/64)
14.10.11 Fixed: Lazarus: Removed calls to RemoveStayOnTopFlags and RestoreStayOn
TopFlags because otherwise TC cannot always stay on top when an external tool ac
tivates it (64)
14.10.11 Fixed: Button "Background" not working in dialog shown with Alt+F5 pack
-> RAR -> OK (32)
14.10.11 Fixed: Copy progress stops showing copy speed each time when crossing m
ultiple of 2 GB (64)
13.10.11 Fixed: In place rename box had larger border, which was controlled by t
he main window font instead of the listbox font (32/64)
13.10.11 Fixed: Font preview lost in Configuration - Options - Fonts when clicki
ng on Apply (64)
13.10.11 Fixed: Fonts with non-English names (e.g. Korean characters) were shown
correctly, but the wrong font was used in dialog boxes and the preview (64)
12.10.11 Fixed: Internal content plugin: tc.versionstring returned wrong version
string (64)
12.10.11 Fixed: Remove underline from Alt+F4 Exit (x character) when using Alt+L
etters for quick search, otherwise Alt+X closes the window (64)

12.10.11 Fixed: Crash when deleting to recycle bin on Windows 8 preview (32/unte
sted:64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Copy progress dialog, overall bytes copied indicator did not sup
port translation for k/M (32/64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Windows classic theme, flat user interface: Root button was cut
off by one pixel on the left (32/64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Windows classic theme: Vertical line between root and parent but
ton wasn't drawn after turning flat interface off and on (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Windows classic theme: Vertical line between directory hotlist a
nd history wasn't drawn on tabs (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar dropdown list, abort with ESC -> dra
g cursor shape was still shown (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Caret (text cursor) position not updated when turning wo
rd wrap on or off, or when changing font (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs started as separate program could not be closed
via button "Close", but via button [X] or ESC (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Non-English characters not supported in various places, like ftp
password, firewall user name+password, packer locations etc. (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Content plugins: Only try to load once if a plugin doesn't expor
t all the required functions, set all functions to NULL to avoid crash (32/64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Main menu in TC, classic theme: Text on buttons must be displace
d 1 pixel to the right and down when pressed (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree, re-scan, Alt+Tab to other program could result in
a crash (64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Search dialog, second page: Minor displacements of controls (32/
64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Default beep when closing various dialogs with ENTER or ESC whil
e auto-complete is OFF: Copy, move, rename, pack, unpack, unpack specific files
(64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Shift+Enter (noclose.exe) not working with files from search - f
eed to listbox (because no path was passed to CreateProcess) (32/64)
11.10.11 Fixed: Line distance too high in FTP log window (ftp toolbar) (64)
07.10.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 4 (32/64)
07.10.11 Fixed: Configuration - Save position saved tab positions incorrectly, o
ff by a few pixels (64)
07.10.11 Fixed: Main menu could be bad after switching theme on and off (64)
07.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Search for text with caret (text cursor) enabled -> care
t at wrong position when list was scrolled sideways to show the result (64)
07.10.11 Fixed: Tab key no longer working in edit control in dialog boxes (64)
07.10.11 Fixed: Crash when turning off auto-complete and auto-append (64)
07.10.11 Fixed: When using branch view of selected files/folders and "watch dire
ctory changes", do not show files IN THE BASE DIRECTORY which do not belong to t
he selection when they show up later (32/64)
06.10.11 Fixed: Shortcut keys not shown in synchronize dirs right click menu (wi
th Windows Vista/7 themes only) (64)
06.10.11 Fixed: Get tab background color via GetPixel because IsThemePartDefined
fails to detect whether a tab header theme supports the new Vista/7 style or no
t (64)
06.10.11 Fixed: Crash when Lazarus does not return any current monitor (=nil) wh
en centering dialogs (64)
06.10.11 Fixed: "Minimize to tray" and "only one instance" problems: TC was not
correctly restored from tray when starting a second copy (64)
06.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, search+replace: support * at the beginning, e
.g. to replace all characters up to a certain letter (x), use *x (32/64)
06.10.11 Added: Updated unrar.dll and unrar64.dll to latest version 4.x (32/64)
05.10.11 Fixed: No cursor when moving mouse over breadcrumb bar after drag&drop
was passing over the bar (64)
05.10.11 Fixed: Main menu, no themes: Draw as a button (instead of highlighted t
ext) if SPI_GETFLATMENU returns false (64)

05.10.11 Fixed: Search window was shown without status line when opened in full
screen mode BEFORE starting the search (64)
05.10.11 Fixed: Confirming overwrite dialog with ENTER confirmed the next one to
o by mistake (64)
05.10.11 Fixed: Shift+Click on a selected file in the file lists could select th
e wrong range if the user clicked before on an already selected file (32/64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Lister: animated GIF not updated properly when zoomed (fit to wi
ndow) (32/64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Avoid flickering by using double buffering also with the
mes turned off (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Locale set to e.g. Korean or Chinese -> choosing font with non-E
nglish name not working in main and Lister configuration dialogs (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Vista 64-bit only: Crash on exit, caused by subclassing of comma
nd line for auto-complete -> remove subclass before closing (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: pluginbasedir in wincmd.ini could be set incorrectly when auto-i
nstalling a plugin (string handling bug in Lazarus (if p>buffer is always false)
(64)
04.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] GifMinDelay=80 minimum delay between animate
d gif frames in milliseconds (default: 80) - change effective without restart (3
2/64)
04.10.11 Fixed: LB_GETTEXT/LB_GETTEXTLEN messages not working in various listbox
es, including the main panels (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Remove all trailing backslashes from new name
(32/64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Search function, tab "Load/Save": Unicode was not supported in s
tatus line (e.g. search for) (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Search function, tab "Load/Save" still showed only English chara
cters just after saving a new item (64)
04.10.11 Fixed: Brief view: Footer not always updated, e.g. when pressing insert
on last file in list (64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Thumbnails from quadratic images were overlapp
ing the X and V icons (64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Quick view (Ctrl+Q) not resized correctly when maximizing the ma
in window (64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Quick view (Ctrl+Q): Centered images were at the wrong position
when quick view was first opened (64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Quick view (Ctrl+Q): Small centered images could still be moved
a bit with the cursor keys (64)
03.10.11 Added: Use double buffering to draw GDI+ images (JPG, GIF, PNG) without
flickering, also handles transparent animated GIFs correctly (32/64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Compare by content: a small black square was shown at the bottom
between the two panels, because the split panel between the two was 2 pixels to
o high (64)
03.10.11 Fixed: Cursor shape changed again to "Drop not allowed" when starting w
ith fresh wincmd.ini and changing to other directory via double click (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Wrong handle value FFFFFFFF instead of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE was
passed to packer plugin callbacks SetProcessDataProc and SetChangeVolProc when p
acking (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Vertical line to the left of \ .. buttons in the drive dropdown
list bar wasn't drawn (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: totalcmd64.exe process not terminating after closing standalone
USB server (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: TCUsbRun.exe could not launch 64-bit Total Commander (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Standalone USB server no longer starting (because trying to cent
er it on non-existent parent form fails) (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Could not set any user-defined codepage (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Menu hotkey handling: Jump between multiple menu items with the
same hotkey (defined via '&'), also handle menu items with no '&' (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Caret (text cursor) position not updated when scrolling
by dragging the vertical scrollbar thumb (64)

02.10.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, option [N#-#]: The entire string length was r
eturned when selecting with Shift+Cursor keys + Enter (reason: Enter selects ent
ire string) (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Tri-state checkboxes like in "change attributes" when multiple f
iles are selected: The order of the 3 states when clicking was different from 32
-bit (64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Lister: Set minimum delay time of 80 ms for animated gifs, this
seems to match the speed in browsers like Firefox (32/64)
02.10.11 Fixed: A press on F5 in the pack dialog with only name with quotes (e.g
. zip:"pack files.zip") selected also the starting quote (32/64)
02.10.11 Fixed: A press on F5 in the copy or pack dialog didn't select the entir
e line when name+extension were selected (64)
02.10.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeTriangles=0 allows to revert to [+] icon
s in tree to expand/collapse branches (32/64)
02.10.11 Added: Tree: Show old [+] icons by default when user has set a differen
t color for tree lines (32/64)
02.10.11 Fixed: Lister English menu contained some test characters by mistake (6
4)
30.09.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 3 (32/64)
30.09.11 Fixed: Classic theme: Progress bar in copy dialog was flickering with n
ewstyleprogress=0 (64)
30.09.11 Fixed: Center all child windows over the parent form instead of centeri
ng them on the monitor (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: In all dialogs, changed width of checkboxes from automatic to fi
xed, otherwise they cannot be mirrored properly for right to left text (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Lister, internal image viewer: Set page size (for PageUp/Down, c
ursor left/right) to the lister size minus 10 pixel overlap (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Do not pass the mouse wheel messages to Windows when han
dling them internally (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Do not refresh main window when saving file
in compare tool and the main window is disabled (e.g. when starting compare from
overwrite dialog) (32/64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Main menu: Show hotkeys in menu right-aligned on Windows Vista o
r newer with themes enabled (32/64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Only when cleartype is on: Switching from brief to full view cau
sed re-draw of the volume label, free and total space without erasing the backgr
ound, resulting in darker text (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Configuration dialog for lister and content plugins: The detect
strings were not shown tab-separated -> use owner-drawn listbox (different solut
ion than 32-bit) (64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Open "compare by content" dialog from "synchronize dirs" -> driv
es were shown in lowercase even when DrivesShowUpcase=1 was set (32/64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Button bar with only one button, right click on button: Menu ite
ms "Edit linked button bar..." and "cd path" were disabled while only "delete" s
hould be disabled (32/64)
29.09.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Screen update very slow with flickering while
comparing by content also in 32-bit version (32)
28.09.11 Fixed: No preview thumbnails were shown in overwrite dialog (64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Avoid beep when user presses ENTER in search dialog to start a s
earch (there is one when the search ends, though) (64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: "Layout" was not selected in the tree
on the left when opening the dialog (64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Could not minimize the following 3 dialogs together with the mai
n program: Synchronize dirs, Multi-rename tool, Find files (64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Rename with Shift+F6 in right panel while command line and drive
dropdown lists are off -> cursor not set on new file (64)
28.09.11 Added: Also select range of files when Shift+Clicking on already select
ed file (32/64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Ctrl+Click while nothing is selected no longer selected both the

item under the cursor and the one the user clicks on (64)
28.09.11 Fixed: Tab positions were slightly different between 64-bit and 32-bit.
Reason: Lazarus seems to substract the window border from the window width valu
e (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Switch between left to right and right to left alignment
with Ctrl+Shift not working (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Let Lazarus handle mirrored controls. The following dialogs were
not mirrored correctly: Change start/directory menu, Search files, Button bar d
ialogs, new ftp connection, change attributes (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: Right to left view (Arabic, Hebrew) n
ot working correctly on all pages except for the first (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Search dialog not sized correctly when closed in maximized form
(but no search started) and then re-opened and search started (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Command line didn't appear when typing just one character, or on
Alt+F8 (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Cursor shape changed to "Drop not allowed" w
hen the mouse was moved near the scrollbars (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Menu bar: Some menu items were cut off only with some themes (64
)
27.09.11 Fixed: Lister main menu no longer supported accents and non-English cha
racters, still worked in beta 1 (64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Showing size in bytes was incorrect for sizes >=1 Terabyte (deci
mal) (32/64)
27.09.11 Fixed: Could not continue aborted copy operations by clicking on Cancel
(only when copying in background) (32/64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Minimize main window to tray didn't work on first click, the win
dow didn't disappear from the task bar (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Change current path via edit box (by clicking behind the path):
Crash after 9 clicks because the edit box was subclassed each time by mistake (6
4)
26.09.11 Fixed: Lister configuration: The Display at startup option was saved, b
ut the new value wasn't selected when re-opening the dialog (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Image wasn't centered in one direction if it was just a
bit smaller than the window (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Set correct background color for read-only edit controls in arch
ive file properties and system info dialog (except when using XP themes on Vista
/7) (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Could not define external viewer for Alt+F3 if the path containe
d both an environment variable and a space (32/64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Dialog box for file system, lister and content plugins didn't su
pport accents in name or path (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: Could not abort operation in background (3
2/64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Main menu bar: Draw with own function when menu theme turned off
- 64bit only (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: Main menu bar button width not correct with themes on, because i
nternal measure function was used with Lazarus draw function (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: No accents in multi-rename tool and attributes dialog (F2 functi
on) (64)
26.09.11 Fixed: No accents in dialog used to choose pre-defined searches, e.g. i
n NUM+"+" dialog or when choosing user-defined colors by file type (64)
23.09.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 2 (32/64)
23.09.11 Fixed: Support translation of shortcuts in Lister main menu (64)
22.09.11 Fixed: Problem with FTP downloads causing strange crashes (64)
22.09.11 Fixed: Menu bar not drawn correctly by Lazarus if it had a left to righ
t gradient (64)
22.09.11 Fixed: Editing the current path (by clicking behind it) resulted in an
empty path field on some systems (64)
22.09.11 Fixed: Search function, tab "Load/Save" only supported English characte

rs (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Command line: Various hotkeys including Ctrl+K and ENTER not wor
king (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Selecting a file with space didn't update the footer (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Lister: view large image with internal viewer, switch from full
size to "fit to window" and back -> vertical scrollbar was missing (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Background transfer manager: The speed limit wasn't loaded when
the dialog was created (32/64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Dual screen, TC on secondary screen -> the overwrite confirmatio
n dialog was shown on the primary screen (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdowns didn't have any border -> modify Lazaru
s component library (64)
21.09.11 Added: Search function: Save current search text before starting a sear
ch, so Lister plugins can access it (32/64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Splash screen: an additional icon appeared in the taskbar (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Main window focus was lost, and additional icons
appeared in the taskbar (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Some controls were overlapping in main configuration dialog with
Windows classic theme (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Maximize main window, minimize to tray, click on tray icon -> wi
ndow wasn't maximized any more (64)
21.09.11 Fixed: Some more shortcut keys on buttons were not working, e.g. in but
ton bar change dialog (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Screen update very slow while comparing by con
tent (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Beep sound when renaming file in place -> removed (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Thumbs view: Alpha blending (transparency) not handled correctly
, folders look ugly (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Selection with mouse in brief view not working correctly, caret
sometimes shown twice (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Passive mode not working with IPv6 (PreferIPv6=1 in wcx_ftp.ini)
(64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Let Lazarus draw the main menu bar (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Tree: [+] indicator too large when using Windows classic theme (
32/64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Custom message box (e.g. when deleting read-only files): Shift+C
ursor keys was not working (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Selection wasn't removed when switching edit
mode off (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Could no longer select text with the mouse (
32/64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Exceptions in external C/C++ dlls (e.g. when aborting RAR unpack
ing) cause TC to crash (Ctrl+C hit) due to bad exception handling in free pascal
, see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=17280 -> patch system.pp (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Button [N#-#] did not work correctly, it alwa
ys returned the entire range (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: The sorting header did not have a separator line above it to the
current path (64)
20.09.11 Fixed: Arrows in the sorting header (showing the sort direction) were n
ot filled when using Windows classic theme (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: After switching from full to brief view or back, some files coul
d suddenly be selected (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: Cursor shape changed to "Drop not allowed" when the mouse was mo
ved just above the tabs (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: Main and Lister window position were restored incorrectly when t
he Windows task bar was on the left side (64)
19.09.11 Added: Show version 8 in properties of installation auto-extractor and
installer (32/64)
19.09.11 Fixed: In some dialogs like the overwrite confirmation dialog, hotkeys
for buttons were not working (64)

19.09.11 Fixed: CRC check dialog: The button used to jump to the next/previous e
rror wasn't moved when resizing the dialog (32/64)
19.09.11 Fixed: Brief view: Name/Ext/.. headers not resized correctly when maxim
izing or restoring (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: Program started without any tabs - mode with 2 panels above each
other not restored (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: noclose.exe/noclose64.exe wasn't included in the installer. It's
used to open a command line program and keep the window open (Shift+ENTER) (32/
64)
19.09.11 Fixed: TC didn't start on Windows 9x/ME/2000 due to a missing function
-> load it dynamically (32)
19.09.11 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack multiple dirs, each to a separate subdir -> two dots
instead of one before extension (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: FTP: All stored passwords not protected with a master password c
ould not be loaded (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: The title bar didn't show the "Beta" character in all languages
(e.g. Russian) (32)
19.09.11 Fixed: Double click/press ENTER on file with internal association in an
archive would open the file twice, both with the internal and the system associ
ation (32/64)
19.09.11 Fixed: By default, look for tcmatch64.dll instead of tcmatch.dll (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: FTPS: load libeay32.dll first, because it's used by the other Op
enSSL dll -> makes sure the right dll is used (32/64)
19.09.11 Fixed: x64: Look for ssl dlls in subdir "64" if they couldn't be loaded
from TC directory (e.g. because the 32-bit dlls are there) (64)
19.09.11 Fixed: Crash verifying certain wincmd.key files (Reason: error porting
assembler to 64-bit) (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Images not centered initially if larger than the screen
(64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Progress dialog (file operations): ENTER key sometimes triggered
Abort instead of the focused button (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: English help file: Section about wincmd.ini was cut off (32/64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Self-extracting installer: Bad progress bar (due to bug in Lazar
us str function) (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Lister: Scrollbars not working when viewing image files (32)
18.09.11 Fixed: File system, lister and content plugins: Plugin not loaded if th
e path contained an environment variable (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: With Windows basic theme (AeroGlass off), file tooltips were not
completely removed if their height changed (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar: When loading new bar with OPENBAR command, the window
size wasn't adjusted if the bar height changed (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar dropdown list: Menu breaks (continue menu at the top r
ight) were not supported by Lazarus, added manually (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Buttonbar dropdown list: didn't receive WM_MEASUREITEM messages,
so the lines would be too small (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Focus is lost for a short moment when closing the button bar con
figuration dialog (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Search using list file: Ignore empty lines in file, they were er
roneously interpreted as the location of the list file (32/64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Dialog box font was only 2 pixel high when choosing a different
charset in Configuration - Options - Fonts for dialog boxes (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Drive buttonbar: Clicking on "\" button (the one without icon) w
ent to network neighborhood instead of going to the root (only when drive dropdo
wn list was off) (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Ctrl+V in command line pasted the same string twice (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Command line didn't show up on cursor right or cursor left when
it was hidden via configuration (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool / change attributes: F2 ENTER only closed the
combobox, but didn't choose anything (64)
18.09.11 Fixed: Alt+F1 ENTER only closed the combobox, but didn't switch the dri

ve (64)
16.09.11 Release Total Commander 8.0 public beta 1 (32/64)
16.09.11 Fixed: Could not install parallel port driver for parallel port connect
ion (64)
16.09.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: When adding fields using the buttons like [N]
or [C], the fields were always added at the beginning of the line, not the curs
or position (64)
15.09.11 Fixed: Search function: Aborting search with ESC no longer worked when
cursor was in text input field (64)
15.09.11 Fixed: Content plugins: Units were not working correctly (reason: bug i
n Free Pascal) (64)
15.09.11 Fixed: Search for text in archives not working (64)
15.09.11 Fixed: Main menu: The menu bar text was a little bit too high compared
to the 32-bit version (64)
07.09.11 Fixed: Clear 64-bit plugin section in wincmd.ini when installing a new
plugin, to force refresh of the list of plugins supporting 64-bit (32/64)
07.09.11 Fixed: Lister plugins: WM_COMMAND messages were not forwarded via ListN
otificationReceived (64)
04.09.11 Added: Uninstaller: Show warning that 32-bit version will be removed to
o (64)
04.09.11 Added: Changed name of 64-bit program to totalcmd64.exe to allow instal
lation to the same directory as 32-bit version (64)
04.09.11 Fixed: Uninstaller crashed when trying to recreate icons (fix installat
ion) (64)
02.09.11 Fixed: Display of file/drive sizes: Show terabyte separator when showin
g size in bytes (32/64)
02.09.11 Fixed: Pack with Alt+F5, some names containing Unicode characters -> wa
rning dialog was modal to main window, not to progress dialog (32/64)
02.09.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Hide subfolder window when scrolling with mouse
wheel (64)
28.08.11 Fixed: When using the themed progress bar, set the value in a way so th
e bar jumps immediately to that position (32/64)
28.08.11 Added: Show number of bytes handled and total bytes when copying, packi
ng, unpacking (also with plugins) (32/64)
26.08.11 Added: Show number of files handled and total files when copying, packi
ng, unpacking (also with plugins) (32/64)
26.08.11 Fixed: Show error about unsupported method when trying to unzip archive
encrypted with pkware strong encryption method, which is patented (32/64)
21.08.11 Fixed: Still some scrolling problems in breadcrumb bar, only after subp
anels were open (64)
16.08.11 Fixed: Memory leak in new 64-bit packer plugin list function (64)
14.08.11 Added: When browsing for plugins, also look for extension with '64' at
the end. Cut off the '64' if there is a 32-bit plugin with the same name in the
same directory (64)
14.08.11 Added: All 64-bit plugins MUST now have '64' at the end of the extensio
n, e.g. wcx64 (64)
14.08.11 Fixed: In various edit boxes in dialogs, pressing ESC caused the defaul
t beep (Lazarus bug) (64)
14.08.11 Fixed: Support own mouse wheel handling in Lister (only if the system s
ends wheel messages to Lister) (64)
10.08.11 Fixed: Mouse wheel problems (wrong range, hangs) in breadcrumb bar (64)
10.08.11 Fixed: Catch floating point exception in date/time compare function in
case of invalid timestamps from some network drives (32/64)
05.08.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Popup menu shown at wrong position on right
click (64)
05.08.11 Added: Lister: Show jpg, gif and png images in Lister without plugins a
lso in 32-bit version, via gdi plus (32)
05.08.11 Fixed: Edit file from archive: Make sure that TC doesn't jump back to t
he foreground when the "wait" dialog opens (32/64)

03.08.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace didn't support a combination o


f multiple strings (e.g. a|b) (32/64)
03.08.11 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Remove trailing slashes or backslashes from n
ame before renaming (32/64)
03.08.11 Fixed: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow not working in button bar (64)
02.08.11 Fixed: Checksum to detect plugin section changes was calculated incorre
ctly, so new plugins were not recognized (64)
02.08.11 Fixed: Column headers not drawn correctly with Windows classic theme (6
4)
02.08.11 Fixed: Column headers didn't have left/right borders (64)
02.08.11 Fixed: Colors by file type: Skip color filters where the plugin isn't a
vailable (64)
02.08.11 Fixed: Search function: No rule was opened by default on plugins page (
64)
02.08.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown window didn't support mouse wheel (64)
29.07.11 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view panel no longer had the right size (64)
27.07.11 Added: Search function (Commands - Search): In field "Search in", a lis
t file can be specified like this: @c:\path\searchfile.txt. The format can be AN
SI, UTF-8 or UTF-16 (both with bom). The file must contain one file/dir name per
line, absolute or relative (32/64)
27.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Use 'a' as number of digits for auto width de
pending on number of files, e.g. [C:a] or [C10+10:a] (32/64)
26.07.11 Added: Added buttons and hotkeys (Ctrl+Arrow up/down) to jump to previo
us/next wrong checksum in "Verify checksums" dialog (32/64)
26.07.11 Fixed: New progress bar handling (speedup) also for packers and packer
plugins (32/64)
26.07.11 Fixed: After Ctrl+Drag selection, Shift+Click Selection started with th
e wrong file (32/64)
24.07.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NewTimeZoneMethod=1/0 sets new Window
s 7 time zone method (32/64)
24.07.11 Added: Windows 7: Use new timestamp display method as in Explorer (32/6
4)
24.07.11 Fixed: Drawing of file lists slow with Lazarus (use GetClipRect to draw
only what is needed) (64)
22.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Directly accept backslashes in name field (fo
r moving to subfolders) (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Multi-rename tool: Create missing subfolders automatically when
renaming. The Undo function will NOT remove these extra folders (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: F7 new folder: Remove double quotes around current path, e.g. wh
en user used Ctrl+Enter on a name with spaces (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Search function, go to file: When only one file was found, go to
that file, even if it wasn't selected (32/64)
22.07.11 Added: Speed up file operations by handling progress bars with a timer
(32/64)
19.07.11 Fixed: Separate tree lines had wrong (fixed) height (64)
19.07.11 Added: Draw new style (Windows Vista/7) expand/collapse icons in tree,
make tree lines even lighter (can be disabled completely via ini) (32/64)
19.07.11 Fixed: Crash when unpacking from archive to protected dir if the select
ion was lost while the user account control dialog was shown (32/64)
17.07.11 Fixed: FTP connect could sometimes hang until the mouse was moved (64)
17.07.11 Fixed: Drag&Drop to a tab with a ZIP file not working when that tab was
locked with the zip file as the locked directory (32/64)
17.07.11 Fixed: Selecting a word in "compare by content" by double clicking not
working correctly with UTF-8 non-English (e.g. Russian) (32/64)
12.07.11 Added: Only show packer, file system and content plugins which are real
ly available in 64-bit form (64)
10.07.11 Added: 64-bit self-extractor for installer (64)
06.07.11 Added: 64-bit installer, uninstaller and lzma dll (64)
03.07.11 Fixed: Command select dialog: The filter edit box did not have the focu
s (64)

29.06.11 Fixed: Make sure the file list isn't reloaded while inplace rename is a
sking user for new name due to rename error (32/64)
29.06.11 Fixed: Crash when connecting to FTPS due to bad/outdated openssl dlls (
32/64)
28.06.11 Fixed: Crash on sending WM_USER+51 with wParam=1003 (cm_Properties) to
TC while it does NOT have the focus (32/64)
28.06.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Crash when closing compare window during "Re
compare from here" (or choosing "Recompare from here" again) (32/64)
26.06.11 Added: Copy from FTP or virtual folders (e.g. the desktop) to file syst
em plugins (32/64)
22.06.11 Added: Show warning about ZIP>4GB only once when packing multiple files
/folders >4GB with option "Create separate archives...", not for each archive (3
2/64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Copy to protected folder, overwrite file: "Rename target" and "A
uto-rename target" not working with new default copy method (32/64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Cursor image wrong or hidden after dragging tab in tab header to
other position or other panel (64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Shift+F4 input dialog too small (64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Could not resize columns in "Synchronize dirs" and the multi-ren
ame tool (64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Could not sort list in "Synchronize dirs" (64)
22.06.11 Fixed: Groupbox controls did not react to Alt+Letter hotkeys (Lazarus b
ug) (64)
21.06.11 Fixed: Compare by content: Scrolling horizontally in edit mode (with ri
ght/left cursor keys) left remainders of the caret (64)
19.06.11 Fixed: Packer plugins: Selection not removed after packing, but only if
plugin supports background operations like 7zip (32/64)
19.06.11 Fixed: ZIP/TAR packer: do not follow infinite loops caused by NTFS junc
tions (32/64)
19.06.11 Fixed: Branch view (Ctrl+B): do not follow infinite loops caused by NTF
S junctions (32/64)
19.06.11 Fixed: Copy function: Could not detect infinite loops caused by NTFS ju
nctions if the junction contained a short 8.3 name (e.g. DIRECT~1) (32/64)
19.06.11 Fixed: cm_SrcSortByColX commands: Ignore Ctrl and Shift modifier keys w
hen using the command via a hotkey (32/64)
19.06.11 Fixed: Brief view: could not sort columns by clicking on them (64)
19.06.11 Fixed: On PC with slow virus scanner, trying to load settings in search
twice (by double clicking twice on two entries) could cause a crash (32/64)
17.06.11 Fixed: Show background copy dialog on same screen as Total Commander, n
ot on main screen (32/64)
17.06.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with FTP: Compare two files by content, edit fi
le on FTP side, re-upload -> list was not refreshed if file in subdir because of
slash/backslash mismatch (32/64)
17.06.11 Added: Made browse for folder dialog resizable, e.g. in synchronize dir
s (32/64)
17.06.11 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with FTP: make sure that all backslashes are re
placed by slashes in CWD command (32/64)
17.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Move window to main screen on load if position was saved
on second screen which is not connected (32/64)
17.06.11 Fixed: Don't show error "Insert Disk 0" for some ZIP files with zip64 c
entral header (32/64)
15.06.11 Fixed: Main window was re-enabled by mistake after using quick search i
n synchronize dirs (32/64)
15.06.11 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] NetHoodReadInfo= set options for read
ing nethood: 1:GetAttributesOf, 2: SHGetDataFromIDList, 3:both (32/64)
15.06.11 Fixed: Speed up reading of nethood in Windows 7 by not calling GetAttri
butesOf and SHGetDataFromIDList (32/64)
15.06.11 Fixed: Shift+Enter not working properly with files in archives (32/64)
15.06.11 Fixed: Search for text on FTP server: Aborting download didn't abort se
arch, but the download of all other files was immediately cancelled (32/64)

14.06.11 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: Font may be wrong on Copy/Move page d
irectly after changing font for dialogs and Apply (32/64)
14.06.11 Fixed: Use WNetGetUser to verify whether a network connection already e
xists or not - if it does, do not call WNetAddConnection3 again to avoid problem
s with Windows server 2008 (32/64)
14.06.11 Fixed: Quick search with AltGr: First character typed after releasing A
ltGr may be ignored (32/64)
14.06.11 Fixed: FTPS (FTP over SSL): "Always trust this server" was only working
for certain self-signed certificates -> use SHA1 hash to recognize cert (32/64)
14.06.11 Fixed: Lazarus combobox with dropped down list: ENTER or ESC closed ent
ire dialog box instead of just closing the dropped down part (64)
14.06.11 Fixed: Wrong sort order after unpacking from plugin when option "add ne
w files at end" was checked, the files were overwritten (reason: the list of cha
nges was not cleared when re-reading the dir) (32/64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Support line lengths > 8192 characters
12.06.11 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown menu could show up when opening the butt
on bar context menu and closing it with the mouse over the breadcrumb bar (32/64
)
12.06.11 Fixed: ZIP packer: Add archive attribute only to files, not to folders,
just as when copying (32/64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Minimize to tray during unpacking of multiple archives -> progre
ss bar in tray remained at 100% when done (32/64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Copy/Delete progress dialog: Minimize didn't work (64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Resizing of window not handled correctly, because Lister
handles WM_SIZE by itself (64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Color combobox for other items showing num
bers instead of colors (64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Copy URL to clipboard not working correctly (64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Unregistered version: Nag screen appeared behind main window (64
)
12.06.11 Fixed: Groupbox "Packer" in Alt+F5 pack dialog too small when no plugin
was installed (64)
12.06.11 Fixed: Cursor position not updated when right clicking on a file just t
o select it (64)
07.06.11 Fixed: Crash when minimizing to tray (64)
07.06.11 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: Don't show warning about already installed
plugin if the plugin directory was removed (but the plugin is still in the plug
in list) (32/64)
07.06.11 Fixed: Copy in background with F5-F2: Prevent user from closing current
tab (e.g. with Ctrl+W) until the background transfer has all the files (32/64)
07.06.11 Fixed: Multi-part unrar: Progress bar could sometimes jump to 100% (whe
n unrar.dll calls ProgressProc with Size=0) (32/64)
07.06.11 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: Only file sizes up to 2 GB supported when the ser
ver reported the size in kBytes or MBytes (32/64)
07.06.11 Fixed: FTP over HTTP crash when proxy has empty password (due to bad im
plementation of strnew in free pascal) (64)
07.06.11 Fixed: Various dialog box item sizes (32/64)
05.06.11 Added: Support checksum file names sha256sum and sha256sums
05.06.11 Fixed: Support checksum formats SHA1 (filename) = checksum and SHA256
(filename) = checksum
05.06.11 Fixed: File system plugin interface: high dword of size field was not s
upported for folders
05.06.11 Fixed: Button bar: Parameter field was limited to 259 characters -> inc
reased to 2047 (2 kbyte minus terminating 0) (32/64)
05.06.11 Fixed: Show '?' instead of time stamp when zip contains invalid timesta
mp data (32/64)
05.06.11 Fixed: Alt+F1/F2 drive list: Handle case where Windows returns "(D:) la
bel" for removable drives: remove the (D:) part (32/64)
05.06.11 Fixed: cm_switchlongnames not working on Windows 9x/ME (32)
05.06.11 Fixed: FTP download from list hangs with invalid URL twice in list, e.g

. "http //ghisler.com" -> make auto-reconnect abortable (32/64)


05.06.11 Fixed: Recognize chrome extensions (.crx) as zip, they start with speci
al header beginning with 'Cr24' (32/64)
05.06.11 Fixed: Move in background (F6-F2) moved everything in subdirs even when
using "Only files of this type" option was set (32/64)
05.06.11 Fixed: Unpack from plugins: Directory attributes were not unpacked (32/
64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Accept Shift+Enter also in delete confirmation dialog on ftp ser
vers (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Look for encoding="other than utf-8" and turn not on UTF
-8 when found (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Lister: Make sure that file contains no invalid sequences when U
TF-8 is contained in the first 256 bytes of the file, otherwise detect it as nor
mal text (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Inplace rename (Shift+F6): Ctrl+Backspace was inserting strange
characters in text field (same problem as in notepad.exe) -> just ignore the hot
key (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: FTP client: Edit file with F4 was using SIZE command of remote f
ile although the size was available from the LIST command (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: When using VistaDelete=1 for deleting, the cursor placement was
wrong when files like index.htm were deleted, because windows deleted also folde
r index_files (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Right click on list background, New -> Shortcut (.lnk) not worki
ng (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Windows 7: Don't show pause button in task bar when program was
launched as admin, it doesn't work due to a bug in Windows (32/64)
03.06.11 Fixed: Button bar: Launching program in "c:\Program files" with paramet
er %S would launch c:\Program.exe instead (if that exists) (32/64)
02.06.11 Fixed: UUE decode: Support name encoding us-ascii, e.g. begin 644 =?usascii?Q?photo=207=2Ejpg?= (32/64)
02.06.11 Fixed: FTP: Could not abort the copying of a directory to its own subdi
rectory (32/64)
02.06.11 Fixed: Crash in associate dialog after changing icon and closing dialog
(64)
02.06.11 Fixed: The FTP toolbar/panel background was not themed correctly (64)
01.06.11 Added: "Skip all" in copy as admin function, skips all files which fail
to be copied as admin (32, 64)
01.06.11 Fixed: When a crash occurs during a file operation and the user chooses
to continue anyway, he cannot close the progress dialog -> remove it (32, 64)
01.06.11 Finished porting to 64-bit, resume normal bug fix operations
17.12.10 Release Total Commander 7.56a final
17.12.10 Fixed: Included new tcmdx64.exe with fix from 28.09.10 (shift in contex
t menu)
16.12.10 Fixed: Memory leak when closing Search dialog with [X] button (search r
esults not preserved)
14.12.10 Release Total Commander 7.56a release candidate 1
14.12.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareUtf8Detect=1: Determines how c
ompare by content detects UTF-8 files: 0=only by byte order marker (BOM), 1=by c
ontent, at least one multi-byte char present, 2=detected as UTF-8 if no invalid
(non-UTF-8) byte sequences present
14.12.10 Fixed: Compare by content: Do not show files as UTF-8 if they contain t
he UTF-8 HTML header but also invalid UTF-8 characters (e.g. plain text accents)
13.12.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When unpacking, do not try to show thumbnails
in overwrite dialog (could hang with large archives)
13.12.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DllLoad=0 Set DLL load method for plu
gins and Explorer extensions: -1: Never from current dir (most secure), 0: Only
in context menu, 1: always also from current dir (as TC7.55a and older)
13.12.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Disable "Synchronize" button after user clicks

on it, to avoid that he clicks on it twice


13.12.10 Fixed: TC was not closing on XP when "File open" dialog was open in "Co
mpare by content"
12.12.10 Fixed: Windows 7: When using a large font size (e.g. 150dpi), the defau
lt cursor (dotted line) wasn't erased when going to next line in file lists (bec
ause it was 2 pixels wide)
10.12.10 Fixed: System information: Windows Server 2008 R2 was not detected (was
shown as Windows 7)
08.12.10 Release Total Commander 7.56a beta 1
08.12.10 Fixed: Some files like wcmzip32.dll couldn't be found when TC was start
ed by some 3rd party program launchers like Informer (Yahoo widget), which used
forward slashes in the name (c:/totalcmd/totalcmd.exe)
05.12.10 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment: Handle case where other programs stored an
empty comment in descript.ion (file name followed by a single space)
05.12.10 Fixed: Right click context menu: "Send to"-"Mail Recipient" not working
with Outlook 2003 (due to insecure dll loading in Outlook)
05.12.10 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, button [N#-#] Part: Name was no longer select
ed initially
05.12.10 Fixed: Watch directory changes: Do not wait until the background thread
stopped watching when changing dirs, just disable handling the results -> faste
r dir changes (especially when at 100% CPU)
02.12.10 Fixed: Windows Server 2008 R2: F4 not working if path to notepad.exe wa
sn't set, because notepad isn't in Windows directory as expected -> look also in
system32
02.12.10 Fixed: Button bar: Beginning a command with a '*' followed by a name in
double quotes didn't work to run the program with admin rights
02.12.10 Fixed: FTP download from list didn't take last line if it wasn't ending
with a line break
29.11.10 Release Total Commander 7.56 final
29.11.10 Fixed: New unrar.dll crashes on certain damaged archives -> return to u
nrar.dll from TC 7.55a
29.11.10 Fixed: Workaround to possible security flaw in Windows html help module
(loading dlls from wrong directory)
28.11.10 Fixed: Lister, UTF-8 search forward or backward could hang with 255 cha
racter search string
28.11.10 Fixed: F5 copy, option "Copy to all selected folders/links": In branch
view, the file was only copied to subdirs, not to the base dir, even if a file w
as selected there
26.11.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Highlight text color wrong when not using Sync
SelBack option
26.11.10 Fixed: Do not show old search results in "Expand selection" - "Define"
26.11.10 Fixed: Master password dialog: Maximum password length (256 characters)
could only be entered via copy+paste, not by typing it (3 characters less)
25.11.10 Fixed: New unrar.dll was hanging on Windows 9x/ME
24.11.10 Fixed: Could not copy file from inside one archive to archive in other
panel if the other was a self-extracting archive from a plugin (e.g. 7zip)
23.11.10 Release Total Commander 7.56 release candidate 1
23.11.10 Fixed: Main window could look incorrect after stopping theme services (
Windows XP or newer)
23.11.10 Fixed: *.cmd files could not be launched as administrator via button ba
r
23.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SkipCharOnCursor flag can now also be
used to configure left arrow press in edit fields (see help)
23.11.10 Fixed: When using branch view of selected files/folders and "watch dire
ctory changes", do not show files/folders which do not belong to the selection w
hen they show up later
23.11.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ftp, saved selection not working because s

ubdir names were stored with trailing slash instead of backslash -> accept also
names with slash
21.11.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, SyncSelBack set by user -> choose foreground c
olor white or black for equal files depending on brightness of background color
21.11.10 Fixed: Configuring user-defined sounds gave strange error on Windows XP
x64 only
19.11.10 Fixed: Button bar, start menu, parameter %L or %l: For ftp connections,
just put /relative_path/filename in the list file
19.11.10 Fixed: Lister: Percent value shown in title after searching was sometim
es wrong
19.11.10 Added: MinimizeOnClose=4: Minimize TC also when clicking on button "Alt
+F4 Exit" in lower right corner
19.11.10 Fixed: New SyncSelBack option didn't support hex values in the form $80
0000
19.11.10 Fixed: New unrar.dll crashes TC -> fix size of RARHeaderDataEx
19.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] longnamecopy=3: Completely disallow t
o write names longer than 256 characters, let user skip or rename
17.11.10 Release Total Commander 7.56 beta 2
17.11.10 Fixed: Installer could not close running Total Commander with MinimizeO
nClose>0
17.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] SyncSelBack= set background color of selecte
d items in Synchronize dirs
17.11.10 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] MLSD=-1/1/0: Globally enable/disable MLSD
command. Can also be set in the individual connections
17.11.10 Added: Button bar: Begin command with a '*' followed by a full path or
env. variable to always start the program with admin rights
17.11.10 Fixed: Lister: Reset percent value shown in title to previous position
after searching (didn't seem to work automatically on some computers)
16.11.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, archives by content: Could not abort during un
packing, only during actual comparison
16.11.10 Fixed: Search function: Open search dialog directly with the full size
when loading previous search results
16.11.10 Fixed: Compare by content, edit mode, switch encoding -> "Copy ->" and
"Copy <-" buttons were disabled
12.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SelectionMarker="* " set marker for s
elected lines in file lists (returned via LB_GETTEXT) - mainly useful for the bl
ind
12.11.10 Added: Right click on button, "As Administrator": Now also works with m
ost documents, not only programs (if the association is correct)
11.11.10 Fixed: Version info in totalcmd.exe file was wrong
10.11.10 Added: Show menu item "As Administrator" also in button bar drop-down (
linked .bar file with option "show as menu")
10.11.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: double click for compare files not working any
more
10.11.10 Fixed: MinimizeOnClose=2 was not working
10.11.10 Fixed: By mistake, some dialogs like the search function were closed wh
en minimizing them
10.11.10 Fixed: "Pause" button tooltip in Aero Peek view was always in English
10.11.10 Release Total Commander 7.56 beta 1
10.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CopyOverwriteDefault=1..8: Set defaul
t option chosen when clicking on "Options" button in F5 copy dialog (only used w
hen extended copy dialog opened!)
10.11.10 Added: Find files: Remember last search results when using "Go to file"
or "Cancel" (but not when using "Feed in listbox"). Turn off with SearchKeepLas
t=0 in wincmd.ini
10.11.10 Added: Quick search dialog: Support hotkeys Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+A
10.11.10 Added: When renaming a file in place (Shift+F6) and the entered name is
invalid, show a dialog box where the user can correct the name

