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24.09.09 Release Total Commander 7.

50a Final
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
forever -> wait for a maximum time of 15 seconds (default), set via X64WaitTime=15
in wincmd.ini
22.09.09 Fixed: Windows 7 taskbar progress bar (green) remained at 100% after
unpacking 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
didn'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 archive
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 (Reason:
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
different code page when there is no .inc file
17.09.09 Added: When using XPMoveMethod=2 to set permissions, do not copy the
permissions 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
directories (not via inheritance) -> use XPMoveMethod=2 for new method
16.09.09 Fixed: Tip windows for history and hotlist couldn't show translated text
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
whether ESC key is stuck when starting copy operation
16.09.09 Fixed: Ctrl+R (reread) in c:\windows\sysnative\spool\Printers\ failed on
Windows 7 when starting program with full admin rights (because SetCurrentDirectory
fails with this dir)
16.09.09 Fixed: No refresh in panel under Ctrl+Q quick view panel when copying to
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-defined)
right margin
15.09.09 Fixed: Sort by extension: Ignore initial dot, e.g. a file named
".htaccess" has no extension
15.09.09 Fixed: "Copy NTFS permissions" had no effect when moving files within same
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 icons
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 text
upside down (problem with Uniscribe)
13.09.09 Fixed: Could no longer unpack zip files with the following
characteristics: ZIP20-encrypted, stored (no compression), CRC after file
13.09.09 Fixed: X64 submenu option "Configure" not working when menu opened while
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 Unicode
(e.g. Chinese on Japanese Windows)
09.09.09 Fixed: Reverted to TFixedLabel in nag screen due to Unicode display
problems
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 background
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
plugin function "ContentGetSupportedField"
08.09.09 Fixed: Use TPanel in nag screen also for button click descriptions to
avoid 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 because
of a recent fix
06.09.09 Fixed: UTF-8 to UTF-16 converter: Replace invalid UTF-8 sequences
resulting in a character in range 00..7F by underscore character '_', e.g. sequence
C0 8A instead of 0A (security fix)
06.09.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Do not allow to add files for
unpacking via "+" button
06.09.09 Fixed: Right clicking on file system plugins could be slow, because they
were interpreted as UNC paths first
06.09.09 Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost on other tab and user chooses to
reconnect, but reconnect fails, then switch to local directory
06.09.09 Fixed: Problems copying subdir from protected directories (requiring admin
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
point exception
06.09.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp on left side: Files which differ in size only
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
(normal 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
click context menu
01.09.09 Fixed: In dialogs, make the height of all control at least 16 pixels (and
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
characters, warn that name was cut
31.08.09 Fixed: Some FTP server types no longer working correctly after recent UTF-
8 fix
31.08.09 Fixed: Prevent floating point errors due to invalid file sizes in progress
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 same
name -> Access denied dialog was created by background thread instead of foreground
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 support
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 list
was returned
30.08.09 Fixed: Packer plugin auto-installer: Extension list was limited to 63
characters
30.08.09 Fixed: CAB unpacker: Couldn't handle CAB files containing multiple files
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 ESC,
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
ShellExecute if that happens
28.08.09 Fixed: Move directory containing hard links (reparse points) to
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 quick
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
detected 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 file
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 mouse
over up/down arrow panels, only during drag&drop
25.08.09 Fixed: Some message dialogs couldn't be shown after copying in the
foreground (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. Reason:
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 the
security attributes from the folder. Instead, set empty security attributes and
"inherit" flag
21.08.09 Fixed: Quick filter (Ctrl+S) couldn't be removed in virtual folders with
F2/Ctrl+R (reread source)
21.08.09 Fixed: Do not try to get per file icons for files desktop.ini and
target.lnk in directories which are part of a virtual folder (attribute set to read
only 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, because
it didn't work for one user
19.08.09 Fixed: Reduce flicker of right click cursor progress bar when moving mouse
19.08.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Cursor could lose its attached file icon when not moved
for a while over the target panel
19.08.09 Fixed: Watchdirs didn't correctly handle external quick filter dll
(tcmatch.dll)
18.08.09 Fixed: If IViewAdditionalTypes was longer than supported, the types could
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 an
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, but
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 longer
worked (it should work on removable disks only)
18.08.09 Fixed: Some dialog box controls were no longer translated: Tab in packed
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
window 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
available 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 path
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 "FTP
show hidden files" option, so files in subdirs starting with a dot couldn't be
deleted
16.08.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, load list of "only selected" from file: Last item
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 when
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):
Chinese text on Japanese Windows not shown correctly when using Windows Classic
theme
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 and
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... also
to tcuninst.exe to avoid Windows 7 questions
11.08.09 Added: Switched to HTML help by default, optimized help so it also works
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
button over scrollbar or up/down scroll buttons
09.08.09 Fixed: Custom columns change dialog: Do not switch to the edited view on
both sides, but on active side as in TC 7
09.08.09 Fixed: Some Unicode display problems: Chinese tooltips on Japanese
Windows, width of other language main menu bar items, alignment of Unicode text on
buttons
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
connection 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
Ctrl+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 icon
04.08.09 Fixed: F5 copy file in thumbnail view with many lines -> window was
scrolled 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 current
path field
04.08.09 Fixed: F5 copy: Increased number of characters in filter box from 255 to
1022 (limit problem was caused by Delphi StdCtrls library 255 char limit), fixed
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 using
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 until
the context menu was shown (due to SetTimer not handling 50ms intervals correctly)
03.08.09 Added: Auto-start internal sync tool with parameter SYNCOPEN =SettingsName
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
switches 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 were
OK
30.07.09 Fixed: Delphi bug in forms.pas: Do not call DestroyCursor for cursors
loaded 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 working
for [..]
30.07.09 Added: New internal command with parameters: OPENCUSTOMVIEW
custom_columns_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
current path to indicate that there are 2 possible context menus
29.07.09 Fixed: Show small progress bar in cursor not working with semi-transparent
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 "only
selected" could not be unselected
29.07.09 Fixed: Button bar, start menu: %Z didn't work as the very first parameter
29.07.09 Fixed: Lister, Unicode text view: Double click on last word in text (with
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
(access to no longer existing thread after calling ResumeThread with
FreeOnTerminate set)
28.07.09 Fixed: Unpack multiple selected zip files with Alt+F9 -> Tab key not
working to reach pause button
28.07.09 Added: Increased maximum number of custom column views from 29 to 99. Note
that only the first 29 can be set via cm_SrcCustomView* commands, the additional
are accessible via new command ranges 6530-, 7030- and 7530-
28.07.09 Added: Show small progress bar in cursor when right clicking to indicate
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
character 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 loaded
via folder button
26.07.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Adjust width of wildcard dropdown list to longest
wildcards (limited to window width)
26.07.09 Fixed: Backported thread-safe Delphi string handling from Delphi 7 to
Delphi 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 attributes
to archive+hidden+system when calling SetFileSecurity to copy security of target
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 only
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 following
parameters again as source/target
21.07.09 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameter %X: Interpret all following
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 selected
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 files
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 via
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 other,
not side by side as in TC 7
14.07.09 Fixed: Button bar, parameters %P%S, cursor on [..] with nothing selected
-> path was not surrounded by "" if it contained spaces
14.07.09 Fixed: Regular expressions: In Unicode (e.g. file names) \xnn will be
converted from current code page to Unicode, while \x{nnnn} will be Unicode
directly
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 detection
tool)
12.07.09 Fixed: When copying relatively small files in subdirs, clicking on
"Cancel" 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 combo
box from 259 to 1022
10.07.09 Fixed: Access violation when pressing Delete on minimized but focused
Total Commander
10.07.09 Fixed: Delete files on Vista to recycle bin no longer supported UAC
(delete 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
choose Lister plugin, e.g. /S=L:Piclview forces plugin iclview
08.07.09 Fixed: Removed error "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window." when
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 separator,
not to the left of it
08.07.09 Fixed: Installer: Language selection list now uses the correct code page
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_FocusButtonBar -> 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
next/previous separator, or to the end/beginning. Alt+Enter opens button change
dialog
07.07.09 Added: Thumbnails view: Support for Unicode text starting with byte order
marker FF FE
07.07.09 Fixed: Rename/Move function: Get file attributes from file listing because
GetFileAttributesW seems to report invalid data on some Samba drives
05.07.09 Fixed: New standard copy method (CopyFileEx): handle ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION
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 whether
there is a local name (FsPluginGetLocalName), and if not, download the file and
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 file
system plugins which use logging
03.07.09 Fixed: Lister plugins: Avoid infinite loops with callback
ListNotificationReceived, 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
system'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
header didn't contain the packed file size
30.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When comparing with option "Empty dirs", disable
the option "Right: Delete all empty directories" in the sync copy dialog because
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 file to
the upload (reason: entire path converted to lowercase!)
30.06.09 Fixed: Lister, Hex search with OEM(DOS) font: Convert to OEM charset
before 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 worked
when using external RAR unpacker (note that this function doesn't support Unicode)
30.06.09 Fixed: Load selection from file in branch view didn't work correctly with
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 to
create start menu and desktop links (for all users, current user, or custom user)
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 show
the stack trace
25.06.09 Fixed: External quick search with tcmatch.dll: Options from
MatchGetSetOptions were only applied to second call of MatchFileW
24.06.09 Fixed: Installer: When installing to c:\somedir, also TC copies started
from c:\somedir2 were closed
24.06.09 Fixed: Cursor on file in left panel, while right panel shows a CAB file
which does NOT contain that file, choose "Compare by content" -> entire CAB was
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 internal
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 menu"
for OPENBAR command
23.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with option "empty subdirs": Button "Synchronize"
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 the
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 away
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 of
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_SaveSelectionToFile
and cm_SaveDetailsToFile to create ANSI file lists on NT-based systems and Unicode
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 deleting
single files, replacing SHFileOperation
17.06.09 Added: New delete method for Windows Vista to delete to recycle bin using
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 be
unpacked this way. Now non-empty subdirs can be unpacked
16.06.09 Added: Set location and name of tcmatch.dll via wincmd.ini
[Configuration] tcmatch= (must contain full path+file name, supports env. vars)
16.06.09 Fixed: Quick search/filter dialog: Don't try to interpret Altgr+Letters
as letters only in Alt+Letters mode
16.06.09 Added: Quick search/filter dialog: Handle left/right arrow buttons
internally, 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
initial dir on NT-based systems
16.06.09 Fixed: Copying single file to multiple target dirs, or one or more files
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 created
them)
14.06.09 Fixed: Ctrl+V was no longer updating the file panels after the file was
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
still 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
directory longer than 1018 characters (the maximum supported)
14.06.09 Fixed: UpdateEnv=0 option wasn't correctly ported from TC 7, so the
option was ignored
12.06.09 Fixed: When using any translation, the dialogs to configure Lister
plugins and Content plugins showed "Installed File system plugins:" in the text
above 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 special
Romanian characters (may cause different master password than in Beta 4 or older!)
10.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Saving the option "Only selected (in main
window)" 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 is
in branch view (it doesn't work correctly then)
09.06.09 Fixed: Vista: Could not enter certain Romanian characters (to the right
of 'L' on Romanian keyboard). Reason: They only work with
PeekMessageW/DispatchMessageW!
09.06.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Better contrast of blue and green text when item
selected, especially on Vista (use the color with the highest contrast out of 3
possible colors)
09.06.09 Added: Synchronize dirs: Play user-defined sound for "copy complete" or
"delete complete" when sync copy/delete operation ends
08.06.09 Fixed: Try not to show "out of resources" error if totalcmd.exe
unreachable 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 like
".."
07.06.09 Fixed: Auto-complete in F5 copy confirmation dialog: Do not expand
environment 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 display
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 end
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]
MoveToDirWarn=0
05.06.09 Fixed: Access violation when renaming very long directory (>1000
characters long). Reason: UTF16->UTF8 conversion function didn't 0-terminate string
which 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 field
(cannot pack, extra field lost when adding files)
02.06.09 Fixed: No error shown when user tries to copy file with alternate streams
to dir with only these rights: create/write files, read, execute (Reason:
CopyFileEx returns false, but GetLastError returns 0)
02.06.09 Fixed: Tree view: Wrong sort order of accented characters when using
sorting 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 Unicode
and UTF-8 views (font substitution)
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister started via /S=L parameter: Groupboxes didn't have any
border
02.06.09 Fixed: Lister: Do not update codepage menu (custom encodings) while
codepage menu disabled (e.g. when using a plugin in full screen)
01.06.09 Fixed: Unload tcmatch.dll when auto-installing to TC directory, otherwise
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 rights
31.05.09 Fixed: Copy+Paste (Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V): Execute 'paste' in background thread
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 than
default (fixed width font)
31.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: incorrect handling of minimum size when
maximizing 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
violation in tree update thread
29.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with encrypted archives not working (wrong error
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 file
list
27.05.09 Fixed: Access violation in icon thread when closing TC with open separate
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
pointing 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 has
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
chose "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 the
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
border around drive
24.05.09 Fixed: File lists: Size of folders lost when switching away from TC and
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
target 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 line
(e.g. Ctrl+E)
22.05.09 Fixed: With TabHeaderThemed=0, the arrows and texts weren't shown at the
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 plugin
22.05.09 Fixed: Windows 9x/ME: Changed sort order "Alphabetical including accents"
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 the
title
22.05.09 Fixed: Main config dialog: No more need to close+re-open dialog when
switching between Unicode and ANSI language (except when switching back to English)
22.05.09 Fixed: Sometimes there was a crash in watchdir thread when program
terminated
20.05.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar, hold down right mouse button before
releasing the left -> breadcrumb context menu could be shown
20.05.09 Fixed: Compare dirs (Shift+F2): Listbox scrollbar sometimes shown at the
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]
CompareAlwaysSaveWithBom=1 forces compare tool to always add byte order marker when
saving Unicode 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
instead 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
context 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 an
archive with F6 (which isn't supported)
19.05.09 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Scrolling with mouse produced incorrect
background color when smooth scrolling was enabled
19.05.09 Fixed: Lister, different codepage, variable width view: Line breaks were
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 with
signed certificate (fix untested)
19.05.09 Added: F5 copy: When copying in the foreground and a target dir with same
name as the current file exists, show a checkbox to set the option CopyToDirWarn=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]
CopyToDirWarn=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 search
17.05.09 Fixed: Inplace rename: Scroll renamed item into view, e.g. in brief view
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 or
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-
rename tool)
14.05.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop with SingleClickStart=1: Cursor could jump to other file
when window is scrolled, so the wrong file would be dragged if nothing was selected
14.05.09 Fixed: Vista only: Drive dropdown comboboxes reverted to drive C: after
switching away from TC and back
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Highlighted item not shown initially (Vista only)
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
ellipsis "..." (NT-based Windows versions only)
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Width wasn't adjusted to uppercase drive letters
yet
13.05.09 Fixed: Drive combobox: Color border around drive on systems before Vista
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
buttons +, - 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 line
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
[Configuration] BreadCrumbMaxWidth=<number> sets max. width in pixels (minimum:
100)
12.05.09 Added: Internal associations: Allow to sort verbs via up/down scrollbar
buttons or Shift+cursor keys
12.05.09 Added: FTP connect dialog: Allow to rename/move folders via "Edit" button
12.05.09 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Still couldn't collapse certain Chinese
folders
12.05.09 Fixed: View files with cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly to avoid loading plugins,
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
interpreted like Ctrl+S, so language-specific letters couldn't be entered with
RightAlt+s
11.05.09 Fixed: Quick search (letters with search dialog) and quick filter:
Problems entering Polish characters with RightAlt+Letters, e.g. RightAlt+e
11.05.09 Fixed: FTP details dialog: When user tries to enter master password but
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
suffix .UnicodeControl any more
10.05.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with archive(s), show "unpacking" behind normal
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
(different subdirs), copy file which exists on both sides, overwrite -> access
violation if plugin doesn't support Unicode
10.05.09 Fixed: Secure ftp (ftps) connection, no wincmd.pem file -> lock icon
wasn'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
Network Neighborhood) - unfortunately the Windows error message cannot be
suppressed
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 last
access time changed when image extracted
08.05.09 Fixed: Background icon thread: Move SHGetFileInfo out of critical section
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
moved over the file list so an icon has to be re-drawn
08.05.09 Fixed: Aborting from reading a hanging network connection could sometimes
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 UserChoice
registry key pointing to nowhere
06.05.09 Fixed: Increased width of speed limit field in background transfer
manager by 1 digit
06.05.09 Fixed: More places with uppercase drive letter support: Calculate
occupied space, most file operation dialogs like F5 copy, system info, set volume
label
06.05.09 Fixed: Lister: Selection incorrect when scrolling horizontally while
selecting 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 Desktop
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
immediately re-open it) in button bar, bar change dialogs, change attributes,
custom columns 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
opening the file (via FindFirst)
05.05.09 Fixed: (forgotten from TC 7.0) Drive panel: When a drive was chosen which
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 keyboard
with Russian locale settings) in command line
05.05.09 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog didn't accept multiple double byte
characters on Chinese Windows (reason: EM_GETSEL must be called via SendMessageW)
03.05.09 Added: Vista 64bit: Show pseudo-subdirectory "sysnative" in Windows
folder to allow to reach 64-bit system32 directory
03.05.09 Fixed: Edit comment (Ctrl+Z): Changed length warn limit from 512 to 511
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 letter
to lower-/uppercase
03.05.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: UTF-8 check was only made with first
server 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 not
try to access a remote server with that name
03.05.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, save settings: Leading and trailing spaces in
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
separator 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
edited the path on the wrong side
29.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Could not remove directories which had the read
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
letter 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 were
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 (pre)


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
characters at once via IME
28.04.09 Fixed: Button bar, open dropdown menu with Enter, close with ESC -> focus
was set on file list, not returned to bar
28.04.09 Fixed: Use GlobalMemoryStatusEx (if available) to get total and free
memory (RAM), to support memory sizes>2GB
28.04.09 Fixed: Speedup saving settings of plugin dialogs for Lister, file system,
and content plugins
28.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, save options button: Replace reserved character
'=' 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 flicker
when changing directories (background isn't erased first) - disabled by default
27.04.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: '&' character was shown as underline
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 (without
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 listboxes
(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
confirmation 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 with
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 and to
the left of the command line
26.04.09 Fixed: TC was losing focus after file operations when "filebox extender"
was installed
26.04.09 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with ftp: Abort comparison via Cancel button
didn'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 ->
started in wrong subdir
24.04.09 Fixed: Button spacing and tab order in installer (language selection
page)
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 maximum
supported by some other comment tools
24.04.09 Fixed: Right click on very high tooltip (e.g. when using a very long
comment) 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
headers)
22.04.09 Fixed: Tabstop headers (Name/Ext/Size...) not shown correctly when
choosing 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 below,
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 background,
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. *.* |
somedir\) 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
into 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 comma
followed by a number, and the first icon was chosen
21.04.09 Added: Lister: Remember last user-configured encoding, stored in
wincmd.ini [Lister] Codepage= field
21.04.09 Fixed: Lister: Disable "Encoding" menu when font set to ASCII/OEM,
because 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..." -> Search
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 showed
wrong text
20.04.09 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Search function could not restore plugin search
parameters
19.04.09 Fixed: Remote ftp list not refreshed when uploading a file to that server
via background transfer manager
19.04.09 Fixed: Command choose dialog: Cursor not placed on first match when
dialog was invoked via "Define hotkeys" (because of "Default" line)
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar starts misbehaving when adding first tab/removing
last while cursor over breadcrumb (reason: timer lost due to window handle change)
19.04.09 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: When a multi-byte codepage was set (e.g.
Chinese), clicking on one of the placeholder buttons could insert unwanted extra
characters
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 support
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
fonts (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 properly
(but it worked for special desktop triangle)
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Avoid that main TC window loses focus when opening
the breadcrumb dropdown list (intercept WM_NCACTIVATE)
19.04.09 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Ignore list: No default ignore list file
name suggested when adding selected files to list via one of the "Add selected"
buttons
19.04.09 Fixed: Find files dialog, text search: UTF-8 and RegEx could both be
checked, although the combination didn't work
19.04.09 Fixed: Don't pass Unicode file names to 32-bit rar.exe when packing, it
doesn't work
19.04.09 Fixed: Reduce flickering in file lists, button bar, and some static
controls 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 title
bar of the user name or password dialog
19.04.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Access violation when clicking on parent item
breadcrumb 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/editing 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
triangles 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 limit
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
object
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
commands (em_xyz) from 8k to 32k
12.04.09 Fixed: Files - Associate with, define a verb a second time -> last verb
was removed from list by mistake
12.04.09 Added: wincmd.ini [Layout] TabHeaderBoldArrow=0 turns off bold arrow in
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 and
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
directories in their logical order (lowest level on the left) - but not when
breadcrumb 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, but
one file couldn't be deleted -> the file on the other side wasn't removed from 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 ftp
connections and file system plugins
07.04.09 Fixed: Search function, RegEx search in content plugin field "full text"
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 the
"!" on the French keyboard). It doesn't exist on German or U.S. keyboards at all
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 letter
OK, but dropdown button wasn't displayed
06.04.09 Fixed: FTP download in foreground: Preserve file dates no longer worked
05.04.09 Added: FTP connection dialog: "duplicate entry" now suggests a new
session 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 hook
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
TreeLineColor=-2
03.04.09 Fixed: NTFS file system: Do not follow symlinks which point to themselves
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 connection
failed
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Skip to next file if no connection after
the user-defined number of retries
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Ask user for password when multiple
servers are in the list (without stored password)
03.04.09 Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't try to re-use the same password for
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 target
-> question about existing dir was shown
31.03.09 Added: New icons for Ctrl+S quick search filter, sync dialog title, ftp
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=text
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 checking
the encrypted or packed flag
29.03.09 Fixed: Content plugins, packer plugins, lister plugins: Do not pass any
Ansi names longer than MAX_PATH-1 characters to plugins even if the plugin supports
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 to
list when using a connection where the password is protected with a master password
27.03.09 Added: FTP download from list now supports passwords encrypted with the
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 window
trees
27.03.09 Added: Lister: View individual files with no read rights (read via
tcmadmin) - text only
27.03.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar, BreadcrumbDelayButton<0: Drag&Drop and auto-
opening 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 files
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_NOTIFY
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 parts
while subdir dropdown list is open
25.03.09 Fixed: Show error when importing custom server types fails (ftp details
dialog, host define dialog)
25.03.09 Fixed: Button bar right click menu: Environment variables lost when using
"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
defining %1 as icon (which means that TC should use system icon)
25.03.09 Added: Exception stack trace code added, inspired by uLkStackTrace.
Modified 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 deleted
-> drive not found error
24.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, edit action, press TAB -> hidden DDE fields
were accessible
22.03.09 Fixed: Case-insensitive search in content plugins: Search string had to
be entered in lowercase letters, otherwise nothing was found
22.03.09 Fixed: Search function: Couldn't find regular expressions on lines with 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 TEMP
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 unpacking
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 (read
via tcmadmin) - no single locked files supported
20.03.09 Added: Lister: View files internally in directories with no read rights
(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 mode)
18.03.09 Fixed: Drive panel not updated when changing from a directory to a drive
created with SUBST pointing to that directory
18.03.09 Fixed: ZIP packer: Detect duplicate file names when packing, and
characters are lost in the conversion from ANSI to OEM (e.g. '�' -> '>' in Russian
locale)
18.03.09 Fixed: Compare by content, 2 panels above each other: The line count
wasn't corrected when using "swap panels", only after resizing or moving the split
bar
17.03.09 Fixed: Button bar: Button to other .bar file not recognized if path was
put in double quotes ""
15.03.09 Fixed: Vista. command line: cd d: didn't work if user didn't have
sufficient rights to access drive d:
15.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Wrong icon shown for empty files with
internal 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 "Open
(internal)" menu item if it points to command ** (default system verb)
15.03.09 Fixed: Internal associations, context menu in archive: Do not show both
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 lines
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 tree
for drive under cursor
13.03.09 Added: Windows 2000 and newer: Use OLE2 method to set drive label
(supports UAC on Vista, notification on Windows 2000)
13.03.09 Fixed: tree: Could no longer expand Desktop when entire tree was
collapsed
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 file
11.03.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Context menu not working with exchanged
left+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 when
selected
10.03.09 Fixed: Vista: The default internal association wasn't added to the
Windows 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
drive, 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
using menu fade in effects
08.03.09 Fixed: Also change font in registration dialog to user-defined font, but
keep oversize fonts
08.03.09 Added: Support default external association also in packer context menu
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 all
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 icon
from "open" command, and if open doesn't point to a program, use icon from system
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" under
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 the 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 menu)
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
server
03.03.09 Fixed: Change button bar dialog: Made icon list a bit higher for higher
XP/Vista scrollbars
03.03.09 Added: Internal associations: Parameter %2 instead of %1 passes all
selected 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 click
context menu -> click on first menu item
02.03.09 Fixed: cd 'directory' in context menu for popup bar not working when it
started with a double quote
02.03.09 Fixed: .ico files containing png images not shown in change icon
subdialog 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 -
Change master password
01.03.09 Fixed: Multi-line backwards search for aa\n didn't find consecutive lines
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 names
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
files 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 menu
27.02.09 Added: cm_ContextMenuInternal now supports archives and file system
plugins, but only for the file under the cursor
27.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations in archive: Enter opens context menu, then
user chooses command redirecting to system association -> app handle not returned
(TC shows program close dialog)
27.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: Don't show text "(internal)" behind
commands 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 string
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 button
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+Click or Insert key, Shift+Cursor up/down, Shift+Home/End, Ctrl+A
25.02.09 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Focus rectangle not drawn correctly
25.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: compensate for line count difference when the
two panels are above each other with the divider not at 50% (will need intensive
testing)
24.02.09 Fixed: Change internal associations: In case of multiple identical lines
in ini (e.g. for the icon), read only first one
24.02.09 Fixed: Change association, change icon, click OK -> icon index was
reverted 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 ENTER
-> icon index was not reset to zero
24.02.09 Fixed: Compare by contents: Copy -> and Copy <- buttons not working
properly 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 icon
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 the
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 =use
system verb "open" for this file, ** =use default system verb for this association
22.02.09 Added: Internal associations: When editing an existing association, jump
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 text
not working
20.02.09 Fixed: Lister: Only write to ini file when closing when the user has
changed 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
error) 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
encryption 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 CTR
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
configuration 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 content
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 spaces
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 because
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 it
belongs (both in search dialog and change attributes dialog)
17.02.09 Fixed: Date/time picker in search dialog had no dialog title with
internal 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
doubled \\ 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 icon
for an internal association
15.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations didn't work in archives if there was a
system 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_ContextMenuInternal and cm_ContextMenuInternalCursor to show internal context
menu for all selected/ 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
defined -> 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 Unicode
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 different
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
spaces or a dot
13.02.09 Fixed: Internal associations: User could define 'open' as a custom verb
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 from
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 tool
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 file
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
comparison done
10.02.09 Fixed: Compare standalone (parameter /S=C): Do not show any compare form
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 inside
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 (when
showing hidden password)
09.02.09 Fixed: Couldn't repeat search in "compare by content" if the search
string 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
characters 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 double
quotes when the name contained spaces
08.02.09 Fixed: Context menu in archives: Do not select [..] item when cursor was
on it
08.02.09 Added: FTP connect dialog: Spacebar expands closed folder, and collapses
open folder
08.02.09 Fixed: RAR archives: Very long Unicode names not read correctly because
not enough data read into buffer for file header
08.02.09 Fixed: Completely changed handling of byte order marker (BOM) in Lister
06.02.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Do not show buttons for archives or folders within
archives
06.02.09 Added: + and - shortcuts to FTP connect dialog, changed function of left
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
triangle will open context menu now
06.02.09 Added: Vista, list header: Draw highlighted sorted column with separate
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 are
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
Neighborhood" 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, resample
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, make
sure that the last part is shown
04.02.09 Added: Breadcrumb bar: When increasing the width of the main window, try
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 archive
(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).
Currently only Winzip 12 can unpack it. Stored in wincmd.ini [Packer]
InternalZipRate=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 when
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 and
drive dropdown list
03.02.09 Added: Support WinZIP 12 LZMA decompression (ZIP type 14) also in multi-
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 when
right clicking on a file (left mouse button selection mode)
01.02.09 Added: Support WinZIP 12 LZMA decompression (ZIP type 14), uses LZMA SDK
written by Igor Pavlov (public domain)
01.02.09 Fixed: Move directory with some big files to protected target directory
(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 subbar".
However, when the user edits the main bar this way, it's not updated automatically
01.02.09 Fixed: By mistake, the icon for UUE- or MIME-encoded files was used also
for SHA checksums
01.02.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Copy text from UTF-8 file to clipboard would
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 panel
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 window
30.01.09 Added: FTP: Also show user name of connection in the info line near the
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 content
via command line parameter /S=L or /S=C
30.01.09 Added: Search files dialog: Support search for \n and \t also in Unicode
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 same
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 because
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 pressed
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 pressed
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 update
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, pack
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 any
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 selection
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
right, 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 ->
increased 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\wincmd.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
search for whole words didn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Case-insensitive Unicode MacOS forwards search
didn't work
23.01.09 Fixed: Compare by content: Case-insensitive Unicode backwards search
didn'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 signal
sub-menus) is now determined by the font size
23.01.09 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar dropdown: Icons were not centered vertically when
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 violation
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 list
is activated. May fix selection problems on some systems (not reproducible here)
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
endlessly 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_RSHIFT
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 unchecks
HTML view or RTF view
20.01.09 Added: Lister configuration dialog: When the plugins button isn't
pressed, immediately apply only the following changes: font, line width. A full
reload 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 location
is set in registry, set it to %APPDATA%\GHISLER\wincmd.ini and store in registry
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
wincmd.ini in Windows dir, use %APPDATA%\GHISLER\wincmd.ini
18.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection details: Do not allow to create or rename a
connection 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 not
supported: Top, Bottom, Left Edge and Right Edge
18.01.09: Fixed: FTP Connect dialog: It was still possible to create folder names
consisting of just spaces, by entering a name like | |
18.01.09: Added: Re-use MinLineHeight option from main file list also for
breadcrumb 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
alignment
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 button
and back
18.01.09: Fixed: Button bar: button state not always shown correctly for multi-line
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 and
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
target 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 click
position
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Do not show duplicate separators or
separators at the start or before a column break
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Do not show buttons which point to the
current main button bar
16.01.09: Fixed: Button bar: Arrow overlay for dropdown menus was shown only after
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
(caused 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 longer
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
subdir, show abort button instead (icon to be determined)
14.01.09: Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BreadcrumbDelayVirtual=500
BreadcrumbDelayFtp=500 BreadcrumbdelayPlugin=500 BreadcrumbDelayDir=250 allow to
set the delay in milliseconds when hovering over the breadcrumb until a subfolder
is opened - 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
hovering 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 constructs
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 plain
English files between text and UTF-8 mode
13.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection dialog: When trying to protect selected connections
with password, warn the user when some connections had no password stored
13.01.09: Fixed: FTP connection dialog: When trying to protect selected connections
with password, uncheck all folders (also empty) and show error if no connection
selected
13.01.09: Fixed: Compare by contents: First character couldn't be found sometimes
when searching backwards (binary: first two characters)
13.01.09: Fixed: Compare by contents, search backwards: If search string was found
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-
aligning 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 list
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
visible)
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
duplicate 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
timestamp
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 method"
didn't enable Apply button
12.01.09: Fixed: Wine only: When setting ini location to program dir, the ftp ini
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 master
password but fails to enter correct master password -> password not saved.
Solution: Keep dialog open
12.01.09: Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Changed tab order, so the Load/Save button comes
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 was
suggested
12.01.09: Fixed: Change volume name of drive in (separate or file panel) tree:
Handle 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
fields, using a quick filter stopped the loading of delayed fields, but didn't
restart 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 when
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), rename
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 panel
when user pressed Escape, not when he clicked somewhere (caused problems with
Drag&Drop)
11.01.09: Fixed: Could not Drag&Drop files to virtual folders in the right
breadcrumb 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 small
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 small
icon size set via PopupIconSize, and the frame around "checked" items was too large
09.01.09 Fixed: Access violation with active quick filter in thumbnails view when
switching to different tab
09.01.09 Fixed: Another access violation after deleting a file in search results
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
subpath
09.01.09 Added: Installer: Only close running Total Commander if in same dir where
the installation goes to (only works on NT-based systems)
09.01.09 Fixed: Installer: On update page, click "Install normally", choose other
language, click "Back" -> language not changed
09.01.09 Fixed: Installer: On update page, click "Install normally", choose other
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
jumping of the mouse cursor when expanding a long subdir in the tree with the mouse
07.01.09 Added: Handle Escape key in Autocomplete similar to Enter key: First
press closes just auto-complete, second closes the dialog (handled via AppMessage)
07.01.09 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: Failed to create subdirectory in a directory
with restricted rights (e.g. "program files" dir)
07.01.09 Fixed: Couldn't open multi-rename tool on system with a different
codepage than the language (e.g. Czech on English system) for the first time (when
the 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+ could
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
become enabled by mistake
06.01.09 Fixed: Submenu not shown in breadcrumb when moving mouse cursor away from
line with submenu and quickly back
06.01.09 Added: Allow to inplace-rename files ending with a space to a name
without 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
"MasterProtectionKey_do_not_delete!" key was deleted
06.01.09 Fixed: FTP: infinite dialog loop in details dialog when
"MasterProtectionKey_do_not_delete!" key was deleted
06.01.09 Fixed: Lister, "Save file" dialog: "File types" selection box could
contain 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 view
06.01.09 Added: Installer: Auto-detect previous installation and allow to auto-
update without questions asked. No icons will be created.
06.01.09 Added: Write the following additional uninstall information to the
registry during install: DisplayVersion, VersionMajor, VersionMinor, Version
06.01.09 Added: When using %APPDATA%\GHISLER and FTP ini isn't explicitly set
either, use same directory for wcx_ftp.ini too
06.01.09 Added: When no wincmd.ini location is set in registry, via command line
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 same
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
program 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 wide
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
languages
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) because
it seems to function incorrectly on some systems: wincmd.ini [Lister] Uniscribe=0
04.01.09 Added: Lister: Use digit substitution on Arabic systems according to
control 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
mirrored correctly (the plugin rules will not be mirrored because most plugins are
in English)
02.01.09 Fixed: Button bar: Couldn't choose buttons by keyboard if mouse was over
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
click 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 panels)
02.01.09 Fixed: Drag&Drop to breadcrumb bar: Show dropdown list below breadcrumb
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 " -> convert
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
files
29.12.08 Fixed: Compare by contents, binary mode: Couldn't find the first two
characters
29.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Time stamp may be wrong after packing when file
was edited in "compare by content" or lister plugin (-> re-load timestamp before
synchronizing)
29.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Show smaller icon overlay for dropdown menus when
using small buttons
29.12.08 Added: Main configuration dialog: Show page selection list right aligned
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, Plugin
configuration
29.12.08 Added: Alt+F11/F12 temporarily shows the path panel when it is off (but
breadcrumbs are enabled)
29.12.08 Added: New internal command cm_VisBreadCrumbs to turn breadcrumb bar on
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 panel
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
presses ESC in breadcrumb bar or button bar
28.12.08 Fixed: Warning "Cannot copy file to itself" not shown when using
compatibility 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 protected
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
conversion 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
contained spaces
28.12.08 Fixed: FTP host define dialog (Alt+Shift+Enter): Warn user if connection
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 creating
new folder
28.12.08 Fixed: Lister, find next: When cursor disabled and nothing is found, set
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
selection, 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 selection
start+1
28.12.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view of directory -> search result on first line
displaced 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 ->
Breadcrumb 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
thumbnail 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
removed (flat buttons)
24.12.08 Fixed: Don't load menu bar icons when using dropdown menu with
PopupIconSize=0 -> Faster
24.12.08 Fixed: Wrong item in ftp connect and CRC check dialog selected when using
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 id3.uwdx
23.12.08: Fixed: Do not show directory context menu when right clicking on header
of quick view panel
23.12.08: Fixed: Only when using double byte locale (e.g. Chinese): Unpacking from
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
language and opening the main menu for the first time (caused by
GetPrivateProfileSection)
23.12.08: Fixed: Linux with Wine: Could not delete 2 folders with same name, just
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-based
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 fast
scrolling (changed to 2 different speeds)
23.12.08: Fixed: Make quick filter compatible with these functions: delete in 'feed
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 releasing
left -> right click menu was shown when releasing right button
22.12.08: Fixed: Change start menu dialog: Cursor not set in "Command" field when
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 fails
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 the
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
loaded 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.comment] can now be up to 2kBytes long
19.12.08: Added: Button bar: Show small overlay when a button opens a menu bar
dropdown menu
19.12.08: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: moved option PopupIconSize from bar to
wincmd.ini section [ButtonBar]
19.12.08: Fixed: Button bar dropdown menu: Icons slightly distorted when popup icon
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 root
could still show "encrypted" icon by mistake if the connection appeared at the end
of the list
17.12.08: Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Show warning when the user has selected only
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 text
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 the
corresponding functions don't exist anyway
17.12.08: Fixed: Win9x/ME: Font in custom message dialog (e.g. to confirm deleting
of read-only files) was bold by mistake
17.12.08: Fixed: Couldn't load a lot of settings on Windows 9x/ME. Reason:
GetPrivateProfileSection 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
switching through multiple right-aligned files with n/p
16.12.08: Added: Code to detect OEM Russian file names in zip files marked as
created by Windows
16.12.08: Fixed: Win32-style tooltips for files: Curr. names not shown when using
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 language
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
implement it yet
15.12.08: Fixed: Linux with Wine: Synchronize dirs didn't erase the list background
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. .avi)
and folder extensions. A mix of extensions (e.g. avi and mpg) isn't supported
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 longer
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: Now
in wincmd.ini) Example: wincmd.ini [Buttonbar] PopupIconSize=24
14.12.08: Fixed: Button bar: Cache not working properly since the addition of menu-
style subbars
14.12.08: Added: Increased maximum content plugin value size which can be set via
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 loading
the thumbnails
14.12.08: Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Dropdown of Network Neighborhood had no file
system plugin icons
14.12.08: Fixed: Close Quick View panel when user chooses a directory from
directory 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
caching turned off
14.12.08: Fixed: Dual monitors: Breadcrumb bar: Make sure that ftp directory
progress dialog is always on the same screen as the current breadcrumb panel
14.12.08: Fixed: Dual monitors: Files - Change attributes - tc-Comments >> -> Edit
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 both
-> selection lost
12.12.08: Fixed: Vista: Show split arrow/wait cursor while waiting for Network
Neighborhood instead of full wait cursor
12.12.08: Added: Re-use thread when using ThreadFindFirst option and thread doesn't
hang
12.12.08: Fixed: Synchronize dirs, right click, copy file attributes: Buttons and
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
numeric values
12.12.08: Fixed: Lister: switch from text mode to multimedia and back -> selection
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 (system
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 operation
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
archives
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 showed
virtual folder like the Network Neighborhood
11.12.08 Added: Speedup of loading Folder tabs, histories etc. at startup and
Ctrl+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
connection
10.12.08 Added: FTP, no firewall, passive mode: When server reports a local
address 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 folder.
Also fixes problem with multiple selected items
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Inform the user why a directory containing
files/subdirs will not be deleted if the files/dirs aren't selected too
10.12.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Changing selection with Shift+Spacebar (default
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 dragging
connections to other folder
10.12.08 Fixed: Ugly folder icons in FTP connect when using 32x32 icons.
Connection icons will be changed later
10.12.08 Fixed: Copy/Move: Shift+F5/Shift+F6 not supporting local copying/moving
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 Windows
default icons
09.12.08 Fixed: Search function: Saving of multiple choice options (e.g. TC - file
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:
Needs message loop!
09.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: Vista: true color icons with alpha channel had black
background
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 huge
delays of the function
07.12.08 Fixed: Lister: Selection and search results sometimes wrong in first line
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 while
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 password
creation process was aborted
07.12.08 Fixed: History: Could not open ftp session in new tab if the session has
been closed
07.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Convert separator via right click menu to line break
(-2) -> icons were displaced
07.12.08 Fixed: Folder tabs: Switch from other tab to ftp tab didn't restore tab
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 changed
during download!
07.12.08 Added: Button bar change dialog, new submenu instead of "Insert bar"
button
07.12.08 Added: Lister: <- and -> buttons in menu bar when there are multiple
files loaded
07.12.08 Added: Quick filter: Do not remove after file operations, only when
changing 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 file
system plugins
07.12.08 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, string 6605 (translations only): Remove
underline from second counter [C] button to avoid duplicate hotkey
07.12.08 Fixed: Separate tree: Close inplace edit when panel is scrolled
vertically
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 wrong
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, just 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 whether
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 not
set (letters are shown in uppercase then)
05.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Click on virtual folder for which there was
already 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
incorrectly. Need to set option fLegacyBidiClass to treat + and - as neutral
characters
05.12.08 Fixed: Problems with font smoothing in breadcrumb bar
05.12.08 Fixed: Tcmdx64: No submenu shown for WinRAR. Reason: This extension
doesn'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
wincmd.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
Unicode support)
04.12.08 Added: Multi-rename tool: When opened via a button MULTIRENAME
<savedsettings>, 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 characters
in "no write" directories
04.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Couldn't change ftp directories if the file panel
didn't already show the content of that server
04.12.08 Added: Breadcrumb bar: Open FTP connection dialog when user chooses \ftp
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 parts
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 screen,
even when file exists again later -> show as text
03.12.08 Fixed: Left Drag&Drop file on status bar with right mouse button pressed
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
connections 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
connections
03.12.08 Fixed: F5 in separate tree copied without confirmation if the option
Misc-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 used)
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive bar: Two hints were shown on top of each other, Delphi hints
(Ansi) and TC hints (Unicode)
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive dropdown list: Incorrect width when a user hint for the
network neighborhood (\) was defined
03.12.08 Fixed: Drive dropdown list (Alt+F1/Alt+F2): Harddisk icon was shown for
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 quick
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 the
middle of the path name
03.12.08 Fixed: Breadcrumb bar: Right click on darker part acted like a left click
02.12.08 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: List index out of bounds error when clicking
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 to 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
(especially 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 longer
than 259 characters
02.12.08 Fixed: Name part selection with F5 in F5-copy dialog didn't work
correctly 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 size
changed during search
02.12.08 Fixed: Slow double click on [..] in file list would open it for renaming
by mistake
02.12.08 Fixed: Failed to create directory if the path length was between 248 and
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 from
main window now even when using a different quick search method without search
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 context
menu with ESC
02.12.08 Fixed: Button bar: Place button submenu on button also when invoked via
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 passwords
with master password
02.12.08 Added: Show encoding icon for *.sha files if they aren't associated with
any other program
02.12.08 Fixed: Store user associations in section [Associations] instead of
section [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
stored with backslashes instead of forward slashes
01.12.08 Fixed: Could not rename files in ZIP where the subdirs were stored with
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 backup
and keep old
28.11.08 Fixed: ZIP packer no longer worked on Windows 95 original because
wcmzip32.dll depended on non-existing msvcrt.dll
28.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support also on Windows 9x/ME if Internet
Explorer 5 or newer is installed
26.11.08 Added: Lister: Uniscribe support also for Text, Hex and Binary mode when
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 Arabic
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 plugin
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 and
synchronize dirs
21.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Copy timestamp of newly created directories when
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, and
didn't show error if renaming failed
18.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show selected dirs in a slightly different color
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
deleting -> 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 Unicode
names)
16.11.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: When using "Copy file properties" and the
resulting 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
visual area when active panel height reduced, and then using Search - Feed to
listbox
16.11.08 Fixed: Unregistered version: Start TC, switch to other program while nag
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
Alt+Enter -> Access violation
14.11.08 Added: Configuration - Options - Misc: Press hotkey on key dropdown list
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) allows
to swap the two panels even while editing
14.11.08 Fixed: Compare by contents: Do not allow to change encoding when in edit
mode and text has been changed
14.11.08 Fixed: Re-pack file to archive after editing: Do not convert archive name
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"
registry entry, and path from "command" entry contained spaces, but wasn't
surrounded 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/entry0686.htm
12.11.08 Added: Pressing ESC while quick search filter is active removes the
filter
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 Configuration-
Options-Copy/Delete
12.11.08 Added: Offer "Append" option also when using compatibility mode, by using
internal copy method when "Append" is chosen
12.11.08 Fixed: Search dialog shown incorrectly with right to left languages when
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
removes line breaks or clears the comment field
09.11.08 Added: Pause/Start button also in foreground transfers. Clicking on
"Background" 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 the
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
language version on German Windows
31.10.08 Added: Lister: "Find next" will now always start at the caret (text
cursor) 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
place the cursor on the link target in the other panel
26.10.08 Added: x64 submenu in context menu: Allow to configure which shell
extensions 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 the
dialog
26.10.08 Added: A plugin can now retrieve stored passwords only from its own
section. 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 progress
bar
22.10.08 Added: Support for HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding. May only be necessary when
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
directories
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported by
the target when copying on Windows NT based systems to a network share of a
Win9x/ME system
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported by
the target when unpacking file with unicode characters from an archive
19.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name contains characters not supported by
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
characters
17.10.08 Added: Show warning if target name longer than 1022 characters (the
maximum 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 plugins
not supporting Unicode, convert the Unicode characters to underscores "_"
10.10.08 Added: FTP port mode: Let the user specify the external IP address when
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 forgets
the master password
07.10.08 Added: Sync tool, copy properties: Also copy the time stamp of selected
directories if the option to copy dir timestamps is enabled
07.10.08 Added: FTP connect dialog: Show different icons for the following
connections: 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 shell
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
active. 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 dynamically
only the filtered files
30.09.08 Added: Search function: Search for test text.txt (without double
quotes) 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
creation, 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
program 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 from
USB stick. Example: wincmd.ini [Extensions] txt=""%commander_path%\notepad.exe"
"%1""
26.09.08 Added: Drag&Drop: Auto-expand directory under cursor after 1 second when
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
mouse button, or from outside of TC
26.09.08 Added: Improve auto-scrolling of listboxes during Drag&Drop when the
cursor is near the border: Support two different scrolling speeds depending on the
cursor location
24.09.08 Fixed: Unicode support in parallel port connection not working properly
in all functions
23.09.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow user to copy just the time stamp,
attributes, and NTFS permissions of files
21.09.08 Added: Support for UTF-16 Unicode ini files when reading/writing Unicode
names. TC re-checks whether an ini file is Unicode when copying files, when
switching to TC from another program, and when closing down
19.09.08 Fixed: dead keys like � did not work with quick search (letters with
search dialog), e.g. �a -> �
19.09.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop within separate tree: Do not allow to collapse directory
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
allows to collapse an directory branch
16.09.08 Added: FTP details dialog: show a button "Change password..." if the
master password hasn't been entered yet
07.09.08 Added: F5 copy: Allow to copy all files/dirs in the source panel to all
selected subdirs and shortcuts (*.lnk) in the target panel
07.09.08 Added: F5 copy: "Options" button now enlarges dialog instead of showing
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 redirection
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 part
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 when
deleting directories
24.08.08 Added: F5 Copy, Options button: User can choose to skip files which
cannot be opened automatically
24.08.08 Fixed: Problems with names longer than 259 characters in file system
plugins (the plugin must support them too)
24.08.08 Added: Warn also when renaming, downloading (ftp, http, file system
plugins)
22.08.08 Added: Warn user if target name is longer than 259 characters in F5 copy,
Shift+F4 new file, internal unpacking
22.08.08 Added: Allow to create and delete directories with names longer than 259
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 using
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 of
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 once
the first was removed from the list (owner-draw problem)
14.05.08 Added: "Encrypt" button in FTP connect dialog which allows to change the
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
remove 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
connection
09.04.08 Fixed: Relative paths in ftp remote dir no longer worked when going via 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 (not
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 Shift,
Ctrl and Alt. Note that some keys like Win+E are system-wide hotkeys and cannot 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): cursor
keys, page up/down, home, end, delete, backspace, all keys and key combinations
producing a visible character
16.03.08 Added: When showing *.bar files as dropdown menus, show separate context
menu when right clicking on menu item
14.03.08 Added: Show button bar files (*.bar) as dropdown menus when the user
holds 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. add
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
password (also with master password) when restoring that connection
09.03.08 Added: Speed up loading of Alt+F10 tree by using a virtual listbox
(LBS_NODATA) except when an accessibility software is used - LB_GETTEXT doesn't
work 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 search
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 represented
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 contain
files which aren't deleted, either because the user didn't select them, or because
they are currently hidden
29.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs with empty subdirs: After changing copy direction
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 WM_GETTEXT (for visually
impaired), continued work on sync of empty dirs
24.02.08 Fixed: Alt+F1 select drive: Short delay when network drive returned
ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED -> do not try to get volume label
24.02.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also synchronize empty subdirectories (for now,
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 password
is allowed. Delete AESVerify to start with a new master password. NEVER delete
AESProtectionKey!
22.02.08 Added: FTP master password: forget master password when the user
minimizes TC, or when a screen saver starts
08.02.08 Added: Work in progress: Protection of FTP passwords with a master
password
06.02.08 Added: Two new internal commands cm_LoadAllOnDemandFields and
cm_LoadSelOnDemandFields: Load on demand fields for all/just the selected files
06.02.08 Fixed: Better detection of self-extracting archives (Ctrl+PageDown): RAR
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 fields
which were already pre-loaded for sorting (when using the "random" plugin, this
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
breadcrumb bar in tree view
03.02.08 Added: Rename in place (Shift+F6) in separate tree. With the mouse, the
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 parameters.
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 shown for
downloads from ftp, and from file system plugins
30.01.08 Added: Press Shift+F4 (edit specific file) repeatedly to select only the
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 going
with the cursor beyond the end of the line
27.01.08 Fixed: ZIP packer, overwrite dialog auto-rename copied chosen -> two or
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.
Password:) in the title in addition to the session name
23.01.08 Added: Disable Delphi floating point exceptions when calling OLE
functions 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 DLLs
(Visual C++ DLLs may cause floating point exceptions because exception handling 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
keyboard
18.01.08 Added: Alt+F11/Alt+F12: Put focus on left/right breadcrumb bar to choose
path with keyboard: Uses the keys left/right/down/home/end/enter/escape to navigate
18.01.08 Fixed: Files in archive subdirs starting with a dot (like .htaccess) were
shown incorrectly
16.01.08 Added: Store line breaks in descript.ion files in the form \n (\ is
stored as \\), mark such comments with custom ID 0xC2 received from inventors of
descript.ion
16.01.08 Added: increased max. comment length in descript.ion to 4096 characters
(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 from
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, and
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 and
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,
accepts 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"
without 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
files to subdir
02.01.08 Added: Subdir navigation by clicking on parts of path (similar to
breadcrumb 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). Convert
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 changed
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 the
functions SHGetFileInfoW, Shell_NotifyIconW, SHFileOperationW,
SHGetPathFromIDListW
24.12.07 Added: Unicode in sfxhead.sfx. On Win9x/ME, the Unicode characters will
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 buttons
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 ANSI)
-> /O switch now supports Unicode too
09.12.07 Added: Unicode support in directory parameters passed to TC on the
command line
09.12.07 Fixed: Corrected some compatibility problems of the new Unicode/Ansi
controls 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 listing
will be shown as sent by the server, but the file name will be shown with the
selected encoding
07.12.07 Added: FTP custom type: New template option X or X=letter verifies that
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 to
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 ZIP
files.
28.11.07 Added: Unicode support for internal ZIP packer. So far, Unicode
characters 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 WM_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 automatically
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 names
contains characters from a different code page
16.11.07 Added: Packer plugins: The callback functions ChangeVolProc and
ProcessDataProc now both also exist in a Unicode version. The plugin may call
either the Ansi or the Unicode version
16.11.07 Added: Unicode support in Quick Search with search dialog, using the
currently 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 format
(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 display
04.11.07 Added: UTF-8 support in compare by content: edit, copy+paste, select with
shift+cursors or mouse, overtype selection, save file, hide BOM, search function
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 UTF-16-
encoded files
31.10.07 Added: Save selection to file now always stores in UTF16 Unicode format
on NT-based systems
31.10.07 Added: Unicode support in cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip and related functions
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
clicking on the list
30.10.07 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Remove password from owner-drawn
listbox
30.10.07 Fixed: FTP downloads: progress message was repeated all the time instead
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 using
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
Unicode 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 Unicode
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 Lister
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 plugin
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 yet
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 commands
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 support
it
21.09.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP: Downloads, upload entire subdirs, rename
files, FTP via HTTP
18.09.07 Added: Unicode support in FTP (via command OPTS UTF8 ON): directory
browsing, 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, and
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
header etc.)
Fixes after Total Commander 7.04a:
23.11.08 Fixed: Command line: Access violation when "cd" command was longer than
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 locked
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 with
Shift+Drag&Drop
29.10.08 Fixed: Auto-resume upload could restart at position 0 of the file if the
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 '?'
character to command line with U.S. keyboard
05.09.08 Fixed: Lister: Search function didn't report an error when searching
backwards 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 string
like 'aaaaaa'
05.09.08 Added: Allow to copy NTFS permissions also from NTFS drives with 8k
clusters (or larger). These are detected by mistake as Samba drives because they do
not support NTFS compression
05.09.08 Fixed: Copy files from zip to zip: temporary files were not deleted when
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 in
lister this way)
20.08.08 Fixed: Access violation (not critical) when trying to modify ZIP archives
created with SharpZipLib (due to invalid ZIP64 headers)
20.08.08 Fixed: Added linebreak after "Create shortcuts of .. files in"
confirmation dialog when dropping files from Explorer with Ctrl+Shift
20.08.08 Fixed: Lister: Hide URL tooltip shown in html files when switching back
to Total Commander (Alt+Tab)
20.08.08 Fixed: Access violation when trying to unpack RAR archive containing file
with very long name
20.08.08 Fixed: When opening a Word file via right click menu and word was already
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 quick
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
control 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