10.11.10 Added: When creating new file via context menu, e.g. New -> Text file,
do not select the extension (.txt)
10.11.10 Added: Ctrl+A in command line selects entire line
08.11.10 Added: Help system: set encoding in each html file, so the help works c
orrectly even when Internet Explorer is set to a different fixed encoding
05.11.10 Added: Windows 7: Show pause button in "aero peek" windows (shown when
hovering over taskbar icon) during file operations to pause them
04.11.10 Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded css files starting
with text: @charset "utf-8"
04.11.10 Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded xml files by tag <
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ...
04.11.10 Added: Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded html files by tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" charset=UTF-8" ... (except when containing non-U
TF8 chars like )
04.11.10 Added: Lister, Compare by Content: Auto-detect UTF-8-encoded files by c
hecking the presence of only valid multi-byte sequences (first byte determines l
ength of sequence)
04.11.10 Added: Button bar right click menu: Menu item "As Administrator" for ru
nning the program of that button with admin rights
04.11.10 Added: HideRemovableNoMedia=2: Hide drives with no media in it in drive
dropdown list (use 3 for both drive dropdown list and drive bar)
04.11.10 Fixed: When copying to multiple selected files, make sure each file is
copied only once
03.11.10 Added: Compare by content: Double click on a word selects that word
03.11.10 Fixed: ZIP packer: Set special flag for text files in central directory
header, needed by Info-ZIP on Unix to convert Windows line breaks to Unix line
breaks
03.11.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MinimizeOnClose: Minimize main window
instead of closing it 1: when clicking on [X] button, 2: On Alt+F4, 3: both (no
te: Hold down shift when clicking on [X] to force close)
02.11.10 Fixed: USB cable connection: Problem downloading file immediately after
downloading 0 byte file (timing problem)
29.10.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, by content: Comparison could fail with error E
RROR_TOO_MANY_OPEN_FILES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_SERVER_MEMORY -> retry every 0.5 se
conds for max 30 seconds
29.10.10 Added: F5 copy, option "Copy to all selected folders/links": When norma
l files are selected, copy to the directories of these files after search - feed
to listbox (only if there is no target dir)
29.10.10 Fixed: Compare by content: After changing a file in an external editor
and recomparing, the cursor was placed on the previous line, but the top display
line was wrong
29.10.10 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: Change name between name.archiveext and *.*.archive
ext automatically when switching between archiver supporting multiple files (lik
e zip) and packer supporting 1 file only (like gz)
29.10.10 Fixed: Could not abort ftp upload while retrying 3 times (e.g. because
target was write protected)
27.10.10 Fixed: Watch directory changes: When receiving notification about file
rename and both old and new name exist in the list, then remove the old name fro
m the list
26.10.10 Fixed: Verifying bugfixes in both 32-bit and (not yet released) 64-bit
versions, minor fixes
24.10.10 Fixed: Icons in archives: If there is no DefaultIcon value for a file t
ype, also look for DefaultIcon in clsid key pointed to by classname\CLSID value
22.10.10 Fixed: Associate dialog: Wrong association could be chosen if two file
types had the same description
22.10.10 Fixed: wincmd.ini: TreeFileLocation option didn't support pseudo enviro
nment variables like %$LOCAL_APPDATA%
22.10.10 Fixed: No shield overlay icons shown on Windows 7 because function Load
IconWithScaleDown is missing in comctl32.dll
17.10.10 Fixed: Copy names with path to clipboard sometimes exported drives as u

ppercase after search - feed to listbox


17.10.10 Fixed: Increased maximum possible stack size from 1/4 to 1/2 MByte, oth
erwise some plugins like ShellDetails may crash on load
15.10.10 Fixed: Compare by content, edit one file externally so the two are the
same, let the compare tool recompare -> Message "Identical" was shown, but no fi
le content
15.10.10 Added: Calculate occupied space: Show size also in kBytes, MBytes and G
Bytes
15.10.10 Added: Button bar, start menu: Two new placeholders, %v and %V: Adds vi
rtual file name (%v: just the name, %V: with full path) instead of redirected pa
th to command line in plugins like Temporary panel
15.10.10 Added: Ctrl+D directory hotlist: Mark also subfolder(s) when the curren
t directory is in a subfolder of the directory hotlist
15.10.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SkipCharOnCursor: Set to 3 to not put
cursor directly behind selected part when user presses right arrow key (restore
s standard Windows behaviour)
15.10.10 Added: In edit boxes like the F5 copy dialog, put cursor directly behin
d selected part when user presses right arrow key (just like in inplace rename b
ox)
12.10.10 Fixed: Moving selected folders+files to their parent (drag to [..]) cou
ld overwrite files, e.g. when a subdir contains files with same name -> move thi
s subdir at the very end (see http://www.hardtoc.com/archives/198)
12.10.10 Fixed: Windows 7 no longer showed overlay icons for shared folders -> s
how our own if there is no other overlay for that folder!
12.10.10 Fixed: Alt+Enter on file in ZIP showed wrong text field heights when us
ing high DPI values (e.g. 180 dpi)
12.10.10 Fixed: Windows 7 theme for Vista (with patched uxtheme.dll) causes dist
orted headers (Name, Ext, Size etc)
10.10.10 Fixed: Getting floppy disk type slow on Windows 7 -> cache it, makes Al
t+F1/F2 faster
08.10.10 Fixed: Support also checksum files named *.md5sum, *.md5sums, *.sha1sum
, *.sha1sums, md5sums, sha1sums (not via ENTER, just via menu)
08.10.10 Fixed: Avoid duplicate names in list from "auto-refresh" when the list
had already been updated
08.10.10 Fixed: Could not use "auto-rename target" if the target file was the sa
me as its DOS name, e.g. testit~1.txt -> infinite loop trying to find alternate
name
08.10.10 Fixed: Various crashes, e.g. avoid recursive calls of sorting function
07.10.10 Fixed: Various crashes
06.10.10 Fixed: User-defined hotkeys with Alt+Windows key were not working corre
ctly
05.10.10 Fixed: No thousands delimiters were shown in copy progress dialog (tran
sfer speed)
05.10.10 Fixed: Directory hotlist: cd ftp://user:pass@server.com/path/ didn't wo
rk if the user name or password contained an asterisk (*) character (make sure t
he path ends with a slash to make it work)
05.10.10 Fixed: Regular expressions, Unicode (e.g. in multi-rename tool): Disall
ow pattern ^?? because it causes a crash (replace by ^? as for ANSI regex search
es)
01.10.10 Fixed: Drag&Drop from search->feed to listbox not working on network sh
ares. Now it should work when all selected files are on the same share (\\server
\share)
30.09.10 Fixed: Don't check for shield overlay icon on UNC paths because it seem
s to be very slow
30.09.10 Fixed: File lists: Cache per file icons again, so they show up immediat
ely when they were shown before, but always reload them in the background thread
30.09.10 Fixed: Lister didn't support case-insensitive backwards search in UTF-8
files
30.09.10 Fixed: Start editing comment (Ctrl+Z) while background packing of TGZ a
rchive active, save comment (F2) -> access violation (only occurs when 'watch di

rectory changes' is off)


30.09.10 Fixed: Archive with encrypted file names (e.g. RAR): Pressed F3 on <Enc
rypted -> F5> text -> error message was shown, but cursor remained an hourglass
30.09.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs - "compare plugins" configuration dialog: First
column wasn't cut off at start of second column
30.09.10 Fixed: F5 - F2 background transfer manager timing problem: In some case
s, the BTM could close before new files could be added to it
28.09.10 Fixed: Button bar: Try to find better suited icon when dropping file on
bar, similar to icons in file list when using option "All"
28.09.10 Fixed: FTP: Viewing files containing forbidden characters (e.g. a colon
":") only worked with internal viewer, not external (Alt+F3)
28.09.10 Fixed: FTP: User had to re-enter server password (instead of master pas
sword) after closing TC with ftp connection on different tab, when this tab was
locked with directory changes allowed
28.09.10 Fixed: Create CRC checksums, give name of existing directory as target
file name -> Error that controls were deleted in background thread
28.09.10 Fixed: Windows Vista/7: Do not follow junctions (reparse points) locate
d on network drives when the target drive differs, because the stored target is
an absolute path, so the redirection would go to a local directory
28.09.10 Fixed: RAR packer: -sfx was passed twice to the packer when creating se
lf-extracting archives
28.09.10 Fixed: Verify CRC checksums: Could not abort verification while no file
s were found to be checked, e.g. because the crc file was moved to a different d
irectory
28.09.10 Fixed: Documentation of E_BAD_DATA and E_BAD_ARCHIVE in packer plugin h
elp file was wrong (reversed)
28.09.10 Fixed: FTP master password not working when longer than 64 bytes (after
converting it to UTF-8 internally)
28.09.10 Fixed: Show extended context menu items also in "x64" submenu on 64-bit
systems when Shift is pressed while the context menu (not the x64 submenu) is o
pened
27.09.10 Fixed: Configuration - Change button bar: Icons appeared on multiple li
nes when using high dpi settings (e.g. 175 dpi)
27.09.10 Fixed: Delete directories, one of them is locked because it's the curre
nt dir in another program -> user closes program, clicks "retry" -> only that di
rectory is deleted, but the delete operation stops
27.09.10 Fixed: Also ignore trailing spaces in XXE-Encoded files
27.09.10 Fixed: Select files (Num+"+"): Function couldn't handle selection by si
ze properly for files > 2GB
26.09.10 Added: Support of new non-standard zip file used by Firefox (omni.jar),
not starting with "PK" 03 04
26.09.10 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Position of file tips wrong when not using Win32-style
tips
26.09.10 Fixed: Files - Split very unresponsive (e.g. to abort button) when spli
tting huge files (several GB)
26.09.10 Fixed: Renaming directory failed if the contents of a subdir were shown
in the other panel, and "Watch directory changes" was used
26.09.10 Fixed: When using "watch directory changes" and closing Word, some temp
orary files didn't disappear from the list (because watching for list changes wa
s temporarily suspended) -> do not suspend it when staying in same dir
26.09.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Read Error" message was shown when comparing
directory with empty drive (e.g. newly formatted USB stick)
26.09.10 Fixed: Handle faulty ftp servers which return Unix file listing in repl
y to MLSD command (instead of MLSD format)
26.09.10 Fixed: Close help file when auto-installing to program dir or language
dir, so help files can be auto-updated too
26.09.10 Fixed: Normal file list, cursor on file at the top of the list (e.g. vi
a End, PageUp), delete file -> cursor on correct file, but shown at the bottom n
ow
26.09.10 Fixed: File system plugin, cursor on file at the top of the list (e.g.

via End, PageUp), delete file -> cursor went to [..]


24.09.10 Fixed: Security update to bzip2 plugin and bzip2 unpacker in tcunzlib.d
ll
24.09.10 Fixed: FTP: Store flag to preserve file dates on upload in separate ini
entry (PreserveDatesUpload) from same option for downloads
24.09.10 Fixed: Crash on startup when starting with both separate trees and tree
s in normal panels -> disallow it
24.09.10 Fixed: Search dialog, find text: Storing of Unicode text with spaces at
start or end not working
24.09.10 Fixed: FTP download from list, list >1024 bytes, edit list during downl
oad -> crash
31.08.10 Added: Start work on 64-bit conversion
29.08.10 Fixed: F4 Edit: Do not try to run default editor notepad.exe from curre
nt directory (if just notepad.exe is defined as default editor)
27.08.10 Added: Check whether Total Commander is vulnerable to DLL load problem
- no, not directly, but plugins may be vulnerable -> add protection
14.07.10 Added: Start work on conversion to Lazarus/Free Pascal in preparation f
or 64-bit version
13.07.10 Added: Deleted all old 16 bit code (in $ifdef) in preparation for 64-bi
t version
07.07.10 Release Total Commander 7.55a final
07.07.10 Fixed: Ctrl+V (Paste) not working with option x64DisableRedirection=1 (
Windows Vista/7 x64)
07.07.10 Fixed: Lister on Linux/Wine: Do not replace characters by dot placehold
er if fixed width font was requested, but variable width font returned
07.07.10 Fixed: Problems with AutoHotkey because of renamed buttons in "Configur
e directory hotlist"
06.07.10 Added: Always show administrative shares (experimental, WinNT-based sys
tems only): wincmd.ini [Configuration] AdminShares=1
04.07.10 Fixed: Custom sounds not working on Windows XP x64
04.07.10 Fixed: FTP in background: TC tried to resume the download even when use
r aborted downloading a binary file transferred in text mode
04.07.10 Fixed: FTP: "ABOR" command wasn't sent when user aborted downloading a
binary file transferred in text mode
04.07.10 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Speed limit could be significantly
lower than chosen by the user
02.07.10 Fixed: FTP: Made the detection of UTF-8 encoding compliant with RFC 264
0: If the FEAT command returns a line with UTF8, the encoding is ON by default,
even if OPTS UTF8 ON returns an error
02.07.10 Fixed: Load per file icons (e.g. exe/lnk) always in background, not onl
y on first load (should make network drives more responsive)
02.07.10 Fixed: When deleting files as admin from system32 while x64DisableRedir
ection=1, redirect calls to tcmadmin to SysNative (will work on XP64 only when i
nstalling Microsoft patch)
30.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55a pre2
29.06.10 Fixed: Decode file: List not refreshed when user gave a single dot "."
as target
28.06.10 Fixed: Remote Terminal Server drives not shown on Windows Server 2003 b
ecause WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId returned 0
28.06.10 Fixed: Show error when user tries to use outdated diskdir extended plug
in
28.06.10 Fixed: Move directory containing read-only file(s) to different drive > directory timestamp couldn't be moved with the directory, because NTFS updated
the timestamp when the read only file was deleted
28.06.10 Fixed: User-defined "unpack complete" sound played twice also when unpa
cking TAR archive, or with packer plugin supporting background operations
27.06.10 Fixed: TAR archives: Unpack files with long name stored in pax (portabl
e archive interchange) format extended header (see The Open Group Base Specifica

tions Issue 6, IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition)


27.06.10 Fixed: Send OPTS MLST command when server doesn't send all fields by de
fault (e.g. UNIX.mode)
27.06.10 Fixed: FTP "Send commands": Couldn't send command containing ";" charac
ter -> put command in double quotes e.g. "OPTS MLST Type;Size;Modify;Perm;UNIX.m
ode;"
27.06.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with files which differ only in case: Re-alignm
ent stopped after the first matching file
27.06.10 Added: Allow user to choose whether Ctrl+C should use Explorer extensio
ns or not (default is no, it's much faster): wincmd.ini [Configuration] UseFastC
trlC=1/0 (Set to 0 to use Explorer extensions)
25.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55a pre1
25.06.10 Added: Synchronize dirs with files which differ only in case: show slas
hed circle for files which will not be synchronized
25.06.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with files which differ only in case, e.g. Aaa
and AAA: Align more than one matching names, do not align non-matching names at
all if there are dupes
24.06.10 Fixed: User-defined "unpack complete" sound played twice when unpacking
RAR files (since the unpacking is now done in a background thread)
24.06.10 Fixed: Could not delete anything in Sync tool with VistaDelete=1 and x6
4DisableRedirection=1
24.06.10 Fixed: FTPS Uploads hang to Serv-U 9-4-0-0 due to a bug in Serv-U (inco
rrect shutdown handling)
24.06.10 Fixed: MIME-Decode (base64): Ignore spaces in the data
23.06.10 Fixed: FTP: If the server dropped the control connection during a downl
oad with a "connection reset", TC 7.55 would restart the download from start ins
tead of resuming
23.06.10 Added: Drive button bar: Do not show USB card reader slots with no medi
a: wincmd.ini [Configuration] HideRemovableNoMedia=1 (NT-based systems only, tu
rn off when too slow)
23.06.10 Fixed: Upload of subdir to FTP failed if connection was lost (timeout)
before the upload started
22.06.10 Fixed: Dynamically create copyright notice with Unicode in Splash scree
n so it also works on e.g. Chinese Windows
22.06.10 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added a switch to always create Unicode file
for external editor (e.g. to change English names to add characters from other c
odepages): wincmd.ini [Configuration] RenameEditUnicode=1
21.06.10 Fixed: FTP compare by content (in synchronize dirs): Handle special cas
e where FTP server cuts leading zeroes from XCRC checksum (e.g. Serv-U)
21.06.10 Fixed: When auto-installing language file with included help file, use
that help when user presses F1
21.06.10 Fixed: When switching to CD-ROM drive while tray is open, do not abort
reading with error after 5 seconds. Instead, show "Connecting" dialog
21.06.10 Fixed: When closing command line dropdown combobox, place cursor at the
end of the line also in brief view
20.06.10 Fixed: Drag&Drop and Properties dialog not working with option x64Disab
leRedirection=1 (Windows 7 only)
20.06.10 Fixed: Tree wasn't updated when user changed to different directory via
right click on button bar and choosing cd c:\some path
17.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 final
16.06.10 Fixed: Internal unpack function didn't ask to overwrite target if the t
arget directory allowed to write, but not to list the directory contents
16.06.10 Fixed: Do not use CONNECT_PROMPT option for UNC servers in the form \\s
erver, only for shares
16.06.10 Fixed: If PromptForUser=1, do not call connect function if already conn
ected (check via WNetGetUser)
16.06.10 Fixed: cd \\server\share /user: didn't work on the command line

15.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 final (pre2)


15.06.10 Added: Call network connect function with CONNECT_PROMPT option to prom
pt for user name: wincmd.ini [Configuration] PromptForUser=1
15.06.10 Fixed: FTP: When "Send commands" also contained a CWD command, reconnec
ting to an ftp server via history went to that directory instead of the director
y in the history
14.06.10 Fixed: Problems with tabs when an ftp connection was saved with "@" cha
racter in its name (TC tries to reconnect on each tab change)
13.06.10 Added: "cd" command in button bar and user menu: When parameter /user:
is added without giving a user name, call connect function with CONNECT_PROMPT o
ption to prompt for user name
13.06.10 Fixed: Look for key file also under %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Wind
ows Vista/7 if TC is installed in "Program files" dir (reason: some older mail p
rograms may store the key there!)
13.06.10 Fixed: FTP Upload: File was appended instead of overwritten if the conn
ection was lost before starting the transfer (e.g. timeout)
11.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 final (pre)
09.06.10 Fixed: ZIP packer: Option to store Unicode names in extra fields not wo
rking with archives >4GB (problem with extra field creation)
09.06.10 Fixed: When entering a file system plugin, the Network Neighborhood in
the separate tree was read in the foreground by mistake
09.06.10 Fixed: FTP auto-resume failed when "Send commands" field contained also
a command to change the directory -> execute it before setting the previous dir
08.06.10 Fixed: With VistaDelete=1, place cursor on first not deleted or skipped
file
08.06.10 Fixed: With VistaDelete=1, it was no longer possible to move the delete
process to the background
08.06.10 Fixed: FTP client: Don't show time for [..] updir item (was shown as 1.
1.1601)
08.06.10 Fixed: Compare by content: "Resynchronize from here" could cause an acc
ess violation if one of the selected lines was not existing (e.g. behind the end
of that file)
08.06.10 Fixed: FTP: Support HASH command also when neither SHA-1 nor MD5 is the
default -> use OPTS HASH command to set used method
06.06.10 Fixed: USB port connection not working with option x64DisableRedirectio
n=1
04.06.10 Added: Show '?' in footer in front of the selected and total size while
calculation in background is going on
04.06.10 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack dialog: Do not modify text when typing e.g. rar: and
the rar button is being checked
04.06.10 Fixed: Copy button bar button: Set clipboard code page for users who wa
nt to use the data elsewhere
04.06.10 Fixed: Could not connect to FTPS (secure ftp over SSL) sites with x64Di
sableRedirection=1 (dll load problem in "Connect")
03.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 3
02.06.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Problem with packing to 7zip archives (with pl
ugin), could result in duplicate files
02.06.10 Fixed: Increased maximum number of custom hints from 20 to 100, increas
ed saving speed (when using a virus scanner)
02.06.10 Fixed: F5 copy from archive to Desktop had stopped working again (refre
sh must be done manually)
02.06.10 Added: Synchronize dirs with FTP when files with same name but differen
t case exist: Find exact name match, e.g. index.htm on both sides, and allow to
sync them
02.06.10 Fixed: Also play just a default beep in "Compare by content" when user
presses Ctrl+C and nothing is selected
01.06.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 3 (pre2)

01.06.10 Added: HTML Help: All links to external web pages now open separately i
n the default browser
01.06.10 Fixed: Tree view in one of the two main panels: F7 created dir on Deskt
op instead of in the directory under the cursor (only works in real directories)
01.06.10 Fixed: Play just a default beep in Lister when user presses Ctrl+C and
nothing is selected (Reason: Some translation programs seem to send Ctrl+C to Li
ster!)
31.05.10 Added: Synchronize dirs with FTP when files with same name but differen
t case exist, e.g. index.htm + INDEX.HTM -> just show these files in red and ign
ore them (can be viewed or deleted)
31.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: No subdirectory headers were shown when using
"Only selected" with some selected dirs, but "Recurse subdirs" turned off (which
compares files in these dirs, but not their subdirs)
31.05.10 Fixed: With VistaDelete=1, the file list wasn't refreshed if at least o
ne file couldn't be deleted (because VistaDelete returned an ERROR)
31.05.10 Fixed: USB Port connection: When directory download was aborted immedia
tely before the server sent the SIZE command, no other directories could be list
ed for a few seconds
31.05.10 Fixed: Bugfix from 24.05.10 when deleting with VistaDelete=1 wasn't wor
king when deleting very large image files (dialog takes longer to appear)
30.05.10 Fixed: In the ftp connection details dialog, when typing ftps:// , the
cursor was jumping to the start of the line when the SSL checkbox was checked
30.05.10 Added: Support HASH command (MD5 and SHA-1 only) if announced via FEAT
command
30.05.10 Fixed: Call Application.Terminate instead of Halt when user clicks on "
No" in plugin exception dialog to avoid double error
30.05.10 Fixed: FTP: Make sure the reconnected path is the same as before when c
ontinuing a transfer
30.05.10 Fixed: Compare by contents: Could not abort the comparison for the inte
ractive display (only the initial comparison with progress dialog)
28.05.10 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow to open "compare by content" via right c
lick menu or Ctrl+F3 even when file exits on only one side (was requested to com
pare file with user-chosen other)
26.05.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 3 (pre1)
26.05.10 Fixed: FTP: Auto-reconnect on uploads and downloads when the control co
nnection is lost (e.g. caused by a bug in the Windows 7 firewall when using FTPS
)
25.05.10 Fixed: Handle faulty FTP servers returning incomplete reply to FEAT or
HELP SITE command (missing last line starting with 3 digit number) via 5 second
timeout
25.05.10 Fixed: Multi-rename tool on FTP server: Allow to reconnect if connectio
n is lost while renaming
25.05.10 Fixed: Files - Change attributes: "Change date/time" checkbox wasn't al
ways checked when clicking on "Load from file under cursor"
24.05.10 Fixed: When deleting with VistaDelete=1, ignore the "Cancel" button unt
il after the dialog "Do you want to delete.." has been shown
23.05.10 Fixed: Renaming a directory while showing separate tree could hang TC w
hen Shift+F6 was pressed while the tree was still being updated
23.05.10 Fixed: CRC check dialog didn't use user-defined TC icon (via iconlib op
tion in wincmd.ini)
23.05.10 Fixed: Choosing Ctrl+F - New connection - Anonymous crashed on Windows
2000
23.05.10 Fixed: Switch from a tab with fs plugin custom columns view to tab with
thumbs view, turn off thumbs view -> plugin custom columns were enabled also on
local drive
23.05.10 Fixed: Could not abort reading of extremely long directory via port con
nection (when server sends WAIT commands)
23.05.10 Fixed: TC hangs when trying to unpack 0 byte file created by packer iza
rcc (reason: compression is set to bzip2, but no data present)

21.05.10 Fixed: TcUsbRun.exe not adding menu items to insert notification dialog
on Vista x64 -> need to write to 64-bit registry branch
21.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Main window could become accessible when synch
ronizing via port connection
21.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Copying was aborted immediately when trying to
sync after aborting compare by content (so some [?] results remained)
20.05.10 Fixed: When copying NTFS permissions, also copy the state of the "inher
it" flag (whether rights should be inherited from the parent or not)
19.05.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 2
19.05.10 Fixed: Improved stability of 64 bit parallel port driver
19.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: If the target ftp dir is wrong, show a warning
and revert to current dir (or abort in case of copying)
19.05.10 Fixed: Turn off directory cache for USB connection (which is very fast,
so caching isn't necessary)
18.05.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 2 (pre)
18.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs by content with archive: Auto-rename unpacked f
ile in case of name collisions in TEMP dir
18.05.10 Fixed: Uninstaller didn't remove parallel port driver if the first port
wasn't LPT1 (but LPT2 or LPT3)
18.05.10 Fixed: Find files, feed in listbox -> Shift+Click didn't select anythin
g
18.05.10 Added: Included 64 bit parallel port driver for Windows XP, Vista and 7
x64 (ported to 64 bit by APSoft, Germany)
16.05.10 Fixed: RAR and packer plugins: Couldn't unpack files where the name sta
rted with ".\", e.g. .\name.ext
16.05.10 Fixed: TC version number wasn't shown in crash reports of standalone to
ols started via /S= parameter
16.05.10 Fixed: Show breadcrumb dropdown list, Ctrl+Double click on path -> drop
down button was shown again, but didn't work
16.05.10 Fixed: Could not use "Verify checksums" function with files having exte
nsion .sha256 or .cfv
16.05.10 Fixed: Keep cursor on archive if opening it with ENTER fails (e.g. beca
use it's an incomplete download)
16.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Deleting empty subdirs from zip no longer work
ing in root after adding fix for dirs in subdirs
16.05.10 Fixed: cm_FtpAddToList would show error "File %s not found!" if it cann
ot write to the specified list file (e.g. missing access rights)
12.05.10 Fixed: Right click with shift, choose "Run as" fix reported below (26.0
4.10) not working on Windows 7 because the system uses a different verb "runasus
er"
10.05.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 1
10.05.10 Fixed: Port connection to other PC (LPT or USB): Server could crash whe
n there were too many files with extra-long names in the visited directory
10.05.10 Added: Correctly install and uninstall 64-bit cglptnt.sys (to be added
later)
09.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with FTP: Show error if "change directory" to g
iven path on server fails
09.05.10 Added: Use optimized MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 functions from DCPcrypt Crypt
ographic Component Library v2, Copyright (c) 1999-2003 David Barton (MIT license
)
07.05.10 Added: Check SHA256 checksum files (creation isn't currently supported)
06.05.10 Fixed: cglptnt.sys was not working when there are gaps between LPT port
s, e.g. LPT1+LPT3 or just LPT3
06.05.10 Fixed: Parallel port connection had stopped working between beta 7 and
8
06.05.10 Fixed: More crashes when viewing files with F3 from archives and closin
g the viewer

05.05.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 release candidate 1 (pre)


05.05.10 Fixed: FTP: Handling of Abort command during downloads especially with
UTF-8
05.05.10 Fixed: Compare by content, edit, click on "Compare", write fails, user
chooses other name in write-protected dir -> changes are lost
05.05.10 Fixed: Copy in background transfer manager: Dialog very unresponsive wh
en using low speed limit for copying
05.05.10 Fixed: Copy in background transfer manager: Aborting operation with 'x'
button not working when using speed limit
05.05.10 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown button remained visible after Ctr+T or C
trl+W if this caused the tab panel to appear/disappear/change height
05.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ZIP archive: Empty directories could not b
e deleted if comparison was started in a subdirectory of the zip
05.05.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with RAR archive not working correctly if the a
rchive contained stored directories with no trailing slash or backslash
05.05.10 Fixed: Crash when searching with options "Unicode" and "Whole words" fo
r text "edit\n"
04.05.10 Fixed: Windows could go to sleep while file operations were active -> u
se SetThreadExecutionState if available to keep Windows running
28.04.10 Added: New method to install key via clipboard (may be used when TC 7.5
5 is more common)
28.04.10 Added: Store key also in registry (binary value "key" under Total Comma
nder key) - must be set via keypath=$ in wincmd.ini
28.04.10 Fixed: Scrolling of WMF files, centering and fit to window if the file
contains size information
28.04.10 Fixed: Crash when typing text in command line when packaged with Vmware
ThinApp. Reason: auto-complete and auto-append (problem with thread local stora
ge)
27.04.10 Fixed: "Copy NTFS permissions" not working for subdirectories in protec
ted directories (via tcmadmin.exe)
27.04.10 Fixed: Abort text search if search length too big (>255 bytes)
27.04.10 Fixed: Lister crashes when trying to search for very long hexadecimal s
tring
27.04.10 Fixed: Show progress bar also when moving files within the same drive
27.04.10 Fixed: Don't show second copy progress bar when "Count marked before co
pying" isn't checked
27.04.10 Fixed: Option SyncHideHiddenSystem: Value '4' was implemented incorrect
ly (reversed)
26.04.10 Fixed: When a file is renamed from *.zip to *.exe, don't ask to convert
to self-extracting archive if it already is a program file (start with MZ)
26.04.10 Fixed: Right click context menu: Call IContextMenu3.HandleMenuMsg2 inst
ead of IContextMenu2.HandleMenuMsg if available
26.04.10 Fixed: Right click context menu: Show properties dialog at the location
of the menu, not a random location
26.04.10 Fixed: Right click with shift, choose "Run as" -> same problem as with
cm_OpenAsUser
26.04.10 Fixed: Command cm_OpenAsUser didn't pass current dir to starting progra
m. Contrary to the documentation, the current dir was then %windir%\system32
26.04.10 Fixed: Wrong tab order in "Verify checksums" dialog
25.04.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Failed to create new directories in directorie
s where writing was denied (e.g. Windows directory)
25.04.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SyncWarnErrors=1 controls when the us
er is warned about dir access errors: 0=never, 1=only when access fails (e.g. ne
twork connection loss), 2=when access is denied, 3=both
25.04.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: User wasn't warned if reading from a directory
failed or was denied
25.04.10 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, function "Load names from file": UTF-8 (with
BOM) not handled correctly
25.04.10 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, function "Edit names": Store name with extens

ion .txt, because notepad will otherwise store it as .tmp.txt when using "save a
s" (the user still needs to save the file to the correct directory)
22.04.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 public beta 3
21.04.10 Fixed: Try to catch access violation when restarting Windows while CRC
check dialog is open (unreproduced)
20.04.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 public beta 3 (pre)
20.04.10 Fixed: tcmdx64: When calling QueryContextMenu to get menu from shell ex
tensions, set flag CMF_EXPLORE, not CMF_NORMAL (the Explorer seems to do that to
o)
20.04.10 Fixed: Installer couldn't install new version if TC standalone tool (sy
nc, compare, Lister) was running
20.04.10 Fixed: Standalone sync tool (started via /S=S parameter): TEMP files no
t deleted when viewing files from archive and closing sync tool instead of closi
ng Lister first
18.04.10 Fixed: OPENTABS or APPENDTABS command: Parameter %P%N not working if th
e path or file name contained spaces
18.04.10 Added: Verify CRC checksums: Allow to resume CRC check when user clicks
on Abort - if not resumed, keep window open with results obtained so far
18.04.10 Added: Verify CRC checksums: Show background button which brings TC's m
ain window to the front (if not minimized), otherwise it minimizes the CRC check
window
18.04.10 Fixed: Verify CRC checksums not working if user selects multiple CRC/MD
5/SHA1 files, starts the check, and then switches to a different directory in TC
itself before the last file is opened
18.04.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode, directory on one side, zip on
other, compare two dirs with same name but different case -> dirs themselves sh
own twice (but not their content)
16.04.10 Fixed: Port connection: Very long names (near 259 characters) not worki
ng properly when consisting of non-English characters (e.g. Chinese, Russian)
16.04.10 Fixed: Quick search with Ctrl+Alt: If user pressed e.g. AltGr+e, both '
e' and 'Euro' were added to quick search. Now try to prefer 'Euro' if there is a
match, otherwise 'e'. Cursor position can still be wrong in Ctrl+S mode
16.04.10 Fixed: Drag file over breadcrumb bar until subdir list opens, move curs
or to empty space in the same bar -> cursor remained in "drop" form by mistake
16.04.10 Fixed: Do not send command HELP SITE to ftp servers with IBM MVS = z/OS
system, the connection is lost due to a bug in the server
16.04.10 Fixed: CRC check of checksums in file name not working in branch view f
or files in subdirs
14.04.10 Fixed: Port connection: Always offer USB on Windows XP or newer, but sh
ow error about missing driver if no cable was installed
13.04.10 Added: Uninstaller: Delete files from start menu manually instead of us
ing DDE
13.04.10 Fixed: Uninstaller didn't remove desktop icon if it was created for all
users
13.04.10 Fixed: Restore selection from file or clipboard (e.g. cm_LoadSelectionF
romClip) not working in tree view (names need to be copied with full path)
13.04.10 Fixed: F5 copy to tree in other panel: Try to resolve virtual folders t
o real directories (e.g. drive root)
13.04.10 Fixed: Could not open totalcmd main program when "only one instance" wa
s set, and a standalone tool (Lister, Sync, Compare) was already running
11.04.10 Fixed: FTP: Crash when starting transfer in background, only after conn
ection via "FTP New Connection" (Ctrl+N)
11.04.10 Fixed: Custom columns view: In search results view (after 'feed to list
box'), TC did not pass the DOS 8.3 names to non-Unicode plugins even if the file
s had Unicode names where Windows converted the accented chars to unaccented ins
tead of ?
11.04.10 Fixed: Explorer would open if "Use Irfanview" was checked in Lister con
figuration, but no program name was given

11.04.10 Fixed: Unpack single encrypted RAR archive with Alt+F9 - user was asked
twice for the password (archives with encrypted names not unpacked at all)
11.04.10 Fixed: Show nag dialog (1-2-3) on the same screen as the main window
11.04.10 Fixed: Lister: Search, encodings and settings dialogs were not centered
over Lister window if Lister shown on secondary screen
11.04.10 Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip didn't restore selection in root of an
archive (e.g. when stored via cm_CopyNamesToClip)
11.04.10 Fixed: Find files dialog, search by date/time ("Advanced" tab): Text bo
x too short in "From" and "To" fields to edit time added via >> button
07.04.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 public beta 2
06.04.10 Added: Paste text into quick search dialog (and Ctrl+S dialog) with Ctr
l+V or Shift+Insert, as if the user was typing the characters (only works as lon
g as the characters match)
06.04.10 Fixed: Colors by file type: Also refresh list of user-defined searches
when user closes dialog with "X" button (but do not focus it)
06.04.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, delete (asymmetric mode): Do not start copy op
erations if user aborts delete operation
06.04.10 Fixed: Size calculation with Alt+Shift+Enter: Total size (in footer) wa
s updated in the active panel instead of the calculated panel
06.04.10 Fixed: Do not limit search to only the directory itself when searching
in previous search results
06.04.10 Fixed: Custom columns view: In search results view (after 'feed to list
box'), TC did not pass the DOS 8.3 names to non-Unicode plugins even if the file
s had Unicode names
06.04.10 Fixed: Unpack multiple encrypted zip/rar archives with internal unpacke
r (Alt+F9): Only ask once for the password (if all use the same)
06.04.10 Fixed: FTP: Send commands defined in "Send commands" field also in back
ground, can be turned off via SpecialFlags=256 (in wcx_ftp.ini, either section [
General] or per connection)
06.04.10 Fixed: Switch from custom columns view in normal file system to other c
ustom columns view in fs plugin worked only every second time
06.04.10 Fixed: Thumbnail view: No custom fields shown below file name when swit
ching from custom columns view to thumb view
06.04.10 Fixed: Thumbnail view with a mix of normal and delay-loaded fields on o
ne line -> values of normal fields could be lost once the delay-loaded fields we
re loaded
06.04.10 Fixed: Crash when closing TC while search window in Lister was open
06.04.10 Fixed: No icon shown for some malformed file types, e.g. no "open" verb
defined, and default value of "shell" key not set
31.03.10 Fixed: FTP: Turn off MLSD and switch to LIST when server returns error
"500 Command not understood" or "425 No data connection."
31.03.10 Fixed: Find files not older than 1 month on 31. March not working (beca
use 31. February doesn't exist...)
31.03.10 Fixed: TcUsbRun.exe: Auto-elevate itself when user runs it with normal
rights on Vista or Windows 7
30.03.10 Fixed: Compare by content: Subdirs in TEMP dir not deleted when compari
ng file in archive 2 or more levels deep
30.03.10 Fixed: Files - change attributes: File colors were reset to black inste
ad of the user-defined foreground color after changing plugin fields
30.03.10 Fixed: When loading the openssl dlls, set current directory to TC dir t
o avoid that the dll is loaded from the program's current dir
30.03.10 Added: CRC check: Support CRC checksums directly in the file names, in
the form filename[1234ABCD].ext
30.03.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] MultiRenameLoadSettings=SavedName loa
d specified settings when opening multi-rename tool (set to some non-existent na
me to open with default settings)
30.03.10 Fixed: Re-pack file to archive after editing with F4 -> archive listing
not updated if option "Set ZIP date to newest file date" was set, AND the archi
ve contained a file with a time stamp in the future (so that file's time stamp w

as used instead of the one of the changed file)