07.08.08 Fixed: Delete function could delete file under cursor instead of selected
files if directory content was changed in the background while delete confirmation
dialog was up

06.08.08 Release Total Commander 7.04a RC1


06.08.08 Fixed: AES encryption not starting on 64bit Windows when using
x64DisableRedirection=1
06.08.08 Fixed: Lister: RTF find next function (F3) always skipped one occurrence
of the search result
06.08.08 Fixed: Lister: RTF viewer text disappeared on resize on Win9x only
06.08.08 Fixed: Lister: Binary mode no longer supported horizontal scrolling
06.08.08 Fixed: Multi-volume RAR files not recognized if the first part contained
more than one file (so the first file wasn't split)

05.08.08 Release Total Commander 7.04a beta 1


05.08.08 Fixed: When opening self-extracting archive, limit search for CAB header
to 2 MBytes to speed up opening of large archives
04.08.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view title was only updated in archives
03.08.08 Fixed: CMD???.tmp files directly in %TEMP% (created e.g. by a button with
%L parameter) were no longer deleted
01.08.08 Fixed: AES encryption not starting on NT4 due to an error in digital
signature checking
01.08.08 Fixed: Save position with TC maximized, minimize to tray checked, start
TC minimized via lnk file -> access violation
01.08.08 Fixed: Alt+F9 on multi-volume RAR no longer called external rar unpacker,
but unpacked only the file under the cursor internally

29.07.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 final


29.07.08 Fixed: Properties of zipped file: Show pack methods 12=bzip2, 98=ppmd and
99=AES
29.07.08 Fixed: WinXP focus problem: Switch to network share where user has to
enter a password -> no file panel seems to have the focus
27.07.08 Added: Unpack from AES-encrypted ZIP, overwrite file, wrong password ->
keep target file
27.07.08 Fixed: On Windows 9x, revert to the old Drag&Drop code to bring TC to the
foreground for password input
27.07.08 Fixed: Could not unpack archives with space at the end of the name like
"test .zip" when unpacking each archive to separate directory -> remove the spaces
27.07.08 Fixed: Change attributes: Do not jump to date edit box when editing
plugin options and plugin checkbox wasn't checked yet

23.07.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 RC1


23.07.08 Added: Wipe TEMP directory (e.g. after re-packing an archive to another)
now also supports overwrite with 0 bytes (for encrypted archives)
23.07.08 Fixed: Compare by content of read-only files from an archive didn't
delete the temp files after compare finished
22.07.08 Fixed: Files-Split function failed when splitting to a removable medium >
2GB, and user specified "automatic" or a size larger than the free space on the
medium
22.07.08 Fixed: View or edit file from an archive -> pressing Skip is now treated
the same way as Cancel (file not opened for viewing)
22.07.08 Added: Edit or view a file from an archive (with Enter, F4, or F3) and
confirm to overwrite an already existing target -> the last viewer/Editor takes
possession of the temp file. It will be deleted only when that last viewer/editor
is closed
20.07.08 Fixed: Call AttachThreadInput before calling SetForeGroundWindow when
showing password dialog during OLE Drag&Drop from archive to Explorer
20.07.08 Added: When viewing multiple selected files from an archive in lister,
unpack them to their own empty subdir, which will be wiped completely in case of an
unpack error
18.07.08 Fixed: Unzip file, click on "Background" -> background dialog box was no
longer closed when done
16.07.08 Fixed: Test RAR files: TC didn't re-ask for password if user entered
empty password (reason: unrar.dll reports error=0!)
16.07.08 Fixed: Password dialog when unpacking a single archive with Alt+F9 had
become modeless by mistake

15.07.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 9


15.07.08 Fixed: View RTF file with F3, switch to plugin with '4' key, resize
window - it could be seen that the RTF control was NOT closed
15.07.08 Fixed: ZIP packer: correctly add files to archives containing backslashes
in names instead of slashes
13.07.08 Fixed: When the user tries to delete a file on both sides in a zip when
both sides show the contents of the SAME archive, combine the two delete operations
into one
09.07.08 Fixed: Read only, hidden and system attributes lost when moving a file
between two different remote computers (UNC paths)
09.07.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop from encrypted archive to Explorer - entering a bad
password sometimes left the archive open (locked)
09.07.08 Fixed: Update panel header of quick view window only when quick view
contents changed
09.07.08 Fixed: Call SetForeGroundWindow before showing password dialog during OLE
Drag&Drop from archive to Explorer
09.07.08 Fixed: Alias command with parameters %A1, %A2 returned 1, 2 when user
didn't pass any parameter after the alias on the command line
08.07.08 Fixed: Also show invalid password dialog when user enters no password
when unpacking, and the file is encrypted
08.07.08 Fixed: With option zipansinames=1, a file could be added twice to an
existing archive (add without paths, file exists in 2 different subdirs AND the
original archive)
08.07.08 Added: When overwriting a file in an archive and the original file cannot
be read, the user can choose "Skip". In this case, the original file is now kept in
the archive.
08.07.08 Fixed: Re-pack files (Alt+F5) within archive with no file selected, press
ESC -> file under cursor selected
08.07.08 Fixed: Pack - Multi-volume ZIP -> split dialog was not modal
06.07.08 Added: Pack files: User must confirm also empty password
06.07.08 Fixed: Better errors than "medium full" when Drag&Drop with Explorer
fails
06.07.08 Fixed: View in search dialog or compare by content didn't work with files
in multi-volume zip files
06.07.08 Fixed: Show unpack error also when unpacking fails in search dialog - F3
06.07.08 Fixed: Password dialog when unpacking multiple archives was modal to the
main window instead of the progress dialog
04.07.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: When using the tree button, the archive type was lost
when the archive didn't have an extension length of 3 letters
02.07.08 Fixed: View, Edit or double click file in encrypted archive, enter wrong
password, then correct one, modify file -> it was re-packed with wrong password
02.07.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: Switch back to ZIP when user chooses multi-volume for
LHA or plugin
02.07.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: Uncheck multi-volume for plugins and LHA
02.07.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: Checking ACE, then self-extracting, and finally
encrypted unchecked self-extracting by mistake

01.07.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 8


01.07.08 Added: Re-ask for password also when testing archives
01.07.08 Added: Re-ask for password in normal unpack function in case of an unpack
error of an encrypted file
01.07.08 Fixed: Unpack from partially encrypted RAR: Don't ask for password for
unencrypted files if archive not solid
01.07.08 Fixed: Main menu didn't support grayed (disabled) text when showing icons
(owner-drawn mode)
29.06.08 Fixed: Cancelling password dialog could lock the archive (archive not
closed)
29.06.08 Fixed: Entering wrong password twice when viewing files in search dialog
or in sync dialog could hang the dialog for a while instead of showing the password
dialog again
27.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with unencrypted zip file could result in access
violation if not all files of the archive were shown
25.06.08 Added: Use only old ZIP2.0 encryption and do not support AES if old ZIP
crypto dll present
25.06.08 Added: Drag&Drop from outside of TC to an archive now also supports
encryption
25.06.08 Added: Drag&Drop from TC to Explorer: Also allow unpacking of encrypted
archives
24.06.08 Added: Synchronize dirs with a ZIP archive, by content: Show name of
currently unpacked file during comparison
24.06.08 Added: Show name of archive also in password dialog of the functions
"Unpack specific files" and "Test archives"
24.06.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: Multi-volume options were shown after archive name in
password request dialog
24.06.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: User could check self extract, encrypted and ZIP
together (by checking these for RAR first), although this combination isn't
supported
24.06.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: To create an encrypted self-extracting RAR, the user
had to check encrypted first, then sfx
24.06.08 Fixed: Pack dialog: User could check TAR,GZ or TGZ together with multi-
volume or self-extracting, all unsupported combinations
24.06.08 Added: Password dialog: If user enters empty password, do not show "Re-
enter password" dialog, just pack without a password
24.06.08 Added: Re-enter password dialog: OK button initially disabled, enable it
only when user enters the correct password
23.06.08 Fixed: Removed Tabstop property from ZIP2.0 option in password dialog and
ZIP option in pack dialog for better Shift+Tab handling
22.06.08 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Turn off this function when change directory in
the other panel fails (e.g. insufficient rights). Unfortunately the dir change in
the active panel cannot be prevented
22.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Show "Files found: 0" when comparing two empty
dirs
22.06.08 Fixed: Archives in archives: Temporary file was no longer deleted after
closing inner archive
22.06.08 Fixed: Change single button via right click, try to add subbar in
directory with dot in name -> name was cut incorrectly

19.06.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 7


19.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with encrypted archive: Only confirm password
when packing, not when unpacking
18.06.08 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, branch view: Could not rename files if the
target name already existed, e.g. dir\file01, dir\file02 renamed to dir\file02,
dir\file03
18.06.08 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, branch view: Keep sort order from main window
(by name, not by folder). A click on the "Name" column header restores the old sort
order by directory, then name
18.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Just show CRC error when user enters wrong
password when viewing (F3) or comparing (via double click) files
17.06.08 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Turn off this function when change directory in
the current panel fails (e.g. insufficient rights). Unfortunately the dir change in
the other panel cannot be prevented
16.06.08 Fixed: Packing encrypted ACE archives stopped working
15.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, "by content": checked: Abort comparison when
user clicks on "Cancel" when asked for archive password
15.06.08 Added: Built AES-CBC encryption+decryption into wcmzip32.dll in
preparation for TC 7.5
13.06.08 Added: Also show progress for deleting directories (count them just like
files)
13.06.08 Fixed: Delete files, count directory size: Pressing ESC still aborted the
entire delete operation in some cases
13.06.08 Fixed: Lister: F2 sometimes didn't update vertical scrollbar (last line
re-read)
13.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Re-request of password didn't work with RAR
files (e.g. when viewing or comparing)
13.06.08 Fixed: Line break missing in some password dialogs, e.g. F3 in search

11.06.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 6


11.06.08 Added: Only ask once for the password when adding encrypted files to an
encrypted ZIP archive when the password is the same as used for the first encrypted
file in the archive
11.06.08 Fixed: On multi-core systems only: F5-F2 leaves focus on background
transfer manager and doesn't return it to the main window
11.06.08 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] XPMoveMethodAdmin=0 sets old behaviour
when moving files as administrator
11.06.08 Fixed: XP/Vista: When moving a file "As administrator" with tcmadmin.exe
on the same drive, the file kept its rights. Now give it the rights of the parent
directory.
10.06.08 Added: Windows 2000 and later: Tray icon tooltips support up to 127
characters and line breaks
10.06.08 Fixed: Update of tray icon progress bar flickering when unpacking ->
update percent only when needed, and tip text only when mouse over tray icon
10.06.08 Added: Check AES password verification bytes before unpacking a file to
detect a bad password more quickly
10.06.08 Fixed: Could not decrypt AES-encrypted multi-volume ZIP files if the AES
verification value (SHA1) was stored across two parts of the archive
08.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Could not re-pack files after viewing in Sync
when the base directory was a subdir within an archive
08.06.08 Fixed: Delete files, count directory size: When user aborts counting with
ESC, wait until the ESC key has been released to avoid that the delete function
itself is aborted too
06.06.08 Added: Synchronize dirs: Support archives with multiple passwords
06.06.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: When viewing file with F3 from encrypted archive
and user pressed Cancel in password dialog, the progress dialog wasn't closed
06.06.08 Fixed: Catch access violation within SFTP plugin if user changes transfer
mode after disconnect (e.g. in normal ftp)
06.06.08 Fixed: Re-pack file after sync compare with external tool not possible if
archive NOT encrypted

04.06.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 5


04.06.08 Added: Put password parameter in double quotes "" when calling external
packer, e.g. "-ppass word"
04.06.08 Fixed: Clear password after re-packing to ZIP, and before using GZIP
packer
04.06.08 Fixed: Windows Vista: Network drives in "My Computer" were sorted at the
end instead of putting them between the other drives
04.06.08 Added: Tray icon: Show 100% when the normal progress bar would show it
too, e.g. for very long downloads or when the source file is larger than reported
by the server
04.06.08 Fixed: Right and bottom border of tray icon incorrect when showing
progress bar (percent done)
04.06.08 Fixed: Files - Print - File list (dialog not maximized), minimize (not to
system tray) and restore the dialog -> the parent window became active
03.06.08 Fixed: Couldn't abort copying or deleting of just folders (without files)
03.06.08 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] WipeEncrypted=1/0 turn overwriting of
(previously encrypted) temporary files with zeroes on/off
03.06.08 Added: Overwrite temporary file with zeroes before deleting if the file
was encrypted
01.06.08 Fixed: Always delete temporary files, even if "Keep damaged files" is
checked when unpacking fails and the user clicks on "Cancel"
01.06.08 Added: Verify that wcmzip32.dll is signed by "C. Ghisler & Co." before
using AES encryption functions, because of Swiss crypto export restrictions that
the user may not easily modify crypto functions.
30.05.08 Added: Moved selection of the ZIP encryption method from the pack dialog
to the password input dialog
30.05.08 Fixed: Cursor wasn't placed in source window when testing of multiple
archives failed in external unpacker
30.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content: After re-packing the saved file to the
archive, delete also the .bak file from the TEMP directory
30.05.08 Added: Support re-packing when viewing single file from archive in
synchronize dirs with F3 or Shift+F3
30.05.08 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] WarnTooBig=0 -> do not warn that a ZIP file
>2GB could be unreadable in some packers
30.05.08 Fixed: Couldn't add directories when creating AES-encrypted ZIP file

29.05.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 4


29.05.08 Added: Verify that wcmzip32.dll is signed before using AES encryption
functions
29.05.08 Added: Copy files from archive to archive: If the source is encrypted,
check the "encrypt" option in the pack dialog. If it is unchecked, do NOT encrypt
the files
28.05.08 Added: Internal AES encryption in ZIP files (compatible with WinZIP 9.0
and newer)
28.05.08 Added: Compare by content: Clear any selection when using the search
function, to make copying of found lines to other panel easier
28.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content: If a compared file needs to be re-packed to an
archive, set the TC main window or sync window as parent, not the already hidden
compare dialog
27.05.08 Added: Internal decryption of AES-encrypted ZIP archives (e.g. from
WinZip)
27.05.08 Added: Packer plugin interface: Signal to TC that a file is encrypted by
setting the "Flags" member of the tHeaderData(Ex) structure. Set it to 8 when
encrypted, and add 0x12345600 to signal that the Flags field is valid
27.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content: Keep cursor in sync when searching even if the
text isn't found in the other panel, so TAB doesn't jump to a completely different
location
27.05.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs (compare only) with two encrypted archives,
compare two files in them, enter wrong password for file on right side -> temp file
on the left wasn't deleted
25.05.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with an encrypted archive didn't work by content,
and calling the viewer or compare editor didn't work either
25.05.08 Fixed: Compare by content with file(s) from encrypted archive(s) didn't
work at all
23.05.08 Fixed: Re-pack of encrypted file to archive after editing didn't use
internal ZIP packer
23.05.08 Fixed: F3 view file in encrypted archive, edit file with plugin, repack
-> file was re-packed without password
23.05.08 Fixed: F3 on file in archive in search dialog: Delete temp file already
when closing Lister, not only when closing the search dialog
23.05.08 Fixed: F3 on file in archive in search dialog: Delete temp file if
unpacking fails
23.05.08 Fixed: F3 on file in archive in search dialog: Ask user if target file
(in TEMP) already exists
23.05.08 Fixed: Search could hang or crash when trying to search for incomplete
UTF-8 character with hex chars, e.g. for F0
23.05.08 Fixed: Move function: When moving files within the same drive, and the
operation is aborted (Cancel) for the file under the cursor, keep the cursor on
that file and don't jump to the next

21.05.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 3


21.05.08 Fixed: When closing TC while the active tab was in the root of an ftp
server, the tab was restored with tab text "0:" although the panel was reverted to
c:\
20.05.08 Fixed: Search for hex text in UTF-8 files didn't work (lister+search
function)
20.05.08 Fixed: Access violation in synchronize dirs with large RAR archive when
user clicks "Compare" while list update active
18.05.08 Fixed: External rar.exe called when unpacking just selected directories
from encrypted RAR archive
18.05.08 Fixed: Search function: F3 view didn't work with encrypted files (zip or
rar)
16.05.08 Fixed: Move function: When moving files within the same drive, and the
file under the cursor is skipped, keep the cursor on that file and don't jump to
the next
15.05.08 Fixed: Copy function: Truncate file if its size was set at the beginning
of the copy operation (NTFS targets), and the size was reduced while it was copied,
to avoid 0 bytes at the end

14.05.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 2


14.05.08 Fixed: Unpack encrypted RAR files also via "Files" menu, except when the
file names are encrypted too (will need to use external winrar.exe)
13.05.08 Fixed: Wrong overlay icons shown for shared drives in "My Computer" due
to a Windows bug (GetOverlayIconIndex always returns 1)
13.05.08 Fixed: Do not uncheck "Archive on multiple disks" when checking
"Encrypted"
13.05.08 Fixed: Install.exe still made unnecessary copy of ftp ini file in some
cases
13.05.08 Fixed: ZIP packer, overwrite dialog auto-rename copied chosen -> two or
more files with the same name could be added under very special circumstances (fix
from TC 7.5 was not yet backported)
12.05.08 Added: Use CryptGenRandom Windows function to generate better random data
for ZIP encryption
11.05.08 Fixed: Custom columns view: also allow to sort by tc.attr field in
archives and on ftp servers
11.05.08 Fixed: XP/Vista: Going up one level from an UNC server shown in the form
"Comment (Servername)" didn't place cursor on server name, except when double
clicking on [..] in file list
11.05.08 Fixed: Pack files, dual screen: Dialog asking for password was always
shown on the primary screen
11.05.08 Added: Again thanks to changed Swiss crypto export laws, unpacking of
encrypted RAR archives is now supported by the internal unpacker (via unrar.dll)
11.05.08 Fixed: Internal unpackers: Do not allow to overwrite an archive with an
unpacked file from inside of it
09.05.08 Fixed: F4 edit of files in archives -> TC always passed the short DOS
name to the editor. Now the long name will be passed if the editor is recognized as
32-bit, or "%1" with double quotes is given as parameter

07.05.08 Release Total Commander 7.04 beta 1


07.05.08 Fixed: FTP download from list: Local paths like in put:, copy: or move:
commands didn't work if surrounded by double quotes ""
04.05.08 Fixed: Also scale the following dialogs when they are used for the first
time: Choose internal commands, sync, custom columns, multi-rename, connect, print
file list, tree
04.05.08 Fixed: Correctly scale configuration dialogs for file system, lister and
content plugins when OverrideDPI option is used
02.05.08 Fixed: install.exe changed ftp ini name to default wcx_ftp.ini in some
cases, and/or copied existing ftp ini file to that name
01.05.08 Fixed: Search function: Uncheck "UTF-8" when Regular Expression is
checked (the combination isn't supported yet)
01.05.08 Added: Thanks to changed Swiss crypto export laws, the ZIP packer dll
supporting ZIP encryption is now included. U.S. review is not required, see Sec.
740.17: (ii) Exemptions from the review requirement. Foreign products (with) U.S.-
origin encryption .. provided that the U.S.-origin encryption has not been changed.
TC uses standard ZIP encryption.
01.05.08 Fixed: Uninstaller wasn't signed, didn't start with highestAvailable on
Vista, and created wrong shortcut "Total Commander 32" in the start menu
30.04.08 Fixed: When moving a directory to another drive, and this dir contains
junction, do not delete the files inside the junction. Instead copy the files, then
delete just the junction.
30.04.08 Fixed: Lister: Search of accents in ASCII (OEM/DOS) text no longer worked
30.04.08 Fixed: Lister: Text on second line in UTF-8 or UTF-16 Unicode text copied
incompletely if selection starts at line start
30.04.08 Fixed: Folder tabs on one line (scrolling horizontally): When starting,
scroll tab into view if it would be outside of the visible area
30.04.08 Fixed: Lister with Russian font only: Window caption showed debug
messages while selecting text
29.04.08 Fixed: Drive panel: When a drive was chosen which was hidden with
DriveBarHide= option, the previous drive remained selected
29.04.08 Fixed: Drive panel: Wrong height when all drives were hidden with
DriveBarHide= option
29.04.08 Fixed: Lister: Missing lines or characters in large Unicode files.
Reason: Buffer sometimes started at non-even offsets
29.04.08 Fixed: Archive view: Detect different archives not only by checksum of
name+date+size, but also by full name
29.04.08 Fixed: Typo "Downlaod" in hardcoded error message
29.04.08 Fixed: If no crypto-zip dll present, re-packing files from encrypted RAR
to ZIP "encrypted" files with fake key. Please contact us for a special unpacker if
you have this problem and no longer have the original files.

23.04.08 Release Total Commander 7.03 final


23.04.08 Fixed: Access violation reading from bad ARJ archive (fix from TC 7.5 was
not yet backported)

22.04.08 Release Total Commander 7.03 RC1


22.04.08 Fixed: Uncheck "Search in plugins" when loading a saved search
22.04.08 Fixed: Catch more locations where an invalid floating point operation can
occur due to invalid sizes returned by plugins or FindFirstFile
18.04.08 Fixed: During Drag&Drop, the target folder selection was sometimes not
removed when moving cursor away from target panel
18.04.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop on header or footer in active window offered to copy
file to other panel
16.04.08 Fixed: (again, was only fixed in 7.50 beta) Large value of MinLineHeight
in thumbnails view moved icons down

16.04.08 Release Total Commander 7.03 beta 2


16.04.08 Fixed: Lister, single line UTF-8 or UTF-16 file with byte order marker,
click BELOW the text -> cursor was placed a few characters behind the end of the
text
16.04.08 Added: Quick search dialog: When the user selects files with Insert or
Shift+Cursor up/down, move the quick search dialog down so the number of selected
files can be seen (only if there is enough space on screen)
16.04.08 Fixed: Could not drop file name on command line if it was hidden by
default, and then shown by typing some text
16.04.08 Fixed: Disable Delphi floating point exceptions when calling OLE
functions which may involve shell extensions: Drag&Drop, Context menu, Property
sheet, Copy+Paste, Overlay Icons, Thumbnails, Info-Tips
15.04.08 Fixed: Volume label in drive buttonbar didn't show "&" characters (they
were converted to underscores)
15.04.08 Fixed: Search function, plugins page: It was possible to create up to 20
lines of plugin rules, but the save/restore function could not restore all these
lines (only about 8)
15.04.08 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Tabstops: When user changes tabstops and
clicks on "Apply", do not revert back when user then clicks on Cancel
15.04.08 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Tabstops: When user clicks on "Default",
also revert Comments width to default if one of the two panels shows a comment view
11.04.08 Fixed: Problem with Russian locale only: Select text in binary or hex
mode showed displaced text when line breaks were shown with 0 width (but
GetTextExtentPoint32 reported normal width)
09.04.08 Added: Let user choose between internal Ctrl+Arrow key movement and
Windows edit box movement: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CtrlArrow=1/0
09.04.08 Fixed: Large value of MinLineHeight in thumbnails view moved icons down
09.04.08 Fixed: Delete files: Do not abort the delete function itself when the
user stops counting of files with ESC (requested by beta testers)
09.04.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop, press Space or enter on any item in file lists called
tree code instead of file panel code by mistake