29.03.10 Fixed: Moved handling of separate trees to its own background thread (w
as handled by icon/overlay/thumbnail thread before)
29.03.10 Added: Disallow port connection (USB and LPT) by adding 512 to Restrict
Interface value (wincmd.ini and/or registry)
28.03.10 Fixed: F5 copy while other panel shows tree suggested wrong target dire
ctory
28.03.10 Fixed: Lister changed keyboard layout when displaying some RTF files (c
aused by Windows RTF control)
28.03.10 Fixed: F7 create directory in packer plugins: Call them exactly as when
adding an empty directory with F5 (added missing backslashes)
28.03.10 Fixed: Show error if user presses Ctrl+PageDown on "<Encrypted -> F5>"
item in RAR with encrypted names
28.03.10 Fixed: CRC check dialog too small if system font size >96 dpi (however,
it was correct with OverrideDPI)
28.03.10 Fixed: Delete empty dirs sometimes failed if a subdir was opened in the
opposite panel and "watch directory changes" was enabled
28.03.10 Fixed: Detect infinite loops in environment variables, e.g. set xx=%xx%
, then use cd %xx% in command line
28.03.10 Fixed: cm_CopyNamesToClip on ftp stores names with trailing slash -> re
store with cm_LoadSelectionFromClip (in button bar) failed!
28.03.10 Fixed: CRC check window not centered over main window if TC shown on se
condary screen
23.03.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 public beta 1
23.03.10 Added: New icons for background operation (folder/sheet with two green
arrows), 24x24 sheet for files without icon
23.03.10 Fixed: The self-extractor of the installer package will also report ver
sion 7.55 (Alt+Enter on installer)
23.03.10 Fixed: Lister started via /S=L parameter: Show error if invalid/unknown
code page is passed in, e.g. /S=L:AT1C57030 <filename>
23.03.10 Fixed: Show error if TcUsbRun.exe is run, user chooses to install the t
ool, but totalcmd.exe isn't found
23.03.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, by content, encrypted archive -> user was aske
d for the password a second time even if he pressed Cancel
21.03.10 Fixed: Make sure that "show directory in tree" isn't called twice at th
e same time
21.03.10 Fixed: F5 copy, click on "Background" in progress dialog -> Background
progress was not displayed completely inside the screen on Windows Vista/7 with
Aero
21.03.10 Fixed: Drag&Drop with a touchpad: When ending the drag with a right tou
chpad button press, the files were copied, not moved (because TC was using the s
tate of the drag icon since 7.50RC2)
21.03.10 Fixed: Could not connect to certain older vsftpd versions -> Session re
-use can be turned off via SpecialFlags=128 (in wcx_ftp.ini, either section [Gen
eral] or per connection)
21.03.10 Fixed: Ctrl+Q on archive: First look for string "readme", then "read" i
f not found. Don't show files where the extension starts with .com.exe.lnk.wav.m
p.avi.bmp.gif.jp.png.tif.swf.flv.mov.wm
19.03.10 Fixed: TcUsbRun.exe was not showing an error if removal as normal user
failed
19.03.10 Fixed: F5 add to archive, Synchronize dirs: Refuse to add files to an e
xisting plugin archive if the plugin doesn't report PK_CAPS_MODIFY support
19.03.10 Fixed: FTP: There was no overwrite warning if the function "show only s
elected" was used on the server side, so the target file was hidden
17.03.10 Release Total Commander 7.55 beta 9
17.03.10 Added: Show warning and help page when opening synchronize dirs with ft
p when using MLSD for directory listings
17.03.10 Added: Support Allowed= drive list also in standalone USB server

17.03.10 Added: Explicitly load shield overlay icons on Vista and Windows 7 for
programs requiring admin rights to run
17.03.10 Fixed: GNU TAR could not correctly unpack some TAR files created by TC
(last character of file name was cut if name was exactly 100 chars long, files o
nly)
17.03.10 Added: Search function: When started from "Feed to listbox" panel, hand
le as if all files would be selected
16.03.10 Added: With the help from a German user, changed all German texts and t
he Help from Swiss to German spellings ( character)
16.03.10 Fixed: Set lower thread priority of tree update thread (for updating tr
eeinfo.wc) to speed up foreground operations, temporarily speed up the thread in
critical sections
16.03.10 Fixed: Access violation when dragging selected text from Syn Lister plu
gin to Total Commander
16.03.10 Fixed: Center CRC check window again over main window
16.03.10 Fixed: When passing paths to a running TC (via /O switch), remove quick
filter and don't remember file name under cursor if the path is DIFFERENT
15.03.10 Added: Changed version number from 7.51 to 7.55 to reflect the many add
ed features
15.03.10 Fixed: Wine: FTP password AES encryption with master password not worki
ng, because verification of wcmzip32.dll digital signature failed
14.03.10 Added: Tool TcUsbRun.exe to detect when USB cable is inserted. So far,
it needs to be enabled manually by running the tool directly
14.03.10 Fixed: cm_VisXPThemeBackground didn't redraw the button bar (only after
resizing the window)
14.03.10 Added: Detect when USB cable gets disconnected, close server. On the cl
ient side, offer to reconnect when the user starts the next command
14.03.10 Fixed: Port connections on other tabs were saved as ftp://usb instead o
f port://usb
12.03.10 Added: Compare by content: Set colors also for normal text and selected
text: wincmd.ini [Colors] CompareNormalBack, CompareNormalText, CompareSelBack,
CompareSelText
12.03.10 Added: Compare by content: Show slightly different background color for
different lines. Can be set via wincmd.ini [Colors] CompareDifferenceBack= (-1
=same color, -2=slightly different, other=RGB value)
12.03.10 Fixed: Making right mouse button drag&drop in left panel with ftp conne
ction (no cache) in right would cause unneeded right panel refresh
12.03.10 Added: Support also Drag&Drop from archives, ftp connections, and file
system plugins to the Desktop
12.03.10 Fixed: F5 copy to zip subdirs stopped working
11.03.10 Fixed: Port connection: Do not use the server's ignore list for remote
files, otherwise ignored files would be overwritten on upload without warning
10.03.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 8
10.03.10 Fixed: Copy in background via F5-F2: Overwrite dialog could be outside
of the current screen
10.03.10 Fixed: Strange results when using invalid view filter (e.g. >* where al
l parameters of "*" custom filter are empty)
10.03.10 Fixed: Port connection: Progress bars invisible when uploading (only wi
th NewStyleProgress=0)
10.03.10 Fixed: Could not switch to normal custom columns view via right click o
n tabstop header while in a file system plugin (only to plugin-specific views)
10.03.10 Added: Unpack from archives to the desktop, copy from ftp and file syst
em plugins to the desktop
10.03.10 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs: Sometimes a wait dialog was still s
hown when comparing files with external tool
09.03.10 Added: Port connection: Start server via new parameter /S=P:USB or /S=P
:LPT1
09.03.10 Fixed: Using custom colors in file panel title bar had negative effects
on breadcrumb bar

09.03.10 Fixed: Do not show ftp templates dialog on Alt+Shift+Enter during port
connection (since the listing format is fixed)
07.03.10 Fixed: USB connection: Couldn't upload/download 0 byte files
05.03.10 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar not working properly when using custom title bar
colors
04.03.10 Added: USB connection: Auto-re-send commands in case of a command block
CRC error
04.03.10 Added: USB connection: Auto-resume in case of a data block CRC error, b
oth for uploads and downloads.
03.03.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 7
03.03.10 Added: Upload to USB or FTP servers: Show second progress bar with over
all progress and overall remaining time
03.03.10 Added: USB connection: Increased transfer speed of many small files by
sending file details in one line instead of 3
03.03.10 Fixed: USB connection: Overwrite didn't work correctly on uploads
03.03.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors]: Set colors for file panel title bar: Active
Title=, ActiveTitleText=, InactiveTitle=, InactiveTitleText=
03.03.10 Added: Lister, internal player (via Media Player interface): Show total
time in addition to elapsed time to the right of the progress bar
03.03.10 Fixed: Search function, in results from "Feed to Listbox", only selecte
d: create list of already searched directories, to avoid that the same dir searc
hed twice (listing its files also twice)
03.03.10 Fixed: Invalid timestamp values returned by a plugin could cause intege
r overflow error
03.03.10 Fixed: Compare by content: Open compare window in any case when cursor
on file on ftp server or file system plugin, but do not download the file
03.03.10 Fixed: Compare by content: Open compare window in any case when cursor
on file in archive which doesn't exist on the other side. Unpack the file so it
can be compared with other files.
03.03.10 Fixed: cd c:\somefile didn't place the cursor on the file (in the root
only)
03.03.10 Fixed: USB connection: Default to UTF-8 name encoding
03.03.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UsbBufSize=-1 set USB send buffer siz
e in kBytes (1..64, -1 means maximum possible size)
02.03.10 Fixed: when TC was started from two different user names (via Runas), t
he second one couldn't write to the log file and access the thumbs database (req
uires security descriptor in CreateMutex to allow it)
02.03.10 Added: Port connection: Put USB connection first, don't load parallel p
ort driver to show list of ports
28.02.10 Fixed: Master password dialog: User could enter more text than allowed,
so there were more stars than password characters
28.02.10 Added: Compare by content now also works with files on the desktop
28.02.10 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs: Comparing files with external tool
not handled correctly (wait dialog shown if closed too quickly, size in list not
updated when closed normally)
28.02.10 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also sort non-solid RAR archives by original o
rder when comparing, for speed reasons
28.02.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: non-solid RAR archives were no longer compared
by content completely
28.02.10 Added: Write to log files in background (separate thread) both for ftp
and file logs
24.02.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 6
24.02.10 Added: Drive Selection dialog in search function: Resizable, save posit
ion relative to upper left corner of search dialog
24.02.10 Fixed: Access violation when pressing Ctrl+S and the filtering of the d
ir list is aborted somehow
24.02.10 Fixed: Crash unpacking some special AES-encrypted ZIP files when enteri
ng wrong password

24.02.10 Fixed: Show error if writing to ini file fails when changing directory
menu (Ctrl+D) or start menu
24.02.10 Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare also solid RAR archives by content: Wh
ile comparing, sort by original order (of the left file if both sides solid), ke
ep file open during entire comparison
24.02.10 Fixed: Sometimes (randomly) packer plugins may not work, error that ext
ernal packer wasn't found
24.02.10 Fixed: cm_DirBranchSel, cm_LeftDirBranchSel and cm_RightDirBranchSel bu
ttons/menu items were not marked when branch view of selected files/folders was
active
24.02.10 Fixed: Quick search dialog: Resize Ctrl+S button correctly also when us
ing a different font, or OverrideDPI
24.02.10 Fixed: The ignore list was no longer working in Search (Alt+F7)
24.02.10 Fixed: Change button bar button via right click menu, choose em_xyz com
mand via magnifier button -> icon was not taken from that command
19.02.10 Added: Begin of work on new USB connection via Windows Easy Transfer Ca
ble
17.02.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 5
17.02.10 Fixed: Help file: Replace all popup links by internal links (problems w
ith Maxthon browser)
17.02.10 Added: Drop image from Mozilla Firefox returns bitmap via CF_HDROP -> u
se CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPTOR instead to get original image
17.02.10 Fixed: Drop mails from Mozilla Thunderbird not working because it repor
ts drop type CF_HDROP, but GetData() returns an error. -> Use CFSTR_FILEDESCRIPT
OR instead
16.02.10 Fixed: Support case-insensitive regular expression file name search als
o for non-English characters, e.g. for accents or Cyrillic (only on NT-based sys
tems)
16.02.10 Fixed: Standalone sync tool (started via /S=S parameter): TEMP files no
t deleted after viewing files from ZIP, or comparing in external compare tool
14.02.10 Fixed: FTP: access violation after closing command output dialog (shown
after sending manual command like "HELP") with "X" button.
14.02.10 Fixed: Crash when using quick search in standalone sync tool
14.02.10 Fixed: Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx to get maximum size of swap file
14.02.10 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also compare files by content from ARJ, LHA, T
AR and non-solid RAR archives
14.02.10 Added: When a CD is removed, revert to locked tab root instead of going
to the root of c:\ (on a tab which is locked but directory changes allowed)
14.02.10 Fixed: When a CD is removed, do not try to access the CD when receiving
WM_DEVICECHANGE notification, because it may hang the program (caused by some v
irus scanners)
14.02.10 Added: Get volume label and disk size in background: not for fixed disk
drives to reduce thread overhead
12.02.10 Added: Search: Also search in directories where user has no read rights
. So far, search by name, attributes, contents and the duplicate file finder are
supported, but not in archives or plugins.
12.02.10 Added: Search: Made drive selection dialog a bit larger to show also lo
nger labels (but do not adapt to label length)
12.02.10 Fixed: Encode/Decode file: Wrong dialog was used for encode when overwr
iting, strings in wrong place in overwrite dialog when decoding
12.02.10 Fixed: Access violation when closing synchronize dirs dialog via [X] bu
tton while quick search was open
10.02.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 4
10.02.10 Added: Internal content plugin field "Random number", generating a pseu
do-random number (not cryptographically strong) between 0 and 99999. Useful e.g.
to sort music files by random numbers.
10.02.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] UnZIPSeparateSubdirs option: added value -3
which works like -2, but only when more than one archive is selected

10.02.10 Fixed: Button bar: Do not draw button frame around button when moving o
ther window (e.g. notepad) over that button
10.02.10 Fixed: Button bar: 1 pixel-wide column at the right end not redrawn whe
n XP theming was turned off
10.02.10 Fixed: F5 Copy with tree in source panel -> only the directory under th
e cursor was copied instead of the selected dirs
09.02.10 Fixed: F5 Copy with tree in target panel -> files were copied to the de
sktop instead of to the selected directory
09.02.10 Fixed: Changing drive by typing c: and ENTER in command line stopped wo
rking
09.02.10 Fixed: FTP Connect dialog: Show error when user clicks on "Rename" when
there is no connection defined yet
09.02.10 Added: Support option "Copy NTFS permissions" also in protected directo
ries (via tcmadmin.exe)
09.02.10 Added: Drive selection dialog in search function: Show drive bitmaps an
d volume labels
09.02.10 Fixed: Handle situation where a content plugin returns ft_delayed in ba
ckground too (although CONTENT_DELAYIFSLOW is NOT set), e.g. exeinfo
09.02.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Couldn't abort ftp transfer when transferring
many small files -> added call to MessageLoop
09.02.10 Fixed: Viewing file with F3 in protected directory: scrolling to file b
eginning could fail
07.02.10 Fixed: Use KLF_SUBSTITUTE_OK in ActivateKeyboardLayout to fix problems
with Arabic
07.02.10 Fixed: Try to catch exception which can occur when trying to load wrong
OpenSSL library
07.02.10 Added: Various file dialogs: Show tooltip window below dialog with full
name if name was truncated with 3 dots (because it was too long)
05.02.10 Fixed: FTP details dialog: "Advanced ->" button wasn't labeled correctl
y on Windows 9x/ME
05.02.10 Fixed: Search function: Deleting old searches from dropdown combobox wi
th Shift+Del not remembered if the cursor was placed on them with the mouse (->
Windows sends no notification!)
05.02.10 Fixed: /N parameter (force new instance) was no longer working
03.02.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 3
03.02.10 Fixed: Windows 7 Taskbar progress bar not working if "Verify Checksums"
was the first function with progress bar used
03.02.10 Added: Refresh indicator on directory/file icon when plugin fields or t
humbnails are loaded in the background
03.02.10 Fixed: Access violation when double clicking on certain files in a virt
ual folder like the Desktop
03.02.10 Fixed: Vertical arrangement, moving tab header position didn't draw spl
itting line length correctly if panel size different
03.02.10 Added: Find files, search by size ("Advanced" tab): Support GBytes unit
, and fractional numbers like 0.1 GBytes (1 GByte= 1024x1024x1024 Bytes)
03.02.10 Added: Lister: Optimized number of file reads in text mode when loading
and during PageDown
02.02.10 Added: Command line parameters: To open a stored FTP connection, use FT
POPEN:stored_ftp_name as path. Put in double quotes if it contains spaces, e.g.
"FTPOPEN:stored ftp name"
02.02.10 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] UnZIPSeparateSubdirs option: added value -2
which means that the option is always on, and changes made by the user will not
be remembered
02.02.10 Added: When switching away from a Tab with branch view for selected dir
s only and back, re-select the directories used for that view
02.02.10 Fixed: Tab order in cm_CommandBrowser was wrong (user-defined command b
uttons)
02.02.10 Fixed: SFTP (FTP over SSL): Correctly show valid from/to timestamps if
they come in GeneralizedTime format: YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ

02.02.10 Fixed: Search, Feed to listbox, press Alt+F1 and ESC -> TC showed a dri
ve letter in the drive dropdown combobox (same problem with mouse too)
02.02.10 Fixed: Lister could crash when trying to view files in directories prot
ected via user account control (UAC) because of the larger buffer size
31.01.10 Fixed: HTTP download: Access violation with very long URLs (problem wit
h logging, not critical)
31.01.10 Fixed: FTP-Logfile: Increased maximum line length to 1023 characters
31.01.10 Fixed: Using Alt for quick search in separate tree would sometimes acti
vate the main menu
31.01.10 Added: Background transfer manager: Download files passed via Ctrl+V or
Shift+Insert to current directory
31.01.10 Added: Support https downloads also in background transfer manager (req
uires installed OpenSSL DLLs)
31.01.10 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] OnlyOnce now supports values >1 and <
-1 to limit the number of copies to x (>0 means per user, <0 means per system)
31.01.10 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] OnlyOnce=-1 allows one copy for TC fo
r all users as in previous TC versions
31.01.10 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] OnlyOnce=1 now allows one copy of TC
per user (e.g. when started via RunAs), not one copy for all users as in older v
ersions
31.01.10 Fixed: CRC check: Show "CRC: Errors: x" in title and reset Win7 progres
s bar when finished
31.01.10 Fixed: Files - Change attributes: Clear file color cache because colors
were not always updated after changing certain plugin attributes
29.01.10 Added: Use functions WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId and ProcessIdToSessio
nId to detect whether terminal services or XP mode are active, otherwise don't t
ry to list drives from \\tsclient
29.01.10 Added: Changed main menu item "Run DOS" to "Open command prompt window"
29.01.10 Added: FTP details dialog: Changed button label for next page to "Advan
ced ->" (same as tab header)
29.01.10 Fixed: Lister: When TC was closed while a lister window was open with a
file from an archive, the file was neither re-packed when changed, nor deleted
29.01.10 Added: Show more fake directories in redirected system32 dir on 64-bit
systems: catroot, catroot2, spool, logfiles, DriverStore (the latter only on Win
dows 7)
29.01.10 Fixed: Fake "etc" directory was shown in wrong directory system32 inste
ad of system32\drivers
29.01.10 Fixed: Make sure the background transfer manager doesn't close just whi
le adding new files via F5 - F2
29.01.10 Fixed: Win9x/ME: "Advanced options" box in F5 copy dialog was shown too
low
29.01.10 Fixed: File list(s) not refreshed after creating CRC checksum files
29.01.10 Fixed: Directories not resorted after Alt+Shift+Enter (when sorting dir
s by name is off, and sorting is set to size)
27.01.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 2
27.01.10 Added: When Alt+Shift+Enter is aborted with ESC, remove question marks
in size column and show again <DIR> indicator
27.01.10 Added: Refresh indicator on directory icon whenever the size is counted
for that directory
27.01.10 Fixed: FTP connection progress dialog and check CRC checksum dialog not
scaled correctly to other DPI factors than 96
27.01.10 Added: Background transfer manager: Don't add "copyflags" option to lis
t if the F5 copy dialog was pinned open, but nothing was chosen from the list
27.01.10 Fixed: F5 copy dialog had wrong width when using higher DPI settings
27.01.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs by content, with ZIP archives: Only unpack file
s of different size when using compare plugins, otherwise they cannot be the sam
e anyway
27.01.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs by content, with ZIP archives: Comparison was s
topped when ESC was pressed in Lister (instead of closing Lister)

27.01.10 Fixed: Invalid context menu in RAR with encrypted file names
27.01.10 Fixed: Sync tool footer: Count files with "equal if text" icon as equal
, not as unequal
27.01.10 Fixed: FS-Plugin delete function couldn't be interrupted or paused -> c
all message loop
27.01.10 Fixed: Second page of FTP details dialog wasn't mirrored for right to l
eft languages
27.01.10 Added: Content plugins for comparison in sync tool: Let the plugin retu
rn a custom icon for "equal" state by returning an index >=100 (=resource identi
fier for 16x16 icon)
26.01.10 Fixed: Text compare function in sync tool: use maximum size of both fil
es for progress
26.01.10 Fixed: Change file system plugins attribute dialog was using 3 state ch
eckboxes even when only a single file was selected
26.01.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs couldn't be started if one of the panels showed
a directory where the user isn't allowed to read from its parent
26.01.10 Fixed: Custom columns view: FTP attributes (Unix permissions) were no l
onger shown correctly
26.01.10 Fixed: The following commands didn't support parameters in the "Paramet
ers" fields, so didn't work with %A parameter: MULTIRENAME, LOADSEARCH, OPENCUST
OMVIEW, SELECTFILES
26.01.10 Fixed: cm_CommandBrowser could still show translated command descriptio
ns after switching to internal English
26.01.10 Fixed: In place rename invoked incorrectly when selecting some files wi
th right mouse button, and then clicking on file which had cursor just before se
lecting
26.01.10 Fixed: Command line parameters: Archives were no longer accepted as par
ameters
26.01.10 Fixed: FS plugin in background: Pause button didn't work, e.g. for SFTP
plugin
26.01.10 Fixed: Lister: Adding a code page manually and then switching back to t
he default left the menu item to remove the code page in the menu
24.01.10 Fixed: Lister: Hangs when searching for string with option "whole words
only" when string was found only without that option (reason: doubled buffer si
ze)
24.01.10 Fixed: New text compare function in sync tool not working when TC langu
age other than English
24.01.10 Fixed: Use WNetOpenEnum instead of OLE functions to list drives from ts
client, to avoid error message from Windows if connection doesn't exist
24.01.10 Fixed: Drag&Drop files from RAR to button bar button with "cd" command
-> unpacking to that directory not modal
24.01.10 Added: Move "++" button (and all controls to the right of it) in Synchr
onize dirs dialog to the right when the dialog is large enough
24.01.10 Fixed: Correctly resize Synchronize dirs dialog also for right to left
languages (Arabic and Hebrew)
24.01.10 Added: Show Windows 7 progress in task bar also for "Verify CRC checksu
ms"
24.01.10 Fixed: F1 in custom compare by content dialog opened wrong help page
24.01.10 Added: Show fake "etc" directory on 64-bit XP too in system32 folder to
redirect to real "etc" directory
24.01.10 Fixed: Renamed SyncIgnoreHardLinks to SyncIgnoreJunctions to make it mo
re clear that it's about local NTFS links to directories (history entry from 4.1
2.09 updated)
22.01.10 Fixed: When using color filters with tc.comment field, changing the com
ment via Ctrl+Z didn't update color if descript.ion file was hidden or on ignore
list
22.01.10 Added: When opening search in virtual folder like "My Documents", set s
tart directory to real directory of this folder
22.01.10 Fixed: Open an UC2-packed file could leave a file "U$~reslt.ok" in dire
ctory of the archive -> explicitly delete it

22.01.10 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Abort reading wasn't possible with close button
22.01.10 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Abort reading on ESC only when dialog has the inpu
t focus (not in other programs)
22.01.10 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Re-read tree with F2, minimize, restore -> Main wi
ndow got the focus
22.01.10 Added: New internal commands cm_LeftDirBranchSel and cm_RightDirBranchS
el activate branch view of selected files/folders in left/right panel
22.01.10 Added: When leaving selected branch view (Ctrl+Shift+B) with either Ctr
l+B or Ctrl+Shift+B while cursor on [..], restore selection and place cursor on
last selected file
22.01.10 Fixed: Using branch view (Ctrl+B) after selected branch view (Ctrl+Shif
t+B) would keep selection if the selected branch view was left via [..] item
22.01.10 Fixed: Search for text in packer plugins no longer worked, or even caus
ed a crash (e.g. in CHM plugin)
22.01.10 Fixed: FTP connection details: Password field contained default passwor
d (name of control) by mistake (just in beta 1)
22.01.10 Fixed: No more progress percent shown in CRC/MD5/SHA1 check function
22.01.10 Fixed: Do not show any drive letter in drive dropdown list in Search Feed to listbox (beta 1 showed drive a:, while older versions showed the last ac
tive drive)
21.01.10 Added: Changed plugin version numbers to: Packer: 2.21, File system: 2.
10, Content: 2.10
20.01.10 Release Total Commander 7.51 beta 1
20.01.10 Fixed: Files - Split: Size field didn't support G GBytes, only M and k
-> added G (1 GByte= 1024*1024*1024 bytes), e.g. 0.5 G
20.01.10 Fixed: Right click context menu: Remove any duplicate separator lines a
dded by shell extensions
20.01.10 Fixed: Right click context menu showed file name incorrectly if it cont
ained an ampersand '&' character
20.01.10 Added: Synchronize dirs: Store time zone difference for ftp servers sep
arately when using MLSD, because normally it should be set to 0 in this case
19.01.10 Added: Allow to set the keyboard layout when TC gets activated or the i
nplace rename box is closed: wincmd.ini [Configuration] KeyboardID=0 Options: 0=
off, 1=default user layout, $0409=English, $10409 first variant of English layou
t, etc., see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318693%28VS.85%29.aspx
17.01.10 Fixed: Could no longer access the Network Neighborhood with x64redirect
ion off (problem with tsclient reading)
15.01.10 Fixed: FTP over SSL: Transfers could hang if the access was denied to t
he target file (e.g. belonging to other user)
15.01.10 Fixed: When loading button bar icons from .br2 file, use LCS_sRGB inste
ad of LCS_DEVICE_RGB value in CreateDIBSection
15.01.10 Fixed: Verify parameters received via some WM_USER messages
15.01.10 Fixed: FTP: Do not show host define dialog (Alt+Shift+ENTER) when using
MLSD command, because the format is fixed
13.01.10 Added: FTP: Split FTP connection details to two pages (with tabs)
13.01.10 Added: FTP: Support for MLSD command (machine list), can be disabled se
parately by server (default=auto-detect)
13.01.10 Added: Windows Vista/7 64bit: Show fake "etc" directory in System32 whi
ch shows contents of SysNative\etc because many people don't find the correct lo
cation
10.01.10 Added: Updated help files to new functions
10.01.10 Fixed: Synchronize dirs via FTP: Hide compare plugin button when functi
on not available
07.01.10 Added: Synchronize dirs via FTP: Support "by content" if server support
s XCRC, XMD5, MD5 or XSHA1 command (non-standard) and reports it via FEAT. Also
works for text files (by not counting <CR> line breaks if file size is different
)
05.01.10 Added: "cd" command in button bar and user menu now accepts parameter /
user:, e.g. cd \\server\share /user:username (tries to auto-disconnect first if

connection with other user name exists)


05.01.10 Fixed: OPENCUSTOMVIEW without parameters in a user command (em_xyz) cou
ld sometimes cause an access violation
05.01.10 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Only try to get file details if the file is gi
ven with full path, otherwise TC may get the details from the wrong file
05.01.10 Fixed: Content plugins: ContentEditValue didn't pass Unicode content to
plugin for fields of type ft_stringw
05.01.10 Fixed: Content plugins: ContentGetFieldValueW wasn't called in Attribut
es dialog (load from file under cursor), only the ANSI function was called
05.01.10 Added: When a drive letter is twice in the drive list (e.g. c: and \\ts
client\c), Alt+F1 - c always chooses the first. Hold down Ctrl for the second
05.01.10 Added: Synchronize dirs with FTP: Use SITE UTIME (2 different variation
s) if MFMT or MDTM fail
05.01.10 Added: Sync compare plugin function can now be enabled/disabled via a c
heckbox, the state is shown on the button
05.01.10 Added: Sync compare plugin function: Multiple compare operations can be
specified, e.g. [=plugin1.function1][=plugin2.function2] which will be compared
with "AND" (or if the string starts with | sign, with OR)
03.01.10 Fixed: FTP: Uploads via SSL to certain servers stopped working
03.01.10 Added: Moved sync compare function into content plugin interface (Conte
ntCompareFiles)
31.12.09 Fixed: Saving button bar to .br2 file failed on 16 color screens (e.g.
standard VGA) because biPlanes was >1 (not accepted by GetDIBits)
29.12.09 Added: Show - All files (Ctrl+F10) will now also remove the quick filte
r (Ctrl+S) just like ESC
29.12.09 Added: Enter archives shown as directories, in virtual folders like "My
Documents"
29.12.09 Added: Enter archives shown as files also in virtual folders, like on t
he Desktop
29.12.09 Fixed: Sorting by extension in branch view incorrect for files without
extension in subdirs with extension, e.g. subdir.ext\filename
22.12.09 Added: Temp panel plugin: Support parameters %P%N and %p%n (p/P is empt
y, while n/N contains the complete redirected local name)
22.12.09 Added: Temp panel plugin: Show icons for internal associations and per
file associations if the plugin returns FS_ICON_USEDEFAULT
22.12.09 Fixed: Press ENTER in Temp panel plugin: If plugin returns FS_EXEC_YOUR
SELF but not local path, call FsPluginGetLocalName to ask plugin for local file
path
22.12.09 Fixed: Catch exception when user closes compare by content before the c
omparison has even started
20.12.09 Added: SELECTFILES command supports modifiers (appended directly to co
mmand without space): D=only folders, B=both, U=unselect, L=left side, R=right s
ide, T=target panel, S=Reverts whether just files or files+folders are selected
when Shift is pressed during execution.
20.12.09 Added: New internal commands with parameters SELECTFILES selects files
with wildcards given as parameters, e.g. SELECTFILES *.txt *.doc
20.12.09 Added: New internal commands with parameters OPENTABSL and OPENTABSR to
open tabs from *.tab file explicitly in left/right panel independent from which
is the active panel. Also added APPENDTABSL and APPENDTABSR
20.12.09 Added: When dragging file/dir to button bar, or adding dir to Ctrl+D me
nu, store all paths below Total Commander path as relative path with environment
variable %COMMANDER_PATH%
20.12.09 Added: Let the user set the user agent for HTTP connections: wcx_ftp.in
i [General] UserAgent=User-defined value
Default: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; T
otalcmd; Windows x)" with x the current Windows version
20.12.09 Fixed: Do not re-read contents of archive after just viewing a file wit
h no change to it (otherwise "show only selected" is lost)
18.12.09 Fixed: Windows Vista/7: Drag remote share to button bar: tooltip was wr
ong because of changed name format
18.12.09 Fixed: Windows 7: Could not drag files from ZIP archive opened in Explo

rer to Total Commander (unexpected data format)


18.12.09 Fixed: Resource leak in right click menu progress bar
16.12.09 Fixed: Unpack directory time stamps also from multi-volume or header-en
crypted RAR archives
16.12.09 Fixed: Tree was updated constantly every second -> removed
15.12.09 Added: Unpack directory time stamps from archives if the archive contai
ns the dirs (and not just files with relative paths) and copying of directory ti
mestamps is enabled
15.12.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] UnZIPSeparateSubdirs=0/1 allows to remember
option "Unpack each archive to separate subdir" - the default value "-1" means t
hat it's off and not remembered
13.12.09 Added: drivebarhide variable can now be used to hide tsclient drives, t
hey must be listed behind a $ sign, e.g. drivebarhide=ef$cd hides local drives e
and f, and remote drives c and d
13.12.09 Added: Lister: Increased maximum line length to 1024 characters (Unicod
e: 512), increase read buffer to 128k
13.12.09 Added: CRC check: Also support files in UTF16 format (big or little end
ian, with or without byte order marker)
13.12.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Do not show dropdown panel and do not react to s
ingle clicks while Ctrl key is down (to make it easier to double click for direc
tory hotlist)
11.12.09 Added: Synchronize dirs plugin to make a custom comparison by content (
e.g. for text files with different line breaks) <- now part of content plugin in
terface
09.12.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] tsclient=\\servername allows to spec
ify other server for drive list (only 1 letter shares will be shown)
08.12.09 Added: Show Terminal Server (and Win7 XP mode) drives in drive dropdown
list and drive buttonbar (\\tsclient server)
08.12.09 Fixed: Also protect access to list of redirected ini names with critica
l section
08.12.09 Added: FTP via SSL: Call functions OpenSSL_add_all_digests and OpenSSL_
add_all_ciphers because SSLeay_add_ssl_algorithms doesn't load all algorithms (e
.g. SHA256 isn't loaded), so some certificates do not work
06.12.09 Added: Ctrl+Shift+B and cm_DirBranchSel shows branch view of only the s
elected dirs+files (or the one under the cursor if nothing selected)
06.12.09 Added: Colors by file type: Get plugin data in background thread if plu
gin reports ft_delayed or ft_ondemand (slow plugin field), but only if the color
filter contains fields from just that plugin and the internal TC plugin (other
plugins may not be thread-safe). Note: Using quick filter will stop background r
etrieval of folder colors
04.12.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow to exclude directory junctions (reparse
points): wincmd.ini [Configuration] SyncIgnoreJunctions=1 Warning: If a director
y with the same name exists on the other side, files in it seem to exist only on
that side!!!
04.12.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow to exclude hidden/system files: wincmd.i
ni [Configuration] SyncHideHiddenSystem=0 0: never hide, 1:hide if files on bot
h sides are hidden/system, 2:hide if any side is hidden/system. Add 4:To conside
r hidden/system flag in main program
04.12.09 Added: F5 copy dialog: "Options" dialog extension can be pinned now to
remain open
04.12.09 Added: Decode files: Remember last state of checkbox "auto-rename copie
d"
04.12.09 Added: Decode files: Checkbox "auto-rename copied" automatically create
s new names in the form name(2), name(3) etc. in the case of duplicate names
04.12.09 Added: Decode files: Replace invalid characters in file name like ":" b
y underscores "_"
04.12.09 Added: RAR with encrypted file names: Show pseudo file <Encrypted -> F5
> and let user unpack the archive with F5 in addition to Alt+F9
02.12.09 Fixed: Make "New" submenu in right click context menu more similar to t
he menu in Explorer

02.12.09 Added: Files - pack: Allow to set the split file size also when packing
to removable disks (e.g. USB sticks), support multiple parts on multiple sticks
(e.g. 1 GB parts on FAT32 sticks > 4 GB, where a file can only be 4 GB max.)
02.12.09 Added: Command line: Command "cd filename" places cursor directly on fi
le with name "filename"
02.12.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Rename failed if there were temporary name co
llisions, e.g. 1.txt,2.txt,3.txt -> 2.txt,3.txt,4.txt, but only with paths longe
r than 259 characters
02.12.09 Fixed: Icons for user-defined internal associations were lost when chan
ging system colors
02.12.09 Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip/File didn't work in packer subdirectori
es
01.12.09 Added: Use LB_INSERTSTRING instead of LB_ADDSTRING in various places to
add items to list boxes (much faster)
01.12.09 Fixed: WCMD_ENG.LNG and internal English translation were different in
various places
01.12.09 Fixed: Dialog boxes in plugin unload functions were shown but not click
able. Reason: WM_NCACTIVATE wasn't handled on shutdown to avoid crash of plugin
StartupGuard
01.12.09 Added: Show type of exception, OS version and build number when an erro
r occurs in a background thread too
01.12.09 Fixed: ZIP packer: Options to pack names with non-English characters (b
ut also non-Unicode like the Euro sign) separately didn't work in subdirs
30.11.09 Fixed: When closing command line dropdown combobox, place cursor at the
end of the line as in TC 7.04a and earlier
30.11.09 Fixed: Catch situation where printer.fonts causes a software exception
(eprinter), e.g. because the remote printer isn't accessible
29.11.09 Fixed: Changing a ZIP archive created by a yet unknown packer which sto
res file names with trailing 0 character would damage that archive (but it could
still be recovered)
29.11.09 Fixed: Call SetCurrentDirectory also in background thread to avoid hang
s
29.11.09 Fixed: Handle check of unreadable disk in background thread
29.11.09 Added: Improved loading speed of tree branches with many subdirectories
27.11.09 Fixed: FTP: Try to avoid access violation when user presses Disconnect
button twice because server is hanging
27.11.09 Fixed: Put drawing of entire separate tree line into critical section (
not just parts of it) to avoid that the tree updates while a line of it is drawn
27.11.09 Fixed: OpenSSL: Accept certificates where the date doesn't contain seco
nds, e.g. 1101010000Z
24.11.09 Added: Alt+F1/F2 drive combobox: Load labels and descriptions in backgr
ound, show list with fixed width if no reply within 1 second and add labels late
r when available (unfortunately the width cannot be changed after opening)
22.11.09 Fixed: Access violation under the following conditions: Brief view, mak
e search, feed to listbox, double click on directory far down the list (item nr
higher than length of search start directory)
20.11.09 Fixed: Couldn't connect to persistent but currently not connected netwo
rk drive (e.g. drive x:) by typing x: on the command line
20.11.09 Fixed: Lister, binary&hex mode: Also replace characters with code >31 b
y a dot if their width is zero (currently affects character 90hex on Windows 7 w
ith Central European locale)
20.11.09 Added: Search in "feed to listbox" results: Respect option "Search subd
irs", e.g. to search 3 levels deep in all selected dirs
20.11.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Error about control deleted in backgroun
d when the download manager had to ask for the master password
20.11.09 Fixed: Print file list with subdirs: Encrypted or compressed flags in s
ubdirs were not printed
18.11.09 Fixed: Load drive bar tooltips in background thread
18.11.09 Fixed: Windows 7: Make BrushForCursor the default to ensure that the co
lor cursor is drawn immediately (bug in some display drivers)

18.11.09 Fixed: Windows 7: Paste file with Ctrl+V which was copied outside TC (e
.g. on the desktop) didn't show up, only after manual refresh
18.11.09 Fixed: Use CDefFolderMenu_Create2 for Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V (copy/c
ut+paste), this way no context menu extensions need to be loaded
17.11.09 Fixed: Get disk free space in background thread, with a timeout of 5 se
conds to avoid that TC hangs indefinitely
17.11.09 Fixed: Get volume label in background thread, with a timeout of 5 secon
ds to avoid that TC hangs indefinitely
17.11.09 Fixed: Restarting TC with a panel set to a network drive or UNC path co
uld still hang the program if the path wasn't accessible when restarting
17.11.09 Added: Show dialog when reading a directory takes longer than 5 seconds
, allow user to abort reading that directory (useful e.g. on branch view)
15.11.09 Fixed: Files - Associate: No association was shown if there was no defa
ult description text for that association (problem caused by Unicode conversion)
11.11.09 Added: Verify CRC checksums: make dialog resizable, separate window (ba
ckground operation)
11.11.09 Added: Create CRC checksums: support subdirectories (recursively), back
ground button
11.11.09 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: Option "Create separate SFV file for each
file" mistakenly saved files with relative path in branch view or search result
view
10.11.09 Fixed: Windows 7: Win+Cursor left/right would resize progress dialogs
10.11.09 Fixed: Trying to modify (add/delete files) ZIP files >4GB created by pk
ware SecureZIP resulted in an access violation (but no data loss). Reason: Unexp
ected headers in central directory
10.11.09 Fixed: Turn off plugin-specific custom columns view (e.g. from the samp
le local drives plugin) also when switching directly to a different file system
plugin
08.11.09 Added: Tree in main panel: Show string 5002 (Tree) in tab title
08.11.09 Fixed: Couldn't look into 64-bit self-extracting CAB files, because the
PE optional header was longer (0xF0 instead of 0xE0 bytes)
08.11.09 Fixed: When using Alt+Letters for quick search, custom hotkeys like Alt
+Up could insert strange characters (problem with catching keypresses which woul
d open the menu)
08.11.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with write-protected zip on one side, compare t
wo files by content, edit file in zip ->repacking fails -> new: keep edited temp
orary file
08.11.09 Fixed: Internal multi-part unrar: Do not show "Aborted" error when user
chooses "Cancel" in overwrite dialog, because when he chooses "Cancel" in "Abor
ted" dialog, the target file would be deleted
08.11.09 Added: Support internal associations also in search dialog right click
menu
08.11.09 Added: Show x64 submenu also in search dialog (right click on file/fold
er in result list)
08.11.09 Fixed: Lister: Adjust horizontal scrollbar to very long lines (due to t
abs) also in UTF-8 mode
08.11.09 Fixed: cm_RenameOnly in main menu not working properly when focus was n
ot in listbox
06.11.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Handle large list files (e.g. multiple m
egabytes) more efficiently, avoid crash in low memory situation
04.11.09 Fixed: Ctrl+E (previous command from command line history) didn't work
correctly on Vista when auto-append was enabled
04.11.09 Fixed: Separate tree wasn't updated when deleting dirs with VistaDelete
=1 method
04.11.09 Added: Multi-rename tool: Allow to create fields with leading zeroes or
spaces, e.g. [=tc.size:01-8] fills up the inserted string with leading zeroes i
f it's shorter than 8 characters. Supports plugin fields plus [N], [E], [P], [G]
03.11.09 Fixed: Unpack files: Background and Abort buttons didn't work while onl
y skipping files
03.11.09 Fixed: Shift+F5 copy to same dir: Resize dialog box which is shown when

there is a directory with the same name also for larger strings (max 2x normal
width)
03.11.09 Fixed: Separate tree: Deleting a directory didn't remove it from the tr
ee (display problem)
03.11.09 Fixed: Separate tree: Delete function always used the Explorer delete m
ethod
03.11.09 Added: Create shortcuts (LNK files) also in "forbidden" directories, e.
g. other user's Start menu directories, via "As Administrator"
03.11.09 Fixed: Call GdiFlush after drawing current item (text cursor) in file l
ist to avoid drawing delays on Windows 7
01.11.09 Fixed: No X64 submenu when right clicking on [..] (updir) or free space
below file list
01.11.09 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+RightShift+End in Unicode mode would switch to righ
t-aligned text
01.11.09 Fixed: ZIP pack function could result in an "i/o error 6" exception if
TEMP variable points to invalid directory
01.11.09 Fixed: Internal self-test could fail if TC was started via CreateProces
s, but the extension .exe was not given
01.11.09 Fixed: Standalone sync tool (started via /S=S): compare two files via d
ouble click, press ESC, use mouse wheel -> no reaction or crash
30.10.09 Fixed: Fix to Windows 7 bug: Double click on resizing border in copy pr
ogress dialog maximized the window, although maximizing was disabled
30.10.09 Fixed: Right click context menu: In branch view, support "Open with" me
nu item (only when just a single file is selected)
30.10.09 Fixed: Windows9x/ME: Parameter %t didn't send the short DOS name to the
called program
30.10.09 Added: FTP via HTTP: Support for proxy format where link is around the
file name in Unix format
30.10.09 Added: ENTER on directory or file in "Recycle bin" virtual folder will
now show the property sheet as in Explorer. Ctrl+PageDown still allows to open t
he real directory
30.10.09 Fixed: MIME (Base64) decoder was limited to 79 character name length
28.10.09 Added: For admins: Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Ghisler\Total Comm
ander\configuration, add allowed (type string) and/or RestrictInterface (type DW
ORD) to restrict user options. The value will be combined with the value in the
ini file and under HKEY_CURRENT_USER (the more restricted wins)
28.10.09 Fixed: Sort order of files starting with a dot was sometimes wrong
28.10.09 Added: Handle dir space calculation in background (when user presses SP
ACE or Alt+Shift+Enter)
27.10.09 Fixed: Access violation when deleting files while copying other files t
o the same directory
25.10.09 Fixed: Remaining Unicode problems with internal command selection dialo
g (first line "default"), text returned to "redefine hotkeys"
25.10.09 Fixed: Could not unpack UC2 files with names longer than 8.3 (name.ext)
23.10.09 Fixed: Windows9x/ME: Parameter '?' not working in button bar/start menu
- the dialog seemed to work OK, but no parameter was passed to the called progr
am
23.10.09 Added: Copy+Delete functions: The counting of files in subdirs can now
also be aborted by clicking on the Abort button -> this will abort the entire op
eration (ESC will abort only the counting)
23.10.09 Added: UnRAR via unrar.dll: Support target names longer than 259 charac
ters by prepending \\?\ or \\?\UNC\ if the name is too long
23.10.09 Fixed: Switch from thumbnails view to other view, Shift+Click -> Select
ion started at first item instead of the last cursor position
23.10.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Copy attributes" function didn't correctly ha
ndle user-defined time zone difference
23.10.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not adjust time zone (when user has entered
a time zone difference) when the server doesn't report the time (as done by Uni
x servers for old files)
20.10.09 Added: File system plugins: Support background downloads and uploads (r

equires changes to plugin)


20.10.09 Added: Unpack tar files in background
19.10.09 Added: Pack tar and tar.gz (tgz) files in
18.10.09 Added: Packer plugins: pack tar.plugin in
packing to memory
18.10.09 Added: Packer plugins: pack and unpack in
to signal that it supports it
18.10.09 Added: Unrar in background via background

background
background if plugin supports
background, the plugin needs
button

24.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50a


24.09.09 Fixed: Show version 7.50a / 7.5.0.1 in version information of EXE file
23.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50a (pre3)
23.09.09 Added: Included new unrar.dll from the RAR author
23.09.09 Fixed: Button icons in Configuration of X64 menu were just squares when
the buttons were disabled
23.09.09 Fixed: If tcmdx64 fails to load the X64 submenu, the program may hang f
orever -> wait for a maximum time of 15 seconds (default), set via X64WaitTime=1
5 in wincmd.ini
22.09.09 Fixed: Windows 7 taskbar progress bar (green) remained at 100% after un
packing multiple selected RAR files via Alt+F9
22.09.09 Fixed: Alt+Shift+Enter on file system plugins couldn't be aborted with
ESC
22.09.09 Fixed: Status bar not updated when right clicking on file in brief view
(only when using left mouse button selection mode)
20.09.09 Fixed: File system plugins: Changing properties via FsContentSetValue d
idn't work for ft_stringw type
20.09.09 Fixed: Wrong file time displayed in some RAR archives
20.09.09 Fixed: Ctrl+U swap panels no longer worked when left side was an archiv
e
20.09.09 Fixed: Crash caused by plugin AceHelper (refresh of plugin list called
while refresh was still busy)
20.09.09 Fixed: Crash when closing search dialog box (when refresh occurs while
search box is closed)
18.09.09 Fixed: Compare directories was much slower with option 1hourdif=1 (Reas
on: NTFS time format much longer)
18.09.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Tabstops were not counted in Unicode view
17.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50a (pre2)
17.09.09 Fixed: Auto-complete: Handle special case: %envvar%\..\
17.09.09 Fixed: Button bar tip windows not shown correctly for language with dif
ferent code page when there is no .inc file
17.09.09 Added: When using XPMoveMethod=2 to set permissions, do not copy the pe
rmissions if they are already identical (saves a lot of time)
17.09.09 Fixed: Reverted to TC 7.0x method to copy permissions when moving direc
tories (not via inheritance) -> use XPMoveMethod=2 for new method
16.09.09 Fixed: Tip windows for history and hotlist couldn't show translated tex
t in Russian on English windows without supplemental language support installed
16.09.09 Fixed: "Fatal error in copy thread" -> protect test whether ini file is
Unicode via critical section
16.09.09 Fixed: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ESCcheck=0 allows to turn off check w
hether ESC key is stuck when starting copy operation
16.09.09 Fixed: Ctrl+R (reread) in c:\windows\sysnative\spool\Printers\ failed o
n Windows 7 when starting program with full admin rights (because SetCurrentDire
ctory fails with this dir)
16.09.09 Fixed: No refresh in panel under Ctrl+Q quick view panel when copying t
o it -> refresh when quick view panel is closed
16.09.09 Fixed: Custom verbs to open file with packer plugin (**pluginextension)
were not shown in right click context menu
16.09.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop file to breadcrumb bar, press Shift only above bar and

release mouse -> file was copied instead of moved


15.09.09 Fixed: Lister: Print also right-aligned text, starting from (user-defin
ed) right margin
15.09.09 Fixed: Sort by extension: Ignore initial dot, e.g. a file named ".htacc
ess" has no extension
15.09.09 Fixed: "Copy NTFS permissions" had no effect when moving files within s
ame volume. Now it lets the file keep their permissions even when XPMoveMethod=1
15.09.09 Fixed: Access violation when user changes directory while deleting many
files via Explorer delete method
15.09.09 Fixed: Access violation trying to access certain dirs containing hidden
or system files with option "As administrator" when hidden/system file display
is disabled
14.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50a (pre1)
14.09.09 Fixed: Do not get the info whether a directory is shared or not when ic
ons are turned off
14.09.09 Fixed: Prevent access violation in FTP when connection was lost
14.09.09 Fixed: Prevent user from closing Alt+F10 tree while it is still scanned
in
13.09.09 Fixed: Lister: Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files were printed with the t
ext upside down (problem with Uniscribe)
13.09.09 Fixed: Could no longer unpack zip files with the following characterist
ics: ZIP20-encrypted, stored (no compression), CRC after file
13.09.09 Fixed: X64 submenu option "Configure" not working when menu opened whil
e shift was pressed
13.09.09 Fixed: IviewAdditionalTypes option in wincmd.ini had stopped working
09.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Final
09.09.09 Fixed: F5 dialog: "More options" section wasn't correctly shown in Unic
ode (e.g. Chinese on Japanese Windows)
09.09.09 Fixed: Reverted to TFixedLabel in nag screen due to Unicode display pro
blems
08.09.09 Fixed: FTP background transfer manager: F5-F2 didn't pass the password
to the upload operation
08.09.09 Fixed: Try to catch "List index out of bounds" error caused by backgrou
nd transfer manager (within Delphi VCL code)
08.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Final pre 2
08.09.09 Fixed: Show which plugin caused crash when a crash occurs in content pl
ugin function "ContentGetSupportedField"
08.09.09 Fixed: Use TPanel in nag screen also for button click descriptions to a
void vertical misalignment
08.09.09 Fixed: Progress bar in F5 copy - move to background was incorrect
07.09.09 Fixed: FTP delete in background transfer manager no longer worked becau
se of a recent fix
06.09.09 Fixed: UTF-8 to UTF-16 converter: Replace invalid UTF-8 sequences resul
ting in a character in range 00..7F by underscore character '_', e.g. sequence C
0 8A instead of 0A (security fix)
06.09.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Do not allow to add files for unpac
king via "+" button
06.09.09 Fixed: Right clicking on file system plugins could be slow, because the
y were interpreted as UNC paths first
06.09.09 Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost on other tab and user chooses to re
connect, but reconnect fails, then switch to local directory
06.09.09 Fixed: Problems copying subdir from protected directories (requiring ad
min rights)
06.09.09 Fixed: Change to new company name in various programs and dlls (not all
), fixed some manifest resources
06.09.09 Fixed: Invalid size value in FTP file listings could cause a floating p
oint exception

06.09.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp on left side: Files which differ in size o
nly because of different line breaks were no longer detected
04.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Final pre 1
04.09.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: entire operation was aborted if connect
to first ftp server in list failed
03.09.09 Fixed: X64 submenu: Tortoise submenu for folders was shown incompletely
03.09.09 Fixed: Crash when deleting a directory (error in Scanpath function)
03.09.09 Fixed: Could no longer create directories longer than 247 characters (n
ormal file limit is 259 characters)
01.09.09 Fixed: "Show" - "Custom" filter didn't support virtual folders like the
Desktop
01.09.09 Fixed: Separate tree: Invalid command "Pack files" was shown in right c
lick context menu
01.09.09 Fixed: In dialogs, make the height of all control at least 16 pixels (a
nd slightly increase the size of some dialogs)
01.09.09 Fixed: "Mark newer, hide same files" didn't work properly when a quick
search filter (Ctrl+S) was active
01.09.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Accept OLE objects with names longer than 1022 charac
ters, warn that name was cut
31.08.09 Fixed: Some FTP server types no longer working correctly after recent U
TF-8 fix
31.08.09 Fixed: Prevent floating point errors due to invalid file sizes in progr
ess bar function
30.08.09 Fixed: When using Alt for quick search, using Alt+Arrow up would paste
character to edit box (Windows itself does that) -> catch it
30.08.09 Fixed: Alt+F9 unpack zip archive to same dir containing archive with sa
me name -> Access denied dialog was created by background thread instead of fore
ground thread
30.08.09 Fixed: Couldn't overwrite files in "forbidden" dirs accessed with admin
rights (got error about existing directory)
30.08.09 Fixed: [DriveHints] didn't support Unicode (e.g. via Unicode wincmd.ini
)
30.08.09 Fixed: Files - Change attributes: Clear comment cache when user changes
any plugin attributes
30.08.09 Fixed: Crash when right clicking on a virtual folder which doesn't supp
ort IContextMenu2 interface, e.g. items in control panel - network connections
30.08.09 Fixed: Crash when opening breadcrumb menu of the desktop and no dir lis
t was returned
30.08.09 Fixed: Packer plugin auto-installer: Extension list was limited to 63 c
haracters
30.08.09 Fixed: CAB unpacker: Couldn't handle CAB files containing multiple file
s with the same name but different case, e.g. a.txt and A.txt
30.08.09 Fixed: Right click on current path until history list appears, press ES
C, move mouse -> progress bar cursor was shown again
28.08.09 Fixed: cm_CommandBrowser dialog wasn't 100% Unicode yet
28.08.09 Fixed: Open CHM help on 64-bit Windows fails if x64DisableRedirection=1
28.08.09 Fixed: Open CHM help on Windows 95b fails with Htmlhelp() call -> use S
hellExecute if that happens
28.08.09 Fixed: Move directory containing hard links (reparse points) pointing t
o directories with F6 to other drive -> just copy the files within the hard link
, and then delete just the link
27.08.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 RC2
27.08.09 Added: Chinese main land language now included by default
27.08.09 Fixed: Use Unicode functions to subclass windows, e.g. when showing the
right click context menu
26.08.09 Fixed: Selection was lost when switching away from TC and back while qu
ick filter active, even if nothing changed in the directory
26.08.09 Fixed: FTP servers which return paths in the form "c:/some/dir" instead

of Unix form "/some/dir" didn't work with queue function of background transfer
manager (+ button or F5-F2)
26.08.09 Fixed: Changed certificate (used to sign installer and program) to new
company name "Ghisler Software GmbH"
26.08.09 Fixed: FTP: Chinese UTF-8 names on Chinese Windows were sometimes not d
etected correctly
25.08.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 RC2 pre 1
25.08.09 Fixed: FTP resume upload in foreground -> names of source and target fi
le were not shown
25.08.09 Fixed: In place rename: ENTER+ESC didn't work when renaming file after
changing path with in place edit
25.08.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Do not close dropdown list when user releases mo
use over up/down arrow panels, only during drag&drop
25.08.09 Fixed: Some message dialogs couldn't be shown after copying in the fore
ground (because file dialog handle wasn't reset to 0)
25.08.09 Fixed: Auto-refresh file list when switching away from TC and back also
when a quick filter is active (and keep the filter active)
24.08.09 Fixed: Accessing UNC paths longer than 259 characters didn't work. Reas
on: They require a DIFFERENT prefix in the form \\?\UNC\<server>\<share>\path
23.08.09 Fixed: When moving files/dirs to a new directory, do not simply copy th
e security attributes from the folder. Instead, set empty security attributes an
d "inherit" flag
21.08.09 Fixed: Quick filter (Ctrl+S) couldn't be removed in virtual folders wit
h F2/Ctrl+R (reread source)
21.08.09 Fixed: Do not try to get per file icons for files desktop.ini and targe
t.lnk in directories which are part of a virtual folder (attribute set to read o
nly or system, contains file desktop.ini)
21.08.09 Fixed: "Delete" menu item missing in separate tree
21.08.09 Fixed: Ctrl+Up arrow on LNK pointing to deleted destination could cause
an access violation
20.08.09 Fixed: Now using MS VC++ 6.0 instead of Watcom C++ for installer, becau
se it didn't work for one user
19.08.09 Fixed: Reduce flicker of right click cursor progress bar when moving mo
use
19.08.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Cursor could lose its attached file icon when not mov
ed for a while over the target panel
19.08.09 Fixed: Watchdirs didn't correctly handle external quick filter dll (tcm
atch.dll)
18.08.09 Fixed: If IViewAdditionalTypes was longer than supported, the types cou
ld be cut in the middle, so a wrong search could result (e.g. *.cdr could be cut
as *.c or just * when length reached)
18.08.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Current path wasn't set before starting a
n external program when an association menu was shown (open=* option)
18.08.09 Fixed: Click on locked tab would open new tab if DrivesShowUpcase=1, bu
t the tab is stored with a lowercase drive letter
18.08.09 Fixed: Watchdirs may miss some files in right panel if both panels show
the same dir, and 100s of file changes are reported in a short time
18.08.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs: The title bar was cleared when sync
copy ended while the dialog was in the background
18.08.09 Fixed: Files - Split file: Option "Delete files on target disk" no long
er worked (it should work on removable disks only)
18.08.09 Fixed: Some dialog box controls were no longer translated: Tab in packe
d file info dialog, some comboboxes in main configuration dialog after changing
language and click on "Apply", Configure custom sounds, Run minimized in button
bar dialog
17.08.09 Fixed: Resource leak when creating Unicode controls from non-Unicode wi
ndow class -> Windows seems to create one extra USER object each time
16.08.09 Fixed: Right click context menu, Windows 64bit: X64 submenu wasn't avai
lable in current path or drive right click menu

16.08.09 Fixed: Right click context menu, Windows 64bit: X64 submenu not working
on virtual folders -> make it work for those which can be resolved to a real pa
th
16.08.09 Fixed: Windows 7: Progress bar in taskbar icon remained after clicking
"background", pausing and then canceling the operation
16.08.09 Fixed: Couldn't auto-disconnect ftp on suspend, which could crash some
VPN software -> wincmd.ini DisconnectOnSuspend=0 with 0=no, 1=disconnect all ftp
, 2=disconnect ftp+fs plugins, 3=both
16.08.09 Fixed: FTP delete in background transfer manager didn't consider the "F
TP show hidden files" option, so files in subdirs starting with a dot couldn't b
e deleted
16.08.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, load list of "only selected" from file: Last i
tem in list could be ignored if the list was using Unicode and didn't end with a
line break
16.08.09 Fixed: Dual monitors, button bar: ToolTip was shown on wrong screen whe
n using keyboard interface
16.08.09 Fixed: FTP, Synchronize dirs: Warn the user only once about files with
same name but difference case (e.g. 'a' and 'A'), even if there are multiple
16.08.09 Fixed: Hotkeys were not translated (Ctrl->Strg) in German Lister
16.08.09 Fixed: ToolTip was shown for directories containing a dot although none
should be shown, because the text after the dot was seen as an extension
13.08.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 RC1
12.08.09 Fixed: Unicode display problems in tabstop header (Name, Ext. etc): Chi
nese text on Japanese Windows not shown correctly when using Windows Classic the
me
12.08.09 Fixed: Crash on exit after using Startup Guard plugin (due to a bug in
the plugin, still occurs when using cm_UnloadPlugins)
12.08.09 Fixed: Shift+F5 didn't place cursor on new file if DrivesExportUpcase a
nd DrivesShowUpcase had different values
11.08.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 RC1 pre 1
11.08.09 Added: Manifest: Add new Windows 7-specific section <supportedOS... als
o to tcuninst.exe to avoid Windows 7 questions
11.08.09 Added: Switched to HTML help by default, optimized help so it also work
s fine with Windows 98 (IE4) and quite OK with IE3 (Win95b)
11.08.09 Fixed: Various problems with Linux (Wine), like black bars in separate
tree when scrolling sideways, some help-related exceptions
09.08.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Close breadcrumb bar when user releases left mouse bu
tton over scrollbar or up/down scroll buttons
09.08.09 Fixed: Custom columns change dialog: Do not switch to the edited view o
n both sides, but on active side as in TC 7
09.08.09 Fixed: Some Unicode display problems: Chinese tooltips on Japanese Wind
ows, width of other language main menu bar items, alignment of Unicode text on b
uttons
07.08.09 Added: Right click menu: For folders, show additional "Open" menu item
which opens the folder externally (in Explorer), e.g. for Control Panel
07.08.09 Fixed: FTP: Cancel not always working when searching over a fast connec
tion or locally
05.08.09 Added: Quick search: Allow to overtype selected text
05.08.09 Added: cm_CommandBrowser: Allow to copy command via right click, and Ct
rl+C also when cursor in quick search and no text selected
05.08.09 Fixed: Button bar parameters, parameter %P/%T: Append backslash when in
zip subdir (only works when %Z parameter used)
04.08.09 Added: Windows 7: Show progress bar in taskbar icon for all foreground
file operations, also with paused state
04.08.09 Added: Windows 7: All Lister instances get their own separate taskbar i
con
04.08.09 Fixed: F5 copy file in thumbnail view with many lines -> window was scr
olled to wrong position (not considering the number of columns)

04.08.09 Fixed: Access violation when ftp connection is hanging and user presses
Alt+F4
04.08.09 Fixed: Some minor problems with small right click progress bar on curre
nt path field
04.08.09 Fixed: F5 copy: Increased number of characters in filter box from 255 t
o 1022 (limit problem was caused by Delphi StdCtrls library 255 char limit), fix
ed same problem in various other locations
04.08.09 Fixed: FTP: Do not try to switch to UTF-8 mode when a connection is set
to auto-detect, but the "Send command" contains OPTS UTF8 OFF
04.08.09 Fixed: Main menu: Do not allow multiple tabs in one line, e.g. when usi
ng a custom translated menu in Lister with \t in it and a predefined hotkey
04.08.09 Fixed: On some systems, right clicking could take longer than 500ms unt
il the context menu was shown (due to SetTimer not handling 50ms intervals corre
ctly)
03.08.09 Added: Auto-start internal sync tool with parameter SYNCOPEN =SettingsN
ame or just SYNCOPEN =
03.08.09 Added: Auto-start external sync tool with parameter /S=S:=SettingsName
or just /S=S:= when passing the paths separately
02.08.09 Added: New internal command OPENCUSTOMVIEWB custom_columns_view_title s
witches to this view on BOTH sides
02.08.09 Added: Search function: Increased max. length of search string to 2046
characters
31.07.09 Fixed: Ctrl+C Ctrl+V no refresh on Win98/SE only, all other systems wer
e OK
30.07.09 Fixed: Delphi bug in forms.pas: Do not call DestroyCursor for cursors l
oaded via LoadCursor, as described on MSDN
30.07.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 8
30.07.09 Fixed: Ctrl+Z Edit comment sometimes not working, sometimes even workin
g for [..]
30.07.09 Added: New internal command with parameters: OPENCUSTOMVIEW custom_colu
mns_view_title switches to the first custom columns view with the specified name
.
30.07.09 Fixed: Access violation in tree update thread
29.07.09 Added: Show small progress bar in cursor also when right clicking on cu
rrent path to indicate that there are 2 possible context menus
29.07.09 Fixed: Show small progress bar in cursor not working with semi-transpar
ent cursors
29.07.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ContextProgress=0 allows to turn off
progress bar before showing context menu (in right mouse button selection mode)
29.07.09 Fixed: Starting standalone sync tool with parameter /O=%L -> option "on
ly selected" could not be unselected
29.07.09 Fixed: Button bar, start menu: %Z didn't work as the very first paramet
er
29.07.09 Fixed: Lister, Unicode text view: Double click on last word in text (wi
th no line break after it) didn't select the very last character
28.07.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 8 pre 1
28.07.09 Fixed: Access violation when closing TC - error reason finally found (a
ccess to no longer existing thread after calling ResumeThread with FreeOnTermina
te set)
28.07.09 Fixed: Unpack multiple selected zip files with Alt+F9 -> Tab key not wo
rking to reach pause button
28.07.09 Added: Increased maximum number of custom column views from 29 to 99. N
ote that only the first 29 can be set via cm_SrcCustomView* commands, the additi
onal are accessible via new command ranges 6530-, 7030- and 753028.07.09 Added: Show small progress bar in cursor when right clicking to indicat
e to the user that a context menu will be shown after half a second (many users
don't know it...)
26.07.09 Fixed: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): Automatically double ampersand chara

cter in display name, e.g. path "&test" -> "&&test" because single ampersand is
used for hotkeys
26.07.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Option "Empty subdirs" was saved, but not load
ed via folder button
26.07.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Adjust width of wildcard dropdown list to long
est wildcards (limited to window width)
26.07.09 Fixed: Backported thread-safe Delphi string handling from Delphi 7 to D
elphi 2 (using LOCK INC and LOCK DEC calls)
24.07.09 Fixed: Right click context menu: 64-bit "Send To" submenu was empty on
Windows 7 (requires hidden window and IObjectWithSite->SetSite with dummy object
to work)
24.07.09 Fixed: Full view, click on thumbnails icon twice (on/off) -> footer was
showing name of file instead of size info
22.07.09 Fixed: Try to detect ftp server reporting "quota exceeded" only after a
complete upload (normally a server aborts an upload when the quota is exceeded)
22.07.09 Fixed: Move function: Workaround to Samba bug: Samba sets file attribut
es to archive+hidden+system when calling SetFileSecurity to copy security of tar
get dir to target file (Samba reports to be an NTFS drive)
22.07.09 Added: New command line parameter /O=<filename> used to pass list of on
ly selected files to external sync tool
22.07.09 Fixed: Dragging .bar file to button bar created button with wrong icon
if the extension wasn't all lowercase
21.07.09 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameter %Z: Allow to pass name of
archive in %P or %T parameter (only recommended if the called program can handle
it)
21.07.09 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameter %x: Interpret all followin
g parameters again as source/target
21.07.09 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameter %X: Interpret all followin
g parameters as left/right instead of source/target. Supports %P%p%N%n%T%t%M%m%S
%s%R%r
21.07.09 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %R, %r: Inserts all selec
ted files from the TARGET panel
21.07.09 Fixed: Unpack multiple selected archives with Alt+F9: Couldn't pause or
abort operations of external unpackers via TC progress dialog
19.07.09 Fixed: access violation trying to unpack certain AES-encrypted RAR file
s with wrong password
19.07.09 Fixed: WindowBlinds causing crash on disconnect from ftp
17.07.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs (/S=S): Lister didn't load images vi
a Irfanview/Xnview
17.07.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs (/S=S): Crash when using mouse wheel
after viewing a file in Lister and closing Lister
17.07.09 Fixed: Error "Control deleted from background thread!" was shown after
failed unpack because target is a program which is currently running
16.07.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 7
15.07.09 Added: Russian language now included by default (new version, original
still available via www.ghisler.com)
14.07.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 7 (pre2)
14.07.09 Fixed: All background transfer manager windows appeared above each othe
r, not side by side as in TC 7
14.07.09 Fixed: Button bar, parameters %P%S, cursor on [..] with nothing selecte
d -> path was not surrounded by "" if it contained spaces
14.07.09 Fixed: Regular expressions: In Unicode (e.g. file names) \xnn will be c
onverted from current code page to Unicode, while \x{nnnn} will be Unicode direc
tly
14.07.09 Fixed: FTP: Progress and Cancel not working properly when deleting many
files over a fast connection or locally
14.07.09 Fixed: Various memory leaks in new functions (found via a leak detectio
n tool)

12.07.09 Fixed: When copying relatively small files in subdirs, clicking on "Can
cel" aborted immediately without giving the user a chance to continue
12.07.09 Fixed: Turn off reaction to ANY kind of hotkey while minimized, except
for the standard keys (Enter, Alt+Space, Alt+F4)
12.07.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Increased number of characters in wildcards co
mbo box from 259 to 1022
10.07.09 Fixed: Access violation when pressing Delete on minimized but focused T
otal Commander
10.07.09 Fixed: Delete files on Vista to recycle bin no longer supported UAC (de
lete as admin) because the new Vista delete function returned no error
09.07.09 Fixed: Installer: Strange characters could appear at end of string "All
users" on link creation dialog
09.07.09 Added: Installer: Use GetUserDefaultUILanguage if available to get true
language of dialogs etc.
08.07.09 Added: Lister started via /S=L switch: P as last parameter allows to c
hoose Lister plugin, e.g. /S=L:Piclview forces plugin iclview
08.07.09 Fixed: Removed error "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window." whe
n starting TC with StartupScreen=0 and tool "TrueTransparency" active
08.07.09 Added: Lister started via /S=L switch: Pass parameters to Lister, e.g.
/S=L:AT1C1251 (see help - command line parameters for details)
08.07.09 Added: Button bar: Ctrl+Left now stops to the right of the next separat
or, not to the left of it
08.07.09 Fixed: Installer: Language selection list now uses the correct code pag
e for each language, taken from install.lng
07.07.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 7 (pre1)
07.07.09 Added: Romanian language now included by default
07.07.09 Fixed: In main menu, press ENTER on menu item for command cm_FocusButto
nBar -> button bar was focused and first button was pressed by mistake
07.07.09 Fixed: Slight overlap of controls in search dialog
07.07.09 Added: New button bar hotkeys: Ctrl+Right/Left jumps to button after ne
xt/previous separator, or to the end/beginning. Alt+Enter opens button change di
alog
07.07.09 Added: Thumbnails view: Support for Unicode text starting with byte ord
er marker FF FE
07.07.09 Fixed: Rename/Move function: Get file attributes from file listing beca
use GetFileAttributesW seems to report invalid data on some Samba drives
05.07.09 Fixed: New standard copy method (CopyFileEx): handle ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATI
ON error which occurs if the source or target is locked in the middle (e.g. open
PST files)
05.07.09 Fixed: When executing a verb in a file system plugin, first check wheth
er there is a local name (FsPluginGetLocalName), and if not, download the file a
nd execute it locally with the custom verb
03.07.09 Fixed: Compare by content editor: Compare two large files > 1 MB, edit
one, save, compare again, edit -> save failed. Solution: use two backup files, .
bak and .bk2. The .bak holds the content of the initial original, while the .bk2
holds the content of the last save (mapped into memory)
03.07.09 Fixed: Standalone Synchronize dirs via /S=S switch didn't work with fil
e system plugins which use logging
03.07.09 Fixed: Lister plugins: Avoid infinite loops with callback ListNotificat
ionReceived, e.g. when WM_NOTIFY is received again while TC calls this function
already
02.07.09 Added: Installer: Set default language on first installation to the sys
tem's current user language (if included)
30.06.09 Added: Installer: Support translation
30.06.09 Fixed: Could not unpack some AES-encrypted zip files where the local he
ader didn't contain the packed file size
30.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When comparing with option "Empty dirs", disab
le the option "Right: Delete all empty directories" in the sync copy dialog beca
use the two options interfere

30.06.09 Fixed: FTP, upload in background fails in the following case: Upload to
uppercase directory, option "convert name to lowercase" active, user adds a fil
e to the upload (reason: entire path converted to lowercase!)
30.06.09 Fixed: Lister, Hex search with OEM(DOS) font: Convert to OEM charset be
fore converting hex to chars, otherwise the wrong text is found
30.06.09 Fixed: Unpacking subdirs from a subdir in a RAR archive no longer worke
d when using external RAR unpacker (note that this function doesn't support Unic
ode)
30.06.09 Fixed: Load selection from file in branch view didn't work correctly wi
th subdirs only one character long, e.g. e\somefile
30.06.09 Fixed: Button bar: Couldn't edit linked button bar via right click menu
if the name was surrounded by double quotes, e.g. "c:\some dir\test.bar"
28.06.09 Added: Installer, Windows NT-based systems: Let the user choose where t
o create start menu and desktop links (for all users, current user, or custom us
er)
28.06.09 Added: The installer no longer uses DDE to create start menu shortcuts
25.06.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 6
25.06.09 Fixed: Lister started via /S=L switch: The exception dialog didn't sho
w the stack trace
25.06.09 Fixed: External quick search with tcmatch.dll: Options from MatchGetSe
tOptions were only applied to second call of MatchFileW
24.06.09 Fixed: Installer: When installing to c:\somedir, also TC copies starte
d from c:\somedir2 were closed
24.06.09 Fixed: Cursor on file in left panel, while right panel shows a CAB fi
le which does NOT contain that file, choose "Compare by content" -> entire CAB w
as unpacked to TEMP
24.06.09 Fixed: Prevent strange characters from appearing in command line also
when user presses just Alt+ one of these: Arrow keys, PageUp/Down, Home, End
24.06.09 Fixed: Keyboard hotkeys in dialog boxes not always working with intern
al English texts (no language file)
23.06.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 6 (pre1)
23.06.09 Fixed: Button bar configuration dialog: Don't offer option "show as me
nu" for OPENBAR command
23.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with option "empty subdirs": Button "Synchroni
ze" disabled after clicking on directional buttons when only subdirs (no files)
are marked for selection
23.06.09 Added: Main configuration dialog: "Download" button on "Language" page
. This button remains intentionally untranslated
23.06.09 Added: Find files: Allow to view a file with F3 also in archives if th
e search function doesn't currently search in an archive
23.06.09 Added: Find files: Enable "Feed in listbox" button also when no files
in archives were found although that option was enabled
23.06.09 Fixed: Lister, cursor turned off: Search started 1 character after the
first in the displayed area instead of starting with the first character
22.06.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog, ftp log window, check CRC checksums: Moved
text 2 pixels to the right
22.06.09 Fixed: Directory sizes lost when sorting dirs by size and switching aw
ay from TC and back
22.06.09 Fixed: Couldn't minimize standalone sync started via /S=S parameter
21.06.09 Fixed: While minimized to tray, Alt+Tab window didn't support Unicode
yet
21.06.09 Fixed: Installer only closed the first instance when multiple copies o
f Total Commander were running
21.06.09 Fixed: Don't show breadcrumb dropdown list while editing the path
21.06.09 Fixed: Key accelerators (underlined characters) didn't work in dialog
boxes with non-English characters
19.06.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] VistaDelete=1 enables special delete
method to recycle bin on Vista and Windows 7: Directories are moved as a whole

to the recycle bin. No warning for read only or hidden/system files!