09.04.08 Release Total Commander 7.03 beta 1


09.04.08 Added: Support ftps over http proxies (via GET request). Normally HTTP
CONNECT should be used for secure ftp
08.04.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Double click on file pair passed wrong short DOS
name to right panel if the two files had different DOS names
08.04.08 Fixed: Custom columns view and thumbs view: Custom fields were not
refreshed on F2/Ctrl+R if nothing else changed in that directory
07.04.08 Fixed: The creation of .tar.bz2 files only worked when the user had
created a .bz2 file before (to load the plugin)
06.04.08 Added: Compare by content: When selecting multiple lines with
Shift+Cursor down and then copying the lines to the other panel via button or
Alt+Cursor key, and the last line isn't empty, then do not copy the unselected last
line
04.04.08 Fixed: Limit command line length to 4095 characters on Windows >=XP,
longer command lines were not shown correctly or caused access violations
04.04.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop to tree: When user presses space or enter, open subdir
branch, but do not switch to that directory in the file panel(s)
02.04.08 Added: MinLineHeight= sets minimum line height in file lists if the given
value is >0. If it is negative, the absolute value is added to the normal line
height, e.g. MinLineHeight=-2, height=16 -> 18
02.04.08 Fixed: FTP log list in ftp toolbar had wrong font size when using
OverrideDPI option
02.04.08 Added: DriveBarHide= in wincmd.ini Allows to hide certain parts of the
drive button bar: A-Z=drives, 0-9=ftp, \=Nethood, .=parent+root dir, -=description
02.04.08 Fixed: Sync with FTP, edit remote file with external compare tool, save
it -> TC hangs
02.04.08 Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop didn't show extended menu items in
drive roots. Get Drag&Drop handlers from "Drive", "Directory" and "Folder" keys for
drives, and the last two for directories
02.04.08 Fixed: cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly in button bar now shows same state as
cm_SrcQuickView (independent from whether quick view uses a plugin or not) because
a click on such a pressed button closes quick view
02.04.08 Added: Insert key or Shift+Up/Down arrow in quick search now
selects/unselects file under cursor and jumps to next match (except if insert has
been redefined)
01.04.08 Fixed: Improved progress bar performance for plugins by updating the bar
only when the percentage changes (this has been done for internal functions for a
long time)
01.04.08 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Click on "\" button no longer switched both
panels to the root
01.04.08 Fixed: Open dir in new Tab from history with Shift+Enter didn't work if
the history item was in a subdirectory of an archive
01.04.08 Fixed: Wrong width of edit boxes in "change start menu" dialog when using
OverrideDpi option
30.03.08 Fixed: External unpacker (like RAR): Put target directory in double
quotes "" if short DOS names are unavailable and there is still a space in the path
30.03.08 Fixed: XP/Vista only: Checking/Unchecking option to show brackets around
directories didn't take immediate effect when clicking on "Apply"
30.03.08 Fixed: Left mouse button selection mode: Drag unselected file with right
button, then click on Cancel -> File still selected
30.03.08 Fixed: Delete files: If user stops counting of files with ESC, then also
abort the delete function itself
30.03.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Cannot delete files in ARJ/LHA/TAR/RAR archive
if synchronize base dir is a subdir of the archive (note: deleting from ACE
archives always seems to fail)
30.03.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop moves instead of copying when left+right mouse button
swapped, old style hints are shown (overlaying the name), and a hint is visible
when starting the drag
30.03.08 Fixed: FTP download from list: Remove all lines starting with "header:"
when a line starting with "OK-" is encountered, so header fields meant for that
line aren't passed to later transfers
30.03.08 Fixed: FTP download from list: match complete name when marking
downloaded items with "OK-", to avoid that partial name like http://ghisler.com
matches file in that location, or that Referer line is marked
30.03.08 Fixed: When using parameters /O /T /S to open just the target directory
via command line in already running TC, keep the focus on the previously active
panel
30.03.08 Fixed: When using parameters /O /T to open directories via command line
in already running TC, keep the focus on the previously active panel if two paths
are passed in
30.03.08 Fixed: Internal pseudo environment variables like %$PERSONAL% not working
on 64-bit Windows when x64disableredirection=1
28.03.08 Fixed: If a content plugin used the size passthrough option, sorting by
that column sorted by the standard size field (Alt+Shift+Enter) instead of the
plugin size field.
28.03.08 Fixed: Content plugins: total length of all field names was limited to 2
kBytes. Increased limit to 64k max.
28.03.08 Fixed: Special handling of Ctrl+Arrow keys removed from command line and
other edit boxes, revert to normal edit box movement
28.03.08 Fixed: cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip in custom columns view crashes if a
plugin returns a field longer than 259 characters.
28.03.08 Fixed: Switch from a Tab any other view mode to a Tab with custom columns
view -> any additional sort orders of this tab are lost
28.03.08 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+Home/End didn't place cursor on first/last
column, just on first/last row
28.03.08 Fixed: cm_ShowFileUser: Garbage shown in message box title in server list
(path \\server) with cursor on a share
27.03.08 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree couldn't show any dirs containing brackets []
anywhere in the name
27.03.08 Fixed: Logging function stopped working after midnight if log file
rotation at midnight was set, and a log file with the target name
logfile.<date>.log already existed
27.03.08 Fixed: Status bar showed wrong file item ([..]) after switching from
brief view to thumbs view and back
27.03.08 Fixed: F5, F6, Shift+F6: Accept also forward slashes '/' instead of
backslashes '\' in paths
27.03.08 Fixed: TC hangs or crashes when reducing the width of a custom column to
0
27.03.08 Fixed: Drag&Drop, press Space or enter on [..] item in drive root ->
virtual folder opens in wrong panel
26.03.08 Fixed: Shortcuts in ftp edit connection dialog
25.03.08 Fixed: Verify calls to unrar dll when archive bad
25.03.08 Fixed: Unzip/gzip: Add verification to inflate code whether the pointers
in the huffman tree are valid or null
25.03.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sort files with Unicode characters by Unicode
name, not by alternate DOS name
19.03.08 Fixed: Unzip of ppmd-packed zip files could hang in an infinite loop when
the end of the in file was reached (the ppmd code didn't check for end of file)
11.03.08 Fixed: Error in background transfer manager when moving file and target
exists, and user chooses the rename option
09.03.08 Fixed: Do not request version info for files > 4GB, so large
programs/dlls cannot run anyway, and the function will hang
05.03.08 Fixed: TC on primary screen, Synchronize dirs on secondary screen ->
progress dialog on wrong (primary) screen
05.03.08 Fixed: TC and Synchronize dirs on secondary screen -> progress dialog was
on correct screen, but overwrite dialog on the wrong (primary) screen
05.03.08 Fixed: Command in button bar with %S parameter didn't work in search
results when no start path was given
05.03.08 Fixed: Lister crash when searching in UTF-8 file while font is set to
ASCII -> ignore ASCII flag
06.02.08 Fixed: Custom columns view: When displaying multiple columns containing
size fields, columns to the right may receive a wrong value for the predefined size
(for showing e.g. file sizes inside archives) when showing different size units,
e.g. first column MBytes, second column Bytes
01.02.08 Fixed: Tree in main window not updated correctly when moving directories
within the tree to another directory with Shift+F6
30.01.08 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two subdirs of the SAME archive with
each other, use compare by content to change one file -> the files in the archive
after that position were no longer accessible on the other side because only the
changed side was updated
30.01.08 Fixed: Dual screen mode: The following dialog box was shown on the wrong
screen: Drive selection dialog in search function
29.01.08 Fixed: Invalid text selection in Lister hex view when using a fixed width
font, and the line break characters had a different width than the standard
character width
29.01.08 Fixed: Ctrl+Q on text file, start selecting text, then move cursor to
left panel and release mouse button -> although the file panel now had the focus,
it was still shown above the quick view panel
29.01.08 Fixed: cm_GotoFirstFile: footer (e.g. in brief view) and quick view panel
were not updated
27.01.08 Fixed: Close inplace rename edit box when resizing Total Commander
23.01.08 Fixed: Opening Quick View with a button bar button with command
cm_SrcQuickview didn't show files in archives (Ctrl+Q worked)
22.01.08 Fixed: Custom columns view: Do not show size field if value=-1 or -2
(which means unknown)
22.01.08 Fixed: Calculate space of folder with space bar not working if content
size was an _exact_ multiple of 4 GB
16.01.08 Fixed: Error updating comment in files.bbs when existing comment started
with a line break
15.01.08 Fixed: Error "Cannot focus..." when trying to close minimized compare by
contents window
28.12.07 Added: Background transfer manager: Consider the state of the option "FTP
show hidden files" when downloading entire subdirectories
28.12.07 Fixed: Plugin auto-install function (unpacker): Could not overwrite
hidden/system files if the files were on the ignore list
07.12.07 Fixed: FTP custom type: The entries "." and ".." were not detected
correctly (one dot was cut)
07.11.07 Fixed: ENTER on LNK file switched to linked directory, but didn't update
tree in other panel or separate tree panel
16.09.07 Fixed: Commands - System info reported Server 2008 instead of Windows
Vista

14.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02a final


14.09.07 Fixed: Incompatibility with Acer GridVista: Access violation after most
copy/delete operations (problem with progress dialog)
13.09.07 Fixed: FTP upload hangs when uploading (binary) files containing 0
characters in text mode

11.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02a rc1


11.09.07 Fixed: Catch error in update of environment variables
11.09.07 Fixed: Speed up deletion of files as admin when "All as admin" was
selected
09.09.07 Added: SpecialCursorMovement= option in wincmd.ini: Add 8 to translate
cursor left/right to PageUp/PageDown instead of Home/End
09.09.07 Fixed: Resume upload to FTP server was no longer working

05.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02 final


04.09.07 Fixed: Lister: After pressing Ctrl+A (select all), leave the cursor where
it is, but when the user then uses Shift+Cursor keys, select text from the
beginning to the current position
04.09.07 Added: Double click on archive or lnk in locked tab -> remember position
too
04.09.07 Fixed: Double click on dir in locked tab -> position not always
remembered
04.09.07 Fixed: When editing files from archives or ftp, remember TEMP path too,
since environment variables can now be changed by the user -> TEMP can be different
after editing

03.09.07 Release Total Commander 7.02 rc1


03.09.07 Fixed: Do not send mouse down events to task bar during Drag&Drop any
more, seems to cause problems with quick launch area
03.09.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UpdateEnv=0 allows to turn off updating
of TC environment when system environment changes
02.09.07 Added: Windows Vista: Do not show login name with ^ sign (information
about full admin rights) if user account control has been disabled
02.09.07 Fixed: Windows Vista only: Right click menu -> New -> Shortcut (.lnk)
wasn't working
02.09.07 Added: .tab files now also support environment variables like %temp% in
path fields
02.09.07 Fixed: Change attributes, save plugin settings: Special case: Add ""
around saved line when it starts and ends with a ", Windows will remove them when
loading from ini
02.09.07 Fixed: Double click on dir in locked tab (no dir changes allowed) -> new
tab opened, but cursor position in old tab not remembered
02.09.07 Added: Command choose dialog: Also search by command numbers (numbers
starting with the typed digits) when using the filter
31.08.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp: Also do not show any directories containing
slashes or backslashes
31.08.07 Fixed: FTP logging with SpecialFlags=16: Filter out multiple
download/upload progress messages (background transfers)
29.08.07 Fixed: XP with themes: Wrong background color of label with free and
total disk space in drive buttonbar
29.08.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: When user presses Ctrl+C and nothing is
selected, don't show error, just copy nothing. Reason: Windows would copy the
content of the error message to the clipboard!

28.08.07 Release Total Commander 7.02 beta 1


28.08.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, ftp: Do not show names containing backslashes or
slashes, they couldn't be synchronized anyway
27.08.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop from right window to single separate tree not working
correctly
26.08.07 Fixed: Directory traversal vulnerability when an FTP server reports a
file name containing backslashes -> File would be placed in the root instead of the
correct target directory
07.08.07 Fixed: FTP upload check of text files: Some ftp servers seem to remove
single <CR> characters (0D hex), which results in a smaller file size
07.08.07 Added: When adding files to an open background transfer manager, also add
the current transfer mode in the form MODE:I, MODE:A or MODE:X (binary, ansi or
automatic)
07.08.07 Added: F5 - F2 during an FTP connection now adds the files to an already
open background transfer manager
07.08.07 Fixed: While TC is minimized during a transfer, show also instance number
like [2] in front of the percent value -> needed to set instance number when
opening another copy of TC
25.07.07 Added: FTP download: If downloaded file is smaller than expected, re-
request file size of remote file with SIZE. If still different, report error
25.07.07 Added: FTP download from list: Use SIZE command (if supported) to get
file size if unavailable
25.07.07 Fixed: Drop file(s) from outside of TC (via OLE2) -> do not refresh a
panel if it shows a file system plugin or ftp connection
25.07.07 Fixed: Plain text comments with \n line breaks were shown on one line in
hints (tooltips)
25.07.07 Fixed: Plain text comments without custom fields were not supported in
thumbs view
25.07.07 Fixed: F2/Ctrl+R (refresh) not working in directories accessible only
with admin rights, TC returned to the first parent accessible with normal rights
25.07.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Specifying a wildcard *\ excluded not only all
directories, but also all files
25.07.07 Fixed: Lister: Only try to center/resize WMF files which are in enhanced
metafile format (EMF), because only these have a bounding rectangle
25.07.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Error "Cannot focus a disabled or invisible
window." under special conditions when editing and saving one of the files in an
external editor
24.07.07 Fixed: Change attributes: access violation when trying to load invalid
plugin attribute settings (value missing)
24.07.07 Added: FTP client: Check size of uploaded files after upload to make sure
the file was uploaded OK. Can be turned off via SpecialFlags=32
22.07.07 Fixed: Background copy: Available space on target drive was randomly
checked in some cases. Now it is checked only if a file is >10MB, and "Calculate
space - before copying/deleting" is checked
22.07.07 Fixed: Dual screen mode: The following dialog boxes were shown on the
wrong screen: FTP overwrite confirmation, Search - choose drives
22.07.07 Fixed: Copy progress dialog: Very long paths were cut incorrectly in some
special cases (when only 2 characters were cut)
22.07.07 Fixed: Lister: Un-selecting text with cursor keys could leave rests of
the selection when using Cleartype for fonts
22.07.07 Fixed: XP/Vista only: Pressing Alt key for the first time after starting
TC made button bar redraw itself
20.07.07 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] SpecialFlags=0 allows to set special ftp
flags: 1: force implicit ssl (no clear text connection), 2: force explicit ssl, 4:
force TLS authentication, 8: force SSL23 authentication, 16: detailed log for ftp
connections in background, 32: see above
18.07.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: When user presses Ctrl+C and nothing is
selected, show error instead of emptying the clipboard (just like in Lister)
18.07.07 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: Only try to save a page when the user
changed something on that page: The Apply button is being enabled in this case
18.07.07 Fixed: Main configuration dialog: When wincmd.ini was write protected, it
was impossible to store any settings, even if some sections like [Layout] were
redirected to other files
18.07.07 Fixed: Increased hard limit of maximum packer plugin count from 150 to
256
18.07.07 Added: Update Total Commander's environment variables when the system
variables are changed (e.g. via Control Panel - System). Works on WinNT-based
systems only
18.07.07 Fixed: cm_copy??namestoclip: set CF_LOCALE info for the case that the
user has chosen a different keyboard layout, e.g. Russian Windows with English
layout
18.07.07 Fixed: Compare by content: If only one file is selected for comparison in
an archive, on an ftp server or fs plugin, and the other side does not contain that
file, do not pass the file name to the compare tool
10.07.07 Added: FTP over SSL/TLS: If the server responds to AUTH TLS, connect with
TLSv1 instead of SSLv23 messages
04.07.07 Added: Combine files: When the .crc file is missing, do not append .out
if the files are named filename.ext.001 etc. -> name the file filename.ext if the
file doesn't exist yet
04.07.07 Fixed: XP: Double click on lnk file pointing to Internet Explorer opened
an empty folder instead of launching the program. -> Use SHGetFileInfo to determine
link type
04.07.07 Fixed: Versioninfo resource still showed the year 2006
04.07.07 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Enter pasted uppercase drive letter, although almost
all other functions use lowercase letters
04.07.07 Fixed: F7 create directory: Access violation on Windows 98 when trying to
create directory like this: c:\temp\....\newdir
04.07.07 Fixed: Wrong error message "Directory already exists" shown when trying
to create invalid directory name like .....\dir
04.07.07 Fixed: Search window resizing during load (full size -> reduced size)
04.07.07 Fixed: Search function: "Start search" button hotkey wasn't working when
in search results (it invoked "go to file")
04.07.07 Fixed: Bring message box to the foreground when an error occurs in the
background copy process
04.07.07 Fixed: Couldn't use string \t in custom columns view, it was converted to
a Tabstop in the editor. \n is still forbidden, it's used to separate fields and
will be converted to /n
03.07.07 Fixed: ARJ files created on Unix (os type=2): convert file date from Unix
to DOS format
03.07.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Alt+Cursor right using the numeric keypad
(numlock off) scrolled to left when releasing Alt key. Note: Do not use in edit
mode, Alt+Numeric keypad is used to enter custom characters!
03.07.07 Fixed: Pressing ENTER or SPACE during Drag&Drop while mouse in separate
tree opened dir in file panel instead of expanding separate tree
03.07.07 Fixed: Lister: No scrollbars were shown for images larger than the window
when "center" option but none of the "fit to window" options were active
03.07.07 Fixed: Save state of cursor in lister (shown/not shown) and wrap text
on/off when closing Lister, not only when closing Total Commander <- save didn't
work when shutting down windows
03.07.07 Fixed: Command line parameters /P=L and /P=R didn't work when combined
with switch /O
03.07.07 Fixed: Double click in separate tree panel didn't expand branch if the
active file panel also showed a tree
03.07.07 Fixed: Better switching to thumbnails view (requesting the database mutex
caused initial drawing of thumbnails in wrong size)
03.07.07 Added: Alias commands: %A0 does the same as %A, can be used when the
parameter must be followed by a digit
03.07.07 Added: Alias commands now support new parameters %A1..%A9 to insert the
parameter 1..9 at this location. Example: Alias tc=totalcmd /L=%A1 /R=%A2, user
enters tc "c:\a b" d:\ -> totalcmd /L="c:\a b" /R=d:\
03.07.07 Added: Detection of Windows Vista and Server 2003/2008 in System
Information

21.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 final


21.06.07 Fixed: Shift+F4: When user leaves name field empty, start editor without
name
21.06.07 Fixed: RAR multi-volume: Pass multi-volume size in bytes by appending 'b'
to the number

20.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 final pre 2


20.06.07 Fixed: When using the option ThreadFindFirst=1, switching to a network
share via Ctrl+D could show the progress dialog twice

20.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 final pre 1


20.06.07 Fixed: Access violation after switching to tree view, then opening drive
combobox in SAME panel and pressing ENTER without choosing any drive
20.06.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] CDlabel=0 turns off the display of CD
labels (and other removable drives) in Alt+F1/F2 and the drive buttonbar. Reason:
Some CD drives take several seconds to return the labels
19.06.07 Fixed: Lister plugins no longer worked when iviewadditionaltypes was
missing from wincmd.ini
19.06.07 Fixed: Lister: Select last word of a line with double click, then click
somewhere else -> text cursor remained (non-blinking) at old position
19.06.07 Fixed: Search function, feed to listbox: If the previous view was a
custom columns view sorted by a user-defined column, re-sort the result list to
match that sort order
19.06.07 Fixed: Access violation in compare by contents editor when deleting text
from Unicode files. The delete section must end at the beginning of a line to get
the error
19.06.07 Fixed: Copy progress dialog: When copying a file with very long name to
the root of a network share, the name was incorrectly shortened (the \ was
forgotten after the share name)
19.06.07 Added: Allow user to replace also mouse cursors (e.g. for Drag&Drop) via
iconlib entry in wincmd.ini (the same file which contains different file list
icons)
19.06.07 Fixed: FTP download from list crashes on very long URLs

18.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 beta 3


18.06.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool didn't keep custom sort order of main panel
where the files were selected
18.06.07 Fixed: External packers not working if the TEMP/TMP variable points to a
path with spaces in the name -> put path in double quotes (will only work with
packer supporting long names like WinRAR)
18.06.07 Fixed: Compare by content: using the scroll wheel at the end of the files
could show lines out of sync if only one panel had a horizontal scrollbar
18.06.07 Fixed: Switching from 1 to 2 separate trees while in right file panel ->
the left tree still showed the directory of the right panel
18.06.07 Fixed: 1 separate tree: When both command line and function key bar are
turned off, make separate tree 2 pixels less high to make scrolling during
Drag&Drop easier
17.06.07 Fixed: Switch from custom view with horizontal scrollbar to thumbs view
and back with the thumbs view button didn't restore the scrollbar
17.06.07 Fixed: Encrypted ZIP file created with replacement wcmzip32.dll directly
on floppy disk could only be unpacked with Total Commander due to bad header
17.06.07 Fixed: Additional checks to ftp client to avoid that resume starts again
from the beginning of a file
15.06.07 Fixed: ARJ unpacker couldn't unpack ARJ files with extended header, e.g.
from Linux packed with -2o* parameter
15.06.07 Fixed: Search on FTP: Progress dialog would stay on screen if connection
was lost during normal search (not for text)
15.06.07 Fixed: Shift+Enter on EXE files inside of archives no longer worked (it
should open the program via NOCLOSE.PIF)
15.06.07 Fixed: Show menu below button, not at the mouse position also in dialog
"Custom columns" and "Custom fields by file type"
15.06.07 Fixed: cm_CopySrc/TrgPathToClip now copies the true network name instead
of the display name on WinXP
14.06.07 Fixed: Copy function, overwrite dialog: Option to (auto-)rename target
was missing when using the compatibility mode for copying
14.06.07 Fixed: Change to network drives via directory hotlist (ctrl+d) fails for
some pseudo network drives (e.g. third party sftp mounted as drive)

13.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 beta 2


13.06.07 Fixed: Going up one level from an UNC server on XP placed the cursor on
[..] instead of the previously active server name (because the name in the title
was different from the name in the list)
13.06.07 Fixed: Footer below file panel could shortly appear in a wrong color when
the quick search dialog is turned off
13.06.07 Fixed: RedirectSection=0 in section [Extensions] would show up in viewer
association dialog
13.06.07 Fixed: Separate tree panel didn't auto-scroll when dragging file over it
(Drag&Drop)
13.06.07 Fixed: Windows XP: cm_EditPath with network computers edited the wrong
name (the display name). Same problem with Ctrl+P, Ctrl+Shift+Enter or
cm_copyfullnamestoclip
13.06.07 Fixed: FTP: Temporary file downloaded for editing was deleted even if it
was changed and couldn't be re-uploaded
13.06.07 Fixed: Ctrl+PageDown not working on Archive with Unicode name (Enter
works)
13.06.07 Fixed: Search text in lister: search whole words worked differently
forwards and backwards ('_' is now considered as part of name, not word separator)
13.06.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop to unopened TAR archive was not working
13.06.07 Fixed: Search on FTP: Detect whether connection was lost when trying to
view a file with F3
13.06.07 Fixed: Duplicating a folder tab via right click menu gave the wrong tab
title when the original tab was locked with dir changes allowed
13.06.07 Fixed: Search function, search contents: Remember trailing spaces in
search string
13.06.07 Fixed: Quick search in separate tree: scroll item into view so at least 3
lines remain before the end of the list
13.06.07 Fixed: Autocomplete in start menu editor only listed folders, no files
13.06.07 Fixed: Configuration-Options-Thumbnails, click on "Add" button: Show menu
below button, not at the mouse position
13.06.07 Fixed: Change attributes, click on "+": Show menu below button, not at
the mouse position
13.06.07 Fixed: Lister: IviewAdditionalTypes takes precedence over internal image
checks, e.g. when *.jpg is part of it, TC will not check whether the file has the
correct jpg header
13.06.07 Fixed: Archives in archives: Allow to open multiple inner archives with
the same name at the same time (unpack temporarily to _tc, _tc0, _tc1 etc.)
13.06.07 Fixed: FTP toolbar had no frame around it on XP with turned off themes
13.06.07 Fixed: ESC after cm_EditPath didn't place cursor back in file list ->
post cm_focusleft/right to main window
13.06.07 Fixed: Wrong error message "Directory already exists" when trying to
create a directory containing * or ? in the name
13.06.07 Fixed: Invisible tray icon if iconlib= points to 16-bit DLL on Vista, or
to a file other than dll/exe on all Windows versions -> use icon from totalcmd.exe
13.06.07 Fixed: Auto-complete: Entering an UNC path like \\server\ suggested paths
with two backslashes after the server name
11.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.0a
11.06.07 Fixed: FTP client hangs when trying to auto-reconnect before a download,
and the server has been turned off

10.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.01 beta 1


10.06.07 Fixed: External compare tool: No parameters allowed. Solution: Put
program in double quotes "" even if there are no spaces in the name, to avoid that
TC adds double quotes by itself
10.06.07 Fixed: Do not show any tooltip window for the updir [..] file list item
10.06.07 Fixed: FTP client hangs after reconnect when trying to download a file
when the server has terminated the connection
10.06.07 Fixed: Creation/Renaming of directories not logged correctly and not
stored correctly in treeinfo.wc file in some cases

06.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 final


06.06.07 Fixed: TC was hanging for a few seconds, and showing Connect \\Desktop
when right clicking on a file and choosing some menu item while the other panel
showed a tree
05.06.07 Fixed: Still double click selection problems in lister with UTF-8 encoded
text

04.06.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 5.5 (RC5.7)
04.06.07 Fixed: Create directory with F7 in parent directory (by entering
..\subdir) added wrong dir to Alt+F10 tree (treeinfo.wc)
04.06.07 Fixed: Lister: Double click on first line of UTF-8 encoded file with byte
order mark (3 byte) would select the wrong text
04.06.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Switching back to Compare tool after editing file
in other program while cursor was on -> recompare, but Copy buttons were disabled
04.06.07 Fixed: Updated button bar and drive bar in help file to show new icons
04.06.07 Fixed: Changed 16 color icons for folders back to TC 6.56 version
03.06.07 Fixed: RAR multi-volume: Wrong volume size passed to RAR, it expects the
size in kBytes, not Bytes
01.06.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Backspace not working correctly with double byte
charset when deleted char was from Western alphabet with Chinese character in front
of it
31.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Problems with font choose dialog on Chinese
Windows returning Western charset, although the created font is Chinese afterwards
30.05.07 Fixed: Win9x/ME: 16x16 icons on buttonbar looked resized instead of
resampled when the icon source (EXE/DLL) only contains a 32x32 pixel icon, no 16x16

28.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 5.5 (RC5.5)
28.05.07 Fixed: Configuration - Options - FTP: Changing the default transfer mode
now takes effect immediately
28.05.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Support other start values than 'a' for
alphabetic sequences, e.g. start with aay -> aay, aaz, aba, abb, abc...
28.05.07 Fixed: Improved displaying of dialog "Click on Close when the temporary
file can be deleted!" also in synchronize dirs (when comparing two files by
content)
28.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Pressing Cursor right or Ctrl+Cursor right when at
the end of the file jumped to the beginning of that line
28.05.07 Fixed: Access violation when trying to open a second FTP connection while
a connection with a very long saved name was open
28.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Explicitly set the cursor to the last active
control when minimizing a program in front of the editor, otherwise the focus is
lost
28.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Bad cursor positioning when typing dual byte
characters, e.g. Chinese
28.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Use code page chosen by the user for the current
font to type text, e.g. to allow to edit a Russian text on an English system
27.05.07 Fixed: Quick search: In brief view, the column with the search result was
scrolled to the left border when the search result was near the bottom
27.05.07 Fixed: Lister: Move text cursor position on double/triple click also
while cursor disabled (so it's in the right place when the user re-enables it)
27.05.07 Fixed: Overwrite dialog was showing target path all uppercase when
dropping file from outside of TC to a directory in the list or tree

24.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 5 (RC5)


24.05.07 Fixed: Minor fixes to help, translations and history

22.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 5 (RC5) pre1


22.05.07 Fixed: Installer: 2 dialogs didn't have a close button in the title bar
22.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor called from synchronize dirs with file in archive
subdirectory, modify file -> Re-packing packed to root instead of the correct
subdir (for packer plugins only, was fixed previously for internal packers)
22.05.07 Fixed: Change attributes: Move focus to Plugin attributes checkbox if
user chooses something from the dropdown combobox and no plugin options are shown
22.05.07 Fixed: Changed default title of background transfer manager from
"Transfer" to "Total Commander". This title is only shown as long as no title is
set
22.05.07 Fixed: Delete function: User chooses "Skip all" when a file cannot be
deleted -> do not warn any more also for directories which cannot be deleted
22.05.07 Fixed: Copy function: If the user has chosen "Skip all", running programs
and open files were not skipped automatically
22.05.07 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir mode: If the active side shows the contents of an
archive, the directory on the other side was only changed when it was written
exactly the same (upper-/lowercase)
22.05.07 Fixed: Unicode warning dialog: The dialog was turned off also when the
user checked to no longer show it, but then clicked on "Cancel"
21.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: When comparing a file from an archive, do not
offer to re-pack if the user saved the file to a different name than the original
(save as), only when the original was modified
21.05.07 Fixed: Custom field [tc.size] could be shown as <DIR> in thumbnail view
for 0 byte files
18.05.07 Fixed: Search function: ESC in any other program would abort unpacking of
files for searching text in archives
18.05.07 Fixed: Configuration - Packer: Let the user save double quotes around
name (they must be stored TWICE in wincmd.ini because Windows removes one pair of
"")
18.05.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Remove direction arrow (shown when invoked
from overwrite dialog) when choosing different file
18.05.07 Fixed: FTP upload in background: <PAUSED> was not translated
16.05.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Right listbox too wide after switching from
vertical to horizontal arrangement

15.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 4.5 (RC4.5)
15.05.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Focus loss when using external packer (WinXP
only)
15.05.07 Fixed: Lister: Place cursor behind selection on double click or triple
click
15.05.07 Added: When opening a file from inside an archive, only show the dialog
"Click on Close when the temporary file can be deleted!" when either the focus is
not on TC, or it is on TC but never went away from it. Should avoid the dialog if a
user closes a viewer very quickly.
15.05.07 Fixed: When opening a .tab file containing no tabs with Shift+Enter
(=replace), the tab headers would become completely empty, but would not be removed
15.05.07 Fixed: Internal ZIP packer: Sometimes no second percent bar during verify
on Windows 9x (timing problem)
15.05.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop of OLE data to Total Commander (e.g. address line from
IE/Firefox): Allow to overwrite read only/hidden/system files (with warning), show
error if copying fails
13.05.07 Fixed: Directory with & character at the end was shown incorrectly in the
folder Tab bar. The & was converted to an underline _ by Windows.
13.05.07 Fixed: Could not list UC2 archive containing ^ sign in the file name or
path name
13.05.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Also keep comments in complex rename
situations, e.g. 1->2 2->3 3->4 etc.
13.05.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Selection in main program was cleared after
using external pack tool -> no results shown if "only selected" was checked
11.05.07 Added: Compare by contents: If invoked from overwrite dialog, show file
to be copied on left side, and show arrow with copy direction
11.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Changes not saved when closing Total Commander
11.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Could no longer delete lines near end of file
after last fixes
10.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: In some special cases, a line could appear twice
in a file
10.05.07 Added: Increased possible number of packer plugin extensions to approx.
250.
10.05.07 Added: Compare editor: Ctrl+Home also moves to beginning of the first
line, Ctrl+End to the end of the last
10.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Fix cursor position after click on "Compare"
10.05.07 Fixed: ZIP unpacker: Couldn't handle files >4 GB in ZIP archives created
by DynaZip (where only the original size was stored in 64 bit, not the packed size)
09.05.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, quick search: Sometimes 2 lines were selected
after leaving quick search
09.05.07 Fixed: Search for UTF8 no longer working in search function (but worked
in lister)
09.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Ignore Delete on not present lines if the next
line is also not present
09.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Save as: Incorrect name given when no extension
was specified, and the original file had no extension either
09.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Update both sides of Total Commander after saving
file
08.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Don't react to Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Z if Undo
button is disabled
08.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Remove any selection when clicking on "Compare" to
recompare the files (also in edit mode)
08.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: If nothing is selected and one of the Copy text
button is clicked, only copy the current line if the "from" window is currently
active
08.05.07 Added: Show native 24x24 icons in button bar and main menu also on
Windows 9x/ME
08.05.07 Added: Hint and overwrite dialog custom fields: Support field contents
not containing any plugin fields, e.g. to show a fixed text for a specific file
type
08.05.07 Fixed: Windows XP 64: If redirection of system32 folder is turned off, it
will be temporarily re-enabled while checking the presence of the Network
Neighborhood
07.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Cursor on a line only existing on the other side,
Alt+Cursor, Undo, Alt+Cursor, Undo -> invalid Undo
07.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: After Undo, a non-existing empty line could remain
07.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Ctrl+Arrow keys not working in lines which exist
only in the other panel
06.05.07 Added: Include extended wcmicons.dll (without the 48x48 icons) in the
default installation
06.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: After Undo, the cursor was sometimes placed on the
wrong character
06.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Still problems with pressing ENTER beyond the last
line of the shorter file
06.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Cursor wasn't scrolled into view on
Home/End/Ctrl+Left/Ctrl+Right
06.05.07 Fixed: Right click - "New" submenu: Didn't place cursor on new file if
the "ShellNew" entry in the registry used the "Data" key value to initialize the
new file
06.05.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Do not turn off right vertical scrollbar when
switching horizontal/vertical view modes
06.05.07 Fixed: Removed Help button hotkey from multiple English dialogs (F1 is
sufficient for help)

03.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 4 (RC4)


03.05.07 Added: Multi-Rename Tool: Use standard menu key F10 to open Multi-Rename
menu (menu button)
03.05.07 Fixed: Blue screen crash trying to use the parallel port connection under
Windows Vista

02.05.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 4 (RC4) pre1


02.05.07 Added: Compare editor: When searching in edit mode, place cursor behind
last found text, and scroll it into view. Activate panel with search result if
result only on one side
02.05.07 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Show warning if file couldn't be
accessed for copying
02.05.07 Fixed: Background transfer manager: allow to copy files also from dirs
for which the user has no read rights
02.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Allow to type/paste text below last line of
shorter file
02.05.07 Added: Compare editor: Ctrl+S (Save), F6 (edit mode) and
Alt+Backspace/Ctrl+Z (Undo) now also work when cursor not in one of the text panels
02.05.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Scroll caret into view also vertically when user
types or deletes something, or pastes text
02.05.07 Fixed: Lister: Clear window when file cannot be read
01.05.07 Fixed: Folder tabs: When switching to a tab with a file system plugin
with a custom columns view, the custom columns dialog was shown by mistake (reason:
the plugin wasn't loaded yet)
01.05.07 Fixed: In mode RenameSelOnlyName=1, if F6 was assigned to cm_renameonly,
F6 didn't change the selection between name and name+ext
29.04.07 Fixed: Compare editor: <Spacebar> wasn't overtyping any text
29.04.07 Fixed: Compare editor: Select text including the final line break, but
without the first character of the next line, delete, Undo -> wrong selection
restored
29.04.07 Fixed: Compare editor: After Undo, the previous text selection was
restored, but couldn't be modified with Shift+Cursor keys. Instead, a new selection
was started
29.04.07 Added: Right click, "New" submenu: Show file extension of new file in
braces, e.g. "Text File (.txt)"
29.04.07 Fixed: When using WinRAR as external packer, pass long archive name to it
when deleting files from archive (Reason: on Samba drives, the long name is lost
when deleting via the short name)
29.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: "Resync comparison from here" sometimes
resulted in "0 differences found" in the case of empty lines on both sides
29.04.07 Fixed: Wrong DPI in synchronize dirs and various other dialogs when using
custom DPI size via OverrideDPI
27.04.07 Fixed: After creating new file via context menu - "New" submenu, place
cursor on new file also in right panel
27.04.07 Fixed: Auto-complete network shares in the command line didn't work if
the path was part of a longer command line
25.04.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 3.5 (RC3.5)
25.04.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop to right separate tree panel from outside of Total
Commander (e.g. Explorer) wasn't working correctly
25.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: If the user turns off edit mode and then
clicks on the Undo button, auto-re-enable edit mode
25.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: User could enable edit mode even when no file
was loaded (e.g. after changing one of the file names), resulting in an access
violation when trying to type some text
25.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Enable/Disable >> button belonging to edit box
when enabling/disabling that edit box
25.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Clear status line when opening new file via >>
button, or when typing new name manually
24.04.07 Added: Background transfer manager now allows to copy to directories to
which the user has no read rights (via tcmadmin.exe)
24.04.07 Added: (Experimental, undocumented): wincmd.ini [Configuration]
OverrideDPI=120 scales all dialog boxes (except for the main window!) to the given
size in dots per inch. Normal is 96 dpi
24.04.07 Fixed: External UnRAR wasn't unpacking to UNC root like \\server\share,
except when appending a backslash (in this example: \\server\share\)
24.04.07 Added: Shift+F6 inplace rename: Ctrl+A selects entire name
24.04.07 Fixed: Problem opening MS Office files if x64DisableRedirection=1 (64-bit
Windows) -> temporarily re-enable redirection, except when file in system32 folder
24.04.07 Fixed: Shift+F1 menu: Menu texts are taken from the main menu - do NOT
take them from the user-defined "Start" menu
24.04.07 Fixed: Remember whether the user wants 1 or 2 drive button bars when
disabling drive bars
24.04.07 Fixed: After converting a file system with WinXP from FAT(32) to NTFS,
IsThemeActive() always returns true, even for the "Windows Classic" theme. -> use
OpenThemeData to determine whether themes are really supported or not.
22.04.07 Fixed: Could not list UC2 archive containing & sign in the file name or
path name
22.04.07 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Cursor moves away from current file when the
panel resizes (e.g. on Ctrl+Q)
22.04.07 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Additional thumb showing up by mistake to the
right of the last column when invoking Quick View (Ctrl+Q)
20.04.07 Added: Auto-complete: Also enumerate shared folders of a network
resource, e.g. when user enters \\server\
20.04.07 Fixed: Auto-complete: Subdirs in UNC path were no longer displayed, e.g.
subdirs of \\server\share\
20.04.07 Fixed: Prevent the user from opening the right click context menu
multiple times (e.g. by right clicking and pressing the menu button at the same
time)
20.04.07 Fixed: Still access violation in Lister after PageDown when file was
deleted

18.04.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 3 (RC3)


18.04.07 Fixed: When saving an entire ini file section (e.g. history of
connections in Ctrl+N), do not delete the section first. This was adding an empty
line to the ini on Win9x each time the section was saved
18.04.07 Fixed: Lister triple click: Ignore third click if the mouse was moved
more than the amount returned by GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXDOUBLECLK/SM_CYDOUBLECLK)
18.04.07 Fixed: Access violation in Lister when scrolling with enabled text cursor
when the currently viewed file was deleted

17.04.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 3 (RC3) pre1


17.04.07 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Stop selecting text when losing the
input focus also in view (not edit) mode
15.04.07 Fixed: 'bytes' not translated in HTTP download (Ctrl+N)
15.04.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Copying marked text failed when opening
context menu via keyboard (Shift+F10 or menu button)
15.04.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool didn't remember state of the ^ (case sensitive)
checkbox in search+replace
15.04.07 Fixed: Sync+FTP copying files to wrong directories
15.04.07 Fixed: File system plugin with custom columns: Do not store custom
columns view in wincmd.ini on a locked tab with dir changes allowed (because TC
will revert to the locked root)
15.04.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Flickering of the mouse cursor (constant
change between arrow and hourglass) during compare
15.04.07 Fixed: Lister triple click: Third click was detected even when using the
right or middle mouse button

11.04.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 2 (RC2)


11.04.07 Fixed: Incorrect icon scaling when using non standard icon sizes (e.g.
21x21) in file list
11.04.07 Fixed: Improved selection with Ctrl+Shift+Cursor keys in command line:
Since the selection and cursor location cannot both be set in an edit control,
remember the selection start position internally
11.04.07 Fixed: Open network shares via Ctrl+D, Shift+ENTER in new tab: Do not
check whether the name is an archive if a trailing backslash is given, e.g. cd
\\server\share\
10.04.07 Fixed: Lister, HTML view: cut off parameters from local links, e.g.
search.html?search=xyz to open file search.html
10.04.07 Fixed: Compare by Contents: If the compare dialog is minimized and a file
is changed outside, restore the dialog before asking the user whether to recompare
the files or not
10.04.07 Fixed: Net - FTP download from list didn't support ftps connections (they
were used unencrypted)
10.04.07 Fixed: Noreread option in wincmd.ini could not take all possible values
(29: letters a to z, and special characters \/:)
10.04.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Unpacking from RAR archives didn't always unpack
all files from multiple subdir levels. Reason: Wrong re-ordering before unpacking
06.04.07 Fixed: Sometimes duplicate "Connect" dialog when trying to switch to a
tab with a no longer available network resource (only when using a separate tree)
06.04.07 Fixed: Access violation when changing directory during Explorer delete
function
06.04.07 Fixed: Triple click in lister sometimes selected a different line when
the mouse was moved before the third click
06.04.07 Fixed: Triple click in lister could select more than the currently
visible line
06.04.07 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Stop selecting text when losing the
input focus, e.g. when the user clicks on a panel and a dialog comes up that the
files have been changed outside
06.04.07 Fixed: When loading synchronize options via a button with the command
SYNCOPEN, check the option "only selected" under the following condition: some
files/dirs are selected, and no paths were stored in the loaded option

04.04.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 1.6 (RC1.6)
04.04.07 Fixed: Better resizing of Search+Replace in Multi-Rename-Tool
04.04.07 Fixed: When both panels show the same custom columns view, changing one
header only changed the first 3 columns of the other
04.04.07 Fixed: 'bytes' not translated in some places (e.g. ftp)
04.04.07 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment didn't refresh comment in custom columns view
when the changed line wasn't covered by the comment edit box
04.04.07 Fixed: Lister triple click: Only select entire line if triple click goes
on the same line as the double click
04.04.07 Fixed: Directory tabs: FTP connection number shown as drive letter was
lost (replaced by # sign) on Ctrl+U, or when locking the tab
03.04.07 Fixed: When using external compare tool, also pass names of selected
folders to compare tool (e.g. WinMerge)
03.04.07 Fixed: Folder and EXE icons were not displayed correctly or not shown at
all when the Totalcmd directory was hidden by a tool like Universal Shield
03.04.07 Fixed: Don't get default exe icon from wc32to16.exe, but instead via
SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES parameter (on nt/2000/xp/vista only)
03.04.07 Fixed: Do not show Explorer extensions in context menu when inside of a
file system plugin
03.04.07 Fixed: When ThreadFindFirst=1 was set, it took at least 3 seconds until
the password dialog for the share came up
03.04.07 Fixed: When ThreadFindFirst=1 was set, and trying to access a server by
typing \\server\share in the current path edit box fails -> the file under the
cursor was opened
03.04.07 Fixed: Duplicate hotkey 'r' in Configuration - Options - Thumbnails
(internal English version only)
01.04.07 Fixed: When using the internal English menu, changing the menu icon size
caused menu items with wrong height until TC was restarted
01.04.07 Added: FTP over SSL: wcx_ftp.ini [General] sslwarn=0 allows to turn off
warnings about bad ssl certificates (not recommended)
01.04.07 Added: FTP over SSL: Always show certificate warning at connection time
when a server has an invalid or unverified certificate. Users can permanently
accept a certificate by clicking on the lock icon.
01.04.07 Added: FTP over SSL: Show SHA1 fingerprint of the server certificate if
available
01.04.07 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Apply button not activated when clicking on
"DOS charset" on the page "Operation"
01.04.07 Fixed: cm_SeparateTree1 was no longer working when the cursor was in the
right panel
01.04.07 Added: When 4 is added to SingleClickStart value in wincmd.ini, the text
cursor will no longer follow the mouse cursor