19.06.09 Fixed: FTP via Proxy method "HTTP CONNECT" didn't send "Host:" header
in its request
19.06.09 Fixed: Could not delete directory to which a drive was redirected with
SUBST, and later deleted while TC was running
19.06.09 Added: Added separate ANSI and Unicode versions of cm_SaveSelectionToF
ile and cm_SaveDetailsToFile to create ANSI file lists on NT-based systems and U
nicode file lists on 9x-based systems (normally it's the other way round)
18.06.09 Added: Use new Vista delete method via IFileOperation also when deleti
ng single files, replacing SHFileOperation
17.06.09 Added: New delete method for Windows Vista to delete to recycle bin us
ing the new IFileOperation object, much faster than SHFileOperation
17.06.09 Fixed: Prevent strange characters from appearing in command line when
user presses Alt+Shift+ or Alt+Ctrl+ one of these: Arrow keys, PageUp/Down, Home
, End
16.06.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop from ZIP between two copies of TC: Subdirs couldn't b
e unpacked this way. Now non-empty subdirs can be unpacked
16.06.09 Added: Set location and name of tcmatch.dll via wincmd.ini [Configurat
ion] tcmatch= (must contain full path+file name, supports env. vars)
16.06.09 Fixed: Quick search/filter dialog: Don't try to interpret AltGr+Letter
s as letters only in Alt+Letters mode
16.06.09 Added: Quick search/filter dialog: Handle left/right arrow buttons int
ernally, except in brief view where they are needed to go through columns
16.06.09 Fixed: Browse dir dialog (>> button in Synchronize dirs) didn't set in
itial dir on NT-based systems
16.06.09 Fixed: Copying single file to multiple target dirs, or one or more fil
es to one selected dir/link didn't work
15.06.09 Added: Manifest: Add new Windows 7-specific section <supportedOS Id="{
35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
15.06.09 Fixed: Uninstall: DEFAULT.BR2 and NO.BR2 were not removed (if TC creat
ed them)
14.06.09 Fixed: Ctrl+V was no longer updating the file panels after the file wa
s copied
14.06.09 Added: wincmd.ini [ButtonBar] BarLimitLines=<nr> limits the number of
button rows in the button bar to <nr> lines (0=unlimited). The hidden rows can s
till be accessed via Alt+Shift+F11 and the cursor keys
14.06.09 Fixed: Long names with multiple dots not handled correctly by ToolTip
function
14.06.09 Fixed: Don't show option "As Administrator" when trying to enter a dir
ectory longer than 1018 characters (the maximum supported)
14.06.09 Fixed: UpdateEnv=0 option wasn't correctly ported from TC 7, so the op
tion was ignored
12.06.09 Fixed: When using any translation, the dialogs to configure Lister plu
gins and Content plugins showed "Installed File system plugins:" in the text abo
ve the list
12.06.09 Fixed: Configuration - button bar no longer showed name of bar
11.06.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 5
10.06.09 Fixed: Delete with option "All as admin", then "Skip all" when a file
is locked -> empty dirs which could be deleted as admin were skipped too
10.06.09 Fixed: Couldn't edit Unicode alias commands in Configuration - Options
- Misc.
10.06.09 Fixed: Not all comboboxes supported Unicode yet
10.06.09 Fixed: Master password input dialog: Use ToUnicode() to support specia
l Romanian characters (may cause different master password than in Beta 4 or old
er!)
10.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Saving the option "Only selected (in main win
dow)" didn't work on Windows 9x/ME
09.06.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 5 (pre1)

09.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Disable option "only selected" if one panel i
s in branch view (it doesn't work correctly then)
09.06.09 Fixed: Vista: Could not enter certain Romanian characters (to the righ
t of 'L' on Romanian keyboard). Reason: They only work with PeekMessageW/Dispatc
hMessageW!
09.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Better contrast of blue and green text when i
tem selected, especially on Vista (use the color with the highest contrast out o
f 3 possible colors)
09.06.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Play user-defined sound for "copy complete" o
r "delete complete" when sync copy/delete operation ends
08.06.09 Fixed: Try not to show "out of resources" error if totalcmd.exe unreac
hable when loading a dialog with embedded images
08.06.09 Fixed: Buttons with images: Try to support transparent images only on
Windows 2000 or newer, NT4 may fail to load image lists
07.06.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow to save option "Only selected (in main
window)": If checked, TC offers to save the selected names in a list file
07.06.09 Fixed: Combine files, decode file: correctly handle relative paths lik
e ".."
07.06.09 Fixed: Auto-complete in F5 copy confirmation dialog: Do not expand env
ironment variables like %temp% because they aren't expanded when copying either
07.06.09 Fixed: Drive dropdown list icons can cause crash on NT4 with some disp
lay drivers -> turn off icons if this occurs
07.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Search backwards with Shift+F3 didn't work in plugins
07.06.09 Added: External quick filter support (tcmatch.dll): MatchGetSetOptions
informs dll about quick search options and returns sum of: 1: override internal
search, 2: no leading/trailing asterisk, 4: file name with path, not just name,
8: allow empty result: longer search strings can return more results
05.06.09 Fixed: When unloading a control, put released object instance at the e
nd of the free list so it's re-used last (to increase stability)
05.06.09 Added: F6 move: Allow to turn off warning which is shown when the user
enters by hand a dir name which already exists: wincmd.ini [Configuration] Move
ToDirWarn=0
05.06.09 Fixed: Access violation when renaming very long directory (>1000 chara
cters long). Reason: UTF16->UTF8 conversion function didn't 0-terminate string w
hich was too long
03.06.09 Added: Windows 9x: Pass long names to batch files although command.com
is a 16-bit program (but one which is known to support long names)
02.06.09 Fixed: ZIP: Problems with archive having both AES and UTF-8 extra fiel
d (cannot pack, extra field lost when adding files)
02.06.09 Fixed: No error shown when user tries to copy file with alternate stre
ams to dir with only these rights: create/write files, read, execute (Reason: Co
pyFileEx returns false, but GetLastError returns 0)
02.06.09 Fixed: Tree view: Wrong sort order of accented characters when using s
orting mode "Alphabetical, including accents"
02.06.09 Added: Installer, update mode: Only install languages where the lng or
mnu file was already installed
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Could not reach last line after disabling word wrap if
there was no scroll bar with wrap, but there is one without wrap
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Custom code page selection also had influence on Unicod
e and UTF-8 views (font substitution)
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister started via /S=L parameter: Groupboxes didn't have any b
order
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Do not update codepage menu (custom encodings) while co
depage menu disabled (e.g. when using a plugin in full screen)
01.06.09 Fixed: Unload tcmatch.dll when auto-installing to TC directory, otherw
ise an update of the quick search dll will fail
01.06.09 Fixed: Drive dropdown list: For width, use maximum width of characters
'm' and 'w', not just of 'w' because 'm' is wider in Arial
31.05.09 Fixed: Delete as admin could still stop after deleting a dir as admin
31.05.09 Fixed: Could not delete junctions to folders if it required admin righ

ts
31.05.09 Fixed: Copy+Paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V): Execute 'paste' in background threa
d because it hangs on Vista when pasting large files
31.05.09 Fixed: Compare by content, hex mode: Replace chars between #00 and #31
by a dot if the char has 0 width (variable width font) or has different width t
han default (fixed width font)
31.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: incorrect handling of minimum size when maxi
mizing and restoring the dialog
29.05.09 Fixed: Delete dir with zip in it on one side while that zip is opened
on the other -> other side not refreshed
29.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, empty dir mode: Right click menu - "set copy
direction" sometimes unselected too many files
29.05.09 Fixed: Leaving old style fully expanded tree view could cause access v
iolation in tree update thread
29.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with encrypted archives not working (wrong err
or about Unicode support shown)
28.05.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 4
28.05.09 Fixed: When a disconnected network drive was reconnected, the drive's
icon wasn't refreshed in the drive dropdown list
27.05.09 Fixed: Shift+Cursor up/down in drive dropdown list selected file in fi
le list
27.05.09 Fixed: Access violation in icon thread when closing TC with open separ
ate tree (fix should also improve the general stability)
27.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, branch view: When sorting by name, keep sort
order from main window (sort just by name, not by relative path+name)
27.05.09 Fixed: Function to save current selection could crash with file names
longer than 511 characters (e.g. in branch view)
27.05.09 Fixed: Quick filter wasn't removed when user opened a new tab by Ctrl+
clicking on a button (or Shift+Enter in Ctrl+D menu) when command "cd xyz" was p
ointing to a file
27.05.09 Fixed: Yes/No button in copy to dir warning dialog not translated
26.05.09 Fixed: Mouse wheel no longer worked in Lister
26.05.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 4 (pre1)
26.05.09 Fixed: Delete function: Don't turn off "all as admin" once the user ha
s chosen it, even when deleting as admin fails -> "As admin" option doesn't need
to be offered multiple times
26.05.09 Fixed: Delete function: The complete operation was aborted when user c
hose "As admin" for a directory, and the deletion failed also with admin rights
26.05.09 Fixed: When AlwaysUnpackInBackground=1 was set, TC always beeped when
unpacking finished - now it only beeps if no custom sound has been defined and t
he minimum time (default: 10s) is reached
26.05.09 Fixed: Adjust listbox item height to dialog box font height to ensure
that all name parts like underscores _ are visible, e.g. in Multi-rename tool
25.05.09 Fixed: Support Unicode characters in file size thousands separator
25.05.09 Fixed: TC no longer noticed environment variable changes (because the
notification info was sent in Unicode)
25.05.09 Fixed: (Re-)creation of treeinfo.wc file via Alt+F10 tree could cause
access violation (buffer exactly 1 character too short)
24.05.09 Fixed: Drive choose dialog (when drive change failed): Removed black b
order around drive
24.05.09 Fixed: File lists: Size of folders lost when switching away from TC an
d back even when nothing was changed
24.05.09 Fixed: Shift+F6 rename in tree -> place cursor on new name
24.05.09 Fixed: Shift+F6 no longer worked with normal directories in main panel
tree view
24.05.09 Fixed: Tree view: After renaming a virtual folder (e.g. subdir on the
desktop), the old name was again shown when trying to rename again
24.05.09 Fixed: F5 copy: Option "Rename existing target file" didn't work if ta

rget dir required admin rights


24.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with an archive, some files in subdirs hidden
via arrow buttons, right click on dir, delete -> all files (also hidden) in this
dir would be deleted
24.05.09 Fixed: Beep sound was played when pressing Ctrl+character in command l
ine (e.g. Ctrl+E)
22.05.09 Fixed: With TabHeaderThemed=0, the arrows and texts weren't shown at t
he exact same position as in TC 7.04a
22.05.09 Fixed: If a packer plugin has the "hide" flag (256) set, then internal
tools like the checksum checker or UUE/MIME-decoder take precedence over the pl
ugin
22.05.09 Fixed: Windows 9x/ME: Changed sort order "Alphabetical including accen
ts" back to how it was in TC 7.04a (underscores "_" first)
22.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Make sure that selected folders aren't shown
in white when the file background is white too
22.05.09 Fixed: Current path bar: Could no longer switch to server share if in
root of server (e.g. \\servername -> \\servername\C$) by modifying the path in t
he title
22.05.09 Fixed: Main config dialog: No more need to close+re-open dialog when s
witching between Unicode and ANSI language (except when switching back to Englis
h)
22.05.09 Fixed: Sometimes there was a crash in watchdir thread when program ter
minated
20.05.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar, hold down right mouse button befor
e releasing the left -> breadcrumb context menu could be shown
20.05.09 Fixed: Compare dirs (Shift+F2): Listbox scrollbar sometimes shown at t
he wrong position if text cursor (caret) was outside the visible area
20.05.09 Fixed: No help available in standalone tools started via /S= switch
20.05.09 Added: Support shortcuts Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Shift+Up also on completely
empty drives (no '..' item)
19.05.09 Added: Compare by content: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareAlwaysSav
eWithBom=1 forces compare tool to always add byte order marker when saving Unico
de or UTF-8 files
19.05.09 Added: Compare by content: When saving a file in Unicode or UTF-8 mode
, add a byte order marker (BOM) only when the original file had one too
19.05.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Still some cases where "CWD" was sent i
nstead of "CWD /" (when downloading file from root)
19.05.09 Fixed: Avoid access violation when FTP reconnect failed
19.05.09 Fixed: Uninstaller didn't uninstall some .inc files from the language
directory
19.05.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs: Preview images, icons and their co
ntext menu not working correctly in overwrite dialog
19.05.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs: Overwrite dialog+read only dialog
not working when copying
19.05.09 Fixed: No error message was shown when user tries to move files from a
n archive with F6 (which isn't supported)
19.05.09 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Scrolling with mouse produced incorrect backgr
ound color when smooth scrolling was enabled
19.05.09 Fixed: Lister, different codepage, variable width view: Line breaks we
re not always shown as dots when the font couldn't display them
19.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect: By mistake, a red lock icon was shown for sites wi
th signed certificate (fix untested)
19.05.09 Added: F5 copy: When copying in the foreground and a target dir with s
ame name as the current file exists, show a checkbox to set the option CopyToDir
Warn=0
19.05.09 Added: F5 copy: Allow to turn off warning which is shown when the user
enters by hand a dir name which already exists: wincmd.ini [Configuration] Copy
ToDirWarn=0
17.05.09 Fixed: Lister, search for text: Ignore codepage settings when viewing
RTF files, or using a Lister plugin

17.05.09 Fixed: Incorrect handling of thumbnails with Alpha value on Windows XP


(error in AlphaBlend function) was causing extra borders
17.05.09 Fixed: Renamed class of Lister back to TLister (so it works again with
more plugins)
17.05.09 Fixed: Always refresh overlay icons on F2 or Ctrl+R
17.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog (Ctrl+F): Support multi-character quick sear
ch
17.05.09 Fixed: Inplace rename: Scroll renamed item into view, e.g. in brief vi
ew when renamed name is only partially visible
17.05.09 Fixed: Reduced length of file description in version info of totalcmd.
exe, because it was used by Windows for "open with"
17.05.09 Fixed: Quick filter wasn't removed when command "cd xyz" on a button o
r in a menu was pointing to a file instead of a directory
14.05.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 3
14.05.09 Fixed: Internal associations lost their icons when changing colors in
the program
14.05.09 Fixed: Hotkeys in groupboxes not working when Unicode (e.g. in multi-r
ename tool)
14.05.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop with SingleClickStart=1: Cursor could jump to other f
ile when window is scrolled, so the wrong file would be dragged if nothing was s
elected
14.05.09 Fixed: Vista only: Drive dropdown comboboxes reverted to drive C: aft
er switching away from TC and back
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Highlighted item not shown initially (Vista onl
y)
13.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Deleting files from RAR archive failed
13.05.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar dropdown list: Shorten very long names with elli
psis "..." (NT-based Windows versions only)
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Width wasn't adjusted to uppercase drive letter
s yet
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Color border around drive on systems before Vis
ta when background color differs from system-default window background
13.05.09 Fixed: Ctrl+V in command line pasted the text twice
12.05.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 3 (pre1)
12.05.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Enter key didn't work with the but
tons +, - and Pause
12.05.09 Fixed: Search dialog: Increased default width by a few pixels
12.05.09 Fixed: Lister, Hex/Binary mode, Windows 98: Special characters like li
ne breaks not replaced by dots if their width was invalid or 0 when using custom
encoding
12.05.09 Fixed: Lister, Hex/Binary mode, Windows 98: Selection not working with
different codepage when Uniscribe disabled
12.05.09 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] KeepMasterPassword= Allow to keep master
password when: 1: program is minimized 2: screen saver starts 3: both
12.05.09 Added: Allow to limit width of breadcrumb dropdown list: wincmd.ini [C
onfiguration] BreadCrumbMaxWidth=<number> sets max. width in pixels (minimum: 10
0)
12.05.09 Added: Internal associations: Allow to sort verbs via up/down scrollba
r buttons or Shift+cursor keys
12.05.09 Added: FTP connect dialog: Allow to rename/move folders via "Edit" but
ton
12.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Still couldn't collapse certain Chinese fol
ders
12.05.09 Fixed: View files with cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly to avoid loading plugin
s, view RTF file -> after that, Quick View begins to load plugins!
11.05.09 Fixed: Quick search (letters with search dialog): Ctrl+Alt+S was inter
preted like Ctrl+S, so language-specific letters couldn't be entered with RightA
lt+s

11.05.09 Fixed: Quick search (letters with search dialog) and quick filter: Pro
blems entering Polish characters with RightAlt+Letters, e.g. RightAlt+e
11.05.09 Fixed: FTP details dialog: When user tries to enter master password bu
t cancels the dialog or fails, enable the checkbox "Encrypt with master password
" so the user can enter a new password
10.05.09 Added: Always use Unicode controls on NT-based systems, don't use suff
ix .UnicodeControl any more
10.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with archive(s), show "unpacking" behind norma
l progress (otherwise the normal progress is mostly not visible for small files)
10.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect, press Cancel when asked for password -> do no ask
user to reconnect
10.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Drag&Drop not working correctly when items
in subfolder start with a space (from previous TC versions)
10.05.09 Fixed: File system plugin interface, same plugin open on both sides (d
ifferent subdirs), copy file which exists on both sides, overwrite -> access vio
lation if plugin doesn't support Unicode
10.05.09 Fixed: Secure ftp (ftps) connection, no wincmd.pem file -> lock icon w
asn't shown correctly when cert cannot be verified
10.05.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar, BreadcrumbDelayButton<0: When user clicks on a
path part, wait 1 second longer until opening the dropdown menu of that path to
give user the chance to move the mouse cursor away
10.05.09 Added: Allow to abort opening of breadcrumb virtual folder (like in Ne
twork Neighborhood) - unfortunately the Windows error message cannot be suppress
ed
08.05.09 Added: Allow to abort opening of breadcrumb subdir if no response for
2 seconds (via button)
08.05.09 Fixed: Icons per file (e.g. .exe, .bmp) not always shown, e.g. when la
st access time changed when image extracted
08.05.09 Fixed: Background icon thread: Move SHGetFileInfo out of critical sect
ion to make reading from network drives faster with option to get icons from EXE
/LNK files
08.05.09 Fixed: Read dir abort dialog could stall for 10 seconds or more when m
oved over the file list so an icon has to be re-drawn
08.05.09 Fixed: Aborting from reading a hanging network connection could someti
mes cause an access violation
08.05.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Adjust vertical scrollbar width to system width
(SM_CXVSCROLL)
08.05.09 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Quick search didn't match exact name when search
string started with '*', e.g. *test didn't find folder "test"
08.05.09 Fixed: Standalone synchronize dirs (started via /S=S switch): Options
like the ignore list or the theming options were not loaded
08.05.09 Fixed: Vista: Show correct icon for files even if there is a UserChoic
e registry key pointing to nowhere
06.05.09 Fixed: Increased width of speed limit field in background transfer man
ager by 1 digit
06.05.09 Fixed: More places with uppercase drive letter support: Calculate occu
pied space, most file operation dialogs like F5 copy, system info, set volume la
bel
06.05.09 Fixed: Lister: Selection incorrect when scrolling horizontally while s
electing text, especially when moving the cursor up/down some lines
06.05.09 Fixed: External viewer (default hotkey Alt+F3) didn't work on the Desk
top
06.05.09 Fixed: Internal associations shifted by one if an association pointed
to a non-existing search filter
06.05.09 Fixed: Ignore click on button which opened a popup menu (don't immedia
tely re-open it) in button bar, bar change dialogs, change attributes, custom co
lumns dialog, and main configuration dialog
05.05.09 Fixed: Error unpacking RAR file from Unix with Alt+F9 (unpack specific
files) when archive contained folders
05.05.09 Fixed: TreeUpdateLimit option: Check tree file size before actually op

ening the file (via FindFirst)


05.05.09 Fixed: (forgotten from TC 7.0) Drive panel: When a drive was chosen wh
ich was hidden with DriveBarHide= option, the previous drive remained selected
05.05.09 Fixed: Couldn't type Russian big letter 'L' (Shift+K on English keyboa
rd with Russian locale settings) in command line
05.05.09 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog didn't accept multiple double b
yte characters on Chinese Windows (reason: EM_GETSEL must be called via SendMess
ageW)
03.05.09 Added: Vista 64bit: Show pseudo-subdirectory "sysnative" in Windows fo
lder to allow to reach 64-bit system32 directory
03.05.09 Fixed: Edit comment (Ctrl+Z): Changed length warn limit from 512 to 51
1 characters (limit of 4dos/4nt)
03.05.09 Fixed: Vista, drive dropdown list: Draw closed dropdown list in color
"COLOR_WINDOW", not the color set for the file list
03.05.09 Fixed: Reduce flickering when resizing drive panel (only when themed)
and folder tabs
03.05.09 Fixed: Folder tabs: Reduce flickering when changing dirs with multiple
tab lines
03.05.09 Fixed: cm_Copy*PathToClip functions didn't correctly convert drive let
ter to lower-/uppercase
03.05.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: UTF-8 check was only made with first se
rver in list
03.05.09 Fixed: FTP: Send CLNT command only when server either doesn't support
FEAT command, or FEAT reports to support CLNT
03.05.09 Fixed: Edit current path while in virtual folder, press ENTER -> do no
t try to access a remote server with that name
03.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, save settings: Leading and trailing spaces i
n search+replace were not saved
03.05.09 Fixed: cm_editpath changed the path in the wrong panel when cursor was
in a separate tree (only when invoked via hotkey!)
03.05.09 Fixed: cm_DirTabsShowMenu showed the menu at the current mouse cursor
position instead of just below the tabs
01.05.09 Fixed: Windows classic theme: Incorrect pixel remain when moving separ
ator of sorted header (e.g. date header when sorted by date)
01.05.09 Fixed: Access violation when plugin detect string ended with space(s)
30.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 2
29.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 2 (pre2)
29.04.09 Fixed: Click on current path while cursor in separate tree sometimes e
dited the path on the wrong side
29.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Could not remove directories which had the re
ad only attribute
29.04.09 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: typed characters appear twice when there is a dir
name with repeated characters
29.04.09 Fixed: Icons in file lists not scaled correctly on Windows NT 3.51
29.04.09 Fixed: Drives not shown in uppercase with option "Always show drive le
tter in tab title"
29.04.09 Fixed: Wrong font in FTP connect dialog (in PB2 pre only)
29.04.09 Fixed: Access violation (in PB2 pre only) when the following options w
ere set: "Show tab header also when there is only one tab" and "Tabs on multiple
lines"
28.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 2 (pre1)
28.04.09 Fixed: Lister: No auto-scroll to the left when Lister was maximized
28.04.09 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog: Support entering multiple char
acters at once via IME
28.04.09 Fixed: Button bar, open dropdown menu with Enter, close with ESC -> fo
cus was set on file list, not returned to bar
28.04.09 Fixed: Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx (if available) to get total and free m
emory (RAM), to support memory sizes>2GB

28.04.09 Fixed: Speedup saving settings of plugin dialogs for Lister, file syst
em, and content plugins
28.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, save options button: Replace reserved charact
er '=' by underscore '_'
28.04.09 Fixed: Search function, save search: Replace reserved character '=' by
underscore '_'
28.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ClearListBackground=0 reduces flicke
r when changing directories (background isn't erased first) - disabled by defaul
t
27.04.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: '&' character was shown as underli
ne of next character
27.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs didn't log the deletion of folders
27.04.09 Fixed: Lister could crash when viewing a single file with a name (with
out path) longer than 150 characters
27.04.09 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree didn't support double byte input like Chinese
27.04.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Could not collapse certain Chinese folders
26.04.09 Added: Do not auto-save quick search filter when QuickSearchAutoFilter
=-1 (always off) or QuickSearchAutoFilter=2 (always on) when starting
26.04.09 Added: Auto-save state of quick search filter (Ctrl+S) in wincmd.ini [
Configuration] QuickSearchAutoFilter
26.04.09 Fixed: Incorrect drawing of empty space below last line in some listbo
xes (e.g. synchronize dirs) on vista
26.04.09 Added: Change attributes: Increased maximum number of editable fields
per plugin from 100 to 250
26.04.09 Fixed: File removed from background transfer manager would still show
up, although the list length is 0
26.04.09 Fixed: Copy file using compatibility mode: 8.3 name workaround wasn't
supported yet (copy file Verylongname.txt then VERYLO~1.TXT gave overwrite confi
rmation dialog)
26.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dialog: Wrong tab order in copy confirmation dialog
26.04.09 Fixed: FTP over SSL: Could not connect to server vsftpd which reported
"session reuse required" error
26.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DrivesExportUpcase=1 exports paths w
ith uppercase drive letters in functions like Mark - Copy to clipboard with full
path, and when launching programs (current dir, program name)
26.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DrivesShowUpcase=1 shows drives with
uppercase drive letters in drive bar, drive dropdown list, current dir, tabs an
d to the left of the command line
26.04.09 Fixed: TC was losing focus after file operations when "filebox extende
r" was installed
26.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ftp: Abort comparison via Cancel button d
idn't always work
26.04.09 Fixed: FTP, date not recognized -> it was shown as '1.1.1601' instead
of '?' as in older versions
26.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ftp, abort comparison, start again -> sta
rted in wrong subdir
24.04.09 Fixed: Button spacing and tab order in installer (language selection p
age)
24.04.09 Fixed: Switching from language with current code page to language from
other code page (or vice versa), then closing all tabs gave access violation
24.04.09 Fixed: Couldn't pass paths to previous instance with /O parameter when
main program was Unicode
24.04.09 Fixed: Lister could crash if a file was locked somewhere in the middle
24.04.09 Fixed: CtrlArrow=1 not working when auto-complete and auto-append were
turned off
24.04.09 Added: Edit comment (Ctrl+Z): Show number of characters to be stored,
warn with a beep if the typed text becomes larger than 512 characters, the maxim
um supported by some other comment tools
24.04.09 Fixed: Right click on very high ToolTip (e.g. when using a very long c
omment) could hang TC because the tip window wasn't correctly hidden

24.04.09 Fixed: File system plugins: the command line no longer supported the "
cd" command, e.g. with the SFTP plugin
24.04.09 Fixed: Could no longer unpack certain LZH files (cause: additional hea
ders)
22.04.09 Fixed: Tabstop headers (Name/Ext/Size...) not shown correctly when cho
osing some languages, e.g. Chinese on a Japanese system
22.04.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to file panel in brief view to the bottom row or belo
w, hold down right button before releasing left -> focus could be set on target
panel
22.04.09 Added: Make ThreadFindFirst=1 the default: read directory in backgroun
d, so user can abort it, e.g. if network drive inaccessible
22.04.09 Fixed: Separate tree, inplace rename (Shift+F6): Select just the last
path part (the directory)
22.04.09 Fixed: Speed up the saving of wildcards in synchronize dirs, F5 copy (
second line) and unpack specific files
22.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Excluded dirs via wildcards (e.g. *.* | somed
ir\) were still synchronized when synchronizing empty dirs was enabled
21.04.09 Fixed: Could not enter double byte characters in comboboxes if the low
byte in the Unicode character was 0 (problem with Delphi DoKeyPress function)
21.04.09 Fixed: Lister, using different codepage: Some rare strings (e.g. wcmd_
deu.lng, line 674=) wasn't completely selected (because ScriptItemize split it i
nto more than 100 parts)
21.04.09 Fixed: Two separate trees, click on tree in target panel -> title bar
wasn't updated accordingly
21.04.09 Fixed: Button bar: No icon shown when path to icon file contained a co
mma followed by a number, and the first icon was chosen
21.04.09 Added: Lister: Remember last user-configured encoding, stored in wincm
d.ini [Lister] Codepage= field
21.04.09 Fixed: Lister: Disable "Encoding" menu when font set to ASCII/OEM, bec
ause that font setting already defines the encoding
21.04.09 Fixed: Lister: Press F7 with some text selected -> wrong search string
suggested with OEM/DOS font
21.04.09 Fixed: Right click on folder in file list, choose "Search..." -> Searc
h didn't start in that subdir
21.04.09 Fixed: Nag screen: 1-2-3 buttons not bold
21.04.09 Fixed: Nag screen: wrong info shown in case of blocked key
20.04.09 Fixed: FTP connect: Dialog box to confirm entered master password show
ed wrong text
20.04.09 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Search function could not restore plugin search param
eters
19.04.09 Fixed: Remote ftp list not refreshed when uploading a file to that ser
ver via background transfer manager
19.04.09 Fixed: Command choose dialog: Cursor not placed on first match when di
alog was invoked via "Define hotkeys" (because of "Default" line)
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar starts misbehaving when adding first tab/removin
g last while cursor over breadcrumb (reason: timer lost due to window handle cha
nge)
19.04.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: When a multi-byte codepage was set (e.g. Chi
nese), clicking on one of the placeholder buttons could insert unwanted extra ch
aracters
19.04.09 Fixed: Switch between full view and thumbnails view with some selected
files could lead to an access violation
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Drag&Drop to underlined path part didn't suppor
t move by holding down right mouse button before releasing left button
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Underlines not at the right position for some f
onts (e.g. Microsoft Sans Serif, 9) when path scrolled to the left
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Click on underlined \\Desktop\ hangs for a few
seconds, then switches to last local directory
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Dropdown menu for \\Desktop\ didn't work proper
ly (but it worked for special desktop triangle)

19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Avoid that main TC window loses focus when open
ing the breadcrumb dropdown list (intercept WM_NCACTIVATE)
19.04.09 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Ignore list: No default ignore list f
ile name suggested when adding selected files to list via one of the "Add select
ed" buttons
19.04.09 Fixed: Find files dialog, text search: UTF-8 and RegEx could both be c
hecked, although the combination didn't work
19.04.09 Fixed: Don't pass Unicode file names to 32-bit rar.exe when packing, i
t doesn't work
19.04.09 Fixed: Reduce flickering in file lists, button bar, and some static co
ntrols in the main window when resizing
19.04.09 Fixed: Reduce flickering in connection list when resizing FTP connect
dialog
19.04.09 Fixed: FTP new connection (Ctrl+N): Auto-detect UTF-8 here too
19.04.09 Fixed: Connect to FTP server: The session name wasn't shown in the tit
le bar of the user name or password dialog
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Access violation when clicking on parent item b
readcrumb bar while dropdown list shown
19.04.09 Fixed: Footer: When a quick filter is active, show the total number of
filtered files, not the number of all files
19.04.09 Fixed: Re-packing to subdir of an archive (e.g. zip) after viewing/edi
ting a file could cause an access violation
16.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 1
14.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Public Beta 1 (pre)
14.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar, dropdown list: The last few pixels (where the t
riangles are shown) would never open the directory when clicking even when there
was no arrow
14.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SpeedLimitEnabled=1 enables speed li
mit when background transfer manager is started
13.04.09 Fixed: Files list wasn't refreshed after cm_SwitchHidSys in archives
12.04.09 Fixed: Do not unload Winsock library when removing last http or ftp ob
ject
12.04.09 Fixed: Changed ftp log method (PostMessage instead of SendMessage) to
avoid possible problems with threads
12.04.09 Fixed: Command selection dialog: Increase buffer for user-defined comm
ands (em_xyz) from 8k to 32k
12.04.09 Fixed: Files - Associate with, define a verb a second time -> last ver
b was removed from list by mistake
12.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Layout] TabHeaderBoldArrow=0 turns off bold arrow i
n tab header (default: same as TabHeaderThemed)
12.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Layout] TabHeaderThemed=0 turns off themed tabstop
header (Name/Ext/Size/Time/Attr)
12.04.09 Fixed: Left "go to parent dir" button was less wide than root button a
nd right parent button
12.04.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager was resized incorrectly (text parts
remaining in list) when list scrollbar not at the left
12.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Show multiple levels of Arabic or Hebrew direct
ories in their logical order (lowest level on the left) - but not when breadcrum
b bar turned off
12.04.09 Fixed: Press Alt+F11 while focus already on breadcrumb bar -> Desktop
dropdown was highlighted, but down arrow remained under previous path (same for
Alt+F12)
12.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, delete files on both sides via right click, b
ut one file couldn't be deleted -> the file on the other side wasn't removed fro
m the list
12.04.09 Fixed: Adapt Ctrl+S button height to height of Quick Search dialog
07.04.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 17
07.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Show number of scanned directories also for f

tp connections and file system plugins


07.04.09 Fixed: Search function, RegEx search in content plugin field "full tex
t" didn't correctly handle line breaks
07.04.09 Fixed: "Edit button bar file" wasn't shown for sub bar files when the
name contained an environment variable
06.04.09 Fixed: Renamed the wrongly named key OEM_DE# to OEM_FR! (the key is th
e "!" on the French keyboard). It doesn't exist on German or U.S. keyboards at a
ll
06.04.09 Fixed: Connect via Ctrl+N, disconnect, confirm to save the connection
-> password wasn't stored with master password
06.04.09 Fixed: Hotkey "OEM_+" without any modifiers like Ctrl, Shift etc. didn
't work
06.04.09 Fixed: Press "Home" in breadcrumb bar: Cursor was placed on drive lett
er OK, but dropdown button wasn't displayed
06.04.09 Fixed: FTP download in foreground: Preserve file dates no longer worke
d
05.04.09 Added: FTP connection dialog: "duplicate entry" now suggests a new ses
sion name in the form "oldname(1)" etc.
05.04.09 Fixed: FTP connection dialog: "duplicate entry" didn't copy encrypted
passwords when the master password wasn't entered
05.04.09 Added: "ftp" item in tree and breadcrumb bar also in 32x32 pixels
03.04.09 Added: Let the user turn off the secure password input via keyboard ho
ok in case a virus scanner makes troubles: wcx_ftp.ini [General] allowhook=0 ->
show open lock icon when it's turned off
03.04.09 Fixed: Also hide tree lines in FTP connect and Alt+F10 when TreeLineCo
lor=-2
03.04.09 Fixed: NTFS file system: Do not follow symlinks which point to themsel
ves or a parent dir of the current dir in "calculate occupied space", copy/move,
search, and synchronize dirs (avoids infinite loops)
03.04.09 Fixed: Ctrl+C in synchronize dirs didn't copy the complete information
to the clipboard
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Limited number of retries when connecti
on failed
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Skip to next file if no connection afte
r the user-defined number of retries
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Ask user for password when multiple ser
vers are in the list (without stored password)
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't try to re-use the same password f
or multiple servers
01.04.09 Fixed: Compare by content, hex view: Better handling of variable width
fonts
31.03.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 16
31.03.09 Fixed: Press F5/F6 with alwayscopyinbackground=2 set, enter .. as targ
et -> question about existing dir was shown
31.03.09 Added: New icons for Ctrl+S quick search filter, sync dialog title, ft
p connection dialog, and "ftp" item in tree and breadcrumb bar
31.03.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Only open compare by content if both sides on
that line contain a file
31.03.09 Fixed: Copy to UNC root like \\server\share didn't work because of the
missing backslash at the end -> auto-append it
31.03.09 Fixed: Master password input dialog: Correctly handle copy, cut+paste
(copy+cut only copies **** to clipboard)
31.03.09 Fixed: Changed width of master password strength bar: minimum width=te
xt width, maximum width=256 pixels
31.03.09 Fixed: Do not refresh ftp panel when performing a local file operation
in the other panel
31.03.09 Fixed: Icons for internal associations not working properly when check
ing the encrypted or packed flag
29.03.09 Fixed: Content plugins, packer plugins, lister plugins: Do not pass an

y Ansi names longer than MAX_PATH-1 characters to plugins even if the plugin sup
ports Unicode functions. Only pass such long names to Unicode functions
29.03.09 Fixed: File system plugins: Do not pass any paths longer than MAX_PATH
-1 to plugins, except when they implement FsFindFirstW - avoids possible buffer
overflows within old plugins
27.03.09 Added: FTP download later (add to list): Also add encrypted password t
o list when using a connection where the password is protected with a master pas
sword
27.03.09 Added: FTP download from list now supports passwords encrypted with th
e master password. Note that the slash "/" must be replaced by a minus sign "-"
because the slash has a special meaning
27.03.09 Fixed: Custom columns view: Could not sort by multiple choice fields
27.03.09 Added: Use same tree lines in FTP connect and Alt+F10 as in main windo
w trees
27.03.09 Added: Lister: View individual files with no read rights (read via tcm
admin) - text only
27.03.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar, BreadcrumbDelayButton<0: Drag&Drop and auto-ope
ning subdir lists could interfere
27.03.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar, BreadcrumbDelayButton<0: Immediately switch to
dir when user clicks on path part for which the subdir list is shown
27.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, details dialog: Shorten verb name if it
doesn't fit
27.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Different default icon was shown for fil
es with no Windows association than when not using internal associations
27.03.09 Fixed: Internal unzip didn't ask multiple times for wrong password any
more
27.03.09 Added: Lister: More characters included in list of non-text characters
for word selection
26.03.09 Fixed: Some Lister plugins (e.g. SciLister) could cause a crash in TC
due to a recent change with WM_NOTIFY
25.03.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 15
25.03.09 Fixed: Removed TCMDX32.EXE test tool from installation, X64 menu will
only be shown on 64-bit windows now as intended
25.03.09 Fixed: Lister: cdbfview plugin didn't work because Windows sent WM_NOT
IFY with code=LVN_GETDISPINFOW, but plugin expected LVN_GETDISPINFOA
25.03.09 Fixed: Don't auto-open breadcrumb bar directory list when right click
menu, directory history list or hotlist open
25.03.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar: Disallow drop to all other TC part
s while subdir dropdown list is open
25.03.09 Fixed: Show error when importing custom server types fails (ftp detail
s dialog, host define dialog)
25.03.09 Fixed: Button bar right click menu: Environment variables lost when us
ing "Edit linked button bar" and saving with OK
25.03.09 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Misc: Configure custom sounds opened
wrong page of control panel dialog on Vista
25.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations didn't work with some programs when verb
was set to ** and file contained spaces
25.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Icons not always handled properly when d
efining %1 as icon (which means that TC should use system icon)
25.03.09 Added: Exception stack trace code added, inspired by uLkStackTrace. Mo
dified code available under http://www.ghisler.com/strace.zip in accordance with
Mozilla General Public License
24.03.09 Added: When using negative values for BreadcrumbDelayButton, show the
dropdown list immediately after the delay (e.g. BreadcrumbDelayButton=-500)
24.03.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BreadcrumbDelayButton=250 sets delay
until breadcrumb dropdown button is shown when hovering over path panel
24.03.09 Fixed: Use history to go back to hard link where the target was delete
d -> drive not found error
24.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, edit action, press TAB -> hidden DDE fie

lds were accessible


22.03.09 Fixed: Case-insensitive search in content plugins: Search string had t
o be entered in lowercase letters, otherwise nothing was found
22.03.09 Fixed: Search function: Couldn't find regular expressions on lines wit
h 0 bytes (e.g. in binary files)
22.03.09 Fixed: Do not remove selection when launching file inside archive with
ENTER or context menu (it was still removed when archive was on same drive as T
EMP dir)
22.03.09 Added: Combine files: Show counter of file being combined
22.03.09 Fixed: Unpack function: Unpacking encrypted file, enter wrong password
, then correct one, then press ESC -> wrong password dialog came again
22.03.09 Fixed: Unpack function: Partial file not deleted when aborting unpacki
ng with ESC
22.03.09 Fixed: Create CRC checksums in SFV format: One line break too much was
added
20.03.09 Added: ZIP packer: Pack files from directories with no read rights (re
ad via tcmadmin) - no single locked files supported
20.03.09 Added: Lister: View files internally in directories with no read right
s (read via tcmadmin) - text only
20.03.09 Fixed: Use again SetVolumeLabel to set drive label (because OLE method
deletes drive on Linux/Wine!). Use tcmadmin to set label on Vista
18.03.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 14
18.03.09 Fixed: Allow to copy files as other user when read access is denied to
just that file, and not its parent directory (only when using compatibility mod
e)
18.03.09 Fixed: Drive panel not updated when changing from a directory to a dri
ve created with SUBST pointing to that directory
18.03.09 Fixed: ZIP packer: Detect duplicate file names when packing, and chara
cters are lost in the conversion from ANSI to OEM (e.g. '' -> '>' in Russian loca
le)
18.03.09 Fixed: Compare by content, 2 panels above each other: The line count w
asn't corrected when using "swap panels", only after resizing or moving the spli
t bar
17.03.09 Fixed: Button bar: Button to other .bar file not recognized if path wa
s put in double quotes ""
15.03.09 Fixed: Vista. command line: cd d: didn't work if user didn't have suff
icient rights to access drive d:
15.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Wrong icon shown for empty files with in
ternal association icon set to %1 (should show the default system icon)
15.03.09 Fixed: Do not remove selection when launching file inside archive with
ENTER or context menu
15.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, context menu in archive: Do not show "Op
en (internal)" menu item if it points to command ** (default system verb)
15.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, context menu in archive: Do not show bot
h the internal and Windows association in bold (doesn't work on Vista)
13.03.09 Fixed: Lister with Uniscribe (e.g. Unicode text): Unwanted vertical li
nes showed up in line with selection when scrolling horizontally
13.03.09 Added: Set volume label dialog: Show drive in title bar
13.03.09 Added: Set volume label now allows to set label in tree or separate tr
ee for drive under cursor
13.03.09 Added: Windows 2000 and newer: Use OLE2 method to set drive label (sup
ports UAC on Vista, notification on Windows 2000)
13.03.09 Fixed: tree: Could no longer expand Desktop when entire tree was colla
psed
13.03.09 Fixed: Changed version info to 2009
11.03.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 13
11.03.09 Fixed: When passing an archive to TC as a parameter and a plugin fails
to open it, the file list will remain empty -> switch to parent dir of that fil