28.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 not public release candidate 1.5 (RC1.5)
28.03.07 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] SingleClickStart=2 only opens folders
on single clicks, not files/programs or archives
28.03.07 Added: Command line: cd .. goes to "My Computer" when in the root of a
drive
28.03.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Show plugins dropdown menu below plugins button
instead of the cursor position
28.03.07 Added: Lister triple click selects entire line
28.03.07 Fixed: When renaming a file to a name with spaces at the end, Windows
automatically removes the spaces, but a file comment (descript.ion) wasn't
preserved
27.03.07 Fixed: On Windows 9x/ME, return to the old way starting programs, by
specifying the default verb found in the registry (instead of passing a NULL
pointer)
27.03.07 Fixed: Multiple connect dialogs and hangs when trying to access
unreachable network share via history or by switching tabs, even with
ThreadFindFirst=1
27.03.07 Fixed: Environment variables in the "Search in" field of the search
function didn't support 2kBytes length, only 259 characters
27.03.07 Fixed: Deadlock when the quick search dialog (Letters with search dialog)
is up, and the background thread wants to show an overwrite dialog -> Remove quick
search
27.03.07 Fixed: Links on the Desktop didn't work if they were located in the "All
users\Desktop" directory
27.03.07 Fixed: Change start menu or directory menu: Disable "Change title" button
when cursor on end of submenu item "--"
27.03.07 Fixed: Change start menu or directory menu: Don't allow to create a menu
item consisting of more than two dashes --. The dashes have special meanings: One
dash -> separator, two dashes -> end of submenu, dash at start of menu item ->
Submenu start
25.03.07 Fixed: Access violation in compare by contents when comparing two
specific binary files in text mode
25.03.07 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] CompareSaveOriginal=1 allows to
determine how the compare by contents editor saves files: 0: rename file to
file.bak, save as file; 1: copy file to file.bak, write to file itself
25.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Auto-append extension of original file
when using "Save as"
25.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: "Save as" not working when the target
file already existed, even if the user confirmed overwriting
25.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Unified handling of backup file
(.bak): Create .bak only on FIRST save (of the original file), not on each save
25.03.07 Added: Wincmd.ini [Configuration] SpecialCursorMovement=0: New cursor
movement modes: 1: Left jumps to first file, right to last, 2: Left goes one dir
up, right opens dir/archive under cursor, 3: Combination of 1+2. Add 4 to enable
this mode also in custom columns view with horizontal scrollbar
25.03.07 Fixed: Overwriting of read-only files no longer worked when unpacking
(only skip)
25.03.07 Fixed: When leaving search result (feed to listbox) state, TC failed to
restore the preferred view (e.g. brief view) when the user had changed to a
different tab
25.03.07 Fixed: cm_ToggleSeparateTree2 only expanded the tree on the right side
23.03.07 Fixed: Delete directory: Files on the ignore list were not counted, so
the percentage could go over 100% when deleting these files too
23.03.07 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Language: Gray out "Edit" button when no
menu file name given
23.03.07 Fixed: Revert to full or brief view if loading of a custom view failed
23.03.07 Fixed: Suppress "list index out of bounds error" when a saved tab
contains invalid values, e.g. a non-existing custom columns view

21.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 release candidate 1 (RC1)


21.03.07 Fixed: Show "<Refresh>.<lnk>" command in Network Neighborhood only on
Windows Vista
21.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Don't show the context menu with Shift+F10 or
menu button while the left mouse button is down
21.03.07 Added: New icons for tcmadmin and tcuninst
21.03.07 Fixed: Deleting of files in the ignore list in subdirs couldn't be
confirmed with 'All' button
21.03.07 Added: Increased maximum length of "Search in" input field also to 2
kBytes, e.g. for specifying multiple paths separated by a semicolon ";"
21.03.07 Added: Increased maximum length of "Search in" string to 2 kBytes, to
support environment variables like %path%
20.03.07 Added: Do not update the treeinfo.wc file when adding/removing subdirs
and the tree file size is larger than 2 MB. This limit can be set in wincmd.ini
[Configuration] TreeUpdateLimit=2048 (in kBytes)
20.03.07 Fixed: Prevent the user from dropping a folder from outside of Total
Commander (e.g. Explorer) to a subfolder of itself
18.03.07 Fixed: Redraw ftp panel when switching secure status button on/off,
necessary for WinXP classic theme when theme background turned on
18.03.07 Fixed: Cache folder icons even if the folders have the default icon.
Necessary for CD and DVD drives where all folders have the "read only" attribute.
16.03.07 Fixed: cd *.txt on button in button bar didn't save the new wildcards
*.txt in wincmd.ini
16.03.07 Added: Log successful unpacking of CAB files. Note in Help that logging
of CAB-unpack errors isn't possible due to limitations of Microsoft's CAB unpack
interface
16.03.07 Fixed: CAB unpack: Didn't detect when target file already existed, but
was opened with deny-write rights
16.03.07 Added: FTP change attributes (CHMOD): Put cursor in numeric input field
by default
16.03.07 Fixed: ESC in CHM help file not working if the help doesn't contain
"Total Commander" in its title, e.g. Help with Russian locale
16.03.07 Fixed: Delay-loading of network neighborhood: Adjust column width in
brief view
16.03.07 Fixed: ENTER on file inside an archive was not working when there was no
key under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, e.g. because the user had used "open with.." to create
the association

14.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 4.6


14.03.07 Added: Vista: Use WinHlp32.exe if the file is larger than 50kBytes,
otherwise it's the empty dummy help -> use winhelp.exe
14.03.07 Added: Load Network Neighborhood in background thread, so plugins can be
accessed more quickly. Can be turned off via wincmd.ini [Configuration]
NetHoodInThread=0
14.03.07 Added: Use part of File-Split dialog also for the creation of multi-part
archives (ZIP, ARJ, RAR, ACE). For ZIP and ACE, the size will be rounded down to
the next kByte value
14.03.07 Fixed: Alias commands on the command line no longer supported numeric
values
14.03.07 Added: Network Neighborhood: New "Refresh" pseudo-file allows to refresh
network neighborhood by double click
14.03.07 Added: Network Neighborhood: Do not auto-refresh also on Vista
13.03.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Shortcut keys (underlined letters) not working
for search/replace boxes
13.03.07 Fixed: Ignore list: When deleting subdirectories, treat files on the
ignore list like hidden files. Show user a warning with remark ignore list=hidden.
13.03.07 Fixed: Lister search function: Auto-scroll found text into view
horizontally if invisible. Try to show start of line if possible.
13.03.07 Fixed: Vista: Do not call the 16-bit winhelp.exe on Vista 64bit, it isn't
there. Instead, the user will have to download winhlp32.exe from Microsoft
11.03.07 Fixed: Vista: Associations not working when created via "Open with...".
-> Support for new registry key "UserChoice"
11.03.07 Fixed: Create new comment with Ctrl+Z: Wrong behaviour (OEM font checked)
when no comment file exists even if OEM is off in settings
11.03.07 Fixed: Find files: When clicking in search results box below last find
item, a bad status line was shown
11.03.07 Fixed: Separate tree: click on [-] button while the current dir was out
of sight moved the current dir back into view
11.03.07 Fixed: Compare by contents: Don't show the right click context menu while
the left mouse button is down
11.03.07 Fixed: Environment variables in RedirectSection were only resolved when a
full path was given
09.03.07 Fixed: Removed creation of debugging file c:\treelog.txt (it was for
finding problems with separate trees)
09.03.07 Fixed: When using Applocale tool with East Asian languages, the file
names were cut off in many places. Reason: Bug in Applocale: WM_GETTEXTLENGTH
returns number of characters, not bytes!
09.03.07 Fixed: Out of memory when creating directories on a drive with a very
large treeinfo.wc file (with 388'000 lines) Reason: Fragmentation of memory ->
realloc larger blocks in one step
09.03.07 Fixed: Alt+F4 no longer worked in synchronize dirs (since adding quick
search)
09.03.07 Fixed: FTP connections in active (PORT) mode no longer worked

07.03.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 4.5


07.03.07 Fixed: Compare by content: When the inactive panel showed an archive
subdirectory and no file was selected, TC couldn't find the file with the same name
as in the active panel
06.03.07 Fixed: Compare by content with file in archive subdirectory, modify file
-> Re-packing packed to root instead of the correct subdir
06.03.07 Fixed: cd \\server\share: If connecting to the server fails, or the user
clicks Cancel, do not try to read the directory again (showing the password dialog
a second time)
06.03.07 Added: FTP: Auto-fallback to PASV mode from PORT mode if the server
reports an error like "Only client IP address allowed for PORT command."
04.03.07 Added: cd \\\Pluginname is now case-insensitive, so it works even if the
plugin root path is PLUGINNAME or pluginname
04.03.07 Fixed: cm_gotofirstfile didn't also move the position for selecting with
Shift+Click, so the wrong file range was selected
04.03.07 Fixed: Call ShellExecuteEx on ENTER also when no association found in the
registry, only in win.ini
04.03.07 Fixed: Recognize association where no default verb is set in the registry
04.03.07 Fixed: FTP: Empty directory after connecting when the other panel showed
the TEMP directory and watching directory changes
04.03.07 Added: FTPS: Command CCC in the "send commands" field allows to switch
the control connection to unencrypted after sending user name+password, e.g. for
PORT mode across a firewall
02.03.07 Fixed: Cursor was positioned on 2nd file in list when switching away from
TC and back
28.02.07 Fixed: FTPS: Didn't always detect when the server was offline
(disconnected)
28.02.07 Fixed: FTP: When connection was lost and user decided not to reconnect,
then the ftp connection wasn't removed from the separate tree
28.02.07 Added: Separate tree: Also load initial root view of tree in the
background, to speed up starting of Total Commander
28.02.07 Fixed: Separate tree: Don't try to get icon for ftp item, can cause long
delays
28.02.07 Fixed: Cache ToolTipDelay for button bar to avoid reading too much from
wincmd.ini
27.02.07 Added: Files - Split File: Remember user-defined split sizes (max 20) in
section [SplitPerFile]. Can be removed with Shift+Del
27.02.07 Fixed: Lister: When switching from audio/video view to text view, the
lister window was no longer resized to its normal size
27.02.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Checkbox "Confirm overwrites" was ignored for
file system plugins (the user was always asked for confirmation)
27.02.07 Fixed: Command selection dialog: Allow to choose commands with parameters
also when defining user-defined commands (em_xyz)
27.02.07 Fixed: Turning off auto-refresh in Configuration - Options - Refresh
didn't take effect immediately
27.02.07 Fixed: Second panel not refreshed after "create CRC checksums" if both
windows showed the same directory
27.02.07 Fixed: Case-insensitive search in UTF-8 not always working properly
25.02.07 Fixed: Double click on splitter bar in vertical arrangement made spitter
invisible
25.02.07 Fixed: Double click on splitter bar (cm_50percent) moved windows by a few
pixels compared to Ctrl+mouse move of the splitter (rounding errors)
25.02.07 Added: Ctrl+Insert in Synchronize dirs now also copies TAB-delimited list
of selected file names and file details to clipboard
25.02.07 Fixed: When dragging OLE objects to TC, like the URL from a browser, TC
tried to copy one more object than available
25.02.07 Fixed: Command selection dialog: Categories empty after opening nested
Command selection dialogs, because translation file was unloaded when closing the
dialog
25.02.07 Fixed: Shift+F4 new text file: Allow user to change/re-enter file name if
file creation failed, or file couldn't be opened for reading
25.02.07 Fixed: Shift+F4 new text file: TC still passed the short DOS names to
programs in many cases
25.02.07 Fixed: Show error message about error in plugin when there is an access
violation in the plugin function CanYouHandleThisFile
25.02.07 Fixed: IsPluginByContents() function stopped on the first packer plugin
which wasn't found
25.02.07 Fixed: cd directory\filename didn't place cursor on filename when already
in that directory
23.02.07 Fixed: Configure ignore list: Overwrite message shown even when nothing
was configured

21.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 4


21.02.07 Fixed: Double click on any window above separate tree (causing this
window to close) caused a directory change in the tree
21.02.07 Fixed: Unpacking of encrypted ZIP produced CRC error when the CRC was
stored behind the data in a separate header
21.02.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Memory leak when comparing by content where one
side was an encrypted ZIP archive
21.02.07 Fixed: Search in directories with Unicode names not always working

20.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 4 release candidate 1


20.02.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SortDirExt=1 re-enables sorting of
directories by extension (if sorting directories by name is turned off)
20.02.07 Added: Screen reader support to Find files (Alt+F7) result box
20.02.07 Fixed: Search function: Correctly save the non-maximized dialog size also
when closing the dialog in maximized state
20.02.07 Fixed: Search function: Resizing when starting the search not perfect
when maximized
20.02.07 Fixed: Internal ZIP: When creating multi-volume archive on the harddisk,
propose a size of 1423 kBytes, which is the real maximum of a 1.44MB Floppy disk
18.02.07 Added: cm_EditPermissionInfo etc. now also work with drive letters in "My
Computer". Unfortunately these functions are no longer available on Windows Vista.
18.02.07 Added: Ctrl+N new URL now supports URLs of up to 1kByte length (for HTTP
downloads with very long paths)
18.02.07 Added: Lister now supports a new lister plugin command ListSearchDialog
which allows plugins to show its own search dialog (e.g. for special plugin-
specific search parameters)
18.02.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ResolutionSpecific=0 -> resolution-
specific data like font style+size are stored in a single section called
[AllResolutions]
16.02.07 Fixed: Couldn't find anything in subdirs with a Unicode file name, even
if it had an alternate 8.3 name

14.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.7


14.02.07 Fixed: ESC in CHM help files wasn't working on Vista, because global
hooks aren't allowed any more -> use thread-local hook
14.02.07 Fixed: When pressing ENTER on a file on Windows 2000, XP and Vista, do
not search for the default verb, but pass a NULL pointer to ShellExecuteEx
14.02.07 Fixed: OPENBAR command now looks in the program directory if no path to
the bar file is given. The same also works when giving just the bar name in the
button bar
13.02.07 Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts were not working in main menu on Windows 95+95b
when using menu icons
13.02.07 Fixed: French+Italian language only: 'Save' dialog in compare by contents
showed invalid or empty buttons if both sides need to be saved
13.02.07 Fixed: HTML Help: ESC sometimes not working after switching languages
13.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: By putting one of the placeholders %P,%p,
%T or %t directly in front of %S or %s, the corresponding path will be inserted
with every selected file name
13.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s now support a
maximum command line length of 32kBytes, by using CreateProcess instead of
ShellExecuteEx. Only use these parameters with EXE files.
13.02.07 Added: Set time stamp from file name via attributes dialog (plugin
fields)! Example: Name "03.04.2005 1330.txt", use [=tc.Name:1-10] [=tc.Name:12-13]:
[=tc.Name:14-15] to set date+time from the name (on European systems)
13.02.07 Fixed: Invalid second progress bar when unpacking a TAR archive where the
occupied space of subdirs was calculated (e.g. with spacebar)
11.02.07 Added: OPENBAR command now allows to show button bar when it was turned
off, and hide it via an empty .bar file (e.g. no.bar)
11.02.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Ask before overwriting existing ignore list file
(only if the user has changed the name)
11.02.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Load ignore list from tcignore.txt if present, also
when not configured before

09.02.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.6


09.02.07 Fixed: Copying: When the creation of a directory fails, allow the user to
continue with the rest of the operation (the other selected files/dirs)
09.02.07 Fixed: Drag&Drop: Additional NTFS streams were not copied when dropping
files from outside of Total Commander (e.g. from Explorer)
09.02.07 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+Left arrow (go to previous word break) not working at
the end of a file
07.02.07 Added: Quick search in synchronize dirs. Only the modes Ctrl+Alt+Letters
and Letters with search dialog are supported. The latter is used in place of all
other search methods from the configuration.
07.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s accept numeric
value to limit the number of files. Example: %S2 passes the first two selected
files (maximum) to the called program.
07.02.07 Added: Button bar, start menu: New parameters %S and %s pass list of
selected files (long names/short names) to the called program. Note that the
command line cannot be longer than 8191 characters on Windows XP, 2047 on Windows
2000/NT, and 259 characters on Windows 9x
06.02.07 Fixed: Access violation when entering Network Neighborhood (in some
special cases only)
06.02.07 Added: Lister: Dynamically increase horizontal scroll width for lines
containing Tabs (if the text would exceed the available width)
06.02.07 Added: Button bar/Start menu: cd c:\path\filename.ext switches to
c:\path\ and positions cursor on filename.ext (except for archives, which are
opened as before)
04.02.07 Fixed: Memory leak in ARJ archive test/unpack function
04.02.07 Added: Allow to change directory date also via Change attributes - tc
plugin (not on Windows 9x/ME, here we just don't show any error)
04.02.07 Added: When external compare tool cannot be found, show error with the
path to the compare tool
02.02.07 Added: Ctrl+C in Synchronize dirs copies TAB-delimited list of selected
file names and file details to clipboard
02.02.07 Fixed: Configuration - button bar - Choose user command: User could
define an internal command em_xyz containing spaces, although spaces aren't
supported in internal commands
02.02.07 Fixed: Double click on split bar had some negative side effects (split
bar continued to move without pressing the mouse button)
02.02.07 Added: Internal command OPENBAR c:\path\barfile.bar opens this button bar
file in TC. Only works when TC already shows a bar, and the file can be found.

31.01.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 3.5


31.01.07 Fixed: Win9x/ME: Overwrite dialog shown when saving settings in various
dialogs even if no settings with that name existed
31.01.07 Fixed: Turn off inplace edit when ANY internal command is received
31.01.07 Fixed: Removed execution of internal commands by number in command line,
because it was causing a lot of confusion. Use the cm_ commands instead.
31.01.07 Fixed: After using "Change start menu", the icons were missing from the
menu
31.01.07 Fixed: Vista: Drive label showed only "CD Drive" instead of the volume
name, even when a disk was inserted
31.01.07 Fixed: Vista: Access violation when entering some dirs with admin rights
(as a non-privileged user)
30.01.07 Fixed: Remove inplace edit (for rename) when opening directory hotlist
(bookmarks)
30.01.07 Added: The file system plugin now supports names longer than 259
characters in the following functions: download, rename (source name only), delete.
The creation of such names is NOT supported.
30.01.07 Fixed: SYNCOPEN command (in button bar) couldn't restore sync options and
display options
30.01.07 Fixed: Don't close HTML help file on ESC when the search dialog was up
(Ctrl+F in the search window)
30.01.07 Added: Set current directory to the program directory before loading the
help file on F1
30.01.07 Fixed: Don't load HTML help on startup when a CHM file is given, only
when needed
28.01.07 Added: FTP over SSL/TLS: On servers which support encryption of the data
connection, it can be turned off via the "Send commands" field containing the
command "PROT C"
28.01.07 Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now supports case-sensitive
search. For space reasons, the option is shown just as ^ and described in a tip
window
28.01.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: After loading/editing the file names via an
external editor, keep the search+replace and upper/lowercase boxes enabled so the
user can apply them on the edited names!
28.01.07 Fixed: Find files - Shift+Click on "Feed to listbox" opened a new tab,
but didn't consider the option "Open near current"
28.01.07 Fixed: Access violation in Alt+Shift+Enter if file name in current path
exceeds 259 characters (including the path itself)
28.01.07 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compared files were deleted by mistake when a
configured external compare tool wasn't found
26.01.07 Fixed: Separate tree panels not updated on Ctrl+U (swap panels)
26.01.07 Fixed: When moving the last files from a long file list to a different
directory, the cursor was placed about 1 screen too high -> place it on the last
file instead
26.01.07 Fixed: Move multiple directories as admin failed after the first
directory
26.01.07 Fixed: Rename folders didn't show option "As administrator" if user
doesn't have sufficient rights
26.01.07 Fixed: Could not pass ftp path as right path parameter to new instance of
TC (because of the registration screen being in the way).
26.01.07 Added: Button bar: When dropping a file to a program on the button bar,
pass the long name instead of the short DOS name to the program (in double quotes
"" if needed) if the program isn't an old 16-bit program. If this causes problems,
put %p%n in the parameters field of the button
26.01.07 Added: Mouse wheel support in Print file list
26.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete was enabled in the command line when closing the
command line history, even when auto-complete was disabled in the configuration
26.01.07 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir mode: Function was turned off when leaving
archive via updir [..]
26.01.07 Fixed: Compare by content: Could not save file in a special case: After
typing text and saving the file, type some text without moving the cursor, then try
to save again (Reason: the text was combined into a single UNDO item)
26.01.07 Fixed: Configuration - Change start menu: Disable edit boxes when the
list of menu items is empty
23.01.07 Added: Lister and Compare by Content: Shift+Mouse wheel scrolls
horizontally
23.01.07 Added: Commands - Search: "Search in" field now supports environment
variables like %path%
23.01.07 Added: Log file: Store user name and computer of the user who started TC
22.01.07 Fixed: Icons in menus not working on NT4
21.01.07 Added: Changed way how the new overwrite dialog resizes when clicking the
"thumbnails" or "custom fields" checkbox: Resize so the top and left of the buttons
remain at the same location (top of the dialog moves up/down)
21.01.07 Added: When ThreadFindFirst=1, also put WNetAddConnection3 in separate
thread so cd \\10.0.0.5\share also shows a wait dialog
21.01.07 Fixed: Prevent the execution of the command line with RestrictInterface=2
if text gets there in any way
21.01.07 Fixed: secure ftp (ftps) URL as parameter to TOTALCMD.EXE wasn't working
when only 1 instance of TC was allowed and TC was already running
19.01.07 Fixed: Change attributes dialog now fully supports odd seconds in
timestamps ("Current" button, "Load from file under cursor", default loaded values)
19.01.07 Fixed: Change attributes dialog: Button "Load from file under cursor" now
also loads seconds from DateTime fields (e.g. CreationDate)
19.01.07 Added: Double click on divider bar between the two file panels moves
divider to 50:50 (center) position
19.01.07 Fixed: Enlarged text fields in Configuration - Options - Tabstops to give
more room for some translations
19.01.07 Fixed: With WatchDirs enabled, only update file listing if not currently
inplace-renaming a file. In this case, refresh the list only after closing the
inplace rename box.
19.01.07 Fixed: Icons were not removed from internal English main menu when
unchecking the option in the configuration
17.01.07 Fixed: Problem in selecting text in the F5 dialog with Chinese text
17.01.07 Fixed: Try to set current charset for main menu when using icons in menus
17.01.07 Fixed: Only set focus to TC after mapping a new network drive inside of
TC, but not when a drive is mapped outside, or when the right click menu is used
16.01.07 Fixed: cm_CopyFullNamesToClip copied drive letters in uppercase
16.01.07 Added: Confirm deletion of entry in saved searches
16.01.07 Fixed: Don't show two errors when trying to delete [..] item from file
system plugin
16.01.07 Added: Close help file when changing language if there is a language-
specific help. Fixes also a problem that ESC doesn't work in CHM help after
changing language.
16.01.07 Fixed: One separate tree, vertical arrangement -> moving splitter between
the two file panels caused wrong panel width in bottom panel
16.01.07 Fixed: Dual monitor operation: When enlarging search window for search
results, restrict size and location of window to current screen (do not stretch
across multiple screens, or move outside visible area)
16.01.07 Fixed: FTP connection wasn't removed from single separate tree if the
connection wasn't shown in the active panel when disconnecting
16.01.07 Fixed: Editing files in branch view with WatchDirs enabled would show the
file twice in the list if it was at least 2 levels below the current level
16.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete in F5/F6: If user starts path with a backslash,
suggest names from the current drive root
16.01.07 Fixed: Ignore list: Lines with backslash at end containing wildcard
didn't work, e.g. \WINDOWS\$*$\
16.01.07 Fixed: Cursor left in Lister sometimes jumped to the wrong position (when
the file buffer changed its starting point)
16.01.07 Fixed: Alt+F3 still tried to call the Windows QuickViewer applet if its
registry keys were present, although the program itself wasn't there
14.01.07 Fixed: Couldn't redefine hotkey NUM+ (without any modifiers like Shift)
14.01.07 Fixed: Lister, UTF8+HTML view: URLs were not shown highlighted when the
display buffer didn't start at the file beginning
14.01.07 Fixed: New F5 overwrite dialog: Left/Right arrow key could move the
cursor to one of the file information panels, although they are marked as "do not
focus"
14.01.07 Fixed: Catch floating point exception when plugin returns extremely high
numbers for file sizes (so the sum would exceed the available 64 bits)
14.01.07 Fixed: Cursor not staying on renamed file in branch view
14.01.07 Fixed: Only delete _tc subdir under TEMP when closing Total Commander,
also when opening archives

10.01.07 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 3


10.01.07 Fixed: Give the hidden Delphi Application window the style
WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW so it can never appear in the task bar
09.01.07 Fixed: Invalid free and total space shown in dirs visited "As
Administrator". Get disk size from the drive root instead in this case.
09.01.07 Fixed: Auto-complete showed subdirs from current dir for search
string ..\ (instead of dirs from the parent)
09.01.07 Fixed: The quick view panel wasn't deactivated when switching to
different drive using the drive button bar (only when using the drive dropdown
list)
09.01.07 Fixed: No [+] and [-] icons shown in tree with TreeLineColor=-2
09.01.07 Fixed: Lister: Could not jump directly to file with index>100
09.01.07 Fixed: Copy function: Open source file with "deny write" flag to avoid
that a file is overwritten by itself (e.g. when using hard links). If this fails,
open the source with deny none, but the target with deny read.
09.01.07 Added: wincmd.ini [Packer] PluginOverrideZip=1 allows to use packer
plugin which overrides the internal ZIP packer
07.01.07 Fixed: Close HTML help via ESC, minimize with Shift+ESC (by setting a
keyboard hook)
07.01.07 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Give controls a bit more space
07.01.07 Fixed: Wrong panel width in vertical arrangement mode with 1 separate
tree after showing+hiding the quick view panel (Ctrl+Q)
07.01.07 Fixed: Unpack in background with external packer showed "Error packing
files" in case of an error
07.01.07 Added: Unknown size is now stored as 64-bit -1 instead of 32-bit -1. May
cause wrong size display for plugins which expect that -1=unknown size
07.01.07 Added: Files in TAR archives can now be larger than 4GB
07.01.07 Fixed: Ignore any other hotkeys than Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab and
user-assigned hotkeys to cm_SwitchToPreviousTab and cm_SwitchToNextTab while in
delayed tab switching mode
07.01.07 Fixed: Problems starting programs with similar names containing spaces
from CD
06.01.07 Added: Checkbox for SSL/TLS to ftp connection details. Cannot currently
be translated (no shortcut either)
06.01.07 Fixed: ftp over ssl/tls: don't revert to unencrypted connection if server
doesn't support ssl/tls
06.01.07 Added: Look for certificates in wincmd.pem file in the same dir as
wincmd.ini (so the user has write rights and can append his own certs)
06.01.07 Added: Look for openssl libraries in path if not found in program
directory
01.01.07 Added: New version of tcmadmin.exe to follow hard links on Vista also in
directories accessible only to the admin
01.01.07 Added: Follow symbolic hard links on Vista
01.01.07 Fixed: Vista: focus loss after elevation prompt when working as normal
(non-admin) user
30.12.06 Fixed: Empty menus when wcmicons.dll is present but wcmicons.inc is
missing or empty
27.12.06 Fixed: Make sure that separate trees never take more space than the
left/right panel when using 2 separate trees
27.12.06 Added: Support for FILEDESCRIPTORW clipboard format (for Drag&Drop from
programs like Maxthon browser, which do not send the ANSI version of the format)
27.12.06 Fixed: When adjusting the cursor position because of WatchDirs mode, also
adjust start point for selection with Shift+Click
27.12.06 Fixed: Preferred view (e.g. brief view) lost when making a search while a
search result is shown (2x Feed to listbox)
27.12.06 Fixed: Icon Configuration: Menu icon size lost when switching to
different dialog page and back
27.12.06 Fixed: Delete from RAR containing spaces in name failing if short DOS
names are disabled in the file system
24.12.06 Fixed: Error message when accessing network neighborhood on Vista when no
network card connected, or card disabled via device manager
24.12.06 Added: Detect USB sticks also on Windows Vista (they have name _??
_USBSTOR<something> in the registry)

22.12.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 2.6


22.12.06 Fixed: Support environment variables in cm_list
22.12.06 Fixed: Menu: Reduce space reserved for checkmarks and icons if there is
only one of the two (or none at all)
21.12.06 Fixed: Force refresh if in custom columns view after using "change
attributes" function with plugins
21.12.06 Fixed: Copy files with path to clipboard: use ftps:// prefix for secure
ftp connections
21.12.06 Added: If libssl32.dll isn't found, load ssleay32.dll (the name given to
the dll when compiling it yourself)
21.12.06 Added: Icons in the main menu are now on by default. 1 MUST be added now
(even for type 2 menus) so TC can preserve menu options made in the configuration
dialog
20.12.06 Added: Made main menu items completely owner-drawn when showing bitmaps
in menus
20.12.06 Added: Custom columns view: New unit styles "bkMG" and "bkMG2" to show
file size in GByte (for files >1GB)
20.12.06 Fixed: Custom columns view: Unit styles "bkM" and "bkM2" for size showed
file sizes also in GBytes.
20.12.06 Fixed: Couldn't Drag&Drop files from outside of TC to empty space behind
last item in thumbnails view
20.12.06 Fixed: Vista: Start program with enter or double click from CD: Do not
use WinExec, it doesn't support elevation (run as admin)
20.12.06 Added: Call InitializeOLE2 before creating the main window, because of
problems with TortoiseSVN on Windows Vista
20.12.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Duplicate file warning on ftp (same name,
different case) did cut off long names
17.12.06 Fixed: Do not react to any internal commands (sent via PostMessage or
SendMessage) while the file context menu is up
17.12.06 Fixed: Only react to cm_contextmenu sent to Total Commander when TC has
the input focus. Otherwise an access violation may occur. Applications which want
to show the context menu need to activate TC first.
17.12.06 Added: Delete files which have a name with more than 259 characters
(however, we cannot enter directories with such long names)
17.12.06 Added: Directory history: Limit displayed path length to 100 characters
to avoid very wide menu (which doesn't even display on Win9x if wider than the
screen)
17.12.06 Fixed: CM_LIST with file as parameter could crash certain plugins when
the file name is passed without full path
17.12.06 Fixed: Brief view: The column width set via LB_SETCOLUMNWIDTH must be >0,
otherwise there will be a division by zero within windows! (can happen if listbox
has width of 0)
17.12.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: If redirection of system32 folder is turned off, it
will be temporarily re-enabled while reading from network paths
15.12.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeLineColor=rgb-value now also supports the
values -1 for default color and -2 for invisible tree lines
13.12.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 2.5
13.12.06 Fixed: Could no longer move a directory elsewhere if it contained a file
locked by another program. Copy+delete the dir instead of moving it directly
13.12.06 Fixed: Swap panels (Ctrl+U) twice where one side shows unlocked tab and
one locked with dir changes allowed -> unlocked tab shows wrong tab title
13.12.06 Added: Case-insensitive search for UTF8 text in the search function and
in lister (currently only the forward direction works with non-English characters)
13.12.06 Added: F7 Create directory: Suggest name of file under the cursor as the
default (minus the extension)
13.12.06 Fixed, Lister: In normal and UTF8 view, the cursor movement and the
selection of multi-byte text didn't work properly.
13.12.06 Added: Alias commands on the command line now also support numeric values
13.12.06 Added: User-defined custom commands (em_xyz) may now also contain numeric
values instead of the equivalent cm_xyz commands
13.12.06 Fixed: FsGetPreviewBitmap passed name in wrong (UTF8) format to plugins
12.12.06 Fixed: Cannot pause background copy/move when skipping all files
12.12.06 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir now also works when one side shows a directory
and the other an archive
12.12.06 Fixed: cm_SyncChangeDir: Turn off sync dir change when going up one
level, and one of the panels is already in the root
12.12.06 Fixed: Configuration - Colors: Disable "cursor font" label on startup
when none of the inverse options is checked
12.12.06 Added: When leaving a Tab which shows an inner archive (e.g. zip inside
zip), return to outer archive and put cursor on inner archive when returning to the
tab
12.12.06 Fixed: Tree and virtual folders: if the system returns a path in the form
of ::{GUID}, ask for the display name instead of the "for parsing" name
12.12.06 Added: cm_SyncChangeDir now also works with archives. The archive name
and type must be identical on both sides
12.12.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog showed the wrong custom fields when multiple
field types were defined via saved searches (e.g. >Comment)
12.12.06 Fixed: Lister: Image not centered (when this option was chosen) when
resizing or maximizing lister
12.12.06 Fixed: Create directory: Only save typed name in history when the user
clicked on OK, not when he clicked on Cancel
12.12.06 Fixed: ftps:// URLs didn't work as parameters passed to Total Commander
10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Separator line between main menu and button bar too
short if program spans across both screens
10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Moved various dialogs so they do not span multiple
monitors, but appear on the monitor where the larger part of TC is shown
10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Quick search dialog was positioned incorrectly in
some cases
10.12.06 Fixed: Multi-monitor: Show tooltips on the screen on which the mouse
cursor is currently located (Except for Ctrl+Tab folder tab switching)
08.12.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with archives: When unpacking, file attributes
like hidden or read only were not unpacked with the files
08.12.06 Fixed: When mapping a network share to a network drive, tc switched to
that drive, but the focus was lost
08.12.06 Fixed: cm_list no longer supported parameters in some places, and didn't
work with parameters in em_xyz commands
08.12.06 Fixed: Improved the wait dialog which appears when editing a file from
zip with a multiple document editor: F2 for background, Left+right arrow keys,
auto-scroll name box to see/copy entire name
08.12.06 Fixed: No file window was focused when starting TC minimized while the
stored position was maximized (TC restores to maximized then)
08.12.06 Fixed: Drive bar: With some XP themes, small drive letters like "i" in
the drive bar were not shown because GetThemeTextExtent reported an invalid value
06.12.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Incorrect handling of double byte
characters by DEL and BACKSPACE when nothing was selected
06.12.06 Added: Separate tree: Click on [+] or [-] only expands/collapses the tree
branch without switching to that directory (except when the current dir is a part
of the collapsed branch)
06.12.06 Fixed: Tab order in configuration - custom columns
06.12.06 Fixed: Less flickering due to resizing when creating search dialog
06.12.06 Fixed: Do not use this workaround with WindowBlinds, because it ignores
the custom menu bar background from Total Commander
06.12.06 Fixed: Workaround to Windows XP menu bar drawing bug when cleartype is on
and a theme background is used with a non-standard theme: make all menu bar items
completely owner-drawn
06.12.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Do not allow to mix (via re-sorting)
files added initially and manually (otherwise the initially added cannot be
downloaded any more)
06.12.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Re-sorting items in list caused the
wrong files to be downloaded if at least one file has already been transferred
06.12.06 Fixed: On Windows 9x/ME/2000, use the 16 color icon for the system tray
because these systems do not support any hicolor or truecolor icons
05.12.06 Fixed: Crash in lister when scrolling with cursor through file while the
file size was considerably reduced
05.12.06 Fixed: Sometimes a space was inserted before the name on Ctrl+Enter
05.12.06 Fixed: Resized search dialog a bit to make it work better with certain
themes
05.12.06 Fixed: Access violation on startup (Windows 9x only) with
DirTabOptions=955 (multi-line)
04.12.06 Added: Since no new bugs in WMF display have been found, re-enable
display of WMF files (windows metafile) when WMF Windows patch has been installed
03.12.06 Fixed: Do not load color cursors with shadows on Win2k with 24bit colors
mode (they will show up with a black border instead of a shadow)
03.12.06 Fixed: Search in packer plugins: Do not pass folders for extraction to
the plugin!
03.12.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] TreeLineColor=rgb-value set color of tree
lines
03.12.06 Added: Separate trees and trees in file panels now use the same default
color for lines as the frames in thumbnails view
03.12.06 Added: Expand selection (Num-"+"): When defining a new filter via
"Define" button, auto-select this filter after returning from the "define" dialog
03.12.06 Fixed: Refresh file lists when saving folder tabs to file
03.12.06 Added: Change attributes: Confirm overwrite when saving plugin parameters
03.12.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Confirm overwrite when saving multi-rename
parameters
03.12.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Confirm overwrite when saving sync parameters
03.12.06 Added: Search: Confirm overwrite when saving search parameters
03.12.06 Fixed: Ignore list: When using watchdirs and branch view, files and
folders on the ignore list could suddenly appear if they were changed outside of
Total Commander
03.12.06 Added: Support for Office 2007 File->New (create empty .docx document)
01.12.06 Fixed: Button bar: After converting a separator (no icon) to a button
with icon, the button wasn't accessible
01.12.06 Fixed: Auto-complete for current dir stopped working when typing any path
with backslashes -> use ACLMulti object where one ACList handles current dir and
one typed path
01.12.06 Added: Increased total number of color filters (colors by file type) from
100 to 250
01.12.06 Fixed: ZIP: Packing no longer supported encryption even with the
replacement zip library installed
29.11.06 Fixed: Unpacking to junction showed debug message
29.11.06 Fixed: Remove ftp connection from separate tree when disconnecting
29.11.06 Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextSelected and
cm_GotoPrevSelected to jump to the next/previous selected file in the current file
list
29.11.06 Fixed: Different method to load buttonbar icon from cache, to make it
work with Linux (Wine)
28.11.06 Fixed: More corrections for "Select only name in rename" for Asian
versions of Windows
28.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Do not disable checkbox "only selected" when
loading sync parameters. When "only selected" is checked, TC reverts to current
left+right dir
28.11.06 Fixed: Command choose dialog: Buttons to edit em_ commands not
shown/hidden when moving cursor while focus remains in quick search box
28.11.06 Fixed: wincmd.ini [Configuration] IconsWindowBlindsFix= allows to control
width of space reserved for icons: -1=auto-detect, 0=small width, 1=large width
28.11.06 Fixed: With IconsInMenus=17, reduce width of space reserved for icons,
except when WindowBlinds is installed
28.11.06 Fixed: Ignore IconsInMenus if not 1 or 2 contained in value
28.11.06 Fixed: User-defined file filters were no longer shown in the main menu,
only *.*
28.11.06 Added: Search window now has minimum size. Unresolved: Text in all boxes
gets selected on resize
26.11.06 Added: ZIP self-extractor now supports files up to 4 GB. Unfortunately
Windows cannot run EXE files >4GB
26.11.06 Fixed: Abbreviation for kBytes not translated in status bar of
synchronize dirs (when comparing by content)
26.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: Disable option "Search archives"
26.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: Search text in files didn't work
26.11.06 Fixed: Switch from folder tab with tree to full/brief view didn't turn
sorting header back on
26.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F8 Command line history and Ctrl+P (path to command line)
worked even with RestrictInterface=2
24.11.06 Fixed: By mistake, MODE Z transfers were disabled in TC7 beta
24.11.06 Fixed: Win9x: No text was shown for CD-ROM drives in Alt+F1 when no CD
was inserted
24.11.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Ctrl+Shift+F3 forces internal compare tool if an
external was defined in wincmd.ini
24.11.06 Fixed: When using icons in menus and switching to two separate trees, the
file list contents were sometimes drawn within the menu
24.11.06 Fixed: Do not revert position of splitter (and width of left+right
panels) to save position when switching between different views (brief, full etc),
just to last used width
24.11.06 Fixed: ftps:// prefix was not saved when adding connection via Ctrl+F -
New URL
24.11.06 Fixed: _tc subdir was still deleted when leaving lister - delete it only
when Total Commander itself is closed
24.11.06 Fixed: Do not show drive letter twice in root in folder tabs when using
different separator, e.g. just c: instead of c|c:
24.11.06 Fixed: Folder tabs sometimes showed drive letters in uppercase, e.g. C:
instead of c:

22.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 2


22.11.06 Fixed: Change Start Menu dialog: Parameters and Start Path fields
disabled for internal commands
22.11.06 Added: Lister: Shift+Click to select text from last selection position to
current position
22.11.06 Fixed: Alt+Left/Right both scrolled by 30 characters AND copied the
marked text to the other panel - turn off the first in edit mode
22.11.06 Added: For the moment, remove admin shares completely from tree, they
just do not work properly. May be re-added at a later time.
22.11.06 Added: Show checkmark for command cm_SwitchSeparateTree if one or two
trees active
22.11.06 Fixed: Some versions of external LZH unpacker (lha32) seem to ignore
target path if it doesn't end with a backslash \ -> append it
22.11.06 Fixed: ZIP to multiple parts: Cancel packing if user clicks cancel in
dialog box which asks about individual file size
22.11.06 Fixed: ZIP to multiple parts: User wasn't asked for part size when no
target path was given
22.11.06 Fixed: Logging stopped when log file itself was copied. Now stop logging
only if opening of log file fails during program start
21.11.06 Fixed: Icons in "Show" menu lost when changing any of the custom column
view options
21.11.06 Fixed: FTP delete directory: Cancel button shown only in half (the lower
part was obscured by the confirmation dialog, and not refreshed after closing it)
21.11.06 Fixed: Increased width of listbox with dir tabs by 1 pixel
21.11.06 Fixed: Reduced flickering when adding/removing first tab (Ctrl+T/Ctrl+W)
or when showing/hiding command line
21.11.06 Added: Add 16 to IconsInMenus value to show selected items in menu as
frames with checkmark or icon in it
21.11.06 Fixed: Choose better default color for frames around thumbnails when
background color is almost black
21.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Save button was active when one of the files
was missing, although nothing could be saved

20.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 1.6


20.11.06 Fixed: Redefined hotkeys with Alt worked also in other TC dialogs
20.11.06 Fixed: Access violation with some lister plugins when loading lister
20.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Hotkeys Alt+Cursor up/down go to previous/next
difference, Alt+Cursor left/right copy difference to left/right panel (or
upper/lower)
19.11.06 Fixed: Switching away from archive in archive to other tab didn't store
correct path if tab was locked with directory changes allowed
19.11.06 Fixed: Startup screen didn't yet use latest main icon
19.11.06 Fixed: cm_usermenu1 etc. were not supported on the command line, also not
via aliases
19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When re-packing a password-encrypted RAR archive to
ZIP and the crypto-enabled ZIP library wasn't installed, the ZIP was encrypted with
a fake key (3 times -1).
19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When choosing "archive on multiple disks", the
resulting dialog box wasn't modal, so the user could switch back to TC and select
different files...
19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F5 pack: When pressing Alt+F5 repeatedly, select
name+extension without trailing quote " if name contains spaces
19.11.06 Fixed: Redefined hotkey for cm_renamesinglefile wasn't used to select
only part of name
19.11.06 Fixed: Unpack function: Check whether admin rights could be needed fails
if target is a reparse point (junction), because GetFileSecurity returns the
security attributes of the reparse point, not of the target
19.11.06 Added: Change attributes: Setting attribute "compressed" now also works
for folders. It has the effect that files copied to that folders will be compressed
(but not files which were in that folder before, use the "also files in subdirs"
option for that
19.11.06 Fixed: cm_SelectCurrentName not working with spaces in name, or with name
without extension
19.11.06 Fixed: Hide drives in tree and in "My Computer" if a line allowed= exists
in wincmd.ini and the drives aren't explicitly allowed
19.11.06 Fixed: Parameter /T not working when no tab was open yet
19.11.06 Added: 256 color icons for buttons in compare by content (used in hicolor
and truecolor modes only)
19.11.06 Fixed: Main menu with icons: Do not reserve any space for icons if that
part of the menu doesn't contain any icons
19.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Didn't put cursor back on current directory after F2
refresh when directory brackets were turned on
17.11.06 Fixed: plugin function FsLinksToLocalFiles not working correctly with
Quick View (ctrl+q)
17.11.06 Added: Lister plugins: New function ListLoadNext to load the next file
with the same plugin, e.g. in Ctrl+Q or F3 when pressing 'n'
17.11.06 Fixed: Inplace rename: Cursor wasn't placed on renamed file when renaming
file on ftp server
17.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: "Synchronize" button was enabled while the
comparison was still going on
17.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Ask user whether he wants to overwrite a read
only or hidden/system file when saving
17.11.06 Fixed: Lister: When viewing file from plugin and closing lister, only
refresh file lists if file was re-uploaded or a local directory was shown
17.11.06 Fixed: Use internal function to add current time to log file (with the
system function, a leading 0 was sometimes missing)
17.11.06 Added: Lister: Show current file number and total file count in menu bar
when multiple files are loaded. A click on this menu item allows to jump directly
to a specific file
17.11.06 Fixed: Lister: "%" menu item was no longer right-aligned
17.11.06 Added: Hint to "Save" button in compare by content
15.11.06 Fixed: Commands like cm_SrcSortByCol1 didn't use bullets in the main menu
to signal that they are radio items (only one of them can be active at a given
time)
15.11.06 Fixed: Bugfix for WindowBlinds error: If icons in menus are enabled and
icons and checkmarks overlap, add 16 to IconsInMenus value (e.g. IconsInMenus=17)
15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: 0 byte file created in TEMP when viewing a found
file with F3
15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: "Search only selected files" wasn't working yet
15.11.06 Fixed: Search on FTP: couldn't find exact matches, only searches with
wildcards worked
15.11.06 Fixed: Button bar was black after restart on systems other than WinXP
with 32bit color mode

14.11.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 private beta 1.5


14.11.06 Added: Re-added tree for just one drive as in TC 6.55. It can be enabled
via wincmd.ini [Configuration] OldStyleTree=2
14.11.06 Fixed: Shift+F6 inplace rename: Ignore input when user closed rename box
with no name in it (empty)
13.11.06 Fixed: Support 32bit true color icons with alpha channel on XP for the
button bar (load from .br2 file produced image without alpha)
13.11.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+Shift+F3 forces internal compare tool if an
external was defined in wincmd.ini
13.11.06 Fixed: Lister: Don't delete "_tc" subdir after deleting temp file.
Reason: sometimes the dir may remain in "delete pending" state, so it cannot be
recreated during that time
13.11.06 Fixed: If FsGetLocalName returns false, e.g. when viewing a file in a
plugin, use the normal method (download then view)
13.11.06 Fixed: Tree shown in tabs not saved on exit when not on active tab
13.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: After "resync from here", re-count the number
of differences found
13.11.06 Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar not removed when switching from custom
columns view to full or tree view
13.11.06 Added: Various descriptions added to the help
12.11.06 Added: Experimental: wincmd.ini [configuration] IconsInMenus=1 shows
16x16 icons from wcmicons.dll in main menu. IconsInMenus=2 shows icons with button-
style border. Add 4 for 24x24 icons, 8 for 32x32 or 12 for 48x48
12.11.06 Fixed: Folder tabs: If option "show old 8.3 names lowercase" is used, all
uppercase tab titles couldn't be saved
12.11.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: New lines at the beginning of the custom fields
were ignored
12.11.06 Fixed: File tip window: increased limit of per custom field size from 259
to 1023 characters
12.11.06 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree: Ctrl+Cursor Up/Down showed wrong path in status line
12.11.06 Added: Old log files are now named totalcmd.20061111.log instead of
totalcmd.log.20061111 (same for numbered log files)
12.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Disable file name edit boxes while editing a
file (as soon as there is any change to the file)
12.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Save button to save the changed side(s).
Hotkey: Ctrl+S
12.11.06 Added: Compare by content: Ctrl+Z for Undo (in addition to Alt+Backspace)
10.11.06 Fixed: Button bar: Failed to load buttons from cache (.br2 file) which
only existed in 128x128 pixel format
10.11.06 Fixed: XP only: Various "File not found!" error messages when closing
lister
10.11.06 Added: Show button state for commands cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab and
cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab
10.11.06 Fixed: Configuration - Log file: Disable log file configuration sections
when logging is disabled
10.11.06 Fixed: cm_RightQuickInternalOnly didn't work like
cm_LeftQuickInternalOnly
08.11.06 Fixed: Improved name shortening function for copy progress dialog: first
take the drive and name part, then more and more directories until the limit of 60
characters is reached
08.11.06 Fixed: Double click on folder in separate tree didn't show its subdirs if
the tree was scrolled to the left
08.11.05 Added: Search on ftp servers
08.11.06 Fixed: Lister: Ctrl+Q on multiple audio or video files played only every
second file (same with 'n'/'p' keys)
08.11.06 Fixed: Lister: When reloading a file with F2, make sure that text cursor
isn't beyond the file length limit (could cause crash or hang)
08.11.05 Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] NewStyleProgress=2: use smooth Win32-
style progress bars in normal progress dialog (=1 -> segmented, =0 -> old style).
Only supported with classic theme.
08.11.06 Added: Shift+Click on primary sort column in sorting header (e.g. on
"Size" when sorted by size) makes list unsorted
08.11.06 Added: The following operations are now supported in directories with no
read access: Copy/Move from/to such directories, delete files and subdirs, create
subdirs
07.11.06 Added: Instead of granting the user full read access to a folder via
admin functions, just call FindFirstFile etc. inside of tcmadmin. This limits a lot
what can be done in such directories.
07.11.06 Fixed: FTP: Changing directory by editing current path and pressing Enter
no longer worked
07.11.06 Fixed: FTP: When duplicating a connection, e.g. by opening the same
connection also in the opposite window, also duplicate any used templates (for
custom server types)
07.11.06 Fixed: Wrong data buffer freed when changing custom field in overwrite
dialog, could lead to errors when TC was closed
07.11.06 Fixed: When using two separate trees, the black line shown while resizing
tabstop headers was at the wrong location (shifted to the right)
07.11.06 Fixed: State of button cm_SwitchWatchDirs incorrect on startup if
WatchDirs disabled
07.11.06 Fixed: WatchDirs: Only set caret index if absolutely necessary, e.g. a
file was added or removed before the caret index
07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: Just beep when user presses Insert
button (overtype mode isn't currently supported)
07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by contents editor: When clicking on "Copy ->" and some
text was selected, then the entire line was selected afterwards
07.11.06 Added: Compare by contents editor: When clicking on "Copy ->" and nothing
was selected, copy the entire line and beep to notify user
07.11.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: [y] with lowercase 'y' inserts 2 digit year
(uppercase Y inserts 4 digit year)
07.11.06 Added: 4 new internal commands: cm_SelectCurrentName,
cm_UnselectCurrentName, cm_SelectCurrentNameExt, cm_UnselectCurrentNameExt to
select/unselect all files with the same name or name+extension as the file under
the cursor (e.g. for branch view and FTP on UNIX servers)
07.11.06 Fixed: Compare by content: black splitter bar was no longer shown when
changing relative size of the two panels
07.11.06 Added: Special handling of Alt+Letter user-defined hotkeys: catch them
before they can get to the menu handler, so Alt+S doesn't invoke both the internal
command and open the Start menu
07.11.06 Fixed: Made new choose command listbox owner-drawn due to alignment
problems with right to left languages
07.11.06 Fixed: Quick view panel: Enable text cursor on Tab to the Quick view
panel
07.11.06 Fixed: F6 didn't toggle the text cursor in quick view panel (Ctrl+Q)
07.11.06 Fixed: cm_OpenDesktop, cm_OpenDrives etc. now also update the separate
tree (doesn't work with cm_OpenFonts and cm_OpenPrinters)
07.11.06 Fixed: When changing drive via command line by just giving the drive
letter (e.g. c:), the separate tree wasn't updated
07.11.06 Fixed: Archive in archive: When inner archive already existed in TEMP and
user didn't allow to overwrite it, the archive icon remained in "open" state
07.11.06 Added: Ignore list: An item with a backslash at the end explicitly hides
only directories with that name, e.g. html\ hides directories (but not files) named
"html" in all directories
07.11.06 Added: When both files wciconex.dll and wciconex.inc exist in the Total
Commander directory, TC will use these for new buttons instead of wcmicons.dll
07.11.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog, Option "Rename target file": If user cancelled
the new name request dialog, the entire copy operation was cancelled
07.11.06 Fixed: Two separate trees: Tree not updated for Ctrl+Cursor left/right
when using two separate trees, and the directory was transferred to the inactive
panel
05.11.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Access violation when choosing "Delete on both
sides" in empty results list
05.11.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button not redrawn correctly when option "Flat icons"
was unchecked
05.11.06 Added: Middle mouse button click on empty space in tab header adds new
tab
05.11.06 Added: Command line: em_xyz commands now also support command line
parameters, e.g. for external programs
05.11.06 Fixed: New internal command SYNCOPEN: If stored sync had no paths saved,
the sync dialog opened with two empty paths
05.11.06 Fixed: Date picker control in Attributes dialog: Focus lost when leaving
month overview. (Only way to fix was by sending a simulated mouse click to the
dialog...)
05.11.06 Fixed: Disable any hotkeys while Total Commander is minimized and a copy
dialog is displayed
05.11.06 Fixed: When ejecting a CD, the drive letter disappeared from the separate
tree!
05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] TabSwitchMode=1 turns on old Ctrl+Tab
switch mode: Jump directly to tab, not only when releasing the Ctrl key
05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] UpdateTreeAtStartup=1 determines
whether separate trees show entire path to current dir at program start or when
switching on separate tree (set to 1 for testing now)
05.11.06 Fixed: F5 copy: When specifying a new subdir below the source/target
which had to be created, e.g. c:\target\newsubdir\filename, the directory list
wasn't refreshed
05.11.06 Fixed: Slightly improved control alignment in F5 copy dialog
05.11.06 Fixed: Control distance in configuration - options - display - help texts
05.11.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] TabSeparator=: sets different separator
between drive letter and current directory name in tabs (default is a ":"). Only a
single byte character is allowed!
05.11.06 Fixed: Content plugins: DateTime values didn't work in any file filters
except for the main search function itself
03.11.06 Fixed: The following dialogs didn't use a user-defined icon from icon
library: Search, Tree, Change Start menu, Command selection dialog, Synchronize
dirs
03.11.06 Added: Copy dialog: Not only F5/F6 but also Shift+F5/F6 will select
separate name parts
03.11.06 Added: Pack dialog: F5 or Alt+F5 can now be used to select specific name
part (name with ext, name without ext, everything)
03.11.06 Fixed: Shift+F4 (create new text file): Error not always shown when a
folder with the same name already exists
03.11.06 Fixed: Lister plugins like SynPlus no longer had a text cursor on startup
03.11.06 Fixed: New Menu item "Select All With Same Extension" didn't do anything
when using internal English main menu
03.11.06 Fixed: F5 copy: If target is write protected (e.g. CD or floppy) and user
clicked on Cancel or Skip, the source file remained locked
03.11.06 Fixed: My computer: For free and total space, use size style defined for
footer, except when it's set to bytes or kbytes, then use x.x bkM mode (only
refreshed when switching to other folder and back)
03.11.06 Fixed: While singleclickstart=1, disable mouse move detection while quick
search dialog is up
03.11.06 Fixed: When changing tabs while separate tree is active, switch cursor to
active file panel
03.11.06 Fixed: Open archive in archive, switch to different tab -> archive
location lost. Solution: Switch that tab to the outer archive
03.11.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Cursor not always placed on "0:" item when showing
an ftp connection
03.11.06 Fixed: Configuration - Button bar: When deleting the last button, no
button was selected any more -> select last remaining button
03.11.06 Fixed: Ctrl+F3 (Compare) could be opened in overwrite dialog also in the
unpack function, although the source file wasn't available -> disable Ctrl+F3
01.11.06 Fixed: Quick search label "Search:" was not using user-configured font

31.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0 public beta 1


31.10.06 Fixed: Reloading of menu bar background on XP caused memory leak (GDI
object)
30.10.06 Added: Several missing topics added to Help: Separate tree, Thumbnails
and Hotkeys in overwrite dialog
30.10.06 Added: Compare by contents in synchronize function: Increased buffer size
from 32k to 1MByte
29.10.06 Fixed: Copy as administrator of single directory also asked for subdirs
within this dir

27.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a15 (alpha test version 15)


27.10.06 Fixed: FTP over SSL: Only try to load libssl32.dll and libeay32.dll, but
not ssleay32.dll (was causing problems to some testers)
27.10.06 Added: Windows 2000/XP: Verify signature of tcmadmin.exe, and warn user
if unsigned or bad (Windows Vista already performs such a check)
25.10.06 Fixed: "Search subdirectories" didn't have an underlined letter (for
hotkey) and wasn't described in the help
25.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64: Possible workaround to internal media player not
working with redirection off
25.10.06 Fixed: "bytes" not translated in ftp upload progress (was fixed in
download progress previously)
25.10.06 Fixed: Turned off autocomplete in print with subdirs (again, didn't work
in first fix)
25.10.06 Added: Autocomplete to encode and split dialog boxes
25.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64 with redirection off: fixes for ftp, http,
watchdirs, FindFirst in background
25.10.06 Added: Copy as admin: If user confirms to copy a single directory as
admin, also copy all files of that dir as admin (but not other dirs in the same
location)
25.10.06 Fixed: Memory leak (hbitmap) when recreating the main button bar was only
partially fixed

24.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a14 (alpha test version 14)


24.10.06 Added: Some new drive buttons (e.g. for removable drive)
24.10.06 Fixed: Unpack as admin to drive root not working (gives access violation)
24.10.06 Fixed: Lister with no plugins: Access violation when pressing 'n' key
with text cursor shown near the end of a very large file, when switching to a
smaller file
24.10.06 Fixed: Do not show dialog "Cannot access directory -> admin" when
refreshing or at initial start, only when explicitly trying to access a directory
24.10.06 Fixed: WantXPLook= in wincmd.ini will only be checked at program start
now (otherwise the menu bar could appear all black)
24.10.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: turn redirection of system32 folder back on in
various places before calling LoadLibrary
24.10.06 Fixed: If Shift+<some key> was defined for cm_GoToPreviousTab or
cm_GoToNextTab, this key combination caused a search result tab to duplicate itself
(which was of course not intentional)
22.10.06 Fixed: Inplace rename overwrote files without confirmation if they were
hidden via the ignore list
22.10.06 Fixed: XP only: Select files in inactive panel while quick search was up
didn't activate that panel
22.10.06 Fixed: Increased buffer for delete confirmation to show also very long
names
22.10.06 Fixed: Shift+F5 copy in place dialog didn't have hotkey for Tree button
(English only)
22.10.06 Fixed: Re-enable main program before closing "Drive not found" box to
avoid that Windows Vista steals the focus from Total Commander (untested)
22.10.06 Fixed: Temporary list file not removed when using button with parameter
%F inside of an archive
22.10.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs didn't show file sizes >4GB on FTP servers
20.10.06 Fixed: Change button bar loaded default bar when changing both the bar
settings (e.g. size) and bar name without making it the new default bar
20.10.06 Added: Restrict quick search window, tooltips and overwrite dialog to
current screen also when using multiple monitors
18.10.06 Fixed: Viewing file in ACE file in compare by contents left copy progress
window open
18.10.06 Fixed: Hotkey for "Commands" not working in Configuration - Misc
18.10.06 Fixed: "bytes" not translated in ftp progress dialog
18.10.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Copy buttons were enabled by mistake when no
comparison was made
18.10.06 Fixed: Memory leak (hbitmap) when recreating the main button bar
18.10.06 Added: Experimental: wincmd.ini [Configuration] ThreadFindFirst=1 moves
FindFirstFile to separate thread, so the user can abort reading from a hanging
network connection
18.10.06 Added: Allow user to install plugin to location where he has no write
rights, e.g. under c:\program files, via tcmadmin.exe
17.10.06 Added: When directory is inaccessible due to insufficient rights, allow
user to gain permanent read+execute+read_acl rights via tcmamin.exe
17.10.06 Fixed: Memory error in LookupAccountNameW
13.10.06 Fixed: Content plugins: Full text search didn't work correctly with
operators !contains and !cont(case) if contents longer than 1 kByte
13.10.06 Fixed: Thumbnails in overwrite dialog not always shown, e.g. when
starting with fresh ini with just ThumbsInDlg=1 in it
13.10.06 Fixed: Windows XP 64: redirection of system32 folder not turned off in
background threads (copy,delete,transfer manager,icon+thumbnail thread)
13.10.06 Fixed: Watchdirs: Cursor was sometimes placed on wrong file after
deleting a directory (reason: Watchdirs sets flag UpdateWhenActive causing
duplicate updating)
13.10.06 Fixed: Watchdirs problem: To watch changes in the root of e.g. drive c:,
need to specify c:\ and not c: alone (which will watch the current directory!)
13.10.06 Fixed: Buttons with images didn't have any focus rectangle when using XP
themes
13.10.06 Fixed: Lister: When searching, remove selection and put selection start
point at the cursor position behind the found text
13.10.06 Fixed: F3 inside desktop or other virtual folder: Not working when
viewing multiple files is the default, and nothing is selected
13.10.06 Fixed: XP only: Clicking on last item in separate tree selected the item
after it. The only way to prevent that seems to be to set the list top index back
to what it was before the button down click...
13.10.06 Fixed: Removed autocomplete from more dialogs where it's useless, e.g.
upload confirmation dialogs
13.10.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: User clicks on rename, then cancel -> the entire
file operation was cancelled. Instead, just return to the overwrite dialog now.
13.10.06 Added: Run as user now also works with users from the current domain,
even without specifying domainname\username
12.10.06 Fixed: Unpack files: Giving empty target path could cause out of memory
error (due to GetFileSecurity call failing on empty directory)
12.10.06 Fixed: F3+Shift+F3 no longer working in F5 overwrite dialog
12.10.06 Fixed: Removed autocomplete from print - with subdirs dialog box

11.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a13 (alpha test version 13)


11.10.06 Fixed: Strange name shown in Windows Vista admin dialog when starting
tcmadmin.exe -> added versioninfo resource with descriptive name
11.10.06 Fixed: When moving a directory from search - feed to listbox, only the
directory contents were moved, not the directory name itself
11.10.06 Added: When inplace-renaming in search results and another file in the
results is overwritten, remove that duplicate from the list (this isn't done when
renaming multiple files).
11.10.06 Added: When renaming/moving a file in search - feed to listbox, show the
new names even if they wouldn't be part of the search results. The list isn't
updated when using the multi-rename tool.
10.10.06 Fixed: Windows 9x: Disable overlay icons options (it's not available on
Windows 9x)
10.10.06 Fixed: Could not turn off 9th additional sort order via Shift+Click
10.10.06 Added: Windows XP 64: Allow user to turn off redirection of system32
folder: wincmd.ini [Configuration] x64disableredirection=1 (will be temporarily re-
enabled while loading a plugin)
10.10.06 Added: FTP client: Use MFMT instead of MDTM to set timestamp in sync (if
server reports to support MFMT in FEAT command)
10.10.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Left click on partially visible item at the bottom
didn't select that item, but the next
10.10.06 Fixed: Desktop in tree: Sort order different depending on whether it was
loaded at startup or later via collapse/expand
10.10.06 Added: Print file list: increased maximum possible number of pages from
1000 to 10000 (for people who print e.g. to PDF)
08.10.06 Added: Ctrl+F3 in new overwrite dialog opens compare by contents
08.10.06 Added: Unpack selected files to inaccessible directory as administrator
08.10.06 Added: Unpack all to inaccessible directory as administrator (unpack to
TEMP, move from there)
08.10.06 Fixed: (Again:) Closing window with double click over separate tree could
cause access violation on XP
08.10.06 Added: New tree: Show new drives when they arrive, and remove them when
they get disconnected (react to WM_DEVICECHANGE)
08.10.06 Fixed: Separate tree: When copying subdirectories, do NOT show them in
the separate tree except when the directory with these subdirs has already been
expanded
08.10.06 Added: Rename files/dirs as administrator, move files/dirs to other drive
as administrator if source or destination is not writable
06.10.06 Added: tcmadmin.exe: Terminate if no connection established within 20
seconds
05.10.06 Added: Edit (F4): Edit items on the desktop also from "All users"
location
05.10.06 Added: Lister (F3): View items on the desktop also from "All users"
location
05.10.06 Fixed: Standard input dialog: Only enable auto-complete if either the
tree button or the browse button is shown, to avoid auto-complete for entering user
names or similar
05.10.06 Added: Change attributes: Jump between field value edit boxes with cursor
up/down, comboboxes (e.g. for yes/no fields) with Shift+cursor up/down
05.10.06 Added: Change attributes: When loading settings via F2, set cursor in the
first value edit box instead of last

04.10.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a12 (alpha test version 12)


04.10.06 Added: New default.bar with different buttons like separate tree, the
multi-rename tool and synchronize dirs
04.10.06 Fixed: "Mark newer, hide same files" converted the displayed path to
lowercase by mistake
04.10.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog: Arrow icon looks incorrect on Windows 9x
(need to use monochrome mask bitmap for icon)
04.10.06 Added: Internal command selection box: Keys up, down, pageup, pagedown,
home and end now also work within the filter edit box
04.10.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AdminTimeout= determines after how
many seconds of inactivity tcmadmin.exe (used for copy/delete etc. as admin) is
terminated. Default: 180 seconds (3 minutes). Set to 0 to disable
03.10.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Position of divider was saved, but not
restored when re-opening the window
02.10.06 Fixed: Bug in packer plugin interface: Search text in plugin called
ProcessFile twice, once with PK_SKIP and again with PK_EXTRACT...
01.10.06 Fixed: WantXPlook=0 no longer had any effect
01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: Searching in UTF-8 view selects wrong text in first line
(due to UTF-8 marker at the beginning of the file)
01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: Copy to clipboard from UTF-8 file damages last character
01.10.06 Fixed: Moving the cursor over the separate tree panel could mark the root
(Desktop) as selected
01.10.06 Fixed: XP Closing program by double clicking while cursor is above
separate tree panel could cause an access violation
01.10.06 Fixed: Click on empty space in separate tree could select some random
item
01.10.06 Fixed: Lister: In text file containing <lf><cr><lf> sequence, could not
scroll up with text cursor beyond this point
01.10.06 Added: Show shield icon on "As admin" buttons under Windows Vista
27.09.06 Added: (experimental) copy to protected directories as Administrator (via
an extra program). Also supports move, delete, mkdir, rmdir
26.09.06 Fixed: Show old 8.3 names uppercase - not working for files in subdirs of
branch view (Ctrl+B)
26.09.06 Fixed: Prevent Ctrl+T during Ctrl+Tab
26.09.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+W (delete tab) while switching through tabs with
Ctrl+Tab could switch to wrong directory
26.09.06 Fixed: Edit mode in Compare by content, click again on Compare -> copy
buttons not enabled although still in edit mode
26.09.06 Fixed: Dialogs for waiting for multiple document editors (F4) to be
closed were only hidden, not deleted
26.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: F3 opens upper file in lister, Shift+F3 the
lower. With Alt, open lister without plugins
26.09.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Backwards search (Shift+F3) could crash when
reaching the beginning of the file
26.09.06 Fixed: New overwrite dialog: Resize dialog when user adds/removes custom
fields
26.09.06 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Click on thumbnail, use cursor left/right to go
to other thumbnail within _same_ line, Shift+Click on other thumbnail -> wrong
files selected
26.09.06 Fixed: Clicking on F5 button and pressing F5 at the same time opened copy
dialog twice, sometimes resulting in an access violation. Same for F6, F7, F8
(irrelevant for F3 and F4).
26.09.06 Fixed: Search in compare by content: If a search string appeared multiple
times on the same line on both sides, it would be found multiple times on F3
26.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: When the user clicks a button while
thumbnail extraction is still going on, remove thumbnails from queue and wait up to
5 seconds until current extraction finishes
24.09.06 Fixed: Right click in overwrite-dialog, open lister -> right click menu
stopped working
24.09.06 Added: "My computer": Separate drives from folders (sorting)
24.09.06 Fixed: Packer plugins: Shorten path received via callback also for pack
function, not only for unpacking
24.09.06 Fixed: Change attributes dialog: Width of fields not correct when adding
more than 4 lines
24.09.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Allow to load/save settings of plugins
section
24.09.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Pressing F2 after loading new names from file
caused an error

22.09.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a11 (alpha test version 11)


22.09.06 Added: Search function right click menu now also supports to view the
file with lister
22.09.06 Fixed: Better sorting of separate trees: consider sorting options like
natural sorting, and separate drive letters from other virtual folders like the
control panel
22.09.06 Added: Suggest lowercase .lnk extension on Ctrl+Shift+F5 if more than one
file/dir is selected
22.09.06 Added: Button bar: Load image from .ico files via LoadImage instead of
ExtractIconEx, allows to load sizes like 24x24 pixels
22.09.06 Fixed: Drop to TC file lists stopped working when Alt+Tabbing to other
program during Drag&Drop
22.09.06 Fixed: Branch view, Download in background to a _subdir_ within the
branch, watchdirs on -> file appears multiple times
22.09.06 Fixed: FTP download from list: URLs in the form
user@server@ftp.servername.com/file.ext didn't work (here, the second @ must be
used!)
22.09.06 Added: FTP client: Allow to store account password in wcx_ftp.ini. The
entry acct=<scrambled account password> must be added manually (copy+paste from
another password line)
22.09.06 Fixed: FTP client: Show *** when typing in account password (ACCT
command)
22.09.06 Fixed: Improved way to detect drives where the setting of the file
timestamp fails: Remember if it fails even once, and also reset option each time
copying to a network share starts
20.09.06 Fixed: [=tc.xyz] fields not recognized correctly in change attributes
dialog
20.09.06 Fixed: SortUpper option was stored incorrectly when switching to a
different page before closing the config dialog
20.09.06 Fixed: Ignore list was not used by WatchDirs function, so files/dirs
which are normally hidden could suddenly appear if they changed
20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Better resizing to make the preview and
additional fields fit into the dialog
20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Allow user to define custom fields (e.g. image
dimensions) using a plugin
20.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Right click on preview image or small icon opens
normal file context menu
19.09.06 Added: F5 copy dialog: Allow user to remove no longer needed file filters
with Shift+Del
19.09.06 Fixed: Text input dialog may now also use underlined characters (e.g. in
Search - Save search)
19.09.06 Fixed: Configuration: Quick Search - "Exact name match" not saved with
Apply/OK.
19.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: resize dialog width to smaller size if the path
of the file names is smaller
19.09.06 Fixed: Special handling of right click on [..] -> show right click menu
of _current_ directory
19.09.06 Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop and Ctrl+Shift+F5 can now also create
shortcuts on virtual folders like the desktop
19.09.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager, overwrite dialog: After choosing
"compare by content", the main TC window was disabled
19.09.06 Added: Packer plugins: Shorten path received via callback so it fits into
the progress dialog
19.09.06 Added: Pack dialog: Always show encrypt option, but disable it for all
packers except for ARJ, RAR, ACE and plugins with PK_CAPS_ENCRYPT. It's also
disabled for ZIP, except when the encryption dll is there
19.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: Always center the direction arrow
horizontally (not between the images)
19.09.06 Added: New overwrite dialog: Resize buttons when switching on preview
thumbnails
19.09.06 Added: Command line parameters: Accept paths in the form
file://c:\windows or file://c|/windows or file://\\server\share\dir
19.09.06 Fixed: Save selection to file/load from file: Look in current directory
by default
17.09.06 Fixed: F2 not working properly in Lister for UTF8 and Unicode (UTF16)
files, lines beyond the previous last line couldn't be scrolled into view
17.09.06 Fixed: Overwrite dialog: Use same background color for preview as for the
main window
17.09.06 Added: Drag&Drop cursors now don't have a shadow if cursor shadows are
disabled in the system
17.09.06 Added: Drag&Drop cursors now also have shadows on Windows 2000 in
truecolor mode (it doesn't work properly in hicolor)
17.09.06 Added: Send WM_COPYDATA with dwData='E'+256*'M' and lpData pointing to
em_xyz internal command (0-terminated) to execute that command. Accepts parameters
separated by a space

15.09.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a10 (alpha test version 10)


15.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: <spacebar> now acts the same as a click on the
direction checkbox, <shift>+<spacebar> like a double click
15.09.06 Added: Support for accessibility tools (e.g. for blind users) to main
lists+separate tree+sync+CD-Tree, allows to retrieve current line via LB_GETTEXT
15.09.06 Added: New event contst_showhint sent to content plugin when hint window
is shown with data from that plugin
15.09.06 Fixed: Inhibit Tab change with Ctrl+Tab when tabbing to ftp tab and the
server hasn't finished updating the list yet (otherwise the ftp dir is shown in the
next tab!)
15.09.06 Fixed: Host define dialog (Alt+Shift+Enter) not working if caching of
visited directories disabled
15.09.06 Fixed: Host define dialog was resizeable, but the controls didn't follow
the resizing -> make it fixed size
13.09.06 Added: 16 color bitmaps for new overwrite dialog
13.09.06 Added: Change attributes: When calling the content plugin editor with a
single file, pass that file's value to the plugin
13.09.06 Added: If a copy progress or search dialog is active and something
changes (WatchDirs set), then refresh the file list when the dialog is closed
13.09.06 Added: New drag cursor with shadow (Windows XP only)
13.09.06 Added: Lister configuration: Path to Irfanview/Xnview now supports
environment variables
13.09.06 Added: New internal pseudo-environment variables %$MYMUSIC% and "%
$MYVIDEO% - they seem to work on Windows XP only, though.
12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show overlay icons with a good sign for the file
which is kept, and an X for the file which is overwritten
12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show arrow to indicate which file will overwrite
which
12.09.06 Added: Overwrite dialog: Show icons if there are no thumbnails
10.09.06 Added: Packer plugin interface can now support encryption
10.09.06 Fixed: Ctrl+F, Edit -> Keep alive command was selected
10.09.06 Added: <DIR> and <LNK> are translatable now, but limited to max 7
characters including the <>
08.09.06 Added: Show preview images (thumbnails) in overwrite dialog (must be
turned on by the user)
08.09.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop of folders from outside of TC causes TC to hang when
selecting "Abort"
08.09.06 Fixed: Tab order in compare dialog is more logical now
06.09.06 Fixed: XP: base line of text in checkboxes and edit boxes not identical
06.09.06 Fixed: Do not change cursor to wait cursor when watching directory
changes and the option "update header" is on
05.09.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: when comparing two archives via external sync
tool, TC marked all equal files with a '?' after the sync tool was closed
05.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: when comparing via external sync tool, handle
situation when sync tool had already been open
05.09.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: when comparing via external sync tool, refresh
list when files have changed
05.09.06 Fixed: Paths were not shortened in compare by content progress dialog
05.09.06 Added: Improved function used to shorten long names in progress dialog:
Shorten dir name just before file name instead of cutting off file name
05.09.06 Added: The Ctrl+D directory hotlist now supports also numeric internal
commands, e.g. 2010 instead of cm_switchlongnames
05.09.06 Added: Documented new Alias commands in help
05.09.06 Added: wcx_ftp.ini [General] PreventFEAT=1 allows to turn off the sending
of the FEAT (features) command (some proxies hang when the command is sent)
05.09.06 Fixed: Minimized synchronize or search dialog prevented Windows from
shutting down
03.09.06 Added: Lister now auto-scrolls also horizontally when selecting text with
the mouse (but not both horizontally and vertically at the same time)
03.09.06 Fixed: Wrong display after Brief view -> Search -> Feed to listbox ->
Custom columns view -> Refresh
03.09.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Sometimes two items could get highlighted (if the
tree was expanded above the highlighted item)
01.09.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop of EXE to button bar added icon with short dos name if
the program was written in uppercase
30.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: F5 not disabled even when the reload button was
disabled
30.08.06 Fixed: Moving cursor in separate tree with pressed left mouse button
didn't correctly update active item if cursor outside of tree area
30.08.06 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Changes not saved when choosing a
file system plugin from the list
30.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop (with shift if right selection mode)
didn't work to virtual folders in (separate) tree
30.08.06 Added: Internal command selection dialog: If invoked via
cm_CommandBrowser, clicking Shift+OK copies entire line like Ctrl+Shift+C
30.08.06 Added: Internal command selection dialog: Ctrl+Shift+C copies entire line
(including numeric value and description), Tab-delimited.
30.08.06 Added: Quick search in separate tree: ENTER opens selected directory, ESC
jumps back to previous, INSERT stays on new dir, but only opens if configured to
auto-open
30.08.06 Added: Quick search with letters only now also works in separate tree
29.08.06 Added: Quick search with Alt or Ctrl+Alt now also work in separate tree
(letters only to be added)
29.08.06 Fixed: Turn off inplace rename when switching folder tabs
29.08.06 Fixed: Show hourglass and disable button while compacting thumbnail
database
29.08.06 Added: Alias commands on the command line support a command placeholder
%A in the command definition, e.g. %A %N will be replaced by the parameter typed by
the user, followed by the current file name under the cursor
29.08.06 Fixed: Winhelp: Missing menu image in multi-rename tool topic
26.08.06 Fixed: Closing multi-rename tool with double click caused access
violation on XP only when the left separate tree was below the double click
position
25.08.06 Added: Ctrl+Space now also supported in path inplace edit
25.08.06 Added: Do not close inplace rename on Ctrl+Home/End
25.08.06 Added: Date-time picker controls in change attributes now also work with
the keyboard
25.08.06 Added: When focus lost during Ctrl+Tab, cancel tab switch operation
25.08.06 Fixed: Directory tab Drag&Drop couldn't be aborted with ESC, although the
cursor changed its shape accordingly
25.08.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Made top section 3 pixels higher to fully show
focus rectangles around checkboxes
25.08.06 Fixed: Added: Alias commands now support parameters, which replace
parameters of the command. Example: np points to em_notepad which starts
notepad.exe -> np test.txt starts notepad with test.txt as parameter
24.08.06 Fixed: New configuration option "Alias" not translatable

23.08.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a9 (alpha test version 9)


23.08.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Always open "+" button context menu
below the button
23.08.06 Added: Translation of special keys in Configuration - Options - Misc.
23.08.06 Added: Ctrl+Shift+F5 create shortcut: Suggest complete name if a single
directory is selected
23.08.06 Fixed: Disable some more options in configuration when they have no
effect (e.g. some icon options)
23.08.06 Added: Show background of current dir in separate tree with second
background color
23.08.06 Added: Show background of separate tree in first background color only
22.08.06 Fixed: Dropping a virtual folder to the button bar also mostly didn't
work, e.g. when it pointed to a folder with file target.lnk in it
22.08.06 Fixed: Trying to add virtual folders like the desktop to the Ctrl+D menu
added a wrong directory
22.08.06 Fixed: Center overwrite dialog over the TC window
22.08.06 Fixed: When background transfer manager shows overwrite confirmation
dialog, and a dialog is already open in the main TC make the overwrite dialog the
child of the already open dialog
22.08.06 Fixed: Search function: Limit length of text search input field to 127
characters when using Unicode search (the search functions support a maximum of 255
bytes)
22.08.06 Fixed: When trying to delete the directory under the cursor, but it
fails, leave the cursor on the directory and do not go to the next below
22.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Multiple choice values were not translated
(e.g. tc.filetype)
20.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: New icon for >> button
20.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: >> button showed menu at wrong location when
button invoked via keyboard (spacebar)
20.08.06 Fixed: Custom columns configuration for file system plugins: "Switch to
this view when using this plugin" is missing when adding a new custom columns view
20.08.06 Fixed: Lister: Hide caret (blinking text cursor) when switching from text
view to bitmap/multimedia view
20.08.06 Fixed: Gray out menu items in lister which aren't currently applicable
(cannot be done correctly with lister plugins)
20.08.06 Fixed: Buttons in edit dialog with checkboxes (e.g. rename/copy em_xyz
command) weren't right-aligned
20.08.06 Fixed: When activating two separate trees with cm_SwitchSeparateTree,
make sure that the trees don't appear in front of an open quick view panel
18.08.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Wrong item selected when moving cursor with mouse
while automatic tree change is off
18.08.06 Added: Content plugins: New function to support custom value editors
(like the internal date/time editor) in Files - Change attributes
17.08.06 Added: New cursor for dragging tabs
15.08.06 Fixed: Change attributes: When changing comments, the wrong comment file
was created with the following comment options: files.bbs, read from both
15.08.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Wildcards (*.* etc.) are only saved if the field
isn't empty (there is no checkbox for it, though)
15.08.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Allow user to not save the paths, just the
options
15.08.06 Added: Change button bar dialog: Disable edit boxes for parameters and
start path and set to empty when the command field contains an internal command
(cm_xyz or em_xyz)
15.08.06 Added: Extended commands em_xyz now also support internal commands, e.g.
em_editor calls cm_edit (with user-assigned icon)
15.08.06 Added: Alias commands are defined via Configuration - Options - Misc
15.08.06 Added: Command line now supports alias commands, e.g. type ls -> cm_list
is invoked
15.08.06 Added: Command line now supports internal commands cm_xyz and em_xyz
14.08.06 Fixed: Wrong error message when renaming a file with Shift+F6, and a
directory with the target name already exists (wrong path was shown)
14.08.06 Added: Shift+F4: Warn if a directory with the specified name already
exists
14.08.06 Fixed: Drive buttons had become 1 pixel wider than in TC 6.5x (this was
not intentional)
14.08.06 Added: New color cursors without white borders (drop forbidden and
external links)
13.08.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] DropExtensions=0 allows to turn off
Drag&Drop Explorer extensions for right mouse button Drag&Drop
13.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop: Also look in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder key, some shell extensions don't add themselves to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory or Drives
13.08.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right in command line now also works when entire
text selected (although a bit different from other edit boxes, because the cursor
position can neither be set nor retrieved)
13.08.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right in command line now also stops at
underscores
13.08.06 Fixed: Do not create a new auto-complete object when changing auto-
complete options, but use interface IAutoComplete2 to change options
13.08.06 Fixed: Tab order in lister print configuration dialog
11.08.06 Added: Right mouse button Drag&Drop now also accepts the separate tree(s)
as the target (only to real directories, not virtual folders for now)
11.08.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Some error messages showed "FTP" in
the title even for local file operations
11.08.06 Fixed: FTP connect dialog: Initial position wasn't centered on TC window
(on all subsequent calls, the last used position is restored)
11.08.06 Added: Minimum size of command selection dialog and ftp connect dialog
11.08.06 Added: Command selection dialog: Show buttons to add/change extended user
commands also in category "All" when in the relevant section(s)
11.08.06 Fixed: Lister, font configuration dialog, didn't save OEM charset (255)
when chosen
11.08.06 Added: New internal command cm_CommandBrowser opens command selection
dialog. Clicking OK copies the command name to the clipboard
11.08.06 Added: Command selection dialog now remembers last position
11.08.06 Fixed: Cursor down in user command change dialog could open another
instance of the command selection dialog, resulting in a crash on close