e
11.03.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Context menu not working with exchanged lef
t+right mouse buttons
11.03.09 Fixed: Main program was no longer inactive after task switch to other
program and back during any file operation
11.03.09 Added: Windows 2000, XP and newer: Try to better detect when the user
wants to eject an USB stick, and release it to avoid an error message
11.03.09 Added: Windows 2000, XP and newer: Show drive labels in tree, and use
RegisterDeviceNotification to be informed when drive label changes
11.03.09 Added: Use Combobox in F5 copy dialog (options section) for overwrite
options, number them for quick access by keyboard
10.03.09 Fixed: Vista: Button bar dropdown menu buttons had black background wh
en selected
10.03.09 Fixed: Vista: The default internal association wasn't added to the Win
dows right click menu (reason: contrary to older Windows versions, Vista doesn't
tolerate 2 default menu items...)
10.03.09 Fixed: Couldn't open "forbidden" drives by choosing e.g. an empty CD d
rive, and then choosing the "forbidden" drive in the "Drive not found" dialog
10.03.09 Fixed: Open "forbidden" drives also via command line, e.g. d: or cd d:
or cd d:\subdir
09.03.09 Fixed: Right click menu in button bar: don't show 'cd path' command if
there is no start path, and the command doesn't have a directory
09.03.09 Fixed: Right click menu in button bar dropdown menu not working when u
sing menu fade in effects
08.03.09 Fixed: Also change font in registration dialog to user-defined font, b
ut keep oversize fonts
08.03.09 Added: Support default external association also in packer context men
u when using internal associations
06.03.09 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Ctrl+C only copied very long file names (so a
hint existed for the name)
06.03.09 Fixed: Change associations dialog didn't work correctly any more in al
l cases, e.g. DDE options couldn't be changed for additional verbs
06.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Handle icon=%1 also in archives: Use ico
n from "open" command, and if open doesn't point to a program, use icon from sys
tem association
05.03.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 12
04.03.09 Fixed: Vista: User name not shown in title bar when run via "runas" un
der different user name (reason: EqualSid function faulty on Vista)
04.03.09 Added: Lister: If there is a selection in the currently visible area,
F7 now finds the selected text and continues the search from the selection if th
e user doesn't alter the search text
04.03.09 Added: Show drive icons in drive not found dialog
04.03.09 Fixed: Font in drive not found dialog
04.03.09 Fixed: Association details dialog shows wrong icon for icon index -1 (
due to a bug/documentation error in ExtractIconEx function)
03.03.09 Fixed: Wine bug in brief view: Cursor wasn't set on current file when
left clicking on it
03.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations not working properly (e.g. in context men
u) when icon is set to %1, first icon appears empty
03.03.09 Fixed: Clear quick search filter (Ctrl+S) when connecting to an ftp se
rver
03.03.09 Fixed: Change button bar dialog: Made icon list a bit higher for highe
r XP/Vista scrollbars
03.03.09 Added: Internal associations: Parameter %2 instead of %1 passes all se
lected file names at once to the editor (not separate editors) - the editor has
to support multiple parameters
02.03.09 Fixed: Could not launch program via buttonbar popup menu -> right clic
k context menu -> click on first menu item
02.03.09 Fixed: cd 'directory' in context menu for popup bar not working when i

t started with a double quote


02.03.09 Fixed: .ico files containing png images not shown in change icon subdi
alog of association dialog
02.03.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Use smooth resampling for icons if size isn
't 16x16 or 32x32
02.03.09 Fixed: User could no longer change the master password via Encrypt - C
hange master password
01.03.09 Fixed: Multi-line backwards search for aa\n didn't find consecutive li
nes of the search string
01.03.09 Fixed: Change internal association order -> need to clear association
cache in file lists
01.03.09 Added: Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert in new style overwrite dialog copies name
s and details to clipboard (similar to standard Windows MessageBox)
01.03.09 Added: Support internal associations also in virtual folders if a file
system name can be retrieved for the double clicked file
01.03.09 Fixed: Lister: Vertical scrollbar was shown by mistake for all short f
iles which had a byte order marker (BOM)
01.03.09 Added: Allow to access NTFS drives with admin rights where the current
user has no directory read rights
27.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Binary compare no longer worked
27.02.09 Added: Internal associations: Support virtual folders in right click m
enu
27.02.09 Added: cm_ContextMenuInternal now supports archives and file system pl
ugins, but only for the file under the cursor
27.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations in archive: Enter opens context menu, the
n user chooses command redirecting to system association -> app handle not retur
ned (TC shows program close dialog)
27.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Don't show text "(internal)" behind comm
ands redirecting to system verbs
27.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Don't show redirections to system verbs
(e.g. *open command) in Windows right click menu
27.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Ctrl+Click on side scrolling triangles scrolls
to first/last path element
27.02.09 Fixed: Column header width when using custom columns
27.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Search backwards (Shift+F3) fails after searching a str
ing forwards until no more matches
27.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Backwards search didn't start for long files
25.02.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 11
25.02.09 Fixed: Shift+Drop file on button bar to the left of dropdown menu butt
on created new button with dropdown overlay icon
25.02.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Double click on [X] checkbox for file marked
for deletion changed arrow correctly to 'copy', but didn't set checkbox for any
parent dirs
25.02.09 Added: Background transfer manager: Select multiple files with Shift+C
lick or Insert key, Shift+Cursor up/down, Shift+Home/End, Ctrl+A
25.02.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Focus rectangle not drawn correctl
y
25.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: compensate for line count difference when t
he two panels are above each other with the divider not at 50% (will need intens
ive testing)
24.02.09 Fixed: Change internal associations: In case of multiple identical lin
es in ini (e.g. for the icon), read only first one
24.02.09 Fixed: Change association, change icon, click OK -> icon index was rev
erted to 0 if the icon name contained double quotes or env. variables
24.02.09 Added: Change association icon file by typing name by hand: Clear list
, show new icons after 1 second or when user changes to other dialog item
24.02.09 Fixed: Change association icon file by typing name by hand, press ENTE
R -> icon index was not reset to zero
24.02.09 Fixed: Compare by contents: Copy -> and Copy <- buttons not working pr

operly if one of the two files (but not both) was Unicode Big Endian
24.02.09 Added: Compare by contents: Support comparison within a line also for
Unicode Big Endian (e.g. from MacOS)
24.02.09 Added: /S= command: Use special icon for synchronize dirs, Compare by
content, and Lister
24.02.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Use sync icon for this dialog instead of TC i
con
24.02.09 Fixed: Disconnect ftp connection via right click menu in drive bar ->
separate tree wasn't updated
24.02.09 Added: Drag file system plugin root to button bar -> add button with t
he icon of this plugin
22.02.09 Fixed: Minimizing TC during longer transfer sometimes didn't allow to
restore it
22.02.09 Added: New help topics for internal association list and details, and
for the copy/move overwrite dialog
22.02.09 Added: Internal associations: New special internal commands: *open =us
e system verb "open" for this file, ** =use default system verb for this associa
tion
22.02.09 Added: Internal associations: When editing an existing association, ju
mp directly to the overview page and let the user change the file types there
20.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Repeated backwards search of multi-line tex
t not working
20.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Only write to ini file when closing when the user has c
hanged an option
20.02.09 Fixed: Lister with Uniscribe: Cursor down on line longer than the next
could bring cursor two lines down
20.02.09 Fixed: Synchronized dirs: Error message shown (although there was no e
rror) when copying empty directory from right to left panel
18.02.09 Fixed: Lister configuration: Option "Font at startup" not saved
18.02.09 Added: Password encryption: Use 3000 iterations instead of 1000 for en
cryption key, use HMAC-SHA256 (takes about 2 seconds on Pentium 100, the slowest
recommended platform)
18.02.09 Added: Password encryption: Replace AES CBC mode (crypto api) by AES C
TR mode (as in ZIP) because of some known attacks to CBC mode
18.02.09 Fixed: .ico files containing png images not shown in button bar config
uration dialog (but in the button bar)
18.02.09 Fixed: Right to left language: Button bar dropdown menus had the icons
on the wrong side
17.02.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sometimes a change made via compare by conten
t isn't shown in the list (problem with finding the correct file)
17.02.09 Fixed: FTP, define custom server type: Remove leading and trailing spa
ces from name entered by user
17.02.09 Added: Internal associations: Get icon from system when user defines %
1 or "%1" as the icon name
17.02.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: use state of Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys at the
time when a hotkey is pressed, not released
17.02.09 Fixed: Right to left language: Do not mirror >> text on buttons becaus
e this seems to be done by the language already
17.02.09 Fixed: Right to left language: date/time picker buttons were shown at
a wrong position
17.02.09 Fixed: Show date/time picker dialog just below the edit box to which i
t belongs (both in search dialog and change attributes dialog)
17.02.09 Fixed: Date/time picker in search dialog had no dialog title with inte
rnal English language
17.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Adjust position of scrollbar thumb when resizing
17.02.09 Fixed: File comments in descript.ion file: Backslashes \ were always d
oubled \\ even when there were no line breaks
15.02.09 Fixed: Watch directory changes: Newly created file (Shift+F4) doesn't
appear (it's sorted in at the wrong position). Note that files arriving while a
quick filter is active will always land at the end when the filter is removed

15.02.09 Added: Internal associations: Also cache the fact that there is no ico
n for an internal association
15.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations didn't work in archives if there was a sy
stem association too
15.02.09 Added: Association details - Change icon: Edit box to enter icon index
manually
15.02.09 Added: Internal associations: 2 new internal commands cm_ContextMenuIn
ternal and cm_ContextMenuInternalCursor to show internal context menu for all se
lected/ file under cursor only
15.02.09 Added: Internal associations: When "open" verb is set to an asterisk (
*), ENTER will show a context menu of all other defined verbs
15.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: When no "open" verb and icon is defined,
show the system association icon for the file
15.02.09 Added: Internal associations: Allow to define empty "open" command, to
define just an icon and/or verbs for the right click context menu
15.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations not working properly with more than 9 def
ined -> needed to change internal storage format of associations
13.02.09 Fixed: Reload internal association icons when icon size or background
color changes
13.02.09 Fixed: Use same scaling for breadcrumb icons as in file lists
13.02.09 Fixed: Turn off internal handling of Ctrl+Arrow key movement for Unico
de edit boxes, use dummy auto-complete where no auto-complete is needed
13.02.09 Added: Internal associations: The right click context menu now allows
to open multiple selected files with "Open" verb only when they belong to differ
ent internal associations
13.02.09 Added: Internal associations: The right click context menu now allows
to open multiple selected files if all belong to the same internal association
13.02.09 Added: Internal associations dialog: Suggest association of file under
cursor when user clicks on "Add" button
13.02.09 Added: Internal associations added to main menu
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Show default program icon of 'open' verb
if no icon defined
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Disallow to create associations starting
or ending with a dot or space, or containing Unicode characters or '='
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: User could define a verb starting with s
paces or a dot
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: User could define 'open' as a custom ver
b
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: User could define a verb twice
12.02.09 Fixed: Sorting header: Sorting marker temporarily disappears when Ctrl
+Clicking on multiple headers
12.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Byte order marker not shown when switching directly fro
m Unicode view or UTF-8 view to Hex view
12.02.09 Fixed: Lister, continue search (F3): Always continue search at cursor
position if cursor enabled
11.02.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 10
11.02.09 Added: Date/time picker to search dialog (date from/to)
11.02.09 Fixed: Show correct help page when user presses F1 in multi-rename too
l after opening the menu context (F10)
11.02.09 Fixed: LZMA packer disabled by default (can be enabled via wincmd.ini
[Packer] LzmaAllowed=1)
11.02.09 Fixed: Added: Internal command cm_InternalAssociate to edit internal f
ile associations (location in menu or configuration to be determined)
10.02.09 Fixed: Regular expression part (?-i) sometimes failed in Unicode text/
file names
10.02.09 Fixed: Tab order in system information dialog
10.02.09 Added: New association system: Used for launching programs with Enter,
showing icons, right click context menu
10.02.09 Fixed: Compare standalone (parameter /S=C): Do not beep when initial c

omparison done
10.02.09 Fixed: Compare standalone (parameter /S=C): Do not show any compare fo
rm when the two compared files are identical, and do not save settings
10.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Could not switch to a deep directory while insi
de an archive
10.02.09 Added: Button bar: Show submenu arrows also in submenus
10.02.09 Fixed: Button bar: Show submenu of submenu at the same position as the
original submenu
09.02.09 Fixed: '&' character not shown correctly in master password dialog (wh
en showing hidden password)
09.02.09 Fixed: Couldn't repeat search in "compare by content" if the search st
ring started with a line break \n
09.02.09 Fixed: Search whole words now considers current code page
09.02.09 Fixed: For double clicking and Ctrl+Arrow keys, use these hard-coded c
haracters as separators only: \/.!?- Space, Tab and Line break
08.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Do not start editing path in any case when user
clicks on any part of the path, only when he clicks behind it
08.02.09 Fixed: Button bar: %T%M was no longer surrounded automatically by doub
le quotes when the name contained spaces
08.02.09 Fixed: Context menu in archives: Do not select [..] item when cursor w
as on it
08.02.09 Added: FTP connect dialog: Spacebar expands closed folder, and collaps
es open folder
08.02.09 Fixed: RAR archives: Very long Unicode names not read correctly becaus
e not enough data read into buffer for file header
08.02.09 Fixed: Completely changed handling of byte order marker (BOM) in Liste
r
06.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Do not show buttons for archives or folders wit
hin archives
06.02.09 Added: + and - shortcuts to FTP connect dialog, changed function of le
ft arrow: don't go up 1 line when closing a folder
06.02.09 Added: Current path panel: Double click on empty space behind right tr
iangle will open context menu now
06.02.09 Added: Vista, list header: Draw highlighted sorted column with separat
e style
06.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Still search loop problems caused by Unicode byte order
marker (BOM)
06.02.09 Fixed: Could not create encrypted LZMA archive
06.02.09 Fixed: Current path panel: Wrong font when starting TC with breadcrumb
bar off
06.02.09 Fixed: Corrected current path width when no history+hotlist buttons ar
e shown
06.02.09 Added: Search function, plugins page: Translate regex operator (string
5615)
06.02.09 Added: Search function, plugins page: New operator !regex (NOT regular
expression) finds files which do not match the given regular expression
06.02.09 Added: List header: Made arrow at least one pixel longer (depending on
its size)
06.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Allow to browse subdirs with restricted rights
if the admin password has already been entered (don't ask user here)
06.02.09 Added: Search function: Search also in "My Computer" and "Network Neig
hborhood" when folders pointing to real directories or drives are selected
05.02.09 Fixed: New icon extract method: If icon size between 17 and 23, resamp
le 32x32 icon instead of 24x24 icon (looks better)
05.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Show dropdown button with a small delay, so it
doesn't open when the user just passes with the mouse over the panel
05.02.09 Fixed: New icon extract method didn't work well on Windows 9x/ME
04.02.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 9
04.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: When reducing the width of the main window, mak

e sure that the last part is shown


04.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: When increasing the width of the main window, t
ry to show as much of the path as possible
04.02.09 Fixed: User-defined font sometimes not set
04.02.09 Added: Custom icon for CRC checksum files (.sfv, .sha, .md5)
04.02.09 Fixed: For all dialog boxes which remember the current position: Move
into view if the title bar isn't at least partially visible
04.02.09 Added: Turn off LZMA compression if user creates self-extracting archi
ve (SFX cannot handle LZMA)
04.02.09 Added: Enabled LZMA ZIP compression via Configuration - Options - ZIP
packer (strength 10). Show warning (not translated yet) if user chooses it
04.02.09 Added: Experimental: Internal LZMA ZIP compression (ZIP type 14). Curr
ently only Winzip 12 can unpack it. Stored in wincmd.ini [Packer] InternalZipRat
e=10
03.02.09 Fixed: Floating point error when creating SHA1 checksum for files >256
MB
03.02.09 Added: Support for 24x24 icons also for file lists and breadcrumb bar
(for folder icon), and when using an external icon library
03.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: When the path is too long, leave some space to
the right of the path arrow to edit the path
03.02.09 Fixed: Brief view: Auto-scroll partially visible file into view only w
hen user clicks on it near the edge of the screen
03.02.09 Added: Support 32-bit bitmaps with Alpha channel in drive button bar a
nd drive dropdown list
03.02.09 Added: Support WinZIP 12 LZMA decompression (ZIP type 14) also in mult
i-volume archives and encrypted archives
02.02.09 Fixed: List header: Reduce flickering by redrawing only the necessary
parts
02.02.09 Fixed: Do not scroll file under cursor into view in brief view mode wh
en right clicking on a file (left mouse button selection mode)
01.02.09 Added: Support WinZIP 12 LZMA decompression (ZIP type 14), uses LZMA S
DK written by Igor Pavlov (public domain)
01.02.09 Fixed: Move directory with some big files to protected target director
y (as admin) -> no overall progress bar was shown
01.02.09 Added: Changed sort order indicator back to an arrow, but a filled one
(actually a triangle plus a square)
01.02.09 Added: Allow "Add subbar" and "Edit subbar" also in "Edit linked subba
r". However, when the user edits the main bar this way, it's not updated automat
ically
01.02.09 Fixed: By mistake, the icon for UUE- or MIME-encoded files was used al
so for SHA checksums
01.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Copy text from UTF-8 file to clipboard woul
d not copy all text when selection started not at first character
01.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Changing the path required two clicks when the
file panel wasn't scrolled to the top position
01.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: The text was drawn on the right edge of the pan
el when too long (only visible with some themes)
30.01.09 Added: Made sorting header 2 pixels higher to look better with themes
30.01.09 Fixed: Installer: Version number was no longer shown on the main windo
w
30.01.09 Added: FTP: Also show user name of connection in the info line near th
e drive dropdown box
30.01.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar scrolled to the left when clicking on down arrow
(for the desktop) and there was a left arrow too
30.01.09 Fixed: No mouse wheel support when starting Lister or Compare by conte
nt via command line parameter /S=L or /S=C
30.01.09 Added: Search files dialog: Support search for \n and \t also in Unico
de and UTF-8 modes
30.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: No search string shown in search backwards
error if nothing is found

30.01.09 Fixed: Lister: Repeat backwards search no longer worked, found the sam
e string again
30.01.09 Fixed: Right click on button - Change linked button bar -> dialog was
non-modal
30.01.09 Fixed: List header: Moved mini-numbers for additional sort orders one
pixel to the left to avoid overlap with some fonts
30.01.09 Fixed: Themed list header: Do not show highlight on sorted column beca
use it looks as if the button isn't pressed any more
30.01.09 Fixed: Themed list header: Detect themes which do not support the pres
sed or sorted style, and use the normal style with separators
30.01.09 Added: Themed list header: On XP, draw header of sorted column as pres
sed if the theme supports it, so it can be found more easily
28.01.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 8
28.01.09 Fixed: Better placement of controls in main window when using themes
28.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Hex search for text containing line breaks
could sometimes fail
28.01.09 Fixed: Focus problem when using <F5><F2> with multi-core systems (was
already fixed in TC 7.04, but not in 7.5x)
28.01.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: After closing external compare tool, only upd
ate the list (and checkmark) when the file has different size or time
28.01.09 Fixed: Load Crypto API only on demand to make startup a bit faster
28.01.09 Fixed: Wrong font used in FTP details, firewall settings, new URL, pac
k files, encode, edit comment. Also fix wrong colors when button font color and
text box font color are different
27.01.09 Fixed: Password manager: Some stored passwords could not be decoded an
y more (error in MIME decode function)
27.01.09 Fixed: System information: Show CPU details on two lines
27.01.09 Added: Lister: Support search for \n and \t also in Unicode and UTF-8
modes
27.01.09 Fixed: Lister, Uniscribe (e.g. Unicode or UTF-8): Couldn't put cursor
behind last character of last line if no line break present, also caused selecti
on problems
27.01.09 Fixed: Show button bar submenu in right place also when the button is
partially outside the screen
27.01.09 Fixed: Drive dropdown list: Show drive letter one pixel more to the ri
ght, because otherwise some icons may be truncated (only with certain fonts)
26.01.09 Added: Draw themed list header - the sort order marker is changed to a
triangle (same color as the font)
25.01.09 Fixed: Various file system plugin Unicode functions not working if the
plugin had no exported Ansi functions (found while porting WebDAV plugin)
23.01.09 Fixed: Change attributes dialog: Repeated setting of attributes could
fail with plugins supporting more than 20 attributes which can be changed -> inc
reased to 100, check limit
23.01.09 Added: Installer: Let the user retry when overwriting a file fails ->
user can close the running program/open file
23.01.09 Fixed: Installer: Read last install directory from %APPDATA%\GHISLER\w
incmd.ini if no ini location set in registry, and no wincmd.ini found in Windows
directory
23.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Case-insensitive Unicode MacOS backwards se
arch for whole words didn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Case-insensitive Unicode MacOS forwards sea
rch didn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Case-insensitive Unicode backwards search d
idn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: Lister: Case-insensitive Unicode backwards search didn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: FTP Connect: Also delete all leading spaces when creating a new
folder or connection (Windows doesn't allow to store them in ini headers)
23.01.09 Fixed: Menu bar dropdown: Slightly changed icon and border sizes
23.01.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown: Size of triangles on the right (to sig

nal sub-menus) is now determined by the font size


23.01.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown: Icons were not centered vertically whe
n using minlineheight for larger line height
22.01.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 7
22.01.09 Fixed: Lister, UTF-8 view, search for hex chars F0-FF -> access violat
ion because of invalid hex char. -> always make case-sensitive search
22.01.09 Fixed: Redefine hotkeys: Pressing key in dropdown combobox scrolled to
that key, but didn't show associated command
21.01.09 Added: Support for Unicode whole words backwards search
21.01.09 Added: Configuration - button bar: New command "Edit .bar file >>" in
"Change" menu to open currently selected subbar for editing
21.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: multi-line searching no longer worked
21.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: spaces at end not ignored in Unicode files,
only repeated spaces
21.01.09 Fixed: CRC check function: Explicitly select item under cursor when li
st is activated. May fix selection problems on some systems (not reproducible he
re)
21.01.09 Fixed: Password input dialog: On some keyboards, pressing ~ once would
directly insert two ~ chars
21.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content, binary mode: Backwards search could loop en
dlessly with multiple matches in one line
21.01.09 Added: System information: Better detection of CPU
21.01.09 Added: System information: Show display adapter name
20.01.09 Fixed: Access violation when starting TC with switch /S=C and two file
names (compare tool)
20.01.09 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+Right shift not working on Windows 9x/ME (VK_RSHIF
T not supported) -> use scan codes from WM_KEYDOWN
20.01.09 Fixed: Move file on same drive with F6, target exists, cancel copying
-> cursor was placed on next file
20.01.09 Added: Lister configuration dialog: Full reload also when user uncheck
s HTML view or RTF view
20.01.09 Added: Lister configuration dialog: When the plugins button isn't pres
sed, immediately apply only the following changes: font, line width. A full relo
ad is only done while in plugins view and the plugin settings are changed
18.01.09 Added: Windows NT-based systems, Installer: When no wincmd.ini locatio
n is set in registry, set it to %APPDATA%\GHISLER\wincmd.ini and store in regist
ry
18.01.09 Added: Windows NT-based systems: When no wincmd.ini location is set in
registry, via command line or in wincmd.ini in program dir, and there is no win
cmd.ini in Windows dir, use %APPDATA%\GHISLER\wincmd.ini
18.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection details: Do not allow to create or rename a conn
ection if the target name is already used for a server template
18.01.09: Fixed: Configuration - Copy/Delete: 'Use standard method' wasn't saved
when choosing the Explorer method and then the standard method
18.01.09: Fixed: Lister, right click on scrollbar: The following commands were n
ot supported: Top, Bottom, Left Edge and Right Edge
18.01.09: Fixed: FTP Connect dialog: It was still possible to create folder name
s consisting of just spaces, by entering a name like |
|
18.01.09: Added: Re-use MinLineHeight option from main file list also for breadc
rumb bar
18.01.09: Fixed: Use string 6201 throughout the "compare by contents" dialog for
message boxes and other titles
18.01.09: Fixed: More alignment problems in search dialog with right to left ali
gnment
18.01.09: Fixed: Drive bar: Tooltip of neighbor button still shown when a drive
had no label
18.01.09: Fixed: Drive bar: Tooltip shown when moving cursor away from drive but
ton and back
18.01.09: Fixed: Button bar: button state not always shown correctly for multi-l

ine button bars (and more than 2 lines not supported at all)
16.01.09: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: When current path was hidden and user accesses
breadcrumb bar via Alt+F11 and Cursor down, pressing ESC was hiding the path too
early
16.01.09: Fixed: Access violation when turning off visibility of current path an
d using no themes
16.01.09: Fixed: Tab order wrong in "Encode" dialog
16.01.09: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: BreadcrumbDelay* ini values didn't work
16.01.09: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Return focus to file panel when resizing window
or changing panel separator position while focus is on breadcrumb bar
16.01.09: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Check whether a virtual folder is a Drag&Drop t
arget or not (via SFGAO_DROPTARGET flag)
16.01.09: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Don't allow to drop files on "ftp" menu item
16.01.09: Added: Button bar dropdown menu: Always show below button, not at clic
k position
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Do not show duplicate separators or s
eparators at the start or before a column break
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Do not show buttons which point to th
e current main button bar
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar: Arrow overlay for dropdown menus was shown only aft
er clicking once on a dropdown menu button
16.01.09: Fixed: GroupBox labels were no longer translated (except for the radio
button groupboxes)
16.01.09: Fixed: cd .. in command line went up two directories instead of one (c
aused by bad fix in beta 6)
14.01.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 6
14.01.09: Fixed: Total Commander no longer worked on Windows 95/95b
14.01.09: Fixed: Delay before auto-scrolling file list during Drag&Drop no longe
r worked (scrolling started immediately)
14.01.09: Fixed: ContentStopGetValueW function wasn't loaded, so it couldn't be
called
14.01.09: Added: Breadcrumb bar, ftp: Don't show progress dialog when loading su
bdir, show abort button instead (icon to be determined)
14.01.09: Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BreadcrumbDelayVirtual=500 Breadcrum
bDelayFtp=500 BreadcrumbdelayPlugin=500 BreadcrumbDelayDir=250 allow to set the
delay in milliseconds when hovering over the breadcrumb until a subfolder is op
ened - separately for virtual folders, ftp, file system plugins, and directories
14.01.09: Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BreadcrumbSeparator=-3 allows to set
the location of the breadcrumb separator behind which the subdirs expand when h
overing with the mouse: 0..100: width in percent, <0 : measured from the end in
units of line height
13.01.09: Fixed: Command line, "cd" command: Detect and remove invalid construct
s like cd . \x or cd . . \x (The dots are counted as if there were no spaces)
13.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Removed F12 hotkey now that Ctrl+Right Shift/Ctrl+Left
Shift works as planned
13.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Slightly different line break location of lines in plai
n English files between text and UTF-8 mode
13.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection dialog: When trying to protect selected connecti
ons with password, warn the user when some connections had no password stored
13.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection dialog: When trying to protect selected connecti
ons with password, uncheck all folders (also empty) and show error if no connect
ion selected
13.01.09: Fixed: Compare by contents: First character couldn't be found sometime
s when searching backwards (binary: first two characters)
13.01.09: Fixed: Compare by contents, search backwards: If search string was fou
nd on first line, repeating the search would not report an error that the string
wasn't found (search loops)
13.01.09: Added: Lister: Show vertical scrollbar on the left side when right-ali
gning right to left text

13.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Backwards search didn't place cursor in front of search
text if selection already started at the beginning
13.01.09: Added: New start menu parameters %WL and %WF to pass UTF-16 Unicode li
st file (with BOM) to program in button bar or start menu
13.01.09: Added: New start menu parameters %UL and %UF to pass UTF-8 list file (
with BOM) to program in button bar or start menu (like %L and %F)
13.01.09: Fixed: Couldn't immediately abort the copying of many small files with
compatibility mode
13.01.09: Fixed: Win9x/ME: Groupboxes as in "Encode files" dialog not translated
correctly
13.01.09: Added: Use themed button for breadcrumb dropdown panel. When using the
flat interface, the panel is shown with a border (otherwise almost nothing is v
isible)
13.01.09: Fixed: It wasn't always possible to abort the counting of files in F5/
F6 functions with ESC, sometimes the function stopped too
12.01.09: Fixed: Log file: User name and computer name were not stored as UTF-8
on NT-based systems
12.01.09: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Archive with stored dir names: Error about du
plicate names was shown if same dir with different case found
12.01.09: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Multiple directory headers could be shown for
the same dir when the dir had different case on left and right side, e.g. TEST
and test
12.01.09: Fixed: RAR archive, Alt+Enter on file: Support 1 second precision of t
imestamp
12.01.09: Fixed: Main configuration dialog, Copy/Delete page: When "Use standard
method" is checked, "Copy directory date" isn't enabled when the Explorer copy
method was checked before
12.01.09: Fixed: Main configuration dialog, Copy/Delete page: "Use standard meth
od" didn't enable Apply button
12.01.09: Fixed: Wine only: When setting ini location to program dir, the ftp in
i file was named "windows" instead of "wcx_ftp.ini"
12.01.09: Fixed: Lister, right to left text: swap left and right cursor key when
showing the text right-aligned
12.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection details: User tries to protect password with mas
ter password but fails to enter correct master password -> password not saved. S
olution: Keep dialog open
12.01.09: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Changed tab order, so the Load/Save button co
mes before the left path
12.01.09: Fixed: Right to left display, copy progress dialog: Mirror Background
and Pause button too
12.01.09: Fixed: Change volume name of drive in file panel tree -> wrong name wa
s suggested
12.01.09: Fixed: Change volume name of drive in (separate or file panel) tree: H
andle renaming internally if drive letter detected
12.01.09: Added: Synchronize dirs: Do not count directories in the footer
11.01.09: Fixed: Wine, Thumbnails view: Horizontal cursor movement didn't work
11.01.09: Fixed: Wine, Thumbnails view: Thumbnails database didn't work on newer
versions of Wine (bug in Wine's IStream.SetSize)
11.01.09: Fixed: Button bar: Right click on button pointing to button bar, "Edit
linked button bar": ">>"-Button now allows to choose different button bar
11.01.09: Fixed: Length of operators in search function (plugins page) increased
from 31 to 48 as in TC 7.0x
11.01.09: Fixed: Quick filter: When in custom columns view with delay-loading fi
elds, using a quick filter stopped the loading of delayed fields, but didn't res
tart it afterwards
11.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Update title bar when switching through files with n/p
also when file cannot be read
11.01.09: Fixed: When AllowSetCursorPos=0 set, the current item was changed whe
n the left mouse button was released.
11.01.09: Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop: Show error when target is invalid

, e.g. "ftp" in tree, or "My Computer" for shortcuts


11.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Select text, rename file, F2 (-> file not found), renam
e back, F2 (->file shown), select -> selection start was at old cursor position
11.01.09: Fixed: Cancel editing of current path -> only set cursor on current pa
nel when user pressed Escape, not when he clicked somewhere (caused problems wit
h Drag&Drop)
11.01.09: Fixed: Could not Drag&Drop files to virtual folders in the right bread
crumb bar (it worked with the left one, though)
11.01.09: Fixed: Some fixes to help (Shortcuts, Lister)
11.01.09: Fixed: Lister: Search text, select text, switch view mode -> selection
retained incorrectly
11.01.09: Fixed: Resizing of multi-rename tool in right to left mode
11.01.09: Fixed: Create folder in connect dialog allowed to create empty folders
in other ways. Solution: Disallow folders with trailing spaces or empty folders
09.01.09 Fixed: Correct right to left text display also on buttons
09.01.09 Added: wincmd.ini [ButtonBar] PopupOverlay=0 allows to turn off the sm
all arrow overlay of button bar buttons linking to popup bars
09.01.09 Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: text starts too far to the left if sm
all icon size set via PopupIconSize, and the frame around "checked" items was to
o large
09.01.09 Fixed: Access violation with active quick filter in thumbnails view wh
en switching to different tab
09.01.09 Fixed: Another access violation after deleting a file in search result
s with active quick filter
09.01.09 Fixed: cm_VisBreadCrumbs state not shown in menus and button bar
09.01.09 Fixed: Button bar: New right click menu command "Change linked button
bar" didn't support environment variables
09.01.09 Fixed: Alt+F11 would show the dropdown window under the last opened su
bpath
09.01.09 Added: Installer: Only close running Total Commander if in same dir wh
ere the installation goes to (only works on NT-based systems)
09.01.09 Fixed: Installer: On update page, click "Install normally", choose oth
er language, click "Back" -> language not changed
09.01.09 Fixed: Installer: On update page, click "Install normally", choose oth
er language -> translation of "Back" button not changed
07.01.09 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 5
07.01.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AllowSetCursorPos=0 turns off the ju
mping of the mouse cursor when expanding a long subdir in the tree with the mous
e
07.01.09 Added: Handle Escape key in Autocomplete similar to Enter key: First p
ress closes just auto-complete, second closes the dialog (handled via AppMessage
)
07.01.09 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: Failed to create subdirectory in a direct
ory with restricted rights (e.g. "program files" dir)
07.01.09 Fixed: Couldn't open multi-rename tool on system with a different code
page than the language (e.g. Czech on English system) for the first time (when t
he dialog position wasn't saved yet)
06.01.09 Fixed: Ctrl+F FTP new connection with empty wcx_ftp.ini, protect with
master password -> TC asked for existing master password instead of new one
06.01.09 Fixed: With active quick filter in thumbnails view, Ctrl+A or NUM+ cou
ld select also the hidden files, although this had no effect on file operations,
just the footer
06.01.09 Fixed: Alt+F10 Tree, Print, close print preview -> main window would b
ecome enabled by mistake
06.01.09 Fixed: Submenu not shown in breadcrumb when moving mouse cursor away f
rom line with submenu and quickly back
06.01.09 Added: Allow to inplace-rename files ending with a space to a name wit
hout a space at the end
06.01.09 Fixed: Could no longer delete a file ending with a space

06.01.09 Fixed: FTP: access violation when trying to connect when "MasterProtec
tionKey_do_not_delete!" key was deleted
06.01.09 Fixed: FTP: infinite dialog loop in details dialog when "MasterProtect
ionKey_do_not_delete!" key was deleted
06.01.09 Fixed: Lister, "Save file" dialog: "File types" selection box could co
ntain invalid characters
06.01.09 Fixed: Loading editor with Shift+F4 with no file name no longer worked
06.01.09 Added: New internal command cm_ContentStopLoadFields stops background
retrieval of on demand or delayed fields in custom columns view or thumbnails vi
ew
06.01.09 Added: Installer: Auto-detect previous installation and allow to autoupdate without questions asked. No icons will be created.
06.01.09 Added: Write the following additional uninstall information to the reg
istry during install: DisplayVersion, VersionMajor, VersionMinor, Version
06.01.09 Added: When using %APPDATA%\GHISLER and FTP ini isn't explicitly set e
ither, use same directory for wcx_ftp.ini too
06.01.09 Added: When no wincmd.ini location is set in registry, via command lin
e or in wincmd.ini in program dir, and the Windows dir is write-protected, use %
APPDATA%\GHISLER
05.01.09 Fixed: Linux with Wine: Deleting empty dir "test" with dir "Test" in s
ame location will show error that directory "test" wasn't empty and couldn't be
deleted
04.01.09 Fixed: Some problems with Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar: Wrong cursors,
dropdown closed when releasing right mouse button
04.01.09 Fixed: Switch from English to Hebrew or Arabic -> rightmost menu item
was wrong on e.g. English Windows
04.01.09 Fixed: Move directories requiring admin rights to other dir while they
contain a running program -> move operation aborted when directory with that pr
ogram couldn't be deleted
04.01.09 Fixed: Copy to protected dir with compatibility mode no longer worked
on Vista
04.01.09 Fixed: Do not allow to drag files to title of quick view panel
04.01.09 Added: Content plugin interface: ft_delayed and ft_ondemand fields and
alternate text for ft_numeric_floating must be UTF-16 Unicode when using the wi
de function ContentGetFieldValueW
04.01.09 Fixed: tcmdx64.exe not always starting on Vista x64 SP2 beta
04.01.09 Fixed: Progress dialog in right to left languages
04.01.09 Added: Right-align also text in editable comboboxes for right to left
languages
04.01.09 Added: Mirror also background transfer manager for right to left langu
ages
04.01.09 Added: Lister: Support alternate encodings also when Uniscribe is off,
will not handle right to left text selection correctly
04.01.09 Added: Lister: Allow to turn off Uniscribe (as TC 7.04a or older) beca
use it seems to function incorrectly on some systems: wincmd.ini [Lister] Uniscr
ibe=0
04.01.09 Added: Lister: Use digit substitution on Arabic systems according to c
ontrol panel settings (cannot be set if default language isn't Arabic)
04.01.09 Added: Lister: To switch to right to left aligned text, hold Ctrl and
then press right shift, for left to right hold Ctrl and then press left shift
02.01.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Show down arrow button also for desktop
02.01.09 Fixed: Configuration and Search dialogs: Some dialog elements not mirr
ored correctly (the plugin rules will not be mirrored because most plugins are i
n English)
02.01.09 Fixed: Button bar: Couldn't choose buttons by keyboard if mouse was ov
er the bar -> ignore the mouse as long as it isn't moved
02.01.09 Fixed: Button bar: React to ENTER key only when the user releases the
key, avoids a beep caused by the bar submenu
02.01.09 Added: New menu item "Edit linked button bar..." in button bar right c
lick menu