09.08.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a8 (alpha test version 8)


09.08.06 Fixed: Print margins dialog: Didn't support underlined characters for
hotkeys
09.08.06 Fixed: Win9x: Show error if user tries to set encrypted attribute
09.08.06 Fixed: Right mouse button Drag&Drop: Do not show "Create shortcut" and
Explorer Drag&Drop extensions if the target is an archive
09.08.06 Fixed: Using watchdirs can cause an access violation if the file list is
initially 100% empty (not even a [..] item, e.g. in a drive root)
09.08.06 Fixed: WipeDir= line in wincmd.ini not working for temp dir _tc, only for
the old $wc
09.08.06 Fixed: Various items missing in the help, section wincmd.ini
09.08.06 Added: Automatically create non-existing folder in copy/move function if
path given in any of the following ways: c:\notexisting\ c:\notexisting\*.*
c:\notexisting\file.ext notexisting\ notexisting\*.* notexisting\file.ext (appended
file name only when copying a single file)
08.08.06 Added: 256 color cursors for Drag&Drop (just the attached part of the
cursor)
08.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Reload result button wasn't working when
renaming files from branch view subdirs, or from a search result
06.08.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, >> button: "Edit names" menu item was missing
if default editor was notepad
04.08.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Replaced frame around change date by a
groupbox for correct theming on XP
04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter and /T, create a new tab
for the passed path
04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter, and the current tab is
locked (no dir changes), create a new tab for the path parameter
04.08.06 Added: When TC is started with a path parameter, and the current tab is
locked with directory changes allowed, switch to the new dir, but keep the saved
dir as locked root
04.08.06 Added: Made Ctrl+F connect to FTP resizable
04.08.06 Fixed: File list wasn't refreshed after Mark - Save selection to file
02.08.06 Added: Separate tree: Auto-scroll horizontally to ensure best visibility
of current directory
02.08.06 Fixed: Use configured main icon also in background
copy/move/delete/zip/unzip etc. dialogs
02.08.06 Added: Workaround to files.bbs creation for systems where alternate DOS
file names are disabled. Will not work with files with spaces.
02.08.06 Fixed: Winzip disliked some of the zip64 headers created by Totalcmd7
(for files >4GB in zip files)
02.08.06 Added: Increased maximum command line length for external packers to 1
kByte to handle long TEMP paths
02.08.06 Fixed: Wrong custom column width when changing widths via "configure this
custom column view" when a separate tree is displayed
01.08.06 Added: Auto-complete to Start menu and Directory menu configuration
dialogs
01.08.06 Added: Change attributes dialog: Only show plugins which support field
changes. Attribute flags are cached in the wincmd.ini together with the timestamp
of the plugin to detect updates
01.08.06 Added: Buttons to the command selection list to add user-defined commands
to the usercmd.ini and wcmd_lng.ini files
31.07.06 Added: Tab and Ctrl+Space now also work in inplace edit of current path
and when renaming a single file
31.07.06 Fixed: Configuration - Folder tabs: Check option "limit length" when user
edits length limit number
31.07.06 Fixed: Attributes dialog: Only check option "Change date/time" when user
changes something in the date field, not when the cursor justs gets to this field
30.07.06 Added: Configuration - Button bar: Place cursor on last item of the bar
30.07.06 Added: Adding an EXE without an icon to the button bar now uses icon Nr.
3 (blank window) instead of Nr. 2 (DOS window), both for Drag&Drop and for adding
via >> button
30.07.06 Added: Button bar: Changed order in which tooltips are chosen: 1. User-
defined tooltip, 2. Command description from wcmd_lng.inc (English: from
totalcmd.inc), 3. Same command from main menu, 4. cm_xyz without the prefix cm_
30.07.06 Added: Show user commands em_xyz from usercmd.ini and wcmd_lng.ini in
internal command selection dialog (button bar, start menu, hotkey configuration)
25.07.06 Fixed: Moved all calls to enable auto-complete from OnShow to OnCreate
handler to avoid infinite loop crash on Windows 98 (original)
23.07.06 Added: Read em_xyz commands from wcmd_lng.ini (where wcmd_lng is the base
name of the selected mnu file) if not found in usercmd.ini, allows custom mnu files
with user-defined commands
23.07.06 Added: em_xyz commands can be used in the button bar, main menu, start
menu, directory menu and for hotkeys
23.07.06 Added: Support for user-defined commands em_xyz: usercmd.ini in same
directory as wincmd.ini, with entries like this: [em_notepad] cmd=notepad.exe
param=%P%N path=c:\windows iconic=0 (same as in .bar file, but not numbered)
23.07.06 Added: Pack-dialog: Don't revert to ZIP when checking encrypted option
for RAR, ARJ and ACE archives
23.07.06 Added: When resizing the multi-rename tool, also resize the name and
extension boxes, not only search+replace
18.07.06 Fixed: When using custom icon size like 24x24, the displayed icon
background could reach into the next line
18.07.06 Fixed: Saved searches: Removed limit of 8 kBytes for all headers also in
copy dialog and select/unselect files (note: these dialogs require the
*_SearchFlags entry to be present to work)
18.07.06 Fixed: Folder shortcut showed arrow icon instead of folder icon. Show
default folder icon instead.
18.07.06 Added: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now stops at the following characters
instead of just the backslash: \/ .-
14.07.06 Fixed: Change attributes, custom fields: Wrong field width if adding so
many buttons that the vertical scrollbar appears
14.07.06 Fixed: Logging of file creation with Shift+F4: didn't log full path,
logged dot at end if no extension used
14.07.06 Added: Right mouse button drag: Show default Drag&Drop operation "Copy"
in bold
12.07.06 Fixed: Show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if the
folder doesn't have a special icon was only working for small 16x16 icons
12.07.06 Fixed: Command-line history still not working correctly when auto-append
enabled
11.07.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a7 (alpha test version 7)
11.07.06 Added: Installer: Recognize also other active languages than English,
German and French, also custom language files if _xyz.lng is used in the name
11.07.06 Added: 48x48-size main icon
11.07.06 Added: New synchronize history icon added in hicolor and truecolor modes
11.07.06 Added: New browse command icon in change button bar, start menu and
hotkey dialogs
11.07.06 Fixed: Button bar two pixels too high when using small icons and XP style
off
11.07.06 Added: Control how the Tab key works in the command line when auto-
complete is enabled: [configuration] AutoCompleteTab= 0: Tab switches to active
file list; 1: Choose next file from auto-complete, as '0' if nothing to complete;
2: Choose next file from auto-complete, ignore tab if nothing to complete
11.07.06 Fixed: Main menu: Radio item numbers must be in ascending order,
otherwise the radio item checkmark will not show up!
05.07.06 Added: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow now jumps to next/previous backslash in most
path input dialogs, e.g. in copy/pack/unpack/unpack all/encode/decode/searchIn
dialogs and the command line
04.07.06 Added: XP: Draw groupbox controls with correct visual style
02.07.06 Added: Explicitly unload all lister windows when closing TC, so plugins
can save files if necessary
02.07.06 Added: Force-unload all lister plugins on close, to make sure TC doesn't
remain in memory
30.06.06 Fixed: Turn off autocomplete and autoappend in command line while
dropdown list is open
29.06.06 Added: Internal command CD (change directory) in button bar or start menu
now also accepts plugin filters, e.g. cd c:\dir\>largefiles or cd >largefiles
(where 'largefiles' is a stored search)
29.06.06 Added: New internal command LOADSEARCH <saved search parameters> opens
the search dialog box with the specified search parameters
29.06.06 Fixed: Ignore list not working on Windows 9x if absolute or relative path
given
29.06.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Ctrl+F3..F6 allow to sort the names exactly as
in the main window.
29.06.06 Added: Log creation of files with Shift+F4 (only if the file is created,
or the creation fails)
29.06.06 Added: Changed title for SFX packing to "Create self extracting archive"
because it now also applies to RAR and some plugins
21.06.06 Added: Support right mouse button Drag&Drop even in right button
selection mode, by holding down SHIFT when starting the drag
21.06.06 Added: Support Explorer Drag&Drop handlers when dragging files with the
right mouse button to a TC panel
18.06.06 Added: Normal and big file copy functions: When there is a read error in
the middle of a file, allow to retry last block, or skip all (separate from file
open error - skip all!)
18.06.06 Added: Button bar: cd c:\path\filename.lnk switches to directory
referenced by the lnk file if the lnk file points to a directory or virtual folder
16.06.06 Fixed: When Quick View (Ctrl+Q) is active and has the focus, going
through items with n/p sometimes lost the focus
16.06.06 Fixed: When Quick View (Ctrl+Q) is active and has the focus, switching to
another mode with '1'..'7' sometimes lost the focus
16.06.06 Added: When inplace-renaming (Shift+F6) and a directory with the target
name already exists, ask the user whether he wants to move the file/dir to it
16.06.06 Fixed: Separate tree: When deleting the last directory of a subdir, it
was removed from the tree, but the line from the dir above it remained (it should
end at the dir above it)
16.06.06 Fixed: Shift+F6 on file, target exists, choose compare in overwrite
dialog, then overwrite -> progress dialog isn't closed (reason: progress dialog
handle was reused)
13.06.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Wrong text selected in edit mode if scrolled
to the right
13.06.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Find next difference in edit mode stopped
selection of block when both sides contained no data. Stop it only when both sides
are identical again!
13.06.06 Fixed: Wrong button description with alwayscopyinbackground=2 -> changed
to "Foreground"
13.06.06 Added: Commands - Search: Saved searches: Removed limit of 8 kBytes for
all headers
13.06.06 Added: Files - Associate: If logged in as a restricted user, write
changes to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes, because this key is mapped into
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT automatically! Allows restricted users to change associations for
themselves only.
13.06.06 Added: Use WritePrivateProfileSection instead of own write function to
write entire sections to ini file (function just discovered!)
12.06.06 Fixed: TC didn't start if logging enabled and last log line was longer
than 259 characters
09.06.06 Added: Changed name of "Append" button to "Add" in configuration - button
bar
07.06.06 Added: Support environment variables in list name for "FTP download from
list"
07.06.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AppendLnk=1 -> TC creates lnk file
names in the form file.ext.lnk instead of file.lnk (Ctrl+Shift+F5)
07.06.06 Fixed: [Configuration] StartupScreen=0 was not read from redirected ini
file
04.06.06 Fixed: Copy of CHM to TEMP not working if CHM in subdir of network drive
04.06.06 Fixed: Abort hanging upload after user-specified timeout time, but don't
try to auto-resume, because some ftp servers rename the uploaded file during upload
04.06.06 Fixed: Configuration - Icons: Also draw surrounding of icon with user-
configured background color
01.06.06 Fixed: Not working on XP: When displaying folders with read only, hidden
or system attribute, show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if
the folder doesn't have a special icon
01.06.06 Added: TEMP panel plugin: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow on a file opens the true
directory of that file in the other panel, and places the cursor on it
01.06.06 Fixed: INI file entry to set external compare tool didn't support
environment variables like %commander_path%
01.06.06 Fixed: When creating an archive, a fake error was logged for some archive
types (e.g. RAR, packer plugins)
01.06.06 Fixed: Alt+Enter wasn't showing the raw FTP directory listing any more
when turning off caching of ftp listings
01.06.06 Added: Show hourglass cursor during search in Lister

31.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a6 (alpha test version 6)


30.05.06 Added: Use Tab/Shift+Tab to jump through auto-complete entries in the
command line, Ctrl+Space to keep an entry (in addition to cursor up/down and right)
30.05.06 Fixed: Creating shortcuts with Ctrl+Shift+F5 failed if
AlwaysCopyInBackground=2 was set (TC7 only)
30.05.06 Added: Support File system plugins as command line parameters, e.g.
totalcmd.exe "\\\Serial port" to open TC directly with the listed plugin
30.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_IntCompareFilesByContent to call the
internal compare tool even when an external tool is defined
26.05.06 Added: When inplace-renaming a file, and a background transfer ends, TC
no longer aborts inplace renaming, but refreshes the dir lists only AFTER the
renaming ends
26.05.06 Added: Two new internal commands cm_LeftQuickInternalOnly and
cm_RightQuickInternalOnly (quick view without plugins)
23.05.06 Fixed: Button bar: Moving a crosshair cursor over the button bar could
leave multiple button highlight frames
23.05.06 Added: Compare by content: New experimental feature to skip the first x
characters in a file (e.g. the date/time in a log file): wincmd.ini [Configuration]
CompareSkipFirstL=x1 CompareSkipFirstR=x2 (left/right separately)
21.05.06 Added: Log file deletion: User can choose to keep e.g. only the 30 last
log files
21.05.06 Added: Log file rotation: Allows to start a new log file either every day
after midnight, or when the file reaches a certain predefined size
21.05.06 Added: Ctrl+C in new internal command choose dialog copies command name
to clipboard, except when cursor is in filter edit box.
21.05.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Allow user to remove files from rename list
with DEL, e.g. when a file was selected by mistake before opening the multi-rename
tool
21.05.06 Added: Support for environment variables in autocomplete, e.g. when user
types %windir%\
21.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Misc - Redefine hotkeys: Don't show commands with
parameters like APPENDTABS, they cannot be used in that function
19.05.06 Added: When displaying folders with read only, hidden or system
attribute, show internal folder icon instead of the one from Windows if the folder
doesn't have a special icon
19.05.06 Fixed: Directory creation history didn't work in ftp
19.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Options - Icons: Show icon with correct background
color (default window background), and scaled exactly as in the file list
19.05.06 Fixed: No file filter (*.wlx, *.wdx, *.wfx) when adding plugin manually
19.05.06 Fixed: Pressing "End" key in lister with a file consisting of only one
line went to the second-last character only
19.05.06 Added: Unpack directly from an archive to a file system plugin (by
unpacking the files to TEMP first, uploading them, then deleting them)
19.05.06 Added: Pack directly from file system plugin (by downloading the files to
TEMP first, packing them, then deleting them)
19.05.06 Added: Compare by content now also works with temp panel plugin (file
isn't downloaded, just compared in place)
19.05.06 Fixed: New lister icon was only available in 16x16, not 32x32 (e.g. for
Alt+Tab)
19.05.06 Fixed: Apply button not enabled for new auto-complete options
19.05.06 Fixed: New correct message shown when creating multi-volume zip files
(size required in kBytes)

17.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a5 (alpha test version 5)


17.05.06 Added: ini section [Configuration] can now also be redirected via
RedirectSection= option. The options AlternateUserIni= and UseIniInProgramDir= will
always be read from the non-redirected file, though
17.05.06 Added: Ctrl+N with HTTP URL: When local file already exists, allow to
rename downloaded file in addition to overwrite, resume and abort
17.05.06 Fixed: With some installations, TC crashed when copying ended while TC
wasn't in the foreground (XP only)
17.05.06 Fixed: Do not show wait dialog for files which are created temporarily
with parameters like %L (button bar, start menu)
16.05.06 Fixed: Crash when setting attributes via content plugins which had a
detect string
16.05.06 Fixed: Setting comment via Change Attributes sometimes saved it in
files.bbs even when descript.ion was configured. Now this is only done if a file
files.bbs already exists in that dir (but no descript.ion)
16.05.06 Fixed: XP, drive button bar set to size 11 and small icons=16 gave
unwanted black lines when going with cursor over the icons
16.05.06 Added: Also draw separators between bottom buttons on XP when using the
flat user interface
16.05.06 Fixed: History and Hotlist buttons were 1 pixel too high on XP when using
the classic theme
16.05.06 Fixed: XP: Ctrl+Up on 0 byte file gave error sound, but didn't open new
tab (Reason: ResolveLink returned true!}
16.05.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool had wrong icon when using external icon library
16.05.06 Added: Direct writing of entire sections to ini file: Support for Unicode
ini file
16.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_VisXPThemeBackground to show/hide XP theme
background
14.05.06 Fixed: Multi-volume ZIP packing no longer worked
14.05.06 Added: F7 "New Folder" now has its own history of last created folders
14.05.06 Fixed: Selection with Num"+": Not working correctly in branch view or
search results when using content plugins (wrong path passed to plugin)
14.05.06 Added: Configuration - Button bar: When choosing a different icon library
which has an .inc file with the same name, look for an icon for the currently
chosen command
14.05.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] EditWaitTime=2 Time in seconds to wait
after opening a file in zip to be sure that it was really opened. 0=off, -1=also
off when Windows returns no handle for started program
14.05.06 Added: When opening a file inside a ZIP or from ftp with F4, Alt+F3 or
ENTER, and the file is closed within 2 seconds, assume that it was loaded into a
multiple document editor, and ask the user whether he wants to close the file or
not
14.05.06 Fixed: Set configured dialog font to wait dialog which appears on ENTER
in a ZIP file with multiple document editors
12.05.06 Added: Create multi-volume ZIP archives on harddisk, named .z01,
.z02... .zip as used by other Zip packers
12.05.06 Fixed: Sorting header (tabstop header) too wide on XP when using folder
tabs
12.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Tab could not reach the first (left-most) tab immediately
after starting TC
12.05.06 Fixed: TC freezing when viewing multiple files together in zip (with F3)
12.05.06 Added: Renamed command cm_SrcQuickNoPlugins to cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly
12.05.06 Fixed: Various problems when switching from/to Windows classic theme
12.05.06 Fixed: When XP background was on while using classic theme, no background
was drawn for drive info (free space) in drive buttonbar
12.05.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Offer to reconnect also when viewing, comparing
or deleting files on FTP when connection was dropped by server
12.05.06 Fixed: Opening zip in zip no longer worked in RIGHT panel
12.05.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: Let user choose editor to edit names (default:
notepad.exe)
12.05.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist: More than 199 items only working in
configuration dialog not in add/remove current dir
12.05.06 Fixed: Internal English menu: Menu items to choose number of separate
trees were no radio items, but used normal checkmarks
12.05.06 Fixed: Delay-loading of plugin icons in right separate tree not working,
could even cause access violation if right file list shorter than right tree

10.05.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a4 (alpha test version 4)


10.05.06 Added: When opening a file from inside an archive or from an ftp
connection/plugin, and no process handle was returned by Windows, TC now shows a
wait dialog (which can be put in background)
10.05.06 Fixed: Folder name suggest on F7 not working with FTP
10.05.06 Fixed: Show error "directory already exists" on F7 if dir is already
there (local dirs only)
10.05.06 Fixed: Update tree view position when disconnecting from file system
plugin or ftp connection
10.05.06 Added: New internal command cm_ConfigSaveDirHistory to save the directory
history in both panels to wincmd.ini
10.05.06 Added: Use SHGetFileInfo for drive hints (CD-ROM and removable disks
only) to show drive info as in Explorer
09.05.06 Fixed: With one theme, the button bar separator was not shown (due to an
error in the theme, it requires 1 pixel more than reported)
09.05.06 Added: Allow to show XP theme background in button bar even when using
old style button borders (the theme background is controlled via Configuration -
Layout)
09.05.06 Fixed: Drive bar still drawn incorrectly in some cases (XP theme)
09.05.06 Added: After deleting a directory, check whether it really has been
deleted (via FindFirstFile), because some NAS devices return success although the
dir wasn't really deleted!
09.05.06 Fixed: When deleting of folder junction fails, do not offer to delete all
files in it, but allow user to skip it, skip all, or retry
07.05.06 Added: Support for creating ZIP files >4GB, individual unpacked files can
be larger than 4GB too
07.05.06 Test : Button bar cache working OK with 2 color (black+white) icons
07.05.06 Added: Better scaling of icons between 16x16 and 32x32 (e.g. to 24x24):
scale down 32x32 icons in mode "halftone"
07.05.06 Fixed: Do not translate configuration dialog when changing language and
clicking on OK, just when clicking on Apply (since the dialog is closed anyway)
07.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Left/Right arrow not working when cursor on a file in a zip
subdir
07.05.06 Modif: Never sort directories by extension - when sorting by extension
and dirs are sorted like names, sort dirs by name
07.05.06 Fixed: Endless loop in overwrite dialog with very long paths
07.05.06 Fixed: Moved history and hotlist buttons 2 pixels to the left when
directory tabs active, to avoid overlap with tab border
07.05.06 Fixed: Cursor down didn't open command selection dialog in Configuration
- Misc (Hotkeys)
07.05.06 Fixed: Could not reconnect to ftp or ftps via directory history when
using a firewall, and after closing+reopening Totalcmd
07.05.06 Fixed: Compare by contents: color section did not accept hex values
07.05.06 Added: During Ctrl+Tab, show tip window for new tab
07.05.06 Added: Ctrl+Tab to switch dir tabs: Don't switch the tab while holding
down Ctrl: Only switch when releasing Ctrl! This way, unwanted tabs can be skipped,
e.g. because they point to slow network drives.
03.05.06 Added: Support for creating ZIP files >2GB up to 4GB, individual unpacked
files can be larger than 4GB
03.05.06 Fixed: When using a custom filter (Show - Custom) using a content plugin,
no files were shown on ftp or in archives, because no plugins are supported there.
Now TC just ignores the filter in this case, and shows all files.
03.05.06 Added: Optimized writing to ini files: All sections which contain lists
of items (dir history, hotlist, command line history, tabs) are now written in one
step (not using the standard WritePrivateProfileString, but directly with
WriteFile). This was necessary because some virus scanners slowed down writing to
inis a lot.
02.05.06 Added: FTP toolbar: New icon to show connection type: FTP, verified
encrypted and unverified encrypted (SSL)
02.05.06 Fixed: FTP toolbar not themed
02.05.06 Fixed: Updir and Root dir not themed in drive bar when drive dropdown
list not shown
30.04.06 Added: Change Attributes: Last modified date can now also be set via
internal "tc" plugin - removed buttons from "From plugins" in the above date
section
30.04.06 Added: Change Attributes: Button to load attributes from file under
cursor
30.04.06 Added: Changed behaviour when Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click on main sort
order column while there are additional sort orders: Ctrl: Reverse main sort order,
Shift: First additional sort order becomes main sort order
30.04.06 Added: Alt+F10 tree: Use Ctrl+Cursor up/down to jump to previous/next
match of search string
30.04.06 Added: Delayed load of plugin name icons (in Network Neighborhood)
30.04.06 Fixed: Switch from tree with all drives to full view no longer worked
30.04.06 Fixed: Quick view button state not changed on Ctrl+Q, only when using the
menu or button itself
30.04.06 Fixed: cm_LeftQuickView and cm_RightQuickView are now also radio items,
while cm_SrcQuickView cannot be a radio item (it can be down at the same time as
cm_LeftLong, because it reflects the options of the target panel)
30.04.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist: New command selection button was in wrong
location
30.04.06 Added: The internal English menu now also uses radio items for sorting,
view mode, and file filters
30.04.06 Fixed: Renamed internal commands cm_ExchangeBoth etc. to
cm_ExchangeSelBoth etc.
30.04.06 Added: Configuration - button bar: the "small icon" size may be up to 5
pixels larger than the size of the inner button (which is 5 pixels larger than the
number given by the user)
28.04.06 Added: Also list internal commands with parameters in new command
selection dialog
28.04.06 Fixed: When using tree with all drives, do NOT select any drive in the
drive button bar, and don't show any in the drive dropdown list
28.04.06 Note : Due to a bug in Windows 9x/ME, [Shift]+[Num+] does the same as
[Num+] when numlock is on. Both GetKeyState and GetAsyncKeyState return the wrong
value. Even a WM_KEYUP,VK_SHIFT is sent, although shift is NOT released...
28.04.06 Fixed: Color settings initial color when clicking on >> was not correct
for background color 2 if background color 1 was changed just before
28.04.06 Added: ENTER on .tab file calls APPENDTABS with this tab file,
SHIFT+ENTER calls OPENTABS (only if .tab isn't associated with some other program)
28.04.06 Fixed: Some dialog box elements overlap using the new XP theme
28.04.06 Added: New internal commands cm_IconConfig, cm_RefreshConfig,
cm_QuickSearchConfig
28.04.06 Fixed: cm_IgnoreConfig didn't open the right dialog page
28.04.06 Fixed: Logging - Operation status was incorrectly translated
28.04.06 Fixed: XP visual style background option not translated, although string
present
28.04.06 Fixed: Some hotkey inconsistencies
28.04.06 Fixed: Corrected description of "Show icons for special folders" option:
Option 1 is for files/dirs in the file system like the recycle bin, Option 2 for
virtual folders like the desktop
28.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - Operation - Always go to the root of a drive when
changing drives and other new options gave warning about system tray by mistake
28.04.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter no longer worked when the cursor was within the command
line (due to auto-complete)
28.04.06 Fixed: Background transfer manager: Adding files via "+" button for
upload to ftps secure server did not work
28.04.06 Fixed: Don't mirror the new command choose dialog when using right to
left fonts

26.04.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a3 (alpha test version 3)


26.04.06 Added: Updated Help file with many of the new function descriptions
26.04.06 Added: Configuration of Start menu and directory hotlist now also uses
the new internal command selection dialog
26.04.06 Added: Combobox in button bar change dialogs changed to Edit box. Cursor
down now opens the internal command selection box.
26.04.06 Added: Made the main config dialog a bit wider (16 pixels) to give more
space for translations
26.04.06 Added: By default, Total Commander now selects also directories by
default with "+" or Ctrl+"+"
26.04.06 Added: New sections "Icons", "Refresh" and "Quick search" in main config
dialog. Also modified the pages "Display" and "Operation". Help not yet updated.
25.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: TC was putting wrong double quotes around some
parameters, e.g. %T%M %N -> "" around entire parameters
25.04.06 Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool, >> button: New option "Edit names in
&notepad...". This is necessary because some users may have configured an unusable
editor. For example, ChoiceEdit opens the listed files instead of the list file
itself...
23.04.06 Added: The Ctrl+D menu now supports up to 998 items (if the limit of 64k
per ini file section isn't reached before)
23.04.06 Fixed: Viewing files with F3 in search result from file system plugins
returned focus to the main TC window by mistake
23.04.06 Added: Button bar: When a button doesn't have a tooltip defined, first
use the command from the main menu, then the translated description, and finally
(for english) the command name without the cm_ prefix
23.04.06 Fixed: New internal command select dialog: Show section headers for all
sections with at least one item, hide for empty categories (e.g. when using a
filter)
23.04.06 Fixed: The tree root didn't have a name (just a dot)
23.04.06 Added: Lister: F11 toggles full screen mode
23.04.06 Added: Logging: All commands and errors can now be translated
23.04.06 Added: Logging: Show all errors in clear text
21.04.06 Added: FTPS: Allow to verify certificate sent by server by putting a file
named rootcert.pem in TC directory (must contain base64-encoded certificates)
21.04.06 Fixed: Lister: Pressing home or PageDown (with enabled cursor) sometimes
placed the cursor on the second-last line when the file didn't end with a line
break
20.04.06 Fixed: ZIP folders could appear on the desktop in tree view (XP only)
20.04.06 Added: Let user turn off themed background via Configuration - Layout
20.04.06 Added: Draw one contiguous themed background across the main menu, button
bar, and drive bars (if they are enabled)
19.04.06 Fixed: Ctrl+"+" in dir with no files but only folders turned off refresh
of panel
19.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree line height not updated when changing icon size or
font size
19.04.06 Fixed: Button bar, main menu: Don't show checkmark for "Reverse sort
order" when "Unsorted" is checked
18.04.06 Fixed: Lister: Add file to be re-uploaded to normal delete list, so when
TC was busy, the file will be re-uploaded only when TC has finished its current
operation
18.04.06 Fixed: Alt+Arrows in separate tree made cursor vanish -> put on normal
file panel
18.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, "*" reverses the selection of
just files, while Shift+"*" reverses it for both files+folders
18.04.06 Added: 3 new internal commands: cm_ExchangeFiles, cm_ExchangeFolders,
cm_ExchangeBoth : Inverts selection for files, folders, or both
18.04.06 Added: Shift+'-' unselects just specific files
18.04.06 Added: Ctrl+Shift+'-' unselects just all files
18.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree dividers didn't have the same width when folder tabs
were turned off
18.04.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Arrow didn't update separate tree
18.04.06 Fixed: Press Ctrl+Arrow while in separate tree puts cursor back in normal
list
18.04.06 Fixed: When showing two trees in normal windows, multiple folders could
be selected as current folder by mistake
18.04.06 Fixed: Ensure that the separate tree separator always remains accessible
18.04.06 Added: New internal commands cm_ClearAllCfg and cm_ClearSelCfg: Unselect
directories only if configured to select/unselect dirs in configuration - operation
17.04.06 Fixed: Center FTP connection dialog over TC window instead of within the
main window
17.04.06 Added: New internal command cm_SrcQuickNoPlugins opens quick view panel,
but doesn't use any lister plugins
17.04.06 Added: Button bar: Allow user to specify size of icons smaller than
button separately from button size (default: 16 pixel)
17.04.06 Fixed: Toggle Quickview and then change view mode resulted in an empty
file panel
17.04.06 Fixed: cm_LeftQuickview and cm_RightQuickview now toggle quick view (they
just activated it until now)
17.04.06 Added: Button states for the following internal commands:
cm_srcquickview, cm_srcsorttab1..99, cm_trgsorttab1..99, cm_leftsorttab1..99,
cm_rightsorttab1..99, cm_VerticalPanels, cm_GotoDriveA..Z, cm_FtpHiddenFiles,
cm_FocusLeft, cm_FocusRight, cm_FocusCmdLine
17.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button state for branch view wasn't updated when
switching to other drive while in branch view
17.04.06 Fixed: Button bar: Button state for sorting (e.g. by name, size) not
updated when sorting via tabstop header
17.04.06 Fixed: Title of attributes dialog was no longer translated
17.04.06 Added: Increased possible number of internal commands (from totalcmd.inc)
to 1500
16.04.06 Fixed: Calling winhelp.exe directly makes help window modal -> use
ShellExecuteEx instead of WinExec
16.04.06 Fixed: Access violation or endless loop if last icon in buttonbar
couldn't be extracted
16.04.06 Added: New internal command cm_IgnoreConfig to open ignore list
configuration
16.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - Color: Click on ">>" button didn't preset the
correct color if the color was set to "default"
16.04.06 Fixed: Wrong background color was used in Configuration - Font for sample
icon
14.04.06 Added: Scrollbars added to ignore list edit box
14.04.06 Added: Button bar, drive bar: Use "checked" state instead of "down" state
for buttons which are always down, except when the "checked" state looks identical
to the "normal" state (some themes have this bug)
14.04.06 Fixed: Use single gradient theme across both drive button bars
13.04.06 Fixed: '?' parameter in button bar parameters: Dialog box wasn't working
properly (no ENTER, ESC or TAB). Reason: Problem in buttonbar (mouse capture)
13.04.06 Fixed: Autocomplete stopped working, Windows seems to dislike when
ACO_AUTOSUGGEST, ACO_AUTOAPPEND and ACO_USETAB are set together
13.04.06 Fixed: Config dialog, Logging: Click on >> button enabled apply button
even if the user didn't choose a different log file name
13.04.06 Added: New command choose dialog: Double click on command chooses it and
closes the dialog
13.04.06 Fixed: New command choose dialog: Command chosen from this dialog wasn't
shown in button bar config dialog
13.04.06 Fixed: cm_ToggleSeparateTree1 now switches directly to 1 tree mode even
if 2 trees are currently shown (same change also for cm_ToggleSeparateTree2)
13.04.06 Fixed: Wrong line spacing in separate tree when switching on BOTH
separate trees together while right panel shows thumbnails
13.04.06 Fixed: When turning off separate tree view while using brief view, the
"Attr" header could appear by mistake
13.04.06 Fixed: Various typos
13.04.06 Fixed: Configuration - button bar: 'XP Style' used wrong translation
string
13.04.06 Fixed: Pressed state for active button left+right was wrong (button was
only down when left/right window was active)
13.04.06 Fixed: No Drag&Drop possible while separate tree busy

12.04.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a2 (alpha test version 2)


12.04.06 Added: Support for environment variables in paths received via
WM_COPYDATA from other programs
12.04.06 Added: Use XP theme for + and - icons in tree view
12.04.06 Added: Use XP theme for separator in button bar
11.04.06 Fixed: Make openssl support U3-compatible, look for the dlls in
%U3_DEVICE_EXEC_PATH%
11.04.06 Fixed: Wrong icon in copy progress dialog when using an alternate icon
library, the same also for background copying (untested, no icon on Win2000)
11.04.06 Added: New internal command select box added to button change dialogs,
old selection method kept for comparison
11.04.06 Fixed: Missing icons on equal lines when small icon size in task bar
isn't the default of 16x16
11.04.06 Added: Packer plugin interface: New function supports files > 2GB
11.04.06 Added: F3 with editing plugin: Support re-uploading of modified file
(single file viewing only)
10.04.06 Added: Button bar: Show state of internal commands, like brief/full/tree
view, branch view etc. as pressed buttons
09.04.06 Added: Create dir in packer plugins with F7 - uses normal PackFiles
function with dir created in TEMP
09.04.06 Fixed: Renaming dir in file list didn't update separate tree
09.04.06 Added: New option in FTP connection details dialog allows to turn off the
cache for ftp connections (ftp dir is re-read on each directory change)
08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Installer: CreateProcess just fails when called as
normal user -> Use ShellExecuteEx
07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_GotoPreviousLocalDir and
cm_GotoNextLocalDir: Go backwards/forwards in history, but skip ftp connections
07.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, "+" selects just files, while
Shift+"+" selects both files+folders
07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_SelectBoth, cm_SelectFiles,
cm_SelectFolders, cm_ClearFolders, cm_ClearFiles to select/unselect just files,
just folders, or both
07.04.06 Added: If "Select only files" is checked, Ctrl+"+" selects all files,
while Ctrl+Shift+"+" selects both files+folders
07.04.06 Added: New internal commands: cm_selectallboth, cm_selectallfolders,
cm_selectallfiles, cm_clearallfolders, cm_clearallfiles to select/unselect all for
just files, just folders, or both
05.04.06 Fixed: cm_SelectCurrentPath: Don't show error "No files found" when no
additional files are selected
05.04.06 Fixed: For now, do not try to update the tree on Win9x/ME on network
shares when changing dirs in the file list, it doesn't work and hangs TC
05.04.06: Added: Allow user to turn on/off flush before closing files. wincmd.ini,
FlushFile= (0: off, 1: when copying, 2: when unpacking)
05.04.06 Fixed: Tab order in search dialog (limit depth combobox)
04.04.06 Fixed: UTF8-HTML-file was shown with the first 3 characters cut off (TC
was looking for the utf8 marker)
04.04.06 Fixed: Separate tree wasn't working on Windows 9x/ME, because function
TryEnterCriticalSection is present, but doesn't work -> use a Mutex instead
04.04.06: Added: Synchronize dirs: Now allows to store also ftp connections. The
connection must have been saved (Ctrl+F list)
04.04.06 Fixed: Drawing error when reducing name column to 0 width
04.04.06: Added: wincmd.ini AlwaysCopyInBackground=2 -> Always try to copy in
background transfer manager with F5-ENTER. F5-F2 will copy normally then (button is
changed)
04.04.06 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Arrow on 0 byte file in file system plugin tried to
show this file like a directory in the other panel, instead of the directory itself
04.04.06 Fixed: Never show any custom colors per file type in separate trees
02.04.06: Added: XP: Support for themed background in drive bar (still
experimental)
02.04.06: Added: XP: Support for themed background in button bar
02.04.06: Added: Completely changed way of storing the button bar icon cache: Now
stored as list of hicons!
31.03.06 Fixed: Lister with cursor: Pressing "PageDown" repeatedly placed cursor
on last character of the file. Now put on first character of last line instead.
31.03.06 Fixed: Lister with cursor: "Home" key not working when at file end when
file doesn't end with line break
31.03.06 Added: New internal commands cm_SrcSortByColXY, cm_TrgSortByColXY,
cm_LeftSortByColXY and cm_RightSortByColXY with XY from 1-99 to sort by currently
shown column Nr. XY
31.03.06 Fixed: When selecting files with right mouse button, the file panel
wasn't activated if the cursor was in the separate tree panel
31.03.06 Fixed: Lister color settings didn't accept hex values in wincmd.ini
31.03.06 Added: Ignore list configuration page to main config dialog
30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Transfers were logged as ftp:// instead of ftps://
30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Reconnect via history wasn't working
30.03.06 Fixed: ftps: Reconnect via tab switching wasn't working
30.03.06 Fixed: When closing ftps connection and user is asked to store
connection, store server with ftps:// prefix
30.03.06 Fixed: cd ftps://server wasn't working in button bar
29.03.06 Fixed: Configuration - Font: Was using LoadIcon instead of LoadImage,
causing distorted 16x16 icon
29.03.06 Added: New dialog for choosing internal commands (cm_xyz) in
Configuration - Misc - Redefine Shortcuts
29.03.06 Fixed: Don't convert icon file name to short DOS name when dropping EXE
to button bar
29.03.06 Added: Content-plug-in API: Inform plugin about directory refresh
29.03.06 Added: New internal command cm_LogConfig to open log file page
28.03.06 Added: Double click on empty space beside the folder tab headers opens
new tab
28.03.06 Fixed: Button bar wrapped to 2 lines when deleting a button
28.03.06 Fixed: External compare tool set via Comparetool= in wincmd.ini not
loading the files if one of the file paths contained a space
28.03.06 Added: Compare by content, "Ignore frequent lines": TC will ignore lines
which appear very often in the document, e.g. empty lines, "begin"/"end" statements
in programming languages etc.
28.03.06 Added: Set environment variable %COMMANDER_INI% to path+name of current
default ini file
28.03.06 Added: Search - Feed in listbox: place cursor on file which was selected
in the search results box
28.03.06 Fixed: Progress doesn't work when called in CloseArchive (wcx's). Call
ProcessDataProc with value between -1 and -100 to set first progress bar, -1000 and
-1100 for second bar
28.03.06 Fixed: TC uses wrong location for wincmd.ini and/or wcx_ftp.ini if only
one of them was set in the registry under HKCU or HKLM. Now TC looks first in HKCU,
and if it's missing looks in HKLM. If it's missing there too, TC looks in Windows
dir.
28.03.06 Fixed: WatchDirs was causing log events in file operation log file
28.03.06 Fixed: cm_UserMenuX didn't work in Ctrl+D directory hotlist
28.03.06 Added: Tooltip for [*] button in synchronize dirs
28.03.06 Fixed: Button bar draw error if it would extend over more than 2 lines
28.03.06 Fixed: Strange display when double clicking on desktop in separate tree
view while normal view also shows tree
28.03.06 Fixed: Strange display when choosing tree in both file panels
28.03.06 Fixed: Configuration - Operation: Click on - Save on exit: Directory
history or Exact name match: Beginning/Ending didn't enable apply button
28.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl or Shift+Click on [..] / [\] button in drive bar instead of
line with drive list didn't open parent/root dir in new tab
28.03.06 Added: AlternateUserIni= and RedirectSection= are now re-read when Total
Commander closes, to ensure that the settings are stored to the new ini files (this
isn't done during normal TC operation, though)
28.03.06 Fixed: RedirectSection=0 lost in some sections like [LeftHistory] when
storing the history
28.03.06 Added: RedirectSection= now also supports environment strings
26.03.06 Fixed: Scroll wheel no longer working in compare by contents
26.03.06 Added: Increased number of characters in hint custom fields
(Configuration - Display - "+") from 259 to 1023 characters
26.03.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: After loading new names from file, the rename
options are disabled - re-enable them when clicking on reload results button
26.03.06 Fixed: Show separate tree during quick view would partially hide quick
view
26.03.06 Fixed: Tabstops wrong when switching one separate tree on in vertical
panel mode
26.03.06 Fixed: Name column was ignored as additional sort order (Ctrl+Click on
sorting header)
26.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl+'+', Ctrl+'-', Alt+'+' and Alt+'-' all do the same as these
hotkeys without modifiers when in separate tree
26.03.06 Fixed: AutoTreeChange=1 now also works in separate tree (except for
virtual folders and drive roots)
26.03.06 Fixed: Separate tree: Cursor left (collapse tree) jumps to parent dir if
current dir wasn't expanded, as in normal tree view
24.03.06 Fixed: When switching to separate tree when right pane was in thumbnails
mode, the tree had the same line spacing as thumbnails mode
24.03.06 Fixed: Splitter width not updated in vertical view when toggling separate
tree view on/off
24.03.06 Added: Autocomplete: Added auto-suggest (To do: make it configurable)
24.03.06 Added: cm_ToggleSeparateTree1 turns 1 separate tree view on/off,
cm_ToggleSeparateTree2 the same for 2 tree views
24.03.06 Fixed: Access violation in Ctrl+Shift+F8 when separate tree had the focus
24.03.06 Fixed: Button bar was wrapped to second line one icon too late
24.03.06 Added: Allow user turn off XP-style button bar display
24.03.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Enter was no longer working (due to autocomplete)
24.03.06 Fixed: Color changes didn't directly affect separate tree view
23.03.06 Fixed: Cursor in lister: When scrolling through the document with hidden
cursor and then showing the cursor, move cursor to visible part (to the end if it
was lower, the beginning if above current position)
23.03.06 Added: Additional sort orders: Shift+Click now adds/removes additional
sort order, while Ctrl+click continues to switch additional sort order direction
23.03.06 Fixed: Configuration-Options-Log file: Apply button wasn't enabled with
checkboxes, >> button didn't work
23.03.06 Fixed: Line to split left and right panels was shown below the separate
tree panels when resizing the windows
23.03.06 Added: Alternating background colors: In brief view, count odd/even lines
from top of listbox (separately for each column), not from beginning of list
23.03.06 Added: Alternating background colors: Turn off in thumbs view