02.01.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Allow to scroll the panel under the cursor with
the mouse wheel instead of the last opened panel (will auto-close any child pan
els)
02.01.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar: Show dropdown list below breadcrum
b bar, not at mouse position
02.01.09 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Error when wcx_ftp.ini write protected was sometimes
not shown -> clear ini cache
02.01.09 Fixed: Could not unpack file names containing double quotes " -> conve
rt to single quotes '
02.01.09 Fixed: Lister: Alt+Left/Right arrow switched through the open files in
reverse order
02.01.09 Added: Unpacking of CAB files containing Unicode file names
30.12.08 Added: Lister: Replaced Next/Previous file arrows by << and >>
29.12.08 Fixed: Compare by contents, binary mode: Couldn't find text in UTF-8 f
iles
29.12.08 Fixed: Compare by contents, binary mode: Couldn't find the first two c
haracters
29.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Time stamp may be wrong after packing when fi
le was edited in "compare by content" or lister plugin (-> re-load timestamp bef
ore synchronizing)
29.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Show smaller icon overlay for dropdown menus when u
sing small buttons
29.12.08 Added: Main configuration dialog: Show page selection list right align
ed in right-aligned view
29.12.08 Fixed: Control alignment in right to left view in: Change start menu,
Synchronize dirs, Compare by contents, Choose encoding, FTP connect dialog, Plug
in configuration
29.12.08 Added: Alt+F11/F12 temporarily shows the path panel when it is off (bu
t breadcrumbs are enabled)
29.12.08 Added: New internal command cm_VisBreadCrumbs to turn breadcrumb bar o
n and off
29.12.08 Added: Use ToolTipDelay also for tooltips in drive buttonbar
29.12.08 Added: Use old style drive dropdown list with separate descriptions pa
nel when DriveTipDelay>0 (for slow drives, set this to 2000 ms or so)
29.12.08 Added: Right click on root in drive panel and choosing "open" will now
open the root in Explorer as for subdirs too
29.12.08 Fixed: FTP-Logging: Write UTF-8 byte order marker to newly created FTP
logfile
28.12.08 Added: Lister: Try to keep last view mode when file has been removed (
unfortunately not possible with RTF)
28.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Garbage shown when reloading html file with F2 when the
file has been removed
28.12.08 Added: Show smaller centered breadcrumb dropdown indicator when using
the keyboard (looks ugly with mouse when centered under mouse button)
28.12.08 Fixed: Do not clear command line and quick search filter when user pre
sses ESC in breadcrumb bar or button bar
28.12.08 Fixed: Warning "Cannot copy file to itself" not shown when using compa
tibility mode (CopyFileEx)
28.12.08 Fixed: Do not show licence name (but instance number!) in title bar of
progress dialog
28.12.08 Fixed: FTP connection dialog: Show error when wcx_ftp.ini write protec
ted also for "New URL" and Encryption options
28.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+S in completely empty list (e.g. after deleting in search
result) could cause an access violation
28.12.08 Fixed: TAR unpacker: Unpacking of links not correct due to Unicode con
version error
28.12.08 Fixed: Internal associations not working in archives when there was no
system association too
28.12.08 Fixed: Internal associations not working in archives when the name con
tained spaces

28.12.08 Fixed: FTP host define dialog (Alt+Shift+Enter): Warn user if connecti
on with chosen name exists, don't allow default names like "General"
28.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: When creating folder, '|' at start means to
create folder in root
28.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Remove duplicate '|' characters when creati
ng new folder
28.12.08 Fixed: Lister, find next: When cursor disabled and nothing is found, s
et search position to start/end of page for forwards/backwards search
28.12.08 Fixed: Lister, find next: When cursor disabled, start search at last s
election, or if there is none visible, at page start/end
28.12.08 Fixed: Lister, find next: When cursor enabled, start search at cursor
pos (not cursor pos+1), except when there is a selection, then start at selectio
n start+1
28.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view of directory -> search result on first line d
isplaced by 1 character (because of byte order marker)
28.12.08 Fixed: Do not update file panel (and panel title) when it's hidden by
Ctrl+Q. Downside: The directory there will become outdated
28.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view, view zip inside zip, leave archives -> Bread
crumb bar triangle showed up besides file name
26.12.08 Fixed: Thumbnail cache: Store folders with trailing question mark '?'
to have a different name than then folder itself
26.12.08 Fixed: Thumbnail cache stopped working for a certain directory if a th
umbnail for that folder itself was stored in the cache
26.12.08 Fixed: Tab order wrong on Configuration - Layout
24.12.08 Fixed: Find files dialog: Right click menu no longer showed "Lister",
but instead showed "Rename"
24.12.08 Fixed: ToolTipDelay also affected the time until a button border was r
emoved (flat buttons)
24.12.08 Fixed: Don't load menu bar icons when using dropdown menu with PopupIc
onSize=0 -> Faster
24.12.08 Fixed: Wrong item in ftp connect and CRC check dialog selected when us
ing quick search (bug in Listbox control) -> implement my own quick search
23.12.08 Fixed: Resource leak in breadcrumb bar (dropdown part)
23.12.08 Fixed: ToolTipDelay: By mistake, the lower limit was set to 5 seconds
(instead of the upper limit)
23.12.08 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 4
23.12.08: Added: (Experimental) Support for separated Ansi and Unicode plugins.
The Unicode plugins must be named <pluginname>.u<extension>, e.g. id3.wdx and id
3.uwdx
23.12.08: Fixed: Do not show directory context menu when right clicking on heade
r of quick view panel
23.12.08: Fixed: Only when using double byte locale (e.g. Chinese): Unpacking fr
om ZIP in Chinese subdir produced incorrect file names (name start cut)
23.12.08: Fixed: Win9x only: empty .inc files created in TC dir after changing l
anguage and opening the main menu for the first time (caused by GetPrivateProfil
eSection)
23.12.08: Fixed: Linux with Wine: Could not delete 2 folders with same name, jus
t different case, e.g. 'Hello' and 'hello'
23.12.08: Fixed: FTP connect: Changed name of folders section to [|empty_folders
|] to make name collisions improbable
23.12.08: Fixed: Changed file sorting methods 0-2 to use CompareStringW on NT-ba
sed systems (not available on Win9x) to get similar sorting as older versions
23.12.08: Fixed: Fast flickering during Drag&Drop in FTP connect dialog, too fas
t scrolling (changed to 2 different speeds)
23.12.08: Fixed: Make quick filter compatible with these functions: delete in 'f
eed to listbox', 'Show only selected', 'Mark newer, hide same files', Delete of
files outside of TC+watch dirs
22.12.08: Fixed: Line height in FTP connect progress dialog/CRC check dialog
22.12.08: Fixed: LB_GETTEXT no longer working with FTP log list

22.12.08: Fixed: ToolTipDelay and DriveTipDelay options were ignored


22.12.08: Fixed: Lister: Access violation when file gone and switching to binary
mode and back to text mode
22.12.08: Fixed: Drag folder to tree, hold down right mouse button before releas
ing left -> right click menu was shown when releasing right button
22.12.08: Fixed: Change start menu dialog: Cursor not set in "Command" field whe
n adding first command to empty list
22.12.08: Added: tcmdx64: Allow to add also per extension Explorer extensions to
the ignore list
22.12.08: Fixed: tcmdx64: Wrong first item index passed to plugins
21.12.08: Fixed: Ctrl+F connect dialog: show error when delete or Drag&Drop fail
s because wcx_ftp.ini is write protected
21.12.08: Added: Breadcrumb bar dropdown: custom-drawn arrows for long lists
21.12.08: Added: Breadcrumb bar: During Drag&Drop, let the underline flash so th
e user knows that the subdir will soon open
21.12.08: Added: New style of breadcrumb bar with small arrow panel below bar to
open subdirs
19.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Empty dirs" ignored option "Only selected"
19.12.08: Fixed: Opening file from archive via internal associations sometimes l
oaded the editor, but the file was deleted before the editor could open it
19.12.08: Fixed: Lister: When file not accessible, Lister switched to text mode,
but the max. line width remained that of the previous view (e.g. hex view)
19.12.08: Added: Apply quick filter also to auto-refresh
19.12.08: Fixed: Crash with quick filter and auto-refresh when new files arrived
while quick filter was set
19.12.08: Fixed: Files - Change attributes: content plugin parameters like [tc.c
omment] can now be up to 2kBytes long
19.12.08: Added: Button bar: Show small overlay when a button opens a menu bar d
ropdown menu
19.12.08: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: moved option PopupIconSize from bar t
o wincmd.ini section [ButtonBar]
19.12.08: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Icons slightly distorted when popup i
con size differs from main bar icon size
19.12.08: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Selected items were not shown if the
main menu was configured to use checkmarks
19.12.08: Fixed: Define server type dialog: Show saved definitions popup menu at
button position, not mouse position
19.12.08: Fixed: Define server type dialog: Some hotkeys not working
19.12.08: Fixed: Define server type dialog: Tab order wrong
19.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Also warn about identical left+right path if
drive letter has different case
18.12.08: Fixed: Couldn't open Explorer via "Explore" command in root any more
17.12.08: Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Drag&Drop of connection out of folder to ro
ot could still show "encrypted" icon by mistake if the connection appeared at th
e end of the list
17.12.08: Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Show warning when the user has selected onl
y folders and wants to change the password for these
17.12.08: Fixed: CRC check: Using hotkeys to jump to a line not working when the
checked file was larger than 1 MB
17.12.08: Fixed: Lister: Wrong selection after putting cursor somewhere in text,
and then switching to different mode (e.g. text->binary)
17.12.08: Fixed: Lister: Access violation in binary or hex mode when selecting t
ext and jumping to end (Ctrl+End) with different codepage (Uniscribe)
17.12.08: Fixed: Ctrl+E (previous in command line): Loop when a name was part of
another, longer name -> not all history items shown
17.12.08: Fixed: Increased default width of plugin configuration dialog
17.12.08 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 3a
17.12.08: Fixed: Win9x/ME: Disable watch dirs options in configuration because t
he corresponding functions don't exist anyway

17.12.08: Fixed: Win9x/ME: Font in custom message dialog (e.g. to confirm deleti
ng of read-only files) was bold by mistake
17.12.08: Fixed: Couldn't load a lot of settings on Windows 9x/ME. Reason: GetPr
ivateProfileSection simply fails with buffers >32767!
16.12.08 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 3
16.12.08: Fixed: Lister: Auto right-scroll right-aligned text in lister when swi
tching through multiple right-aligned files with n/p
16.12.08: Added: Code to detect OEM Russian file names in zip files marked as cr
eated by Windows
16.12.08: Fixed: Win32-style tooltips for files: Curr. names not shown when usin
g user-defined tips (e.g. with content plugins)
16.12.08: Fixed: Chinese and Korean not shown correctly in list and page titles
of main configuration dialog, but only when Chinese or Korean is the default lan
guage
16.12.08: Added: Shadows to breadcrumb bar dropdowns
15.12.08: Added: Ctrl+Shift+S restores last-used quick filter
15.12.08: Added: Ctrl+S always goes directly into quick filter mode
15.12.08: Fixed: cm_SwitchX64Redirection not working properly (needed restart of
TC to turn redirection back on)
15.12.08: Fixed: Linux with Wine: Don't use Uniscribe, Wine doesn't seem to impl
ement it yet
15.12.08: Fixed: Linux with Wine: Synchronize dirs didn't erase the list backgro
und when no items in list
15.12.08: Fixed: F7 mkdir: Select directory name manually (Wine doesn't seem to
select the name)
15.12.08: Fixed: Beep in Lister when scrolling through some Unicode files
15.12.08: Added: tcmdx64: Support per extension context menu extensions (e.g. .a
vi) and folder extensions. A mix of extensions (e.g. avi and mpg) isn't supporte
d
15.12.08: Fixed: Choose command dialog, em_xyz user commands: Unicode in comment
field (e.g. from a Unicode program) not shown correctly
15.12.08: Fixed: cm_rereadsource received from outside while file system plugin
list shown -> quick filter not removed properly
15.12.08: Fixed: No .exe icons in Search - Feed to listbox
15.12.08: Fixed: Alt+Enter on file system plugins in Network Neighborhood no lon
ger worked
14.12.08: Added: Breadcrumb bar: Support for Windows Vista directory hard links
14.12.08: Added: Button bar as menu: User-defined icon size for subbar. (Edit: N
ow in wincmd.ini) Example: wincmd.ini [Buttonbar] PopupIconSize=24
14.12.08: Fixed: Button bar: Cache not working properly since the addition of me
nu-style subbars
14.12.08: Added: Increased maximum content plugin value size which can be set vi
a Files->Change attributes to 2 kBytes-1 (the max. which can be retrieved)
14.12.08: Fixed: Drag&Drop of OLE objects from non-unicode source (e.g. TC 7.0x
from ZIP) failed
14.12.08: Fixed: Change of quick filter (Ctrl+S) in thumbnails view stopped load
ing the thumbnails
14.12.08: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Dropdown of Network Neighborhood had no file sy
stem plugin icons
14.12.08: Fixed: Close Quick View panel when user chooses a directory from direc
tory hotlist or history in that panel
14.12.08: Added: New internal cm_SrcHideQuickView (also with Left and Right) to
turn quick view panel off
14.12.08: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: No FTP directory progress dialog shown when cac
hing turned off
14.12.08: Fixed: Dual monitors: Breadcrumb bar: Make sure that ftp directory pro
gress dialog is always on the same screen as the current breadcrumb panel
14.12.08: Fixed: Dual monitors: Files - Change attributes - tc-Comments >> -> E
dit dialog always on primary screen

14.12.08: Fixed: Change button bar button: Icon not taken from em_xyz commands
12.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs, right click, delete on both sides, Cancel bot
h -> selection lost
12.12.08: Fixed: Vista: Show split arrow/wait cursor while waiting for Network N
eighborhood instead of full wait cursor
12.12.08: Added: Re-use thread when using ThreadFindFirst option and thread does
n't hang
12.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs, right click, copy file attributes: Buttons an
d checkboxes overlapped
12.12.08: Fixed: No state information shown for cm_SwitchX64Redirection (e.g. in
button bar)
12.12.08: Fixed: Button bar config: Disable minimized/maximized checkboxes for n
umeric values
12.12.08: Fixed: Lister: switch from text mode to multimedia and back -> selecti
on start no longer at text cursor position
12.12.08: Fixed: Alt+Shift+F4 opened same dialog as Shift+F4, but closed TC when
the dialog was closed
12.12.08: Added: Support Shift+F10 hotkey in button bar
12.12.08: Added: When using Alt for quick search, do not react to Alt+Space (sys
tem menu)
12.12.08: Fixed: FTP Connection details: Do not allow user to enter pipe symbol
| at start or end of name (has special meanings)
12.12.08: Added: FTP Connect dialog: Drag&Drop multiple connection in one operat
ion
12.12.08: Fixed: Show help page in Shift+F5/F6 when user presses F1
12.12.08: Fixed: Internal associations via [Associations] not working inside arc
hives
12.12.08: Fixed: Internal associations via [Associations] section in wincmd.ini
didn't work with double quotes around program
12.12.08: Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Wrong version information shown
12.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Give more space for checkbox "Empty subdirs"
for translations
12.12.08: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Reset subdir open timer when user moves cursor
to other line
12.12.08: Fixed: Drag&Drop didn't work to breadcrumb when dir of that panel show
ed virtual folder like the Network Neighborhood
11.12.08 Added: Speedup of loading Folder tabs, histories etc. at startup and C
trl+D menu by using GetPrivateProfileSection
10.12.08 Fixed: Vista: Could no longer enter "forbidden" directories requiring
admin rights. Reason: Faulty check for reparse points
10.12.08 Added: FTP, HTTP CONNECT or SOCKS firewall, passive mode: When server
reports a local address like 192.168.*.*, use original server name for data conn
ection
10.12.08 Added: FTP, no firewall, passive mode: When server reports a local add
ress like 192.168.*.*, use IP address of command connection for data connection
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs ignored option ResolutionSpecific=0 in wincmd.
ini when started via /S=S switch
10.12.08 Fixed: Unicode characters in Totalcmd program name not allowed, shows
virus warning
10.12.08 Added: Save states of breadcrumb and history/hotlist buttons also when
current path is disabled
10.12.08 Added: Spacebar on folder in ftp connect dialog opens/closes this fold
er. Also fixes problem with multiple selected items
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Inform the user why a directory containing fi
les/subdirs will not be deleted if the files/dirs aren't selected too
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Changing selection with Shift+Spacebar (defau
lt direction) didn't update the selection of depending files
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Changing selection with Spacebar updated the
selection of depending files, but didn't refresh the list
10.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Hotkeys for internal commands were shown when there

was no .inc file for the selected language


10.12.08 Fixed: Current path to the left of the command line didn't update its
window title in Unicode version
10.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect: Connection disappears from list when dragging out
of a folder to the root of the list
10.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect: Wrong icons (e.g. FTPS instead of FTP) after dragg
ing connections to other folder
10.12.08 Fixed: Ugly folder icons in FTP connect when using 32x32 icons. Connec
tion icons will be changed later
10.12.08 Fixed: Copy/Move: Shift+F5/Shift+F6 not supporting local copying/movin
g when other panel showed ftp connection
10.12.08 Fixed: Separate tree: Show inplace rename edit, rename dir (or cancel)
, turn off separate tree -> access violation (because inplace edit was deleted)
10.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment: Comment line could exceed 4096 characters
when there were too many backslashes (which would be stored as \\)
10.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment: Line breaks not saved correctly when there
were too many backslashes in the text
10.12.08 Fixed: When switching to text mode when a RTF file cannot be found any
more, the menu still had Image/Multimedia checked
09.12.08 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 2
09.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Show own default folder icons instead of Window
s default icons
09.12.08 Fixed: Search function: Saving of multiple choice options (e.g. TC - f
ile type) failed
09.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: Send message to execute command in separate thread, so
TC will not hang
09.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: Vista: Properties dialog not working at all. Reason: N
eeds message loop!
09.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: Vista: true color icons with alpha channel had black b
ackground
08.12.08 Fixed: Support unpacking of special zip files with stored data and CRC
at end
07.12.08 Fixed: Moved SetVolumeLabel to its own thread, this seems to fix the h
uge delays of the function
07.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Selection and search results sometimes wrong in first l
ine of file if Unicode or Utf-8 text starts with byte order marker
07.12.08 Fixed: Various changelog typos corrected
07.12.08 Fixed: Right click context menu for directories: Could not start some
antivirus programs like Kaspersky. Reason: They report "Open" as their function
"verb"!
07.12.08 Fixed: Avoid heavy flickering of entire window when dropping a file wh
ile a separate tree is open
07.12.08 Fixed: Separate tree: Sometimes more than one directory in tree could
have "open" status after aborting Drag&Drop
07.12.08 Fixed: Separate tree: Copy directory within tree would sometimes take
wrong rename mask, and show wrong "from" name from file list
07.12.08 Fixed: Alt+'+' and Alt+'-' no longer worked when using Alt+letters for
quick search -> these two and all user-defined hotkeys with alt take precedence
07.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect: Couldn't set ftp master password if initial passwo
rd creation process was aborted
07.12.08 Fixed: History: Could not open ftp session in new tab if the session h
as been closed
07.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Convert separator via right click menu to line brea
k (-2) -> icons were displaced
07.12.08 Fixed: Folder tabs: Switch from other tab to ftp tab didn't restore ta
b options like brief/full mode
07.12.08 Fixed: Lister plugins for folders like visualdirsize stopped working (
reason: no trailing backslash \ after dir name!)
07.12.08 Fixed: Event log plugin stopped working. Reason: local file name chang

ed during download!
07.12.08 Added: Button bar change dialog, new submenu instead of "Insert bar" b
utton
07.12.08 Added: Lister: <- and -> buttons in menu bar when there are multiple f
iles loaded
07.12.08 Added: Quick filter: Do not remove after file operations, only when ch
anging dirs or manual refresh
07.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Increased time the cursor must stay on the gray
part until the submenu is opened from 250 to 500 ms for ftp connections and fil
e system plugins
07.12.08 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, string 6605 (translations only): Remove unde
rline from second counter [C] button to avoid duplicate hotkey
07.12.08 Fixed: Separate tree: Close inplace edit when panel is scrolled vertic
ally
07.12.08 Fixed: Various controls used wrong right to left text output in right
to left mode
07.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Click in right to left-aligned text (F12) jumped to wro
ng character if scrollbar not at right end
07.12.08 Fixed: Renaming directories was logged twice
05.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q on archives didn't show descript.ion/readme.txt etc, jus
t a '?'
05.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Ugly default for icons for 24x24 and 32x32 icon
sizes
05.12.08 Fixed: Quick search not working any more in CRC check dialog
05.12.08 Fixed: F5 or F6, user gives ".." as target -> TC asks needlessly wheth
er the user wants to copy to the existing parent directory
05.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+F - Edit - Encoding type wasn't loaded completely
05.12.08 Fixed: FTP: SetUID,SetGID,Sticky bits not detected when execute flag n
ot set (letters are shown in uppercase then)
05.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Click on virtual folder for which there was alr
eady shown the submenu just closed the menu without switching to that folder
05.12.08 Fixed: Lister, right to left text: hyphens and numbers were sorted inc
orrectly. Need to set option fLegacyBidiClass to treat + and - as neutral charac
ters
05.12.08 Fixed: Problems with font smoothing in breadcrumb bar
05.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: No submenu shown for WinRAR. Reason: This extension do
esn't implement ICONTEXTMENU2!
05.12.08 Fixed: Drive bar: Line with volume label, free and total space was no
longer themed on XP/Vista
05.12.08 Added: Speedup of shutdown by writing only changed numeric values to w
incmd.ini
05.12.08 Added: Speedup of F7 mkdir on systems with slow virus scanner or slow
drive with wincmd.ini (store history with WritePrivateProfileSection)
04.12.08 Fixed: Packer encryption not working on Windows versions older than XP
04.12.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop from archive to Explorer no longer worked (error in U
nicode support)
04.12.08 Added: Multi-rename tool: When opened via a button MULTIRENAME <saveds
ettings>, show the name of the settings in the settings combobox on the right
04.12.08 Fixed: F7 create dir failed to create directories with certain charact
ers in "no write" directories
04.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Couldn't change ftp directories if the file pan
el didn't already show the content of that server
04.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Open FTP connection dialog when user chooses \f
tp from list
03.12.08 Fixed: Current path panel didn't have the window caption value set, so
couldn't be read by external programs
03.12.08 Fixed: Button bar, change single button dialog: Checkbox "as menu" for
.bar files not translated
03.12.08 Added: Inplace rename (Shift+F6): Use same function to select name par
ts as in F5 dialog when name contains a backslash (e.g. in tree)

03.12.08 Fixed: F2 in Lister RTF mode when file no longer exists -> blank scree
n, even when file exists again later -> show as text
03.12.08 Fixed: Left Drag&Drop file on status bar with right mouse button press
ed copied instead of moving the file
03.12.08 Fixed: Confirmation dialog when deleting multiple non-empty dirs: Down
arrow jumped to last button instead of next
03.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+F connect dialog: Inform user that he needs to delete conn
ections in a folder before he can delete the folder itself
03.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+F connect dialog: Don't try to save default connection if
there are no connections at all
03.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+F connect dialog: Allow to delete multiple selected connec
tions
03.12.08 Fixed: F5 in separate tree copied without confirmation if the option M
isc-Confirm-Before Drag&Drop was unchecked
03.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Text search didn't find all strings any more (problems
with code page handling)
03.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Access violation when selecting text in the middle of a
long text file and then scrolling to the beginning (only when Uniscribe was use
d)
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive bar: Two hints were shown on top of each other, Delphi hi
nts (Ansi) and TC hints (Unicode)
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive dropdown list: Incorrect width when a user hint for the n
etwork neighborhood (\) was defined
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive dropdown list (Alt+F1/Alt+F2): Harddisk icon was shown fo
r all drives with a custom drive hint
03.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Shift+Click opens dir in new tab
03.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Show hidden/system files option was ignored
03.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Can be turned off via Configuration - Layout
03.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Clicks were ignored also in file panel when qui
ck view open in other panel
03.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Turn off when showing quick view contents (Ctrl
+Q)
03.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Show down arrow instead of backslash, not in th
e middle of the path name
03.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Right click on darker part acted like a left cl
ick
02.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: List index out of bounds error when clickin
g in empty ftp server list
02.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Search in RTF files stopped completely
02.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: change cursor only when it has been moved t
o a different line
02.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: use move cursor instead of copy cursor for
Drag&Drop
02.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+F FTP connect: start Drag&Drop anywhere in the connection
list, not only over the icons
02.12.08 Fixed: cd %$ProgramFiles% no longer worked (the correct command would
be cd %ProgramFiles%)
02.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Sort order different than in main file list (es
pecially underscores)
02.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar crashed for paths longer than 511 characters
02.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar didn't allow to change dirs when they were longe
r than 259 characters
02.12.08 Fixed: Name part selection with F5 in F5-copy dialog didn't work corre
ctly with names longer than 259 characters
02.12.08 Fixed: Lister: When showing right to left text right aligned with F12,
move scrollbar to far right when switching line wrap on/off (W)
02.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Search would sometimes remain forever at 99% if file si
ze changed during search
02.12.08 Fixed: Slow double click on [..] in file list would open it for renami
ng by mistake

02.12.08 Fixed: Failed to create directory if the path length was between 248 a
nd 259 characters. Seems to require \\?\ prefix as for longer paths
02.12.08 Fixed: ShowParentDirInRoot was ignored
02.12.08 Fixed: OPENTABS command no longer worked
02.12.08 Fixed: Second separate tree was sometimes created empty
02.12.08 Fixed: Changed quick search filter to Ctrl+S, which can be used also f
rom main window now even when using a different quick search method without sear
ch dialog
02.12.08 Fixed: Access violation in Drag&Drop when switching to other program (
e.g. alt+tab) but then moving the cursor over a Total Commander file panel
02.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Keep cursor on last button when closing button cont
ext menu with ESC
02.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Place button submenu on button also when invoked vi
a keyboard
02.12.08 Fixed: When resizing TC to very narrow width, limit button bar height
to space above bottom panel (command line and function buttons)
02.12.08 Fixed: Changed minimum height of ftp connect dialog so the help button
is always visible
02.12.08 Fixed: Access violation when trying to protect all/selected ftp passwo
rds with master password
02.12.08 Added: Show encoding icon for *.sha files if they aren't associated wi
th any other program
02.12.08 Fixed: Store user associations in section [Associations] instead of se
ction [Extensions], which was already used for lister
01.12.08 Release Total Commander 7.50 Beta 1
01.12.08 Added: Unicode support in Lister for RTF and BMP files
01.12.08 Fixed: Could not delete directories from ZIP where the subdirs were st
ored with backslashes instead of forward slashes
01.12.08 Fixed: Could not rename files in ZIP where the subdirs were stored wit
h backslashes instead of forward slashes (the zip standard)
30.11.08 Added: Lister: Unicode support in names of codepages
30.11.08 Added: Make a backup of the password manager master protection key in
wincmd.ini [ProtectionKeyBackup]. If the key has changed, append new key to back
up and keep old
28.11.08 Fixed: ZIP packer no longer worked on Windows 95 original because wcmz
ip32.dll depended on non-existing msvcrt.dll
28.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support also on Windows 9x/ME if Internet Exp
lorer 5 or newer is installed
26.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support also for Text, Hex and Binary mode wh
en using font encoding override, to support encodings like KOI8-R
26.11.08 Added: Lister: Let the user override the codepage of the current font
via a new "Encoding" menu
25.11.08 Added: Lister: Use double-buffering via a bitmap for drawing text via
Uniscribe to reduce flickering
25.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support also for Text mode when using an Arab
ic or Hebrew font script
23.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support for Unicode and Utf-8 to show Arabic
and Hebrew texts correctly. F12 switches between left- and right-aligned text
23.11.08 Added: Warn user when he tries to pack Unicode names to a packer plugi
n which doesn't support them. Allow to skip, skip all, or abort operation
21.11.08 Added: Also copy NTFS streams of directories in normal copy function a
nd synchronize dirs
21.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Copy timestamp of newly created directories w
hen synchronizing two file system directories
19.11.08 Added: Show drive icons also in drive dropdown list. Can be turned off
via wincmd.ini [Configuration] IconsInDriveList=0
19.11.08 Added: Made directory combobox (Alt+F1/F2) owner-drawn, hints are now
part of the combobox
18.11.08 Fixed: TC closed with locked tab, then started with parameter /L= or /

R= -> locked tab converted by mistake to "Locked, but directory changes allowed"
18.11.08 Fixed: F5 copy: Auto-rename target didn't support "as admin" option, a
nd didn't show error if renaming failed
18.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show selected dirs in a slightly different co
lor
18.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also remove empty dirs when deleting selected
via right click menu, and the option "empty dirs" is checked
16.11.08 Fixed: Win32-style tips: Name not shown even if it was truncated when
the cursor is moved from behind over the time field only
16.11.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Directory of a file could be shown below the
file if the file was on the first line
16.11.08 Fixed: Delete file with F8/Del while nothing is selected, but abort de
leting -> file remained selected
16.11.08 Fixed: Lister: Better positioning of cursor when clicking in UTF-8 or
Unicode text
16.11.08 Added: Support tabstops in Lister also for UTF-8 files
16.11.08 Added: Unpack TAR, ARJ and LZH archives with Unicode archive name and/
or to Unicode directory (although these archives cannot contain files with Unico
de names)
16.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: When using "Copy file properties" and the res
ulting files are the same, remove copy direction error and show equal or unequal
sign
16.11.08 Fixed: Show - Vertical arrangement: Cursor sometimes outside of the vi
sual area when active panel height reduced, and then using Search - Feed to list
box
16.11.08 Fixed: Unregistered version: Start TC, switch to other program while n
ag screen is up, then click on TC icon in task bar -> TC is activated instead of
the NAG screen
16.11.08 Fixed: TC in Systray, right click on icon, right click again, press Al
t+Enter -> Access violation
14.11.08 Added: Configuration - Options - Misc: Press hotkey on key dropdown li
st to select the right key
14.11.08 Added: More keys for hotkeys in Configuration - Options - Misc
14.11.08 Added: Compare by contents: Swap panels option (right click menu) allo
ws to swap the two panels even while editing
14.11.08 Fixed: Compare by contents: Do not allow to change encoding when in ed
it mode and text has been changed
14.11.08 Fixed: Re-pack file to archive after editing: Do not convert archive n
ame to 8.3 form because it doesn't work with certain Samba drives
14.11.08 Fixed: Icon extract function: Couldn't load icon if no "defaulticon" r
egistry entry, and path from "command" entry contained spaces, but wasn't surrou
nded by double quotes, e.g. c:\some path\program.exe %1
14.11.08 Fixed: Files - Associate - Edit type - >> didn't add double quotes ""
around program if the path contained spaces
13.11.08 Fixed: Global atom bug from http://buglist.jrsoftware.org/generated/en
try0686.htm
12.11.08 Added: Pressing ESC while quick search filter is active removes the fi
lter
12.11.08 Added: Use CopyFileEx copy method (compatibility mode) by default for
all copy operations on NT-based systems now. Can be controlled in ConfigurationOptions-Copy/Delete
12.11.08 Added: Offer "Append" option also when using compatibility mode, by us
ing internal copy method when "Append" is chosen
12.11.08 Fixed: Search dialog shown incorrectly with right to left languages wh
en resized
11.11.08 Added: FTP connections can now also have Unicode names
10.11.08 Fixed: Comments with line breaks: Remove line break marker if user rem
oves line breaks or clears the comment field
09.11.08 Added: Pause/Start button also in foreground transfers. Clicking on "B
ackground" will also continue the transfer

09.11.08 Added: Comment editor (Ctrl+Z): Support Unicode in paths, warn when a
file name contains Unicode (which isn't supported by descript.ion)
09.11.08 Added: Colors by file type now also supports Unicode in file names
07.11.08 Added: CRC check: Show lines with errors in red, so they can be found
more easily
05.11.08 Added: Unicode support in background transfer manager, requires that t
he BTM no longer has its own window class
31.10.08 Added: Unicode support in many controls including buttons, static text
, groupboxes
31.10.08 Added: Unicode support in main menu
31.10.08 Added: Start to add Unicode support everywhere, e.g. to use Russian la
nguage version on German Windows
31.10.08 Added: Lister: "Find next" will now always start at the caret (text cu
rsor) position when the caret is displayed. Find first still starts at the page
start
31.10.08 Added: Lister: Combined manual selection and found text selection into
a single selection block
28.10.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Cursor left/right while cursor on LNK file didn't always p
lace the cursor on the link target in the other panel
26.10.08 Added: x64 submenu in context menu: Allow to configure which shell ext
ensions should NOT be loaded (loading just those which the user needs is faster)
26.10.08 Added: FTP Connect dialog: Preserve also empty folders when closing th
e dialog
26.10.08 Added: A plugin can now retrieve stored passwords only from its own se
ction. The section name is determined by the plugin file name (without extension
)
24.10.08 Added: Allow file system plugins to use the master password. Passwords
will be stored in wcx_ftp.ini, so the user can change the master password (see
our sftp plugin for example code)
22.10.08 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] ForceHTTP11=1 forces TC to use HTTP 1.1.
Should only be used for debugging, HTTP 1.0 is usually faster and offers a prog
ress bar
22.10.08 Added: Support for HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding. May only be necessary wh
en resuming a transfer, because TC uses HTTP 1.0 for normal HTTP downloads
22.10.08 Added: Copy/Move support (F5/F6) also in separate tree for normal dire
ctories
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported b
y the target when copying on Windows NT based systems to a network share of a Wi
n9x/ME system
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported b
y the target when unpacking file with unicode characters from an archive
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported b
y the target, when uploading to ftp server or file system plugin not supporting
Unicode
17.10.08 Added: Copy NTFS permissions also for file names longer than 259 chara
cters
17.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name longer than 1022 characters (the ma
ximum supported by TC), or the last name part is longer than 256 characters (the
maximum supported by NTFS)
15.10.08 Fixed: Default to "Microsoft Sans Serif" font on NT-based systems also
for dialog boxes (if the font exists)
15.10.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Wrong background color for icons if menu color
different from file list color
15.10.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Wrong icons when using other size than 16x16 in
file list
15.10.08 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Update transfer mode (binary/text/
automatic) when user adds ftp or ftps download URL via "+" button
15.10.08 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Reset copyflags after operation to
current default option (e.g. overwrite all hidden/system/read only) instead of
setting it to 0

15.10.08 Added: Background transfer manager can now also copy NTFS permissions,
and use option "copy files of this type only"
14.10.08 Added: dpiAware section added to MANIFEST file and resource, so Vista
doesn't self-scale Total Commander if dpi are > 120
14.10.08 Added: Work on new help files
12.10.08 Added: When uploading Unicode names to ftp servers or file system plug
ins not supporting Unicode, convert the Unicode characters to underscores "_"
10.10.08 Added: FTP port mode: Let the user specify the external IP address whe
n using a NAT router
08.10.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Auto-scroll result list when selecting files
with left mouse button and moving the cursor above or below the list
08.10.08 Added: Alt+F5 pack: If the user gives just zip:filename.zip (no path
), F5 will select just the name without the "zip:" prefix
08.10.08 Added: Warn user that he will lose all encrypted passwords if he forge
ts the master password
07.10.08 Added: Sync tool, copy properties: Also copy the time stamp of selecte
d directories if the option to copy dir timestamps is enabled
07.10.08 Added: FTP connect dialog: Show different icons for the following conn
ections: ftp, ftps, and the same with encrypted password
05.10.08 Added: X64 context menu: wincmd.ini [IgnoreMenuExtensions] 0=Extension
Name1, 1=Extension Name2 allows to ignore (not load) certain shell extensions
05.10.08 Added: X64 context menu now supports context menus for multiple files,
e.g. for "send to"
05.10.08 Fixed: X64 context menu didn't show all context menu items -> use shel
l folder object to send file list to shell extensions
03.10.08 Added: Quick filter: Do not re-read directory when switching away from
TC and back while quick filter is active, only when user refreshes manually, or
changes directory
03.10.08 Added: Quick filter: Show icon in status bar while quick filter is act
ive. A click on the status line then re-opens the quick filter dialog box
03.10.08 Added: Quick filter: Remember selected files when changing the filter,
remove selection when file not shown
01.10.08 Added: Quick filter function in quick search dialog to show dynamicall
y only the filtered files
30.09.08 Added: Search function: Search for test text.txt (without double quo
tes) now finds also the file "test text.txt", and not only "test" and "text.txt"
30.09.08 Added: Update treeinfo.wc file(s) in background thread to speed up cre
ation, renaming and deletion of directories
26.09.08 Added: When using "Watch directory changes": Detect when user wants to
eject USB stick via system tray, and stop watching a dir on the stick so it can
be removed
26.09.08 Added: Switch to Total Commander directory when switching to other pro
gram to allow ejecting USB sticks via system tray
26.09.08 Added: Custom icons for internal association system. Example (updated)
: wincmd.ini [Associations] txt.icon=notepad.exe,-1 Negative numbers mean icon
index, positive the icon resource number
26.09.08 Added: Internal association system supports environment variables like
%commander_path%
26.09.08 Added: Support for internal association system, mainly for using TC fr
om USB stick. Example: wincmd.ini [Extensions] txt=""%commander_path%\notepad.ex
e" "%1""
26.09.08 Added: Drag&Drop: Auto-expand directory under cursor after 1 second wh
en dragging to tree. Cursor starts blinking so user can stop the expansion
26.09.08 Added: Auto-scroll listboxes also when dragging files with the right m
ouse button, or from outside of TC
26.09.08 Added: Improve auto-scrolling of listboxes during Drag&Drop when the c
ursor is near the border: Support two different scrolling speeds depending on th
e cursor location
24.09.08 Fixed: Unicode support in parallel port connection not working properl
y in all functions

23.09.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow user to copy just the time stamp, attri
butes, and NTFS permissions of files
21.09.08 Added: Support for UTF-16 Unicode ini files when reading/writing Unico
de names. TC re-checks whether an ini file is Unicode when copying files, when s
witching to TC from another program, and when closing down
19.09.08 Fixed: dead keys like did not work with quick search (letters with sea
rch dialog), e.g. a ->
19.09.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop within separate tree: Do not allow to collapse direct
ory if the dragged item is part of it
17.09.08 Added: Drag&Drop from separate tree to archive
17.09.08 Added: Drag&Drop from separate tree to file list, drive button bar and
tabs
16.09.08 Added: Drag&Drop to tree panel or separate tree: Space bar now also al
lows to collapse an directory branch
16.09.08 Added: FTP details dialog: show a button "Change password..." if the m
aster password hasn't been entered yet
07.09.08 Added: F5 copy: Allow to copy all files/dirs in the source panel to al
l selected subdirs and shortcuts (*.lnk) in the target panel
07.09.08 Added: F5 copy: "Options" button now enlarges dialog instead of showin
g dropdown menu
07.09.08 Added: Compare by content: Save file in blocks of 64k instead of line
by line to speed up saving on drives with no write cache (e.g. slow VPNs)
03.09.08 Added: New internal command cm_SwitchX64Redirection to turn redirectio
n of system32 dir under 64-bit Windows on/off
02.09.08 Added: OPENTABS and APPENDTABS internal commands now also work without
parameters - showing the file open dialog
02.09.08 Added: Unicode support in internal GZip packer. Do not store the name
of the packed file if it contains Unicode characters
30.08.08 Added: Internal unpacking of encrypted RAR archive with encrypted file
names (Alt+F9 unpack specific only)
30.08.08 Added: Internal unpacking of multi-part RAR archives: Alt+F9 on first
file unpacks all files from it, even if they are on different disks
30.08.08 Added: Internal unpacking of multi-part RAR archives: ENTER on first p
art shows content of all parts in same dir and allows to unpack them
24.08.08 Added: Delete function: Let user choose "Skip all" and "Retry" also wh
en deleting directories
24.08.08 Added: F5 Copy, Options button: User can choose to skip files which ca
nnot be opened automatically
24.08.08 Fixed: Problems with names longer than 259 characters in file system p
lugins (the plugin must support them too)
24.08.08 Added: Warn also when renaming, downloading (ftp, http, file system pl
ugins)
22.08.08 Added: Warn user if target name is longer than 259 characters in F5 co
py, Shift+F4 new file, internal unpacking
22.08.08 Added: Allow to create and delete directories with names longer than 2
59 characters
22.08.08 Fixed: Alt+Enter stopped working in file system plugins (TC7.5 only)
03.08.08 Fixed: Old DOS names no longer worked in the button bar
03.08.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sort order of new directories wrong when usin
g option "empty dirs"
22.06.08 Added: Work on 64-bit context menu
21.05.08 Fixed: Compare by contents in Binary mode crash with two large files o
f different size
21.05.08 Fixed: Compare by contents not working with one file in a CAB archive
21.05.08 Fixed: Background transfer manager showed wrong files in file list onc
e the first was removed from the list (owner-draw problem)
14.05.08 Added: "Encrypt" button in FTP connect dialog which allows to change t
he master password or to encrypt all or additional connections
07.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content of UTF-8 files: Ctrl+C copied too much text
if the cursor wasn't standing at the leftmost position