22.03.06 Release Total Commander 7.0a1 (alpha test version 1)


22.03.06 Added: Ctrl or Shift+Click on [..] / [\] button opens parent/root dir in
new tab
22.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Support bitmap where bitmap bits don't follow directly
after the headers (bug in Delphi 2 vcl)
19.03.06 Added: Experimental support for ftps transfers (ftp via ssl/tls). Also
requires presence of openssl in tc dir. Use by specifying
ftps://ftp.server.name:portnr
17.03.06 Added: https downloads with Ctrl+N: Requires presence of openssl dlls in
tc dir (ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll)
17.03.06 Added: Search function: Allow to limit search depth to current dir or a
certain number of levels
15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Turn function on/off via
wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreListFileEnabled=1/0
15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Support wildcards in names, e.g.
*.bak *.~* or even c:\subdir\*.bak *.~*
15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs: Allow to exclude names in all
dirs (filename.ext), in a certain directory (c:\path\filename.ext) or a subdir on
all drives (\path\filename.ext)
15.03.06 Added: Exclude user-defined files/dirs from displaying and all file
operations: wincmd.ini [Configuration] IgnoreListFile=c:\path\ignorelist.txt
10.03.06 Fixed: When uploads fail, show "Error uploading file!" instead of "Error
downloading file!"
10.03.06 Added: WatchDirs optimizations: Move name1->temp2, move temp1->name1 ->
replace with Create temp2, Delete temp1, Change name1 (Typical sequence when saving
a file in Word, keeps cursor on file)
08.03.06 Added: Help file modifications
07.03.06 Added: Log file system plugins (if option checked)
07.03.06 Fixed: When re-packing files from an archive without an extension, the
suggested file name was archive..zip instead of archive.zip
07.03.06 Added: Protect log file function with global mutex
03.03.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: wincmd.ini [Configuration]
MrtReplacePluginChars=0 turns off auto-replacement of invalid characters from
plugin (e.g. ':' -> '.') -> user has to take care of it himself
03.03.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Fixed sort order in list of saved options
01.03.06 Added: FTP: Doubled size of buffer for text types for automatic mode
(260->520 characters)
01.03.06 Fixed: Detect when a drive is SUBSTed, and avoid to overwrite a file with
itself when copying from/to this substed drive
28.02.06 Added: wincmd.ini: In each section except for [Configuration], an entry
RedirectSection= will instruct tc to redirect(or not) this section to other ini:
Values: 0=no redirect, 1=redirect to AlternateUserIni=, <ininame> redirect to that
specific ini
28.02.06 Added: When using AlternateUserIni= option, don't redirect the following
sections by default: Layout, Packer, Confirmation, Extensions, Shortcuts,
PackerPlugins, FileSystemPlugins, ListerPlugins, ContentPlugins
28.02.06 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] AlternateUserIni=<somename> will
redirect storing of user-changeable sections to an alternate name, except for
section [Configuration]. Useful for companies where wincmd.ini is write-protected
26.02.06 Added: Option to change quick search matching mode: Exact match for start
and ending of file name. If unchecked, TC prepends/appends * to typed name.
26.02.06 Added: Option to save directory history. Virtual folders can only be
saved if there exists a unique string in the form ::{number} to represent them
26.02.06 Added: Background transfer manager: If the "Options" button was NOT used
in F5 - F2, use copy flags as set in configuration-misc (e.g. don't ask when
overwriting hidden files). Otherwise use options from "Options" button.
26.02.06 Added: 32-bit version of zip self-extracting module sfxhead.sfx, because
Windows Vista no longer supports 16-bit programs
24.02.06 Added: Internal unzip, ungzip, unarj, unlzh: Call FlushFileBuffers before
setting time stamp, should ensure that the timestamp doesn't change to current on
exotic file systems (untested)
24.02.06 Added: Button bar/Start menu command: SYNCOPEN saved_sync_name opens
Synchronize dialog with the saved dirs/options from saved_sync_name
24.02.06 Fixed: Sync: Don't allow to save ftp sync (it cannot be saved because an
open ftp connection is needed)
22.02.06 Added: Multi-rename tool: New button >> to open context menu: Allows to
load names from file, and to edit names in the default editor
22.02.06 Added: %COMMANDER_DRIVE% points to drive (e.g. C: without trailing
backslash) from which Total Commander was started. For UNC paths, this contains
\\Server\Share
22.02.06 Fixed: When moving panel separator with Shift+Drag to left border when
maximized, drag it one pixel less to the left, otherwise it can no longer be moved
22.02.06 Added: Normal copy function: Call FlushFileBuffers before setting time
stamp, should ensure that the timestamp doesn't change to current on exotic file
systems (untested)
21.02.06 Added: New file list icons. Can use old icons via external icon library
21.02.06 Added: New drive icons designed by user StickyNomad. Can use old drive
icons with OldDriveIcons=1 in wincmd.ini, section [Configuration]
21.02.06 Fixed: WatchDirs (any mode): Always try to keep cursor on current file
(by searching for the file name and placing cursor on it!)
21.02.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Paste a few lines with Ctrl+V just in front of
the LAST line -> the last line was lost
13.02.06 Added: Blocked various keys found in filesharing
13.02.06 Added: When adding packer plugins, limit length of extension to 15 (the
maximum working with TC <=6.5x)
13.02.06 Added: Alt+F10 Tree: Support for wildcards * and ? just like in normal
quick search
13.02.06 Added: SFV/MD5 check: Changed max. number of lines in listbox to 65'000
(NT/2000/XP only), speedup of Ctrl+C copy to clipboard
10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Save directories and settings (optional) to
wincmd.ini
10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: Load settings from wincmd.ini via a history
button
08.02.06 Fixed: Drag&Drop and tree view: restore open icon of current dir when
drag operation finishes
07.02.06 Added: Support ACE archives > 2GB
07.02.06 Fixed: When showing drive name in tab title, show # symbol for
unconnected ftp connections
07.02.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool, undo function: Do not store absolute path to
target file if source and target are in the same directory (to save memory for huge
rename operations)
07.02.06 Fixed: When using cm_switchlongnames while using the quick view panel,
the cursor goes to the right file, but quick view shows [..]
07.02.06 Added: Include/Exclude certain directories in the current file list using
the "Show" - "Custom" filter, e.g. *.* | *\ hides all dirs (for a file window
used with tree view). Not working with "Define" button.
07.02.06 Added: F5 copy: When checking option to copy NTFS attributes, also copy
auditing info if we can access it
05.02.06 Added: Quick search with search dialog: Continue to show inverse cursor
if it was configured by the user
05.02.06 Fixed: Access violation when clicking on sorting header in sync dialog
before starting any comparison (error was introduced in v7 beta)
05.02.06 Added: Increased maximum command line length to 2k on Win2000 and 8k on
WinXP (max. supported by these operating systems)
05.02.06 Added: Sync: Remember option "by content" even when comparing with ftp
where "by content" is disabled
05.02.06 Added: Suggest dir name under cursor as default name on F7 Mkdir, so the
user can edit the name.
09.12.05 Added: Unpack of ppmd-compressed aes-encrypted ZIP archives (via AES
plugin): also support multi-volume
07.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2/ppmd-compressed multi-volume ZIP archives
06.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2/ppmd-compressed encrypted ZIP archives via
decryption hook
04.12.05 Added: Unpacking of ppmd-compressed ZIP archives, only one at a time (to
do: decryption hook, disk change hook)
04.12.05 Added: Unpacking of bzip2-compressed ZIP archives (fully multi-threaded)
02.12.05 Added: "Show fully expanded tree" is again working in normal (not
separate tree) panels, and will only show the tree for the current drive
30.11.05 Fixed: Improved FTP keep alive during transfer: Send fake command BLABLA
to server so it will reply with "500 command not understood", to keep proxy
connection alive (must be enabled via wcx_ftp.ini)
29.11.05 Added: Show overlay icons also in separate tree view
29.11.05 Added: Search for text in temp panel now searches directly in the linked
file without downloading it to temp (same for F3 in search)
27.11.05 Fixed: Compare by content: Undo not working correctly at the end of a
file if the two files had different line counts
27.11.05 Added: Support for UTF-8 encoding in lister's internal html viewer. It's
auto-detected via <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-
8"> or <?xml version="1.0" encoding="..."?>, but can be turned off
25.11.05 Added: 3 new overwrite options: "Overwrite all older and of the same
age", "Copy all larger files (overwrite smaller)", "Copy all smaller files
(overwrite larger)"
23.11.05 Added: Change attributes dialog now allows to set time with odd (non-
even) seconds value, although TC cannot display them
22.11.05 Added: Auto switch to fs-plugin custom column view: Set reasonable sort
order
22.11.05 Added: Auto switch to fs-plugin custom column view: let user turn it off
via dialog box
20.11.05 Added: Change attributes: Also set attributes in content plugins
20.11.05 Added: Main config dialog: List custom columns for fs plugin instead of
main when fs plugin shown
20.11.05 Added: Right click on column headers in fs plugins -> offer fs plugin
custom views
20.11.05 Added: Extend [+] in configuration dialog to handle fs plugins plus the
tc.internal values for size, date, time etc.
20.11.05 Added: Custom columns interface for file system plugins: Ask plugin for
default custom columns view
16.11.05 Added: Custom columns interface for file system plugins. Currently it
works only for displaying in file lists and multi-rename tool (for renaming in
plugins)
15.11.05 Added: Temp panel plugin: Upload files directly to FTP! Note that temp
panel plugins must be thread-safe!
15.11.05 Added: Temp panel plugin: Upload files directly to other plugin without
going through TEMP directory
15.11.05 Added: Custom columns view, thumbnail view: Show custom columns also in
temp panel plugin
11.11.05 Added: Content plugins: Allow to substitute a field by an internal field
if the field is unavailable, e.g. for FTP views, use internal size field
11.11.05 Added: Custom columns view, thumbnail view: In the tc.attributes field,
now also show FTP permissions and extended attributes like compressed
09.11.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Content plugins can now be used as a
source too! Example: Set file creation date from exif data (date when photo was
taken)
08.11.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Support for new content plugin function
to modify content!
08.11.05 Added: FTP: new option: if no data received for x seconds (default: 30
seconds), TC will now abort the transfer and auto-resume
08.11.05 Added: Tabs: Option to always show the current drive letter in the tab
06.11.05 Added: Two new FS-Plugin functions to support links to files (virtual
file panel)
06.11.05 Fixed: Separate tree views used the main window font instead of the
separate file list font
06.11.05 Added: wincmd.ini [configuration] NewStyleProgress=1: use Win32-style
progress bars in normal progress dialog (% value is shown to the right of the bar).
Default=1 on >=WinXP, 0 otherwise
06.11.05 Fixed: Several problems with separate tree view
02.11.05 Added: XP: Buttons in the main program can now be switched between flat
view and normal view, also the toolbar+drive bar
02.11.05 Added: Redesign of how the buttonbar works: Each icon is now drawn
separately, to support the XP-style toolbar theme
01.11.05 Added: Ctrl+Enter now works also in separate tree view
01.11.05 Fixed: Still sorting problems in nethood in tree view
01.11.05 Fixed: ESC inserted a character in compare contents edit mode
30.10.05 Fixed: Creating text file with Shift+F4 could create it in a wrong folder
(root) when using separate tree view
30.10.05 Added: Background transfer manager: Allow to re-sort items by Drag&Drop
while pausing (except when using a download list file). The first item can only be
moved if its transfer hasn't yet started
26.10.05 Fixed: Ctrl+F (Find text) in compare tool while in edit mode inserted a
character
21.10.05 Fixed: Still duplicate items in tree when a server appeared AFTER showing
the list of servers in the tree
19.10.05 Added: Two new lister options: "Fit only larger images to window" and
"Center images"
19.10.05 Added: F4 Edit file in archive/on ftp: use alternate temp path "_tc_" if
a temp file with this name already exists in "_tc", allows to edit 2 files of the
same name simultaneously
19.10.05 Added: Compare by contents: User can now check/uncheck option "ignore
repeated spaces" (enabled by default) to ignore differences like "a b" <-> "a
b"
18.10.05 Added: New FTP option: Send keepalive also during a transfer. This will
send just newline characters to the control connection to avoid that a
firewall/gateway drops the connection. Set via wcx_ftp.ini, [General],
keepalivetransfer=1, or individually per server (the latter not working in BTM)
16.10.05 Added: Combobox strings can be removed with Shift+Del now in: Command
line, Search (for, in, text), Lister search, Multi-rename tool, FTP new connection,
expand/reduce selection
16.10.05 Added: Find files: Browse button ">>" to browse for the start directory
of the search
14.10.05 Added: Tree: not all icons shown for file system plugins
14.10.05 Added: Tree: Show dir in tree even if one of the parent directories
cannot be reached due to NTFS permissions
14.10.05 Fixed: Tree: when expanding/collapsing tree near the bottom, TC jumps to
other subdir (under cursor after collapsing) -> adjust mouse cursor position
14.10.05 Fixed: Tree: switch to network dir -> sometimes server appears multiple
times
12.10.05 Added: Show/hide dirs also in tree panel when creating/deleting dirs
12.10.05 Fixed: Showing of subdirs in separate tree (in the background) protected
by critical section
11.10.05 Fixed: Disable single click start on file panel if cursor was in tree
panel
11.10.05 Added: Update separate tree panel in background thread (tree window is
disabled during this time)
08.10.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: sort error when dir name contained a dot (error
was introduced in 7.0 beta only)
05.10.05 Added: Drag&Drop to separate tree view
04.10.05 Fixed: Various problems with 3 window mode
02.10.05 Added: Two different tree view options: 1. Just one tree view for BOTH
sides, but outside of the panels 2. One tree per panel, inside of the panels
30.09.05 Added: Synchronize dirs, right click menu: Delete on both sides <- useful
because the selection is lost after deleting on one side
28.09.05 Added: Files - Change attributes: Take the date/time to set from content
plugins, e.g. the time when a photo was made from the EXIF plugin
28.09.05 Added: reload image to context menu when showing thumbnails in file
system plugins
27.09.05 Added: New function FsGetPreviewBitmap to file system plugins to extract
thumbnails in file system plugins
25.09.05 Fixed: Compare by content: Undo not working when using "copy ->" and the
other side consists of a single EMPTY line
25.09.05 Fixed: Sync: Changing sort order while comparing by content didn't set
equal or unequal sign to the files which were just compared when re-sorting
25.09.05 Fixed: Optimized speed of initial comparing and re-sorting in synchronize
dirs, show hourglass during re-sorting
23.09.05 Added: New internal commands cm_SelectCurrentPath and
cm_UnselectCurrentPath: Select/Unselect all files in the same path as the file
under the cursor, e.g. for branch view, search results, duplicate finder etc.
23.09.05 Added: New option wincmd.ini [configuration] CompareIgnoreRepeatedLines=0
-> compare by contents will no longer ignore lines which are repeated (e.g.
begin/end). This can, however, cause problems with inserted functions in source
code
21.09.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Show error message if saving fails, and
restore original file
21.09.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: If comparing file with name <originalname>
with <originalname>.bak, save backup as <originalname>.bk1 instead of
<originalname>.bak
21.09.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Several functions adapted to work with search
orders other than by name
20.09.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Sort inside of each directory by name, size,
date/time, ascending+descending
18.09.05 Fixed: Lister: switch to other mode then back to text mode lost the text
cursor
18.09.05 Added: Lister: Place text cursor behind found text when searching
18.09.05 Added: Menu items to copy names/details to clipboard added to the "Mark"
menu
16.09.05 Added: Compare by contents: Backwards search behaviour as in lister:
F3=continue search in last direction, Ctrl+F3 reverse direction, Shift+F3 search
backwards and switch F3 to forward search
16.09.05 Added: Overwrite dialog: Option to rename the already existing target
file instead of renaming the copied file
16.09.05 Fixed: Lister: Don't place cursor at line end between <CR> and <LF>
14.09.05 Added: Separate options dynamic (x.x k/M) and dynamic (x.x k/M/G) (with
and without the display in Gigabytes)
14.09.05 Added: cm_SaveDetailsToFile now also works in comments view and
thumbnails view
13.09.05 Fixed: Suggest *.txt instead of *.* for functions cm_SaveSelectionToFile
and cm_SaveDetailsToFile
13.09.05 Added: New internal command cm_SaveDetailsToFile - Save all shown columns
to file, depending on current display mode: also works with custom columns
13.09.05 Added: New internal command cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip - Copy all shown
columns to the clipboard, depending on current display mode: also works with custom
columns
13.09.05 Added: cm_CopyFpFileDetailsToClip - like cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, but
with full path to files
13.09.05 Added: cm_CopyNetFileDetailsToClip - like cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, but
with UNC (network) path to files
13.09.05 Added: New comment options: wincmd.ini [Configuration] olecomments= 0:
only standard comments, 1: standard and ole comments, 2: only ole comments, 3: no
comments at all
11.09.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Support conditional text in content plugin
variables, e.g. [="_v."tc.versionstring]
11.09.05 Added: "Show admin shares" now also shows hidden shares like Share$ - can
be turned off in wincmd.ini, [Configuration] AllHiddenNetNames=0
07.09.05 Added: After modifying compared file from archive, compress it back into
the archive
06.09.05 Added: Support for external compare via line in wincmd.ini, e.g.:
Comparetool=C:\program files\winmerge\WinMerge.exe
04.09.05 Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Use MoveFileEx to avoid that files are moved
between partitions mounted to the same drive letter
04.09.05 Added: Edit in compare: When saving, the type of line end (Windows, Unix,
Mac) is determined by the majority of line ends of the original file, e.g. if the
original was Windows with a few Unix line ends, the saved file will be all Windows
04.09.05 Fixed: Edit in compare: Don't save last line end
02.09.05 Added: Sync: Re-added search in binary mode (using the old search
function)
02.09.05 Added: Edit in compare: Search in edited Unicode text, allow to search
over multiple lines
31.08.05 Added: Edit in compare: Search in edited text, allow to search over
multiple lines
30.08.05 Added: Edit in compare: Support for unicode big endian
25.08.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: always list "*.*" as the first entry in the list
25.08.05 Added: ENTER in autocomplete only closes the autocomplete window and
doesn't execute the command immediately
23.08.05 Added: Autocomplete for paths in command line, path field, and some
dialog boxes like copy confirmation
21.08.05 Fixed: Problems with copy+paste in compare by contents
19.08.05 Added: Unicode editing in compare by contents
10.08.05 Added: New button in copy overwrite dialog "More Options >>" which allows
to compare by content, or enable one of the auto-rename options
10.08.05 Added: ZIP packer: wincmd.ini [packer] zipansinames=1 causes TC to use
Ansi (Windows) instead of OEM (DOS) characters for names in zip. Note that some
unpackers cannot handle archives with accents in this case
09.08.05 Fixed: Compare by content: tabs all had a width of 0 (problem with new
line editor)
03.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Copy partially selected lines to the clipboard
03.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Position text cursor with mouse, select text
02.08.05 Added: Compare by content: Text cursor in compare windows
31.07.05 Added: Re-synchronize compare by content, e.g. to compare different
paragraphs than the internal compare tool has compared
29.07.05 Added: Pressing F5 again after F5-copy selects the file name
only/name+ext (F6 also works, e.g. for F6 - F6)
29.07.05 Added: Lister: Menu item for F2 "Reload file" (the function already
worked in older versions with F2 and Ctrl+R)
29.07.05 Added: Hotkey F6 to turn cursor in lister on/off
27.07.05 Added: Select text in lister with caret, supports Shift+
Left/Right/Up/Down/PgUp/PgDn/Home/End
26.07.05 Added: Caret in lister
26.07.05 Added: Save/restore additional sort orders in wincmd.ini
24.07.05 Added: Sorting by additional columns with Ctrl+Click on header. Special
cases: Clear all if Ctrl+Click on primary sort column. Reverse order if Ctrl+Click
on secondary sort column
22.07.05 Added: Configuration - Colors: alternating lines can now have different
background colors, e.g. white and light-gray
22.07.05 Added: Branch view: When sorting by name, if two files have the same name
and extension, sort them by directory name
20.07.05 Added: separate tree panel: Support for right click context menu and
Alt+Enter (properties)
19.07.05 Added: Splitter to change width of separate tree panel/file panel
19.07.05 Added: Horizontal scrollbar to separate tree panel
19.07.05 Added: Switch to separate tree with Shift+Tab
19.07.05 Added: Switch on/off separate tree with Ctrl+Shift+F8
13.07.05 Added: Separate tree panel per side
13.07.05 Fixed: Right click menu in tree was no longer working
12.07.05 Added: Show all drives in tree, not only current drive
05.07.05 Added: In "letters only" quick search mode, pressing up or down will
clear the quick search buffer, useful when making a typo
05.07.05 Added: Changed read buffer for "compare by content" from 32kByte to 1
MByte to increase compare speed when both files are on the same drive
05.07.05 Added: New internal command cm_RenameSingleFile to rename file under
cursor even if other files are selected (selection can be restored with "/" numeric
key)

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
6.54(a), 6.55(a) and 6.56.

01.01.07 Release Total Commander 6.56 final


01.01.07 Fixed: USB stick detection from TC7 ported to TC 6.56
01.01.07 Fixed: Re-reading of Network Neighborhood on Vista could cause access
violations
01.01.07 Fixed: Overlay icons not shown for font scalings other than 96 dpi (only
seems to affect Vista)

30.12.06 Release Total Commander 6.56 beta 1


29.12.06 Fixed: Re-packing files from a subdirectory of a RAR archive with
external unrar to another archive could corrupt the temp dir and delete the wrong
files
24.12.06 Fixed: Support TortoiseSVN overlay icons also on Vista
20.12.06 Added: Include newer unrar.dll because old dll doesn't seem to handle
some new rar files
24.11.06 Fixed: Some regular expressions could cause a stack overflow (infinite
recursion because nothing is found) -> limit recursion depth to 2000
19.11.06 Fixed: Unpack from RAR may fail with read error for RAR files >2GB
08.11.06 Fixed: FTP client: Show *** in log file for account password (ACCT
command)
13.09.06 Fixed: Unpack each archive to separate subdir not working properly if no
target path was given at all

23.10.06 Release Total Commander 6.55a final


23.10.06 Fixed: To unpack self-extracting archives created with TC6.55 on Windows
XP, right click on them, choose properties and turn on Windows 2000 compatibility
mode
19.10.06 Fixed: After installing Microsoft security update KB923191, self-
extracting ZIP archives no longer start -> updated sfxhead.sfx

26.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 final


26.07.06 Fixed: Installer didn't correctly detect Windows Vista
26.07.06 Fixed: Revert to c:\totalcmd as default install directory (can of course
be changed manually)

18.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 3


18.07.06 Fixed: Unpacking multiple archives with external unpacker to separate
subdirs unpacked to wrong subdir if target contained spaces
18.07.06 Fixed: %commander_ini% wasn't containing the full path when the
wincmd.ini was located in the windows directory
18.07.06 Fixed: Change drive while in search result switched from custom columns
or thumbnail view to full view
18.07.06 Fixed: Access violation when trying to search for a unicode string longer
than 150 characters. Note that only the first 127 characters can be found
18.07.06 Fixed: When saving or deleting a search in "Find files", reload the color
filters (which may be based on such searches). The list is refreshed when the
dialog is closed (except when noreread set for this drive)
16.07.06 Fixed: Custom columns view: If both "Adjust tabs to windows width" and
"Horizontal scrollbar" were checked, the scrollbar width wasn't adjusted when
resizing
16.07.06 Fixed: Empty file list with the following procedure: Search, feed to
listbox, Ctrl+Shift+T, Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Tab (duplicate search result in new inactive
tab)
16.07.06 Fixed: Use same function to copy date/time from archive as for normal
copying (set again afterwards if first fails)
16.07.06 Fixed: Copy - move to background: Only beep if the minimum time set in
configuration - misc has been reached
11.07.06 Fixed: Find Files: When deleting a saved search, the plugin options were
not deleted (was already fixed earlier in TC7)
09.07.06 Fixed: Catch error caused by HTTP proxy returning invalid reply in the
form "HTTP/1.1 HTTP 404 Not Found" instead of "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found"
09.07.06 Fixed: cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab not working correctly (locking works,
unlocking not)
09.07.06 Fixed: Installer hanging on Windows NT4 (because variable %ProgramFiles%
does not exist)
07.07.06 Fixed: UC2 packer: Properties of file (Alt+Enter) showing invalid file
size

05.07.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 2


30.06.06 Added: Windows Vista: Use IsUserAnAdmin to determine whether the user has
full admin rights or not, show "username^" if user has full admin rights
30.06.06 Fixed: Avoid flickering of buttons when button is pressed but cursor
outside of the button
29.06.06 Fixed: Sometimes the wrong help page was opened in Configuration -
Options (e.g. on FTP page if cursor on one of the dialog box items)
28.06.06 Added: XP: Show buttons in synchronize dirs with new disabled and
disabled down states during comparison
27.06.06 Fixed: U3 installer: remove read only attribute from wincmd.ini and
wcx_ftp.ini when copied to USB stick, so options can be written
27.06.06 Fixed: Configure custom columns: Wrong width saved for name column when
auto-adjusting to window width in vertical arrangement
25.06.06 Fixed: 100% CPU caused by self-extracting installer
25.06.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Q didn't work with plugins on updir item '..' in the root and
all directories just below the root. The name is still passed as c:\path\..\ so the
plugin can distinguish between the path under the cursor, and the current path

21.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 public beta 1


21.06.06 Added: totalcmd.exe.manifest file, because Totalcmd didn't use the XP
look in some cases (internal manifest resource was ignored)
20.06.06 Fixed: Load selection from file: The file wasn't closed if it had a size
of 0
19.06.06 Added: Installer: show error if selected target directory cannot be
created, and let user choose a different location
18.06.06 Fixed: When starting up, make test whether default.bar is writable
without actually writing to the file (just open with write rights)

14.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 beta 2


14.06.06 Added: Installer: Set default location of ini files to %APPDATA%\GHISLER
on NT/2000/XP if the Windows directory is not writable (for non-admin accounts)
13.06.06 Added: Look for wincmd.key also in the path of the wincmd.ini
13.06.06 Fixed: Directory hotlist, Start menu: Don't allow user to enter title
with only spaces in it (cannot be saved to ini). Enter a dash - for a separator!
13.06.06 Fixed: Lister: wrong text selected in binary and hex mode when cursor to
the right of all text
13.06.06 Added: Drag&Drop to button bar, copy+paste via right click: Show error if
bar file is not writable
13.06.06 Added: *.bar [options] redirect=0 turns off the new redirect bar option
(TC behaves as it did before version 6.55). redirect=1 forces redirect even if bar
file would be writable
13.06.06 Added: If no button bar location is specified in the wincmd.ini, assume
default.bar the program dir. If this file is not writable, copy it to the ini file
dir and use it from there, so the user can change it
12.06.06 Added: When TC starts, make sure that the specified directory for the ini
files wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini really exists, otherwise create it
11.06.06 Added: Installer: Set default location of ini files to %APPDATA%\GHISLER
on Windows Vista if there was no user-defined location set
11.06.06 Fixed: Made inplace rename box (Shift+F6) two pixels wider in brief mode
so the longest name does fit in on Windows XP too
07.06.06 Fixed: Could not modify ZIP archives on removable disks >2GB (e.g. huge
USB sticks)
07.06.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Up arrow resulted in an empty tab when cursor on a file in a
zip subdir
07.06.06 Fixed: Holding down Alt+Shift+F6 (test archive) with
AlwaysUnpackInBackground option set could still cause an access violation -> catch
it

06.06.06 Release Total Commander 6.55 beta 1


04.06.06 Fixed: When copying files with the normal copy functions, the file date
wasn't copied in some cases (when copying to a network with Norton Antivirus
running in the background)
01.06.06 Fixed: When closing TC with a file system plugin in the left panel
showing a progress bar (e.g. temp panel), the right panel isn't refreshed on
restart
01.06.06 Fixed: 2 row button bar: When moving mouse cursor 1 pixel behind last
button in first row, the first button in the second row showed a hint and reacted
to clicks
01.06.06 Fixed: Language files (*.lng) could not be larger than 64k (TC 6.55 16
bit: cut off file at 64k-16 bytes)
31.05.06 Added: Opening CHM help file does not work when started from a network ->
copy from net to TEMP before opening it, delete when done
29.05.06 Added: Call CHM help file instead of HLP if present in the same dir with
same name
26.05.06 Fixed: Configuration - Options - ZIP packer: The temp dir now also
supports environment variables like %temp% or %commander_path%
26.05.06 Fixed: XP: Crash when http connection gets redirected and the path is
longer than 259 characters (probably not system-critical, the string overlap is
only a few bytes)
26.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+N HTTP download not working when IPv6 enabled and no port
number given in URL
26.05.06 Fixed: Hard links to directories (reparse points) were always shown with
special icons even if they were disabled in the configuration
26.05.06 Fixed: Compare by content: Don't try to open/unpack/download updir item
[..]
21.05.06 Fixed: Delete to Recycle bin was called twice when it failed due to a
sharing violation
21.05.06 Fixed: The following dialogs were not centered on the Totalcmd window:
Main config dialog, ftp connection details, connection progress, check CRC
progress, Packer/FS/LS/Content plugin config dialog
19.05.06 Fixed: Start menu was displayed even with RestrictInterface=1 when
switching from non-English to English language
17.05.06 Fixed: The already running instance of TC wasn't restored when minimized
to tray and only 1 instance allowed when starting TC again
10.05.06 Fixed: Using watchdirs sometimes produced duplicate file names (reason:
Windows reported the file with a different upper-/lowercase than it exists on disk)
10.05.06 Fixed: Holding down Alt+Shift+F6 (test archive) with
AlwaysUnpackInBackground option set could cause access violation -> only allow to
open next dialog after 500 ms delay
07.05.06 Fixed: Ctrl+Up arrow resulted in an empty tab when cursor on a directory
in a zip subdir
03.05.06 Fixed: Unpacking of archive >4GB not always working (when file starts
beyond the 4 GB limit)
03.05.06 Fixed: Quickview was not refreshed when switching to a different tab with
the mouse
25.04.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: ESC has to be hold down for at least 100ms to
avoid that comparison is stopped when pressing ESC in compare by contents window
25.04.06 Fixed: XP only: Alt+Tab from TC while displaying quick search caused a
focus loss
25.04.06 Fixed: Switching between two tabs with tree views produced empty listings
24.04.06 Fixed: With RestrictInterface=1, choosing the built-in English language
could cause an access violation
23.04.06 Fixed: Search in plugins: when using "regex", the exception created by an
invalid search string like "[" is not caught
23.04.06 Fixed: Shift+Click after changing tab selected wrong file range
16.04.06 Fixed: Always end descript.ion file with <CR><LF>
09.04.06 Fixed: Branch view Ctrl+B: Update status line with file under cursor
(instead of showing just [..])
08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Icon extract functions fail when surrounded by double
quotes "".
08.04.06 Fixed: For VISTA: Call MessageLoop regularly during re-reading Alt+F10
tree
05.04.06 Fixed: SFX module: As with internal unpacking, remove relative paths in
the form ..\ or ...\ (any number of dots >=2)
31.03.06 Fixed: Windows VISTA beta 2 bug: WinHelp command no longer working ->
call winhelp.exe manually. For testing, this code is also enabled on WinXP.
22.03.06 Fixed: FTP upload via background transfer manager: When getting overwrite
confirmation dialog, clicking "abort" aborted only current file, but then continued
with other files in list
21.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Selection with mouse could select negative offsets when
selecting to the left of the text
21.03.06 Fixed: Stack overflow when trying to delete very long dirs of certain
length
14.03.06 Fixed: Self-extracting ZIP archive can now also overwrite read-only files
(user will be asked for each file)
14.03.06 Fixed: CTRL+F3 in synchronize dirs was not always working (it was
disabled when right clicking on a file available only on one side)
07.03.06 Fixed: Search function: When using option "Search only selected dirs" and
[..] was selected, TC searched also in the parent dir -> auto-uncheck [..]
06.03.06 Fixed: ListNotificationReceived was broken: WM_COMMAND was only called
during loading of plugin
03.03.06 Fixed: When unpacking, remove relative paths in the form ..\ or ...\ (any
number of dots >=2) -> this would place the file in the parent dir, which is a
potential security risk
03.03.06 Fixed: Lister: Printing selection printed junk in the first line if the
selection was made beyond the beginning of the file
01.03.06 Fixed: Right click -> New submenu: look in "All Users\Templates" if
template not found in "<username>\Template"
26.02.06 Fixed: Files - Unpack all not working with files named e.g. test..zip
when "Unpack each archive to separate subdir" was checked
22.02.06 Fixed: When using "Show only selected files" in thumbnails view while
thumbs were still being extracted, the wrong thumbs could be shown -> clear thumbs
extraction queue
21.02.06 Fixed: With WatchDirs=5, files could disappear from the list when editing
them in some editors
10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: "Close" button now changed to "Abort" during
comparison (function re-inserted into 6.x line after the release of TC 6.54a)
10.02.06 Added: Synchronize dirs: react to windows messages also during normal
compare, not only during compare by content -> can abort with mouse, or switch to
other program and back

16.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a final


16.02.06 Fixed: Disable cm_switchlongnames also when background transfer manager
paused and containing files in queue

16.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a beta 2


16.02.06 Fixed: Disable cm_switchlongnames while background transfer manager or
background copy active
15.02.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Unicode names were only sorted correctly when
they had identical alternate DOS names
15.02.06 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: Allow to continue without UNDO when getting an
out of memory error (> about 70'000 files)

14.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54a beta 1


14.02.06 Fixed: Auto-installer (pluginst.inf): Ask before overwriting key,
language and program dir installations
14.02.06 Fixed: Avoid crash when trying to unpack invalid .lzh archives
05.02.06 Fixed: RAR SFX headers were only supported when smaller than 128kBytes
(themed headers can be larger)
05.02.06 Fixed: Packer plugin interface crashed with extensions longer than 15
characters
05.02.06 Fixed: F2 (reload file) in lister was no longer working

02.02.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 final


01.02.06 Fixed: Ctrl+C in lister still copied a space too much in some cases
01.02.06 Fixed: Wrong cursor movement in WatchDirs=5 mode

31.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 4 (PB4)


31.01.06 Fixed: Search for name without wildcards surrounded by double quotes
(e.g. "John Doe") found nothing.
29.01.06 Fixed: Try to keep focus after copy progress dialog closes when using
WindowBlinds with "glass skin" effect.
27.01.06 Fixed: Install of new plugins - existing plugin subdir not found when
using environment variables in plugin base dir
27.01.06 Fixed: Ctrl+C in lister sometimes copied one character too much when
selecting from the beginning of the file
27.01.06 Fixed: Auto-enable folder thumbnails also on Windows XP Service Pack 1 if
WMF patch has been installed

25.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 3 (PB3)


24.01.06 Fixed: Warning that there is not enough space on target drive was not
always working on Windows XP
24.01.06 Fixed: Packer plugins: When re-adding a file edited with F4 to an
archive, the flag PK_PACK_SAVE_PATHS was not set by mistake for files in subdirs
22.01.06 Fixed: Installer: Changed INI file location was not saved if user used
"Back" button and went through ini location page again without changing anything
20.01.06 Fixed: Give more space to plugin auto-install dialog boxes
20.01.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: If *.* was missing in the wildcards list, but
the list contained an item starting with *.*, then Windows chose this item
automatically -> add *.* manually to list

18.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 2 (PB2)


18.01.06 Fixed: Ctrl+D menu - sometimes the checkbox "also save target dir" was
checked
18.01.06 Fixed: Win9x/ME - thumbnails not shown unless the option WmfAllowed was
set manually to 1 or 3 in wincmd.ini
18.01.06 Fixed: When switching from search results view to other views like
network, plugins etc, the tab title wasn't updated
18.01.06 Fixed: Explicitly set focus to active listbox when hiding splash screen
and quick search dialog to avoid focus loss caused by some WindowBlinds themes
18.01.06 Fixed: File comments not copied in multi-rename tool when using 'reload
results' button
17.01.06 Fixed: Watchdirs: Directories would not appear when created while using a
custom filter like *.txt
16.01.06 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sorting error when name or subdir started with
double byte character (e.g. Chinese) only
15.01.06 Fixed: Footer is not updated at once when sending files to background
transfer manager with F5 - F2

12.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 public beta 1 (PB1)


12.01.06 Fixed: Files with date before 1980 are now shown as 1.1.1980 (only NTFS
supports dates before 1980, but TC uses the FAT date internally which is limited to
dates >=1980)

10.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 4


08.01.06 Added: Set MODE Z compression ratio (0..9) for uploads in wcx_ftp.ini
[General] zlibratiobin=3 or zlibratiotxt=3 (separately for binary and text).
08.01.06 Fixed: FTP upload to a server supporting MODE Z fails with "error
decompressing data stream" when uploading via a Cisco PIX 7.0.4 firewall (the pix
doesn't support compression rate 1) -> use default rate of 3 now
08.01.06 Fixed: No thumbnails shown for folders on XP (they were disabled because
they can contain WMF files) -> re-enable if patched gdi32.dll found
06.01.06 Fixed: Access violation when invoking cm_DirectoryHotlist via AutoIt
without setting the lparam parameter to 0 (only when history+hotlist buttons
disabled)
05.01.06 Fixed: In WatchDirs mode, files could disappear from the list by mistake

04.01.06 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 3


03.01.06 Fixed: Problem with hanging download if ftp server went offline in the
meantime
03.01.06 Fixed: Various small errors in English and German help files
03.01.06 Fixed: Irfanview/Xnview not closed after it was loaded in the background
for displaying of images or thumbnails (only when new extract method used)
03.01.06 Fixed: Directories were shown under wrong parent in Alt+F10 tree view
when SortUpper=3 was used -> fallback to SortUpper=2 for tree
03.01.06 Fixed: Upload in background: Rename doesn't work when a file with the
same name was detected
03.01.06 Fixed: Changed function called when displaying WMF or EMF files, seems to
cause no more crashes
01.01.06 Fixed: Sometimes thumbnail extra fields could be shown in custom columns
view with very long names in archives
01.01.06 Fixed: Could not decode SQX (binhex-coded) file when run length
compression was used already in the header
30.12.05 Fixed: Don't show WMF (windows meta file) and EMF (enhanced meta file)
images in Lister and thumbnails view, because of buffer overflow bug in Windows
DLL. Once your system is patched, you can re-enable them: wincmd.ini
[Configuration] WmfAllowed=3 (1=files, 2=folder thumbnails)
30.12.05 Fixed: Again duplicate hotkey in internal English "Net" menu
25.12.05 Fixed: Switching from custom columns view to thumbnail view and back ->
horizontal scrollbar was lost
25.12.05 Fixed: Incorrect tooltip for button bar button command cm_LeftThumbs when
menu contained only cm_SrcThumbs
23.12.05 Fixed: When aborting move or delete function in plugins, don't call
FsRemoveDir for parent directories
23.12.05 Fixed: Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D) was not case-insensitive for non-
English characters like accents or cyrillic