07.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content of UTF-8 files: DEL at end of line didn't re
move line break and join with next line
09.04.08 Fixed: Packer plugin dialog: Selecting an existing extension from the
dropdown list selected the wrong plugin
09.04.08 Fixed: ftp connect dialog: Cursor was no longer placed on last used co
nnection
09.04.08 Fixed: Relative paths in ftp remote dir no longer worked when going vi
a a http proxy
06.04.08 Added: The following functions now support file names longer than 259
characters: CreateFile (Lister, copying), CopyFileEx, MoveFile(Ex), DeleteFile,
Get/SetFileAttributes, FindFirstFile (List directory contents)
30.03.08 Added: Parameters /O /B open passed directories in a background tab (n
ot activated) in an already running TC. Without /O, /B has the same effect as /T
26.03.08 Fixed: Some access violations with invalid ARJ headers
26.03.08 Fixed: Memory leak in unlzh function (stored files only)
18.03.08 Added: Dropdown menu listing all redefined hotkeys
18.03.08 Added: Allow to use the Windows key for custom hotkeys similar to Shif
t, Ctrl and Alt. Note that some keys like Win+E are system-wide hotkeys and cann
ot be used.
18.03.08 Added: The following redefined hotkeys are now ignored when the cursor
is outside of one of the file or tree panels (with or without shift pressed): c
ursor keys, page up/down, home, end, delete, backspace, all keys and key combina
tions producing a visible character
16.03.08 Added: When showing *.bar files as dropdown menus, show separate conte
xt menu when right clicking on menu item
14.03.08 Added: Show button bar files (*.bar) as dropdown menus when the user h
olds down Shift while clicking on the menu button
13.03.08 Added: Massive speedup of adding many files to a huge zip file (e.g. a
dd 20'000 files to a zip with another 20'000) by using a checksum of the name
12.03.08 Added: Create+Verify SHA-1 checksums (like MD5, but longer checksum)
11.03.08 Added: Remember FTP session name in Tabs and History, to use stored pa
ssword (also with master password) when restoring that connection
09.03.08 Added: Speed up loading of Alt+F10 tree by using a virtual listbox (LB
S_NODATA) except when an accessibility software is used - LB_GETTEXT doesn't wor
k with LBS_NODATA
09.03.08 Added: Compare by contents: Support "Copy to clipboard" also in binary
mode. 00 bytes are converted to spaces.
09.03.08 Fixed: Lister: Search for text - trailing spaces were lost in the sear
ch history
09.03.08 Fixed: Lister's text search dialog didn't have a close button
07.03.08 Fixed: Switch to tab with ftp connection was no longer working
07.03.08 Fixed: Various Unicode issues like incorrect buffer length parameters
07.03.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Holding Shift now turns off recycle bin also
in delete confirmation dialog, not only in sync confirmation dialog
05.03.08 Fixed: Print dialog and printer settings dialog always appeared on the
primary screen -> center on parent window (e.g. lister) instead of centering on
screen
04.03.08 Added: Support the packing of files >2GB into TAR archives
04.03.08 Added: Support unpacking TAR archives where the file size is represent
ed in binary form, for files > 8 GB
29.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs with empty subdirs: Correctly delete files and
directories via right click menu. Automatically unselect directories which cont
ain files which aren't deleted, either because the user didn't select them, or b
ecause they are currently hidden
29.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs with empty subdirs: After changing copy direct
ion via right click menu, fix copy direction also for not selected files/dirs, e
.g. to not delete a directory in which there are still some files
29.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Unicode support in LB_GETTEXT (for visually i
mpaired), continued work on sync of empty dirs
24.02.08 Fixed: Alt+F1 select drive: Short delay when network drive returned ER

ROR_NOT_CONNECTED -> do not try to get volume label


24.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also synchronize empty subdirectories (for no
w, only between two directories, other modes will follow)
24.02.08 Added: Support for multiple master passwords: When loading passwords,
multiple master passwords are allowed. When storing, only the main master passwo
rd is allowed. Delete AESVerify to start with a new master password. NEVER delet
e AESProtectionKey!
22.02.08 Added: FTP master password: forget master password when the user minim
izes TC, or when a screen saver starts
08.02.08 Added: Work in progress: Protection of FTP passwords with a master pas
sword
06.02.08 Added: Two new internal commands cm_LoadAllOnDemandFields and cm_LoadS
elOnDemandFields: Load on demand fields for all/just the selected files
06.02.08 Fixed: Better detection of self-extracting archives (Ctrl+PageDown): R
AR SFX containing stored CAB -> CAB was opened instead of RAR. Same problem with
ZIP inside of RAR.
06.02.08 Fixed: Custom columns view: When displaying a line, do not re-load fie
lds which were already pre-loaded for sorting (when using the "random" plugin, t
his caused sort order and displayed numbers to differ)
05.02.08 Added: Keyboard interface for button bar, can be reached with internal
command cm_FocusButtonBar or Alt+Shift+F11
03.02.08 Fixed: Switch to full or brief view when changing directory via breadc
rumb bar in tree view
03.02.08 Added: Rename in place (Shift+F6) in separate tree. With the mouse, th
e right click menu must be used
01.02.08 Added: Copy, Cut and Paste in separate tree (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V)
01.02.08 Added: Delete directories in separate tree both in the file system and
in file system plugins
01.02.08 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree and tree in main window not updated when renaming
directories with Multi-Rename tool
30.01.08 Added: New internal command with parameters: MULTIRENAME <saved rename
parameters> opens the multi-rename dialog box with the specified rename paramet
ers. Giving an invalid name will set all options to the default values
30.01.08 Added: Copy/Move function (F5/F6): warn if the user tries to copy/move
a single file/directory to an already existing directory name. The same is show
n for downloads from ftp, and from file system plugins
30.01.08 Added: Press Shift+F4 (edit specific file) repeatedly to select only t
he name part (not the extension) of the name, like in F5 copy dialog
29.01.08 Fixed: Lister: Couldn't select entire line in binary or hex view by go
ing with the cursor beyond the end of the line
27.01.08 Fixed: ZIP packer, overwrite dialog auto-rename copied chosen -> two o
r more files with the same name could be added under very special circumstances
27.01.08 Added: FTP user name/password dialog: Show requested string (e.g. Pass
word:) in the title in addition to the session name
23.01.08 Added: Disable Delphi floating point exceptions when calling OLE funct
ions which may involve shell extensions: Drag&Drop, Context menu, Property sheet
, Copy+Paste, Overlay Icons, Thumbnails, Info-Tips
23.01.08 Added: Disable Delphi floating point exceptions before loading any DLL
s (Visual C++ DLLs may cause floating point exceptions because exception handlin
g is off in C++)
23.01.08 Added: Show current folder with dir open icon in breadcrumb bar
23.01.08 Added: Quick search capability to breadcrumb bar
20.01.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar could not show more than a few 1000 directories
-> use separate virtual scrollbar
18.01.08 Added: New internal commands cm_SrcPathFocus, cm_LeftPathFocus and cm_
RightPathFocus to put focus on path breadcrumb bar to change the path by keyboar
d
18.01.08 Added: Alt+F11/Alt+F12: Put focus on left/right breadcrumb bar to choo
se path with keyboard: Uses the keys left/right/down/home/end/enter/escape to na
vigate

18.01.08 Fixed: Files in archive subdirs starting with a dot (like .htaccess) w
ere shown incorrectly
16.01.08 Added: Store line breaks in descript.ion files in the form \n (\ is st
ored as \\), mark such comments with custom ID 0xC2 received from inventors of d
escript.ion
16.01.08 Added: increased max. comment length in descript.ion to 4096 character
s (minus the length of the file name, a space, and final line break)
15.01.08 Fixed: Problem with multi-rename tool: When selecting Unicode string f
rom dropdown combobox, the rename result was incorrect
15.01.08 Fixed: Duplicate file finder: Hide files which couldn't be opened for
reading when comparing by content
15.01.08 Fixed: Error message when using Search function for duplicate files, a
nd one of the files is removed while TC is still comparing files by content
15.01.08 Added: FTP client: For stored ftp connections, show connection name in
the title of the user name and password request dialogs, so they can be used by
external password managers
15.01.08 Added: Copy from FS plugin or virtual folder to FTP (via TEMP)
11.01.08 Added: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar: Support ftp as target with files a
nd archives as source
11.01.08 Added: Show ftp connections in breadcrumb bar
09.01.08 Added: Show file system plugins in breadcrumb bar
08.01.08 Added: Show virtual folders in breadcrumb bar
06.01.08 Added: Command line switch /S=S starts "Synchronize dirs" directly, ac
cepts two paths as parameters, or alternatively a settings name in the form /S=S
:SettingsName
06.01.08 Added: Command line switch /S=L starts Lister directly
06.01.08 Added: Command line switch /S=C starts directly "Compare by content" w
ithout TC main window, e.g. totalcmd.exe /S=C c:\file1 d:\file2
06.01.08 Added: Show correct drag cursor when dropping files to navigation bar
submenus
02.01.08 Added: Drag&Drop on current path bar will open dropdown list to drop f
iles to subdir
02.01.08 Added: Subdir navigation by clicking on parts of path (similar to brea
dcrumb bar in Vista Explorer)
31.12.07 Fixed: Change of path via edit box didn't support Unicode yet
31.12.07 Added: Limited Unicode support also on Win9x/ME: Show Unicode names on
FTP servers and inside of archives (if the font supports them, e.g. Arial). Con
vert to underscores "_" when transferring to local file system, detect and warn
about name collisions
30.12.07 Fixed: Change plugin attributes failed when using plugin values, e.g.
[=tc.something]
28.12.07 Added: When user presses F2 or Ctrl+R in custom columns or thumbnails
view, clear all custom fields and re-load them even when nothing else has change
d
28.12.07 Fixed: Not all plugin operators shown in Search function (plugins page
)
24.12.07 Added: Make TC 7.5 run on Windows 95 original by dynamically loading t
he functions SHGetFileInfoW, Shell_NotifyIconW, SHFileOperationW, SHGetPathFrom
IDListW
24.12.07 Added: Unicode in sfxhead.sfx. On Win9x/ME, the Unicode characters wil
l be replaced by underscores "_"
19.12.07 Added: Support Unicode in custom searches, also in plugin section
19.12.07 Added: Support Unicode in custom column headers
18.12.07 Fixed: Change colors by file type definition (via search dialog), try
to save it -> ">" character put in front of the name
16.12.07 Added: Button bar can have manual line breaks: Command: must be set to
-2
16.12.07 Added: Button bar can have an unlimited number of rows, max 500 button
s
14.12.07 Added: Folders in Ctrl+F FTP connections

09.12.07 Added: Unicode support in WM_COPYDATA: prepend UTF8 byte order marker
before each path containing Unicode characters (pure ANSI paths are passed as AN
SI) -> /O switch now supports Unicode too
09.12.07 Added: Unicode support in directory parameters passed to TC on the com
mand line
09.12.07 Fixed: Corrected some compatibility problems of the new Unicode/Ansi c
ontrols on Windows 9x/ME
09.12.07 Fixed: Running programs from inside an archive stopped working
07.12.07 Fixed: Viewing videos and playing music in Lister stopped working
07.12.07 Fixed: Custom columns view: delayed fields had stopped working
07.12.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP custom host type define dialog: The list
ing will be shown as sent by the server, but the file name will be shown with th
e selected encoding
07.12.07 Added: FTP custom type: New template option X or X=letter verifies tha
t the character at this position is NOT a space/ not the indicated letter
07.12.07 Added: FTP custom type: New template option x=letter verifies that the
character at this position is the indicated letter
07.12.07 Fixed: ZIP packer: Unicode extra field wasn't stored in local header
05.12.07 Added: ZIP packer: Let the user choose in the main config dialog how t
o pack files with Unicode names (default: ask user)
04.12.07 Added: ZIP packer: Unicode support in rename files+dirs, delete files+
dirs
30.11.07 Added: ZIP packer: Let the user choose how to store Unicode names in Z
IP files.
28.11.07 Added: Unicode support for internal ZIP packer. So far, Unicode charac
ters are stored as "?" as in Winzip
25.11.07 Added: Compare by content: compare any combination of Ansi, Utf-8, Utf
-16, and Utf-16 little endian (Mac)
23.11.07 Fixed: Backspace in compare by contents editor placed cursor on wrong
character in UTF-8 mode
21.11.07 Added: Unicode support in Files - Associate
20.11.07 Added: Unicode support in LB_GETTEXT: Main file lists, separate trees,
Search results, Tree dialog, Synchronize dirs
16.11.07 Added: Unicode support in ignore list. The ignore file will automatica
lly be stored as UTF-8 if necessary
16.11.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP download from list (if download file has
UTF-8 byte marker)
16.11.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP "Download later (add to download list)".
The list will be converted to UTF-8 automatically if only one of the added name
s contains characters from a different code page
16.11.07 Added: Packer plugins: The callback functions ChangeVolProc and Proces
sDataProc now both also exist in a Unicode version. The plugin may call either t
he Ansi or the Unicode version
16.11.07 Added: Unicode support in Quick Search with search dialog, using the c
urrently chosen keyboard layout
13.11.07 Added: Unicode support in file associations (icons, launching, but not
creation+modification)
11.11.07 Added: Unzip: Unpack Unicode file names which are either in pkzip form
at (UTF-8, bit 11 set), or info-zip format (extra field 0x7075)
07.11.07 Added: FTP: Detect codepage reported by some servers in return to the
SYST command, e.g. UNIX Type: L8 , CP:1252
07.11.07 Added: FTP: Support encoding in Shift+F5 (server to server copying)
07.11.07 Added: FTP: Let the user choose the encoding (code page) of file names
(Ansi, Ascii, UTF-8 etc.)
06.11.07 Added: Variable width font in binary compare by content, Unicode displ
ay
04.11.07 Added: UTF-8 support in compare by content: edit, copy+paste, select w
ith shift+cursors or mouse, overtype selection, save file, hide BOM, search func
tion
02.11.07 Added: UTF-8 support in compare by content (read only, the editor will

be updated later)
31.10.07 Added: Unicode support in fully expanded tree
31.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Resume FTP download
31.10.07 Added: cm_LoadSelectionFromFile can now load from Ansi, UTF-8 and UTF16-encoded files
31.10.07 Added: Save selection to file now always stores in UTF16 Unicode forma
t on NT-based systems
31.10.07 Added: Unicode support in cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip and related functio
ns
30.10.07 Added: Unicode support in cm_CopyFullNamesToClip
30.10.07 Added: Unicode support in cm_CopySrcPathToClip, cm_CopyTrgPathToClip
30.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Files - Print - File content
30.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Expand/Shrink selection
30.10.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP panel (log listbox), also when double cl
icking on the list
30.10.07 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Remove password from owner-drawn l
istbox
30.10.07 Fixed: FTP downloads: progress message was repeated all the time inste
ad of being replaced by the next message
30.10.07 Fixed: Ctrl+N New Connection: History stopped working
28.10.07 Added: Unicode support in F3 view file in search function
28.10.07 Added: Unicode support in duplicate file finder (search function)
28.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Open as user
28.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Ctrl+C in CRC check dialog
28.10.07 Added: Encode files: Encode characters>127 as quoted printable when us
ing Unicode names
26.10.07 Added: Unicode support in ftp logging
26.10.07 Added: Unicode support in file logging
26.10.07 Added: Unicode support in CRC progress dialog, connect progress dialog
24.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Create/Check CRC checksums. If there is a Un
icode name, the CRC file will be in UTF-8 format with UTF-8 byte order marker
24.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Encode/Decode: If a file has a Unicode name,
it will be encoded as =?UTF-8?Q?encoded characters?=
24.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Split/Combine: If the split file has a Unico
de name, the CRC file will contain an additional line filenameutf8=<name in UTF8
format>
23.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Background transfer manager
21.10.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP server to server transfers
21.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Parallel port connection
19.10.07 Added: Unicode support in volume label (changing and displaying)
19.10.07 Added: Unicode support in main window trees
19.10.07 Added: Unicode support in "Compare directories" and "Mark newer, hide
same files"
19.10.07 Added: Unicode support in file system plugin properties (Alt+Enter)
17.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Alt+F10 tree
17.10.07 Added: Unicode support in hints in overwrite dialog
17.10.07 Added: Unicode support in search function, also in text search in List
er
16.10.07 Added: Unicode support in print file list
16.10.07 Added: Unicode support in Synchronize dirs
14.10.07 Added: Unicode support in file system plugins, including content plugi
n functions
10.10.07 Added: Unicode support in RAR archives (packing via external Winrar)
09.10.07 Added: Unicode support in packer plugins
08.10.07 Added: Unicode support in RAR archives (unpacking)
07.10.07 Added: Unicode support in archive names and unpack target paths (not y
et in file names inside of archives): ZIP, GZIP
03.10.07 Added: Unicode support in folder tabs (ctrl+t)
02.10.07 Added: Unicode support in multi-rename tool and content plugin values
(ft_stringw)

01.10.07 Added: Unicode support in compare by content


28.09.07 Added: Unicode support when starting button bar and start menu command
s
28.09.07 Added: Unicode support in button bar (hints, icon files), start menu,
transfer directory (Ctrl+Arrow), directory history
26.09.07 Added: Unicode support in button bar configuration dialog, start menu
configuration dialog
23.09.07 Added: Unicode support in Lister, also for Lister plugins if they supp
ort it
21.09.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP: Downloads, upload entire subdirs, renam
e files, FTP via HTTP
18.09.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP (via command OPTS UTF8 ON): directory br
owsing, file names, directory names, upload, mkdir
18.09.07 Added: Resume conversion to Unicode
26.08.07 Added: Command line now also supports Unicode
22.08.07 Added: F7 MKDir now also supports Unicode in the local file system, an
d in local folders like the Desktop
17.08.07 Added: Start conversion of copy/move/delete functions to Unicode
14.08.07 Added: Start conversion of directory browsing functions to Unicode
10.08.07 Added: All time-related functions now use the NTFS time instead of the
old FAT file system time -> also dates before 1980 supported
27.07.07 Added: Working on new Unicode controls (static, panel, combobox, tab h
eader etc.)
Fixes after Total Commander 7.04a:
23.11.08 Fixed: Command line: Access violation when "cd" command was longer tha
n 259 characters
21.11.08 Fixed: Search function: Regex search ignored empty search string (bug
in Regexpr library) -> assume .*
21.11.08 Fixed: Access violation when trying to unpack multiple files from lock
ed RAR. Reason: RAROpenArchive returned 0, but TC expected INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE
21.11.08 Fixed: Access violation when adding too many files to command line wit
h Shift+Drag&Drop
29.10.08 Fixed: Auto-resume upload could restart at position 0 of the file if t
he server or connection was very slow, and didn't support the SIZE command
21.10.08 Fixed: Could not unpack files from zip if they were both stored and in
stream format (size+crc at the end)
09.09.08 Fixed: Alt+Cursor left/right (history back/forward) could add '?' char
acter to command line with U.S. keyboard
05.09.08 Fixed: Lister: Search function didn't report an error when searching b
ackwards when the last match was at the beginning of the file
05.09.08 Fixed: Lister: regex search backwards could not find first 'a' in stri
ng like 'aaaaaa'
05.09.08 Added: Allow to copy NTFS permissions also from NTFS drives with 8k cl
usters (or larger). These are detected by mistake as Samba drives because they d
o not support NTFS compression
05.09.08 Fixed: Copy files from zip to zip: temporary files were not deleted wh
en user aborts the first (unpacking) step
20.08.08 Fixed: Vista x64 only: Windows Open/Save file dialog not working with
x64DisableRedirection=1 -> turn it off (downside: cannot open 64-bit dll files i
n lister this way)
20.08.08 Fixed: Access violation (not critical) when trying to modify ZIP archi
ves created with SharpZipLib (due to invalid ZIP64 headers)
20.08.08 Fixed: Added linebreak after "Create shortcuts of .. files in" confirm
ation dialog when dropping files from Explorer with Ctrl+Shift
20.08.08 Fixed: Lister: Hide URL tooltip shown in html files when switching bac
k to Total Commander (Alt+Tab)
20.08.08 Fixed: Access violation when trying to unpack RAR archive containing f
ile with very long name
20.08.08 Fixed: When opening a Word file via right click menu and word was alre

ady running, TC would jump to the foreground after a few seconds


20.08.08 Added: Quick search in internal command selection dialog: Place cursor
on first match
10.08.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view panel: Show/Hide text cursor when Focusing qu
ick view panel/moving focus away
10.08.08 Added: Support reload (F2) in Lister also when viewing RTF files
10.08.08 Fixed: Backwards search in RTF not working -> need to load rich edit c
ontrol 2.0!
10.08.08 Fixed: Focus went from separate tree to active panel when "Tree: Press
ENTER to open dir in other window" was off
08.08.08 Release Total Commander 7.04a
29.07.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 final
23.04.08 Release Total Commander 7.03 final
14.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02a final
05.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02 final
21.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 final
11.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.0a
06.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 final
IMPORTANT NOTE: Total Commander 7.0, 6.54(a), 6.55(a) and 6.56 were developed in
parallel.
Therefore many modification dates listed above come before the release of TC 6.5
4(a), 6.55(a) and 6.56.
01.01.07 Release Total Commander 6.56 final
23.10.06 Release Total Commander 6.55a final
26.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 final
16.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a final
02.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 final
31.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 final
30.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 final
02.02.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Final
17.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Final
16.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03a Final
14.04.04 Release Total Commander 6.03 Final
03.03.04 Release Total Commander 6.02 Final
03.12.03 Release Total Commander 6.01 Final
New in Total Commander 6.0 final (17.11.03):
[Tabs]
- File panel Tab support
- Drop dirs/archives on empty space in tab header adds new tabs with them
- Drop dirs/files on tab header copies files to the directory represented by thi
s tab
- Tab right click menu added
- Ctrl+Click on tab closes this tab
- Internal command cm_visDirTabs to turn folder tabs on and off
- Remember the Desktop, Network Neighborhood and other virtual folders when clos
ing, both the current dir and other tabs!
- Drop tab on target path adds this tab in the target window even if no tab head
er is shown yet
- cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab: Turn on/off tab locking (e.g. for button bar, hotkey)
- Ctrl+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+Cursor up opens dir under cursor in new tab in OTHER window
- Ctrl+Shift+T opens new tab without activating it
- Ctrl+Shift+W closes all open tabs
- Ctrl+T opens new tab, Ctrl+M starts multi-rename tool, Ctrl+Shift+M changes FT
P transfer mode
- cm_OpenDirInNewTab internal message to open dir under cursor in new tab
- Shift+Enter or Ctrl+Enter in History opens this dir in a new tab
- Ctrl+Shift+U Swaps not only the active panels, but all tabs

- appendtabs tabfile.tab in button bar appends tabs from tabfile.tab to current


tabs
- opentabs tabfile.tab in button bar replaces current tabs with tabs from tabfi
le.tab
[FTP]
- FTP resume all for uploads and downloads
- When an FTP server or file system plugin reports illegal chars in a name, TC c
onverts them to underscores on download
- Synchronize dirs now uses inofficial MDTM command to set remote file date. Thi
s command isn't supported by all servers.
- FTP: Parameter %p in Buttonbar now pastes full FTP URL including user name. %P
still pastes just the path on the server without the server name
- Ctrl+D menu now supports changing paths on ftp servers: the path must contain
a forward slash as a distinction. Only in source dir possible.
- Punycode accented domain encoding for http and ftp
- FTP client: skip known trojan ports in ftp client to avoid problems with firew
alls
[Regular expressions]
- Regular expression searches in lister, search function (Alt+F7), file contents
(match one line at a time only, max 4k/line)
- Support for regular expressions in select/unselect files: string must be prece
ded by a '<', e.g. <^[A-Za-z \.]*
- Regular expressions support in multi-rename tool, using RegExpr.pas, Copyright
(c) 1999-00 by Andrey V. Sorokin <anso@mail.ru> - http://anso.da.ru
- Support for regular expressions and stored searches in copy and move operation
s
[Plugins]
- Changed the way how multimedia plugins are
handling (or Irfanview), it's now sufficient
in the detect string
- Alt+Enter on file system plugins now opens
gin supports it)
- Lister plugin interface version 1.3: Allow
ers

detected: To override the internal


that MULTIMEDIA appears as ANY node
the plugin's properties (if the plu
to replace internal Multimedia view

[Unicode]
- Show Unicode file names in file lists
- Copying and moving of files with Unicode names on Windows NT/2000/XP, also wit
h subdirs!
- Rename Unicode file names in place
- Show tip windows with Unicode names
- Show warning message the first time the user enters a dir with file names from
a different codepage (can be disabled)
- If the user hasn't chosen a default font, use "Microsoft Sans Serif" instead o
f "MS Sans Serif" on Win2k/XP, because it supports Unicode
- Support for Unicode UTF16 in "Compare by contents". If Unicode marker present,
this also supports big endian format
[Synchronize dirs]
- Show file sizes >4GB in synchronize dirs (correct sizes were used for calculat
ion, but not displayed)
- Also show compare by contents progress within a file (e.g. when comparing few
very big files)
- Synchronize dirs, asymmetric mode: Option to delete all empty dirs in right wi
ndow (not available in zip or ftp)
- Sync now also works with archives other than ZIP! Everything except for compar
e by contents is supported

- Compare by content now also works with two ZIP files


- Dialog can now be closed with ESCAPE as long as the user doesn't change the co
py direction of any files!
[Multi-rename tool]
- When clicking on [N#-#], user can select letters interactively in currently se
lected file name
- [G] placeholder inserts grandparent directory name
[New ini options]
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ShowInstanceNr=0 turns off numbered commander titl
e bar
- Search in archives recognized by content: Needs to set SearchInFiles= in Wincm
d.ini to extensions of this packer
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] SortUpper=2 uses mixed lexical and numerical sor
ting, e.g. file10.txt comes AFTER file1.txt
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] CompareIgnoreRepSpace=0 turns off ignoring of repe
ated spaces in compare tool
[Packers]
- It's now possible to add files to a subdir of a RAR archive
- Option to pack with ACE now also works with WinACE packer
- Unpacking of files >4GB from ZIP archives up to 4GB in size using the pkware 6
4bit extra field
- Unpacking of ZIP files created with the Deflate64(TM) method (Deflate64 is a t
rademark of Pkware Inc.)
- Preserve ZIP archive main comment when adding or removing files
- Wait for external packers in the background (no wait window will be shown)
[User interface]
- Buttons for directory hotlist and directory history
- Show parent dir also in root of drive
- Show free and total disk space in "My Computer" for fixed disks (may not work
on all operating systems)
- Shift+Mouse wheel activates history (go back/forward)
- New internal command cm_ShowQuickSearch shows window for searching a file name
in the current dir
- Changed page selection in configuration dialog from tabbed notebook to fixed t
ree+notebook (Mozilla style)
- cm_ShowHint shows tooltip for current file in active file list (and places mou
se cursor on it)
- CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS added to context menu call when shift is pressed -> adds "op
en with" menu item!
- Possibility to change drive icons
- Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution display
s, better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32
- Show in title when there is more than one instance of TC, e.g. [2] Total Comma
nder
- Configure colors of compare by contents and lister via the main config dialog
- Show NTFS junctions with a link icon
- Option "Show old 8.3 names lowercase" no longer the default on NT/2000/XP syst
ems
- Lister: Show %done when searching
[File operations]
- Speed limit when copying files (only in background transfer manager)
- F2 Background button in F5 Copy dialog, will add the selected files to the las
t opened background transfer manager
- In F5 copy dialog, "Options" button: New option to rename copied file or targe
t file when target exists. Names are filename(2).ext, filename(3).ext etc.

- 3 new internal commands: cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcu


ts: Same as cm_copy, but not reacting to Shift and Alt keys!
- More detailed statistics in SFV/MD5 check function
- Drop files on F8-Delete button while right mouse button pressed has same effec
t as Shift+Drop (bypass recycle bin if it is activated)
[Other additions]
- TC 6.0 now also accepts tcmdkey.zip containing wincmd.key instead of wincmd.ke
y. The key must be stored (no compression) in the file.
- cm_SaveSelection saves current selection internally (automatically done before
each file operation)
- Internal command cm_LoadSelectionFromClip to load selection from clipboard (co
unterpart to cm_CopyNamesToClip)
- Internal commands cm_SaveSelectionToFile, cm_LoadSelectionFromFile to save/loa
d current selection (names of all selected files)
- In Right click menu - new document, look in CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES folder if n
ot found in CSIDL_TEMPLATES folder
- Set environment variable COMMANDER_PATH to location of Total Commander's EXE f
ile (e.g. for loading plugins)
New in Total Commander 5.51 Final (18.02.03):
- FS-Plugins: Copy/Move files between 2 plugins
- FS-Plugins: Support for Multi-Rename tool
- FS-Plugins: Synchronize dirs supported
- FS-Plugins: Search files added
- FS-Plugins: Wildcards support (*.txt) for displaying files
- Lister-Plugin interface officially documented
- Show the first files being deleted in the delete confirmation dialog
- cm_usermenu1..cm_usermenu10 to invoke the first 10 commands in the start menu
(e.g. for hotkeys).
- cm_xxx commands now also work in directory hotlist (Ctrl+D)
- New search option to include/exclude specific dirs, e.g. | _vti*\ excludes all
dirs starting with "_vti" (search, sync, branch view)
- cm_CopyNetNamesToClip copies file names with UNC path to clipboard
- Single click on active file window title allows to change / copy /paste the cu
rrent dir
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] copystreams=0 turns off copying of NTFS streams
04.11.02 Release Total Commander 5.50 Silent update (a)
New in Total Commander 5.50 Final (29.10.02):
- Name changed to "Total Commander" - see our homepage for the reasons
- Change size display of total/marked files in footer below file lists (bytes, k
or dynamic)
- Copy additional NTFS streams when copying files.
- Copy file comments with the files with F5 (optional, needs to be enabled first
)
- Create CRC checksums: Function can now also create and check MD5 checksums
- Drag a link from Internet Explorer to Total Commander (holding down Shift) to
open the URL dialog to download the linked file
- File system plugin interface to access external devices or other partitions
- In Copy dialog, "Options" button which allows to set "Overwrite all", "Skip al
l" etc. before copying
- Lister: In 'Fit to window' mode, resize the video window to the lister window
- Lister: RTF-Viewer (can be disabled)
- Multi-rename tool: Load/Save settings, for often used changes
- Multi-rename tool, search+replace: Support for wildcards * and ?
- Open partially downloaded ZIP files, even during the download
- Option: Always open new FTP connections in the left or right file panel instea
d of the active file panel

- Show file comments in file lists and as tooltips


- Show name of logged-on user in the title bar if the program was started with R
unAs
- The HTML viewer in Lister supports some more tags
New in Wincmd 5.11 Final (16.09.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.10 Final (28.08.02):
- Unpack RAR 3 archives
- Support for OTP-MD4 -MD5 and -SHA1-authentication for FTP
- Decoder for Yenc-encoded files (Files - decode files)
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Wincmd 5.0 Silent update (26.02.02):
- Many small corrections and additions
New in Version 5.0 Final (21.01.02):
- Support for Windows XP themes on XP
- "Commands" menu split into "Commands" and "Net"
- FTP: support for more than 2 definition strings when defining a new server typ
e
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without encryp
tion
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of t
he same name also in the other window
- Find files: Start search inside an archive
- FTP: Option to send keepalive messages (e.g. NOOP) to the server in user-defin
ed intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct ta
rget OS (Linux or SunOS).
- Direct packing of TAR.Plugin archives, requires re-download of the plugin (e.g
. BZIP2)
- Compare by contents: Search for text in both files simultaneously, found text
will be underlined
- Compare by contents: Button to show the two windows above each other, e.g. for
wide texts
- Right click menu in Lister: added "Copy all URLs" command in HTML-Viewer mode
- Pack: Option to create a separate archive for each selected file/dir. If no ta
rget dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the origina
l file.
- "Branch view" now added to "commands" menu
- Create CRC-Checksum files in SFV format
- FTP+HTTP in background: Set speed limit for up- and downloads
- Pause button for background operations: FTP, HTTP, copy, pack, unpack
- FTP download from list: detect if list file was modified, and add new items to
current download
- Download list can now also copy+move files. Syntax: copy:sourcename -> targe
tname or move:sourcename -> targetname
- Background transfer manager can now also be started separately without a list
file
New in Version 4.54 (16.07.01):
- Compare by content: Switch between binary and text mode.
- Lister: Support word wrap in UTF8 mode
New in Version 4.53 (31.05.01):
- Display of UTF8 (special 1-6 byte Unicode format) in Lister

- Support for ACE 2.0 archives


- Support for files > 2 GB in Lister and split/combine functions
- Directory print with subdirs: Print only files of certain types, e.g. *.txt *.
doc
- Change date/time of folders also on Windows NT/2000 (admins only due to restri
cted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the ser
ver WarFTPd, the resume seems to work, but the uploaded file is unusable!
- Directory hotlist can now contain up to 200 entries
- The location of Wincmd.ini and Wcx_ftp.ini can now be set in the registry (32bit version only):
\SOFTWARE\Ghisler\Windows Commander, new text values IniFileName and FtpIniName.
This key may be created under HKEY_CURRENT_USER or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
The command line parameters /i= and /f= still take precedence over the registry
values.
- Special larger block sizes when copying very large files can increase the copy
ing speed of these large files quite a bit.
This function is only meant for advanced users, and needs to be enabled through
wincmd.ini (CopyBlockSize etc).
New in Version 4.52 (15.01.01):
- Display of Unicode and HTML (as plain text) in Lister
- Search for Unicode and Hex in the search function
- Print function to print directory lists, trees and compare results in 'Synchro
nize dirs'.
- Display of all files in the current dir and all subdirs with Ctrl+B
- File windows above each other instead of side by side
- Display of the file size in kbytes or dynamic depending on the actual size
- Multi-rename tool: Enhanced counter settings using definition strings [Cxxx]
- Submenu 'New' in the right click context menu allows to create new (empty) fil
es
New in Version 4.51 (18.07.00):
- Bugfix of 4.50
New in Version 4.50 (30.6.00):
- Multi-rename tool: Allows to rename multiple files in one step (Hotkey: Ctrl+T
)
- Batch rename function with Shift+F6 to quickly rename multiple files one by on
e
- Rename files and subdirs inside a ZIP archive (Shift+F6)
- Parallel port transfer function (direct cable connection), works between Win95
/98/NT/2000/3.1 and DOS!
- FTP: Definition of custom host types, using a definition string
- FTP: Retry to connect multiple times also for non-anonymous connections
- FTP: Support for multiple proxies (separately for FTP and HTTP connections)
- FTP: Workaround to bug in some FTP servers: Upload of subdirs failed
- Resolve lnk files on the desktop or in the Network Neighborhood
- Unpack self-extracting files created by WinACE and WinRAR (open with Ctrl+PgDn
)
- "Unpack all and execute" in packer properties allows to try out a program or r
un an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip f
iles etc.
- Search for text also inside CAB files
- Copying to 'write only' directories (Windows NT, network)
- Uninstaller: Automatic removal of the program through the Control Panel
Several new commands and parameters for Button bar / Start menu:
- cm_List now allows to open a file. The file name must be given directly behind
CM_LIST, and not in the parameters field!

Example: cm_list c:\windows\wincmd.ini always opens the file wincmd.ini in lis


ter.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a sha
red directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file syste
m)
- cm_EditAuditInfo: Show file auditing dialog (NTFS)
- cm_EditOwnerInfo: Show "Take ownership" dialog (NTFS)
- cm_ShowOnlySelected: Hide all files/dirs which aren't selected when this funct
ion is used
- cm_OpenRecycled: Open 'recycle bin'
- New parameters %L, %l, %F, %f, %D, %d create a list file in the TEMP directory
with the names of the selected files and directories.
New in Version 4.02 (16.12.99):
- Unzip, delete and HTTP downloads (Ctrl+N) in background.
- Synchronize dirs now also supports directory from/to ftp synchronization! Conc
erning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section im
portant note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- time of directories (Win95/98 only)
- FTP server to server transfers (FXP): Always sends PORT command to left server
, PASV to right server. This allows for file transfers between a public server a
nd one in a private address room, or behind a firewall. The private server must
be in the left window.
- Find files: Only search in selected files and folders
New in Version 4.01 (27.07.99):
- This version was mainly a bugfix release
- HTTPone per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.in
i, [configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- User-defined drive names (for drive list+button bar). Example: wincmd.ini, [Dr
iveHints], E=ZIP drive
- File window tabstops (column width) are now saved separately by resolution, an
d adjust to the right (configurable)
- Save current position and maximized state separately for search, compare and s
ynchronize dialogs
- Show special folder icons for system folders, e.g. the Recycle Bin
- Extended selection (Num+ and CTRL+F12) now supports almost all options as the
'search' function
- The / key on numeric keypad restores file selection as it was before the last
file operation
Packer:
- Multi-threading of zip function (pack in background) - 32 bit only
- Packer/unpacker plugins to add external archiver DLLs
- Copy files directly from ZIP to ZIP
New in Version 3.00 (15.12.1996):
- 32-bit version available
- Drag&Drop from and to explorer (32-bit version only)
- enhanced search function
- quick view panel (CTRL+Q)
- drive bar to select different drives
- button bar wraps around to 2 lines when larger than available width
- new multi-page configuration dialog
- Function to test selected archives for errors
- A header now allows to sort the files by name, extension, size, and date
- All parts of the user interface (except the file list) can be turned off in th
e configuration
- The file window separator can now be moved

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