20.12.05 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 2


20.12.05 Fixed: U3 version: Fixed editing of menu files
20.12.05 Added: TC will now also look for language-specific help files named
wcmd_xyz.hlp in the language subdir (mainly implemented for the U3 version)
19.12.05 Fixed: When started from U3 USB stick, handle installation and switching
of languages correctly
19.12.05 Fixed: When started from U3 USB stick, hide configuration to change
custom sounds (they would be stored in the registry)
18.12.05 Added: Two new installation types for pluginst.inf: prg will install to
the TC program dir, key to the registration key dir (e.g. for easy U3 installation)
18.12.05 Fixed: Support Euro sign in HTML viewer as &8364; &#8364; and &euro; -
will not work correctly with Cyrillic, Chinese, or Japanese encodings
18.12.05 Fixed: Parallel port connection: Don't show date for '..' items and drive
letters
18.12.05 Fixed: Use of cm_SwitchLongNames loses cursor position -> position cursor
on correct file even when sort order changes
16.12.05 Fixed: Using one of the WatchDirs options didn't consider a directory
filter like "*.txt *.doc", so when files with other types were created, they would
also appear in the list
16.12.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Deleting files via right click menu no longer
removed them from the list
16.12.05 Fixed: Locking/unlocking tabs can cause wrap around of tab header. Adjust
panel height to this wrap around
16.12.05 Fixed: F3 and other hotkeys no longer working in file panel when quick
view active (should only be the case in quick view panel itself)

14.12.05 Release Total Commander 6.54 beta 1


14.12.05 Fixed: 2 Total Commander instances, left mouse selection mode. Drag&Drop
files/dirs with right mouse button between the two, create link -> links with wrong
names created (.lnk extension missing)
14.12.05 Fixed: Explicitly set focus to current file list before closing the quick
search dialog, to fix a bug in WindowBlinds 5
14.12.05 Fixed: When viewing single files with F3 or Alt+F3 and the local file
already exists, use new naming scheme file.txt -> file.000.txt instead of just
file.000 (e.g. for lister plugins)
11.12.05 Added: U3 support: Internal functions to ensure that TC shuts down in all
cases when removing an U3 USB stick
09.12.05 Fixed: Included new unacev2.dll (security bugfix)
09.12.05 Fixed: Don't save selection within a tab when switching away from a
locked tab with dir changes allowed (except when in the base dir of that tab)
30.11.05 Fixed: FTP: replace special chars ;:@&=+"#%<> by %hexcode, because some
HTTP proxies (Squid!) dislike these characters in URLs
30.11.05 Fixed: FTP: trying to download very long name can cause access violation
29.11.05 Fixed: Some colors incorrect when using white on black text
25.11.05 Fixed: By mistake, all content plugins without a detect string were
loaded with totalcmd! <- solution: save empty detect string to ini too!
23.11.05 Fixed: Some right to left dialogs (Hebrew, Arabic) were not shown
correctly, e.g. search in plugins
22.11.05 Fixed: When adding files to a packer plugin archive with different
extension than registered, TC didn't ask for overwrite. Changed plugin interface
version to 2.11 to reflect this change.
22.11.05 Fixed: Status path shown incorrectly in custom columns view with
LongInStatus=1
13.11.05 Added: For admins: Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ghisler\Total
Commander\configuration, add allowed (type string) and/or RestrictInterface (type
DWORD) to restrict user options. The value will be combined with the value in the
ini file (the more restricted wins)
30.10.05 Added: Synchronize dirs with FTP: User can now turn on/off date/time with
MDTM command, and define whether the time is sent as local time or UTC (universal
time)
30.10.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Replace characters (returned by plugins) which
are not allowed in file names by underscores or dots
30.10.05 Added: Command line: auto-replace forward slashes by backslashes in "cd"
command, e.g. cd c:/windows/system -> cd c:\windows\system
25.10.05 Added: Worked on U3 installer
21.10.05 Fixed: Ctrl+Q quick view panel: With some lister plugins like hpg_ed, F3
invoked both find next (desired) and the lister (not desired)
18.10.05 Fixed: FTP sync: additional check for ESC during upload+download
18.10.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Increased the default widths of the size columns
a bit (user request)
18.10.05 Fixed: Search in plugins: Go to file not working if the file name or path
contained a forward slash
16.10.05 Fixed: Background transfer manager: speed limit not working when copying
multiple subdirs
16.10.05 Fixed: Background transfer manager: aborting copy function not always
working
11.10.05 Fixed: Disallow the creation of directories ending with spaces, e.g. "a /
\ "
11.10.05 Added: Allow to delete directories and files which end with one or more
spaces!
09.10.05 Fixed: Memory error in compare tool with some big files
28.09.05 Fixed: When using Letters with search dialog as quick search mode in
archives with Ctrl+Q, then going to an image file can cause an access violation
(because the quick search dialog is hidden by the unpack dialog)
27.09.05 Fixed: In double byte languages like Chinese, characters in zip/rar with
second char '|' were shown incorrectly (because '|' is normally illegal in file
names)
27.09.05 Fixed: Make FTP client work with FTP servers which return a forward slash
after a directory name
27.09.05 Fixed: When browsing virtual folders, try to get the name in various ways
(first for parsing, then in folder, then normal)
27.09.05 Fixed: F3 on mp3 file marked "Text" instead of "Image/Multimedia" in
lister's menu
23.09.05 Fixed: Unzip: If zip file contains invalid (0) date/time, don't set it on
extraction
21.09.05 Fixed: Lister: Wrong text copied in first line (unicode mode and utf8
mode)
18.09.05 Fixed: Wrong display under the following condition: Vertical arrangement,
two drive button bars, then switching color depth (e.g. 16 bit -> true color)
18.09.05 Fixed: Custom columns view: "list index out of bounds" error if both
sides only show name+ext, and the column width is adjusted by mouse
18.09.05 Fixed: Dual screen mode: Double click on word in Lister only selected the
word on screen with positive coordinates
18.09.05 Fixed: Win9x only: Renaming not working in mode singleclickstart=1 if the
mouse was moved over the file list during renaming
16.09.05 Fixed: Clicking on panel title while quick view was active did not
activate the RTF viewer or a plugin inside of the quick view panel
16.09.05 Fixed: On Ctrl+U, do not set swapped tab title to locked tabs
13.09.05 Added: Command line parameters for uninstaller tcuninst.exe for silent
uninstall: /r repair, /0../7 uninstall. Sum of: 1=desktop icon, 2=context menu
entries, 4=all settings files
25.08.05 Fixed: Button bar : no icon shown if path contained a comma
23.08.05 Added: Optimize unzip: open archive once at the beginning and keep open
(necessary because of a bug in Windows XP SP2, where CloseFile over a network takes
up to 2 seconds!)
10.08.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Copy direction problem when synching between
dir+zip in asymmetric mode and unchecked files
09.08.05 Fixed: Tree functions and creation of dirs failed if Alt+F10 tree
contains paths longer than 259 characters
29.07.05 Added: On Ctrl+PageDown, TC now searches the first 512 kbytes for a valid
archive header. Reason: The RAR unpacker will support themes which can contain a
big uncompressed background bitmap in the unpacker...
06.07.05 Fixed: Copy speed limit wasn't enforced when opening the background
transfer manually and adding files for copying AFTER checking the speed limit
option
06.07.05 Fixed: Clicking on "*" button in the inactive panel added/removed the
wrong directory (from the active side!)
06.07.05 Fixed: Internal unzip: forget password after operation
06.07.05 Fixed: Built-in English menu: In the "Mark" menu, two menu items had the
same hotkey
06.07.05 Fixed: Changed behaviour of FTP server define dialog: Alt+Shift+Enter
during a connection will keep currently used server type. OK will apply the new
settings, Cancel will revert to standard type.
05.07.05 Fixed: Button bar: If parameter starts with '?' and contains one of the
list parameters like %L, the temporary list wasn't deleted if the user clicked
'cancel'
05.07.05 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U (Swap all tabs) not working properly when a tab with
"locked but dir changes allowed" was an active tab, and this tab was showing
something else than the locked root dir
05.07.05 Fixed: Tab with "locked but dir changes allowed" was lost (deleted) when
it was showing a search result while closing the program (only if the tab was
inactive)
05.07.05 Fixed: Switch between tabs with comment view and tree view not working
correctly
05.07.05 Fixed: Switch from search result view to tree view didn't change tab
title from "Search result" to e.g. "c:"
05.07.05 Fixed: Don't switch from search result to full view when choosing Show-
Full while showing comments in search result

31.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53


31.05.05 Fixed: Unicode search not working on Windows 9x/ME
31.05.05 Fixed: Corrections to help file and keyboard.txt
31.05.05 Fixed: Delete temp dir when re-packing archive to packer plugin archive
(only if the archiver deleted the files in it)
29.05.05 Fixed: Win9x only: some media files not playing with F3 when name longer
than 97 characters (bug in media player window)
27.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs=32 option: Free space in other panel was not updated if
showing same disk, but other directory

25.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 RC 1


25.05.05 Fixed: Executing command like "notepad.exe" on the command line
(including the double quotes) passed invalid parameters to the launched program
25.05.05 Added: Two new WatchDirs options: 16: Update footer (total file sizes),
32: Update header (free disk space). May slow down operation, so enable only if
really necessary.
25.05.05 Fixed: Content plugins: Support field of type FullText also before other
variables (TC reports plugin interface version 1.5 or later)
25.05.05 Fixed: Alt+F9 unpack: When using external unrar, setting option "unpack
to separate dirs" and leaving path field empty, the files may be unpacked to the
target instead of the source path
25.05.05 Fixed: Increased limit of packer plugins (extension list can now take 1
kbyte instead of 512 bytes)
24.05.05 Fixed: Trying to access a server with cd \\server in the command line
where the server has no guest account causes connect dialog. Clicking on cancel
shows again connect dialog when trying to open subdir
24.05.05 Added: Increased width of dropdown box in synchronize dirs - wildcards
24.05.05 Fixed: Two folders aaaa and aaaaa. Rename aaaaa to a Russian 4 character
name with English language settings -> it was moved to aaaa
24.05.05 Fixed: Could not inplace rename a directory to a Unicode name (e.g.
Russian on English Windows) containing spaces
24.05.05 Fixed: If a hotkey like F2 is mapped to cm_renameonly, pressing this
hotkey multiple times will select name part/name+ext of the file in alternating way
22.05.05 Fixed: Brief view: made inplace rename window 4 pixels wider to fit in
entire name (except if edit box would exceed list window width)

19.05.05 Release Total Commander 6.53 beta 1


19.05.05 Fixed: Plugin detect string was cut at 259 chars when adding OTHER
plugin
18.05.05 Fixed: F3 view remote ftp file twice was sometimes not working (download
OK, but file not found)
18.05.05 Fixed: If WatchDirs is enabled and a file appears above the current item
during inplace rename, the wrong file may be renamed
18.05.05 Fixed: temp dirs created under %temp%\_tc were no longer removed after
deleting the file itself
18.05.05 Added: New command line parameters /P=L and /P=R to set the active file
panel (left or right panel)
18.05.05 Fixed: Don't set attributes to 0 when creating new directory (it's no
longer necessary on Win32, and causes problems with Samba)
18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", the lister
search dialog options were also black on black
18.05.05 Fixed: When using the color scheme "high contrast black", print preview
showed text black on black and sometimes printed white on white -> explicitly set
font color to color_windowtext for preview, and black (0) for printing
18.05.05 Fixed: FTP to IBM MVS Mainframe: Switching between tabs was not working
due to error in path/url handling
18.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Duplicate name warning when comparing Unicode
names which have the same name pattern (same length, English and spaces in same
places)
17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position while
outside of TC, the selection became wrong if restoring it with '/' after switching
back to TC
17.05.05 Fixed: Watchdirs: When a file was added above the current position, the
current file index changed
16.05.05 Fixed: Tab order in search - plugins wasn't top to bottom
16.05.05 Fixed: FTP resume upload: Some FTP servers seem to return wrong
(downloaded in text mode) file size on SIZE command -> call TYPE I before calling
SIZE
15.05.05 Fixed: Command line: Executing an URL like
http://www.ghisler.com/index.htm didn't work if the default verb for .htm wasn't
'open'. Same fix also in button bar and start menu
15.05.05 Fixed: Shift+F6 (inplace rename) directly at program start -> longer
file name was shown displaced
15.05.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Function "Set local date to remote" was no
longer available
10.05.05 Fixed: Could not correctly switch between connections to the same FTP
server with different dirs on two tabs
10.05.05 Fixed: Unpack and Execute on NT4 with file containing a space causes
file not found error
10.05.05 Fixed: Drag&Drop: "drop forbidden" cursor circle not visible on black
ground - added white border
10.05.05 Fixed: Gzip archive with invalid extra field length could cause access
violation (read beyond buffer length, no security risk since read only)
10.05.05 Fixed: Self-extracting RAR-Archive containing ARJ archive with
compression rate 0 -> TC opened the inner ARJ instead of the outer RAR archive
10.05.05 Fixed: Lister: Trying to view AVI file with access denied error shows
lister window over TC and does not repaint it
09.05.05 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when checking the "USB stick" option
09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and Samba network-attached drive in sync not
working (reason: Samba case-sensitive)
09.05.05 Fixed: Compare between ftp and local file in sync not working if ftp on
the left side
09.05.05 Fixed: Could no longer open compare by contents dialog if only one file
or no files were selected
09.05.05 Fixed: Mime-decoding created invalid output if the name of the file
contained =? encoding and used base64 as the encoding method

30.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52


30.04.05 Fixed: Could not view 2 identically named files on remote ftp with
external viewer

29.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 2


29.04.05 Fixed: Search in content plugins not working if type of value different
from type of variable, e.g. floating instead of integer. Now integer and floating
values are interchangeable
29.04.05 Fixed: Right click on current path - New - xyz file: In addition to
Documents and settings, look in Windows\ShellNew for template files (some Microsoft
programs seem to use this location)
29.04.05 Fixed: Netware version: Ctrl+Shift+F5 dialog: Remove netware copy
options, they are irrelevant for creating shortcuts
29.04.05 Fixed: Create CRC checksums: files were created in the target instead of
the source when specifying no target path and the last directory change was on the
target side

27.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Release Candidate 1


24.04.05 Fixed: Default string in delayed/on demand fields not shown in first
custom column

21.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 3


21.04.05 Fixed: Pack multiple files to zip:"*.*.zip" deleted the first character
of each name (correct syntax would have been zip:*.*.zip without the double quotes
anyway)
21.04.05 Fixed: Command line command del /q /s *.tmp deleted all files. Reason:
TC tries to insert current path to avoid that the wrong dir is deleted if there is
a .pif file for command.com with a default dir
21.04.05 Fixed: Right-aligned custom columns not shown correctly on some systems
(because of addition of TABs)
21.04.05 Added: Korean is now included as a default language due to the increased
number of registrations from Korea
17.04.05 Fixed: Changing sort order while in tree view changed the sort order for
full and brief view without changing the sort indicator arrows
17.04.05 Added: cm_SwitchWatchDirs command to turn off (and back on) watching of
directory changes with the wincmd.ini option WatchDirs=
17.04.05 Fixed: Don't show hidden/system files with WatchDirs option when the
display of hidden/system files is disabled in the configuration
16.04.05 Fixed: Sometimes there was an access violation when closing TC while in
a rapidly changing dir with WatchDirs enabled
16.04.05 Fixed: With Watchdirs option 8 added, Watchdirs sometimes stopped
working until the next dir change

13.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 2


13.04.05 Added: Support gzip archives >4GB, both creation and extraction
13.04.05 Added: When restarting Total Commander, and the current path is replaced
(e.g. via the command line), then add the previous path to the history
12.04.05 Fixed: Memory leak in Netware function to copy trustees (Netware version
only)
12.04.05 Fixed: Removed code which sets directory attributes to 0 after creation
- this is already done automatically by all 32-bit operating systems!
11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: WatchDirsExclude= (defaults to empty
string): set drives which should be excluded from WatchDirs directory monitoring
11.04.05 Added: New wincmd.ini section: noreread2= (which defaults to the content
of noreread=): set drives which should not be remembered when restarting TC. Until
now, this was part of noreread= See example in help.
11.04.05 Fixed: Tabs in content plugin strings should now be shown correctly in
custom columns view
11.04.05 Fixed: Turn off watchdirs between copy dialog and progress dialog to
avoid error that directory contents have changed
11.04.05 Fixed: Lister now shows "access denied" instead of "file not found" if
there is a sharing violation accessing a file (e.g. it's opened in a different
program)
10.04.05 Fixed: Reset directory checksum after receiving a directory change
notification - will cause TC to always reread the directory on F2 or when switching
back to it
10.04.05 Fixed: USB stick copy option turned off - not saved permanently
08.04.05 Fixed: Don't count dir content of target of a junction when deleting the
junction
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Sync with ftp could cause access violation if
path longer than 259 characters
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: return to root not working when syncing with
ftp root
08.04.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs: Compare two files by content didn't work with
files in ftp subdirs
07.04.05 Fixed: TC uses 100% CPU when WatchDirs option enabled, and trying to
access dir which cannot be monitored, e.g. a Win9x share

06.04.05 Release Total Commander 6.52 Beta 1


06.04.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration], WatchDirs= determines operation of
automatic dir updates: 1: turn option on, 2: detect changes to size, date,
attributes, 4: put newly added files at the END, 8: don't react to updates while TC
isn't in the foreground
06.04.05 Fixed: WinXP: Playing a CD with F3 didn't stop when closing lister
06.04.05 Fixed: Could no longer access "tar" archives after associating extension
"ar" with any packer plugin ("tar" was interpreted as "tar.ar")
06.04.05 Fixed: 16-bit version: Invalid time stamp written to .tar files
05.04.05 Added: Watch changes of directories, and update them immediately on
changes (using ReadDirectoryChangesW function). Requires Windows NT, 2000 or XP
03.04.05 Added: Support for BSD-style MD5 checksum files, e.g. MD5
(./subdir/somefile.ext) = e573fe599272957b234dba19e41237a1
03.04.05 Fixed: Lister: When playing multimedia via built-in media player plugin,
allow to use hotkeys like pageup/pagedown/home/end even if the scrollbar doesn't
have the focus
01.04.05 Fixed: Custom columns view with horizontal scrollbar: When using a
rectangle as cursor, don't draw right line unless scrolled to the end of the row
(otherwise drawing artifacts will result)
01.04.05 Fixed: ftp ctrl+left or right tries to open directory with two
consecutive slashes, e.g. /subdir//subdirundercursor
30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 http support (both proxy-ftp and http
downloads).
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also copies thumbnails with files
(if enabled in configuration - thumbnails)
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also allows to copy NTFS
permissions (checkbox in copy dialog)
30.03.05 Added: Compatibility mode copying: Now also removes the "read only"
attribute when copying from CD
30.03.05 Fixed: Access violation trying to download a file from FTP via HTTP when
the local path became longer than 259 characters
30.03.05 Fixed: Browsing of network paths not working correctly when double
clicking on "share x on server y" in nethood
30.03.05 Added: Experimental IPv6 ftp support. To use it, add to wcx_ftp.ini
section [General], PreferIPv6=1 if you want to prefer IPv6 for servers which
support both IPv4 and IPv6, or PreferIPv6=0 to prefer IPv4 (default=-1: IPv6 off)
22.03.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 Alt+F7 opened search window with only the height of the
title bar if the window was maximized
22.03.05 Added: Compare by content (in main window) now also works with FTP
22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: Compare by content of single files (double
click on file pair) now also works with FTP and file system plugins
22.03.05 Added: Synchronize dirs: When creating dirs during copying, also copy
dir time stamp (if configured), NTFS permissions, and Netware trustees (Netware
version only). The dir timestamp is NOT copied (NTFS changes it when copying files
to the dir).
20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode search for whole words not working properly in lister and
search
20.03.05 Fixed: Unicode case-insensitive search not working properly for
encodings other than latin-1 (English, German etc.)
20.03.05 Fixed: Lister: Selecting text in Unicode mode in the first line of a
file selected displaced by 1 character
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP templates dialog: switch back to "Courier New" when loading
the dialog even if the user has changed the default dialog font. Otherwise it's
quite impossible to create detect strings.
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: First item in list not always shown if <PRE>
formatting was used without a <br> or <p> in front of it
18.03.05 Fixed: FTP not always working correctly if the user name had the form
user@host
18.03.05 Added: Multi-rename tool: Two new rename strings [N2--5] means the
second character until the fifth-last. [N-5-] means the 5fth-last until the end of
the name
16.03.05 Fixed: Better caching of item idlists on network shares should speed up
browsing network paths
16.03.05 Fixed: Drawing of XP themed speed buttons and bit buttons (e.g. in
Compare by contents): Erase background before drawing button, draw highlight of bit
buttons
16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Removed WS_BORDER style, looks ugly (on
WinXP only)
16.03.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: moved listboxes down 2 pixels to avoid
overlapping of checkboxes under XP
16.03.05 Fixed: XP listbox bug: In synchronize dirs, clicking or double clicking
below last listbox item affected the last item in the list
15.03.05 Fixed: Multi-rename tool: access violation after renaming when sorting
by extension needed
15.03.05 Fixed: Unpacking single archive containing " -" with option "unpack to
separate subdirs" didn't work correctly (" -" was interpreted as command line
parameter)
13.03.05 Added: Auto-detect USB sticks and use compatibility mode to copy to them
(can be disabled in configuration - copy/delete). Reason: USB sticks have no write
cache on WinXP.
13.03.05 Fixed: Some TC functions not working properly if the TEMP variable
pointed to the root of a drive WITHOUT a trailing backslash, e.g. TEMP=f:
11.03.05 Added: Decoding MIME-encoded files: Accept file names in the form =?ISO-
8859-1?Q?filename.ext?= (see RFC2047)
11.03.05 Added: Ftp over http proxy: upload entire dir trees, also to non-
existing subdirs (proxy needs to support uploading of files to not yet existing
subdirs)
11.03.05 Fixed: Lister html viewer: show &lsquo and &rsquo as normal single quote
characters: '
11.03.05 Fixed: On WinXP, CopyFileEx (compatibility mode) couldn't copy encrypted
files if the destination couldn't be encrypted
09.03.05 Fixed: Slow access to network admin shares like \\server\d$ because TC
tried to get attributes/time stamp of \\server\d$ directory itself, which caused
Windows to access \\server\d instead 8without the $)
08.03.05 Added: If ZIP encryption dll is installed, also allow to encrypt with
external RAR, ACE, ARJ, ZIP
08.03.05 Added: Quick search: Letters only with no search dialog now also
supports the * wildcard
08.03.05 Fixed: Top file list at wrong position with the following settings:
vertical arrangement, always show dir tabs, drive bar, not drive dropdown list
03.03.05 Fixed: Regular expression search in text: $ or \b at end of search
string sometimes matched strings in the middle of a file, when the match was at the
end of the search buffer
01.03.05 Fixed: Speed limit for FTP and HTTP not working properly for high bit
rates
01.03.05 Fixed: Could not switch through custom column views with
cm_SrcNextCustomView etc. if the view had no additional columns defined
01.03.05 Added: Middle click on drive button in drive button bar opens drive in
new tab
27.02.05 Added: Lister and Compare by Content now display tab characters
correctly in Unicode mode (only on Windows NT/2000/XP, function is missing on
Win9x)
27.02.05 Added: Path above file lists: Accept also forward slashes, e.g.
//server/share (auto-convert to backslashes)
25.02.05 Added: Synchronize dirs now also supports unicode names (normal files
only, no archives, ftp or plugins)
25.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs with zip-subdirs: using the wildcards selection
box in the middle didn't find files by name (e.g. a*.*) when in subdirs, by
extension worked fine
24.02.05 Fixed: Unpacking of files >2GB and <4GB from ZIP archives (>4GB already
worked)
24.02.05 Added: Unpacking of ZIP archives >4GB
23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns: tc.comment field wasn't refreshed if shown in the
same column as a delayed field like shelldetails.comment
23.02.05 Fixed: F3 on file when path not accessible -> wait cursor shown
23.02.05 Added: Plugin columns with string content now also use the sort method
defined via SortUpper= in wincmd.ini
23.02.05 Fixed: EXE icons initially didn't show up if share_nt.exe wasn't found
23.02.05 Added: Calculate occupied space (also before copying) now also supports
Unicode file names+dirs, as long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05 Added: Change attributes now also works with Unicode file names+dirs, as
long as they have a valid alternate DOS name
23.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F1 while quick view is open on the desktop -> drive dropdown
list opens and quickly closes again
23.02.05 Fixed: FTP: CDUP command on command line didn't refresh the current dir
and directory listing
23.02.05 Fixed: CRC check: support file names starting with a space, or multiple
spaces
23.02.05 Added: wcx_ftp.ini, [General], GetModeFromLocalFile=1 : The name of the
local file determines the transfer mode (binary, text) in automatic mode (normally:
the name of the remote file)
23.02.05 Fixed: Multi-Rename-Tool: "Load results" button didn't take content
plugins into account
23.02.05 Added: New function ContentPluginUnloading in content plugin interface
23.02.05 Fixed: Content plugin returning different type on extraction than when
loading -> crash in search function. Solution: Ignore such values in search (TC
reports content plugin interface version >=1.3)
23.02.05 Fixed: Duplicate hotkey Alt+P in multi-rename tool
23.02.05 Fixed: Search - feed to listbox - lock tab - double click on directory
-> search result was lost
23.02.05 Added: Drag&Drop to external programs now also works when using Alt+Tab
instead of moving the cursor out of the program window
23.02.05 Fixed: Some functions didn't function correctly if the TEMP environment
variable contained / instead of \, e.g. c:/temp instead of c:\temp
23.02.05 Fixed: Viewing files with Alt+F3 no longer working after "feed to
listbox"
23.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns appeared to be sorted by non-existing column when
sorting by the last column and then deleting that column
22.02.05 Fixed: Double click on configuration in custom columns dialog -> after
closing the dialog, Drag&Drop of items was active
22.02.05 Fixed: LOAD-SAVE panel in FIND FILES not always refreshed correctly
(when saving with name which is part of another existing name)
22.02.05 Fixed: Changed quick search cursor color back to what it was in TC 6.50,
because the cursor became almost invisible with some configurations
22.02.05 Tested:Shell overlay icons definitely do NOT work on WinNT4 even with
IE6, IShellIconOverlay interface is NOT available
22.02.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs of 2 archives, deleting file via right click
menu sometimes deleted file from the wrong archive

02.02.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Final


02.02.05 Fixed: Windows XP: underlined characters and focus lines were not shown
in dialogs, except when entering them with the keyboard. Solution: call to
WM_CHANGEUISTATE
02.02.05 Fixed: Custom columns configuration dialog: Set minimum width, so the
checkboxes and buttons at the bottom can no longer overlap each other
02.02.05 Fixed: Alt+F3 on file in archive stored with absolute path "\filename"
passed wrong name with two \\ to external viewer
02.02.05 Fixed: FTP over HTTP didn't recognize <hr /> tag (horizontal line)
01.02.05 Fixed: Help file: replaced Helv font by Arial
01.02.05 Fixed: Switching from vertical arrangement to side by side panel view
with two lines of tab headers in comment view showed wrongly sized listbox
01.02.05 Fixed: Compare by contents: Search function didn't search beyond the end
of the shorter file
01.02.05 Fixed: Wrong number of selected files shown after changing attributes if
nothing changed in the current dir
01.02.05 Fixed: Don't show any error when clicking on "Start" in "Compact
thumbnail database" when no database exists yet
01.02.05 Fixed: Switching to TC via a hotkey of TC's desktop icon no longer
worked (except when minimizing to the system tray)

30.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.51 Beta 1


30.01.05 Fixed: Switching between two ftp connections 0: and 1: both pointing to
the root of the SAME server didn't update the tab header
28.01.05 Fixed: Hourglass cursor sometimes remained on panel when switching from
normal tab to search results tab
28.01.05 Fixed: Access violation unpacking AES-encrypted ZIP archive if AES
plugin installed under different extension than .AES
28.01.05 Fixed: Duplicating search results tab with Ctrl+T no longer worked
26.01.05 Fixed: F7 create directory: Couldn't create directory with Chinese
characters where the second byte had the same code as "|" used to create multiple
dirs in one step. Same problem in MRT Search+Replace
26.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs between subdir in archive other than zip and
normal dir didn't correctly take that archive subdir into account
26.01.05 Fixed: tc.size and tc.writedate columns in custom columns view will now
be sorted (and show sorting headers) also via shortcuts Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+F5
26.01.05 Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F1 twice from custom view will switch to
thumbnails view and back to the previous custom view, same for Ctrl+Shift+F2
26.01.05 Fixed: Auto-install plugins remembered wrong base path "plugins\w"
instead of just "plugins"
26.01.05 Fixed: Shift+F7 also searched backwards instead of forwards (only
Shift+F3 should have done that)
26.01.05 Added: Custom columns view: Show <DIR> instead of size if dir size isn't
counted
26.01.05 Fixed: Text thumbnails: use DEFAULT_FONT instead of ANSI_FONT to use
default language settings
26.01.05 Fixed: Multi-rename-tool: Didn't remember spaces at the beginning/end of
the string
25.01.05 Fixed: FTP: When connection is lost and a reconnect is needed, MODE Z
isn't re-activated but TC still assumes that it is active -> empty dir lists
25.01.05 Fixed: pluginbasedir wasn't described in the help
25.01.05 Fixed: Rename field width wrong under custom columns view
25.01.05 Fixed: Deleted some unsupported internal commands from 16bit inc file
25.01.05 Fixed: Changed error message shown when a plugin with the same name is
already installed in a different dir
25.01.05 Fixed: After "disk full" message, copying was aborted - now the user can
continue with the next file by clicking "Skip"
25.01.05 Fixed: Resume copying in background transfer manager was not working
after clicking on the close button
25.01.05 Fixed: Print dialog: using right mouse button to change borders caused
unwanted results
25.01.05 Fixed: Synchronize dirs, FTP downloads: Allow to continue sync even when
there is a transfer error (user will be asked)
25.01.05 Fixed: Trying to download a file which is locked on the server while
MODE Z is enabled hangs TC (only with Filezilla server, not with other servers)
25.01.05 Fixed: When switching back from custom columns view with only 2 columns
(name+ext) in both windows to full view on the left, the header titles were not
restored
25.01.05 Fixed: When changing the header width in one window, change it in the
other window too ONLY if both show the same view (full view or same custom fields)
21.01.05 Fixed: When moving the re-packing of archives (e.g. zip->rar) to
background, the rest of the files wasn't repacked
21.01.05 Fixed: Checking of md5sum.txt worked, but md5sum (without extension)
wasn't recognized
21.01.05 Fixed: Search max. 5 seconds for other installed plugins when auto-
installing (to avoid that an entire drive is searched)
21.01.05 Fixed: Dotted frame around current quick search item had strange colors
(and not the normal inverse color) with some color settings
21.01.05 Fixed: Unwanted beep when connecting to FTP server supporting MODE Z
compression

17.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Final


17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: Show (Language) in addition to the
translated term meaning language
17.01.05 Fixed: Configuration dialog: changing both custom fields in thumbnails
view and language left the custom field names in the old language
17.01.05 Fixed: Deleting or sorting custom column views didn't update the main
menu
16.01.05 Fixed: tcuninst.exe didn't consider UseIniInProgramDir option in
wincmd.ini
16.01.05 Fixed: Bug in WinXP listbox control: lparam of lb_setcaretindex is
ignored (items are always scrolled completely into view) -> move mouse cursor as a
workaround
16.01.05 Fixed: Left mouse selection mode: Right clicking on partially visible
thumbnail still caused unwanted scrolling

14.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC2


14.01.05 Fixed: Rename/lock tab dialog: disallow to check both lock options
simultaneously
14.01.05 Fixed: Error "function not implemented" when deleting last custom
columns view, while both panels show that view
14.01.05 Fixed: Use cabinet.dll coming with Windows (if available) instead of
cabrk.dll (made from cabinet sdk)
12.01.05 Fixed: 'Save position' with 100% width of right panel caused left
listbox to be lost if the menu bar has more than 1 line
12.01.05 Fixed: Right clicking on partially visible thumbnail caused unwanted
scrolling
12.01.05 Fixed: Support for CurVer redirection key in registry e.g.
Acrobat.Reader\CurVer pointing to Acrobat.Reader.7 <- only on Win2k, XP and ME (and
newer)

11.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 RC1


11.01.05 Fixed: When user entered environment variable like %commander_path% in
auto-install plugins, the env var wasn't resolved
09.01.05 Fixed: Shift+click on current path to go up one or more dirs: place
cursor on dir from which we were coming
09.01.05 Fixed: Delayed custom fields lost when changing sort order while custom
fields are still being retrieved
07.01.05 Fixed: Sort order in ft_datetime fields wasn't always correct
07.01.05 Fixed: ZIP packer: Overwriting of a file starting with a dual byte
character not working, the file ended up twice in the zip
07.01.05 Fixed: Changedir to path in the form ::{idlist} not working in button
bar if current dir was already a virtual folder
07.01.05 Fixed: When overwriting a file >2 GB, the remaining space wasn't
correctly checked - TC gave a disk space warning even if size of newfile-size of
oldfile >= free space
07.01.05 Fixed: Search dialog: "Plugins" header lost if not translated
07.01.05 Fixed: Using stored search with search in plugins always used AND and
never OR to combine the rules
07.01.05 Fixed: Changed date from 2004 to 2005 in help, nag screen, about box
07.01.05 Fixed: Switch back to sorting by name when switching from custom columns
view to thumbnails view
06.01.05 Fixed: Problem with non-appearing icons and/or custom fields on the
right panel only
05.01.05 Added: Removed duplicate checking when mass-adding thumbnails to
preloading
05.01.05 Added: Abort preloading of thumbnails with ESC with Preloadthumbnails=1
and Preloadthumbnails=2 (especially for big branch views)

04.01.05 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 12


04.01.05 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ThumbnailMemoryLimit= sets number of
thumbnails per panel cached in memory (default: 200 in Win9x, 500 on NT/2000/XP,
minimum: 100)
04.01.05 Fixed: Sometimes when entering a dir while in thumbnails mode, one
thumbnail wasn't shown
04.01.05 Fixed: Packing problem: Last character of Chinese names cut off in half
when packing to .GZ or other packers which can hold only 1 file
04.01.05 Fixed: WinXP: Custom Column configurations dialog list out of bounds
error when dragging items
04.01.05 Fixed: Opening drive dropdown combo, then clicking on folder tab header
changed order of tab headers
02.01.05 Added: Search dialog: moved 'Plugins' page in front of 'Load/Save' page.
Note to translators: Do NOT change the order of these strings!
02.01.05 Fixed: Comments from subdirs not deleted when moving a directory to a
different drive
31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents, Unicode: Last character of last line missing
if line wasn't ended with a newline character
31.12.04 Fixed: Compare by contents: newline at end was not always detected
correctly
31.12.04 Added: More preloadthumbnails options: 0: no preload, 1: preload, but
not in branch view, 2: preload all, 3: preload next 2 lines beyond last file
31.12.04 Added: Calls to Irfanview/Xnview now protected by their own critical
section separate from icon load section
31.12.04 Fixed: New Irfanview extraction method: Avoid deadlocks by using a
callback window belonging to the calling thread
31.12.04 Added: Internal content plugin: in addition to tc. the old form (int).
is again allowed (for people using the leaked beta version)
31.12.04 Added: ignore redefinition of LEFT+RIGHT (cursor keys without any shift
keys) in thumbnails view
29.12.04 Added: Thumbnail database: wincmd.ini, [Configuration],
ThumbnailPrealloc= sets number of bytes to pre-allocate for thumbnails database to
avoid fragmentation (default: 100'000)
29.12.04 Added: Protect thumbnail database via a Mutex global object to avoid
problems when a user tries to compact the database in one program and shows
thumbnails in another
29.12.04 Fixed: Do not load two or more content plugins with the same name
29.12.04 Added: Explanation of CompareIgnoreRepSpace to help file
29.12.04 Fixed: Multi-rename tool couldn't show file sizes >2 GB in the list
(didn't affect rename function)
29.12.04 Fixed: FTP download from list: Don't ask for target dir if there are
Header: or Firewall: lines and all other lines contain a target path
29.12.04 Fixed: Changing from one virtual folder to another via command line
parameters didn't work
28.12.04 Added: Update quick view panel also when quick search dialog is up
28.12.04 Fixed: Access violation when trying to open item in control panel
28.12.04 Fixed: Several problems with thumbnail loading
24.12.04 Fixed: File list sometimes empty when switching from tree view to normal
view (when tree view was empty)
24.12.04 Fixed: Icon display problem corrected

22.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 11


22.12.04 Fixed: XP: No thumbnails for folders with PreloadThumbnails=0 (the
default)
22.12.04 Fixed: Changing custom fields below thumbnails didn't update view when
database disabled
22.12.04 Fixed: When deleting the last custom columns view, TC now switches to
full view
22.12.04 Fixed: NT4: List index out of bounds when deleting last custom columns
view and clicking apply
21.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: call to contentstopgetvalue also when
switching to a different view
21.12.04 Fixed: Don't show an error when pressing Ctrl+C on [..] with no files
selected. Reason: Some translation programs send Ctrl+C on double clicks
21.12.04 Fixed: Decoding of base64 multipart files not working when other parts
didn't contain encoding (e.g. base64)
19.12.04 Added: Changed last access and creation date to new ft_datetime format
19.12.04 Added: Changed name of Total Commander's internal content plugin from
(int) to tc, e.g. tc.size
19.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_FocusCmdLine puts focus on command line
17.12.04 Fixed: Shift+Up/Down while in the command line caused strange file
selection changes
17.12.04 Fixed: Better handling of CRC file creation in search - feed to listbox:
Store full paths to files when creating one crc file, or store the files in the
same dir as the files (one crc per file)
17.12.04 Added: New search direction option for lister: Shift+F3 now always
searches backwards, and resets search direction for F3 to forward (Ctrl+F3 still
switches between forward+backward search)
17.12.04 Fixed: Don't try to load tree view in file system plugins
17.12.04 Added: More default date/time formats (D-M-Y)
17.12.04 Fixed: Sometimes the thumbnail for 1 file wasn't shown after copying
15.12.04 Fixed: Alt+Enter on archive inside archive showed open packer icon
15.12.04 Added: Quick search in thumbnails view: Draw dotted line around entire
item, not just the name
15.12.04 Added: Show checkmark for left and right branch view commands
15.12.04 Added: Command to configure current custom columns view:
cm_CustomColumnDlg
14.12.04 Fixed: When the %TEMP% variable points to a junction, using %L as
parameter would delete the junction when closing the called app
14.12.04 Added: When dragging file to a tab with locked but dir changes allowed,
offer to copy to the locked root instead of the current dir
14.12.04 Added: 16-bit version: all cm_vis... commands now also supported, e.g.
cm_visHistHotButtons to show/hide history+hotlist buttons
14.12.04 Fixed: Background transfer manager wasn't using custom icon (when using
the iconlib= option in wincmd.ini)
14.12.04 Fixed: Typing cd . in command line after search results was leading to
strange results
14.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Z edit comment didn't show & character in names
12.12.04 Added: When adding a new column in custom columns configuration, default
to right aligned for all numeric fields
12.12.04 Added: New internal command cm_ToggleLockDcaCurrentTab same as
cm_ToggleLockCurrentTab but with directory changes allowed
12.12.04 Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+U not correctly working with "locked but directory
changes allowed"
12.12.04 Added: Don't show plugin install dialog when entering plugin archive
with Ctrl+PageDown instead of Enter
10.12.04 Fixed: Double click behind last item (of not full row) in thumbnails
view still launched the last item.

09.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10a


09.12.04 Fixed: Crash when starting with option iconsinthread=0
09.12.04 Fixed: Image loading via Irfanview stopped working with some newer
Irfanview versions

08.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 10


08.12.04 Added: New content plugin function to define the default sort order,
e.g. ascending for name/extension, descending for size+date/time
07.12.04 Added: New content plugin field type ft_datetime (combined date+time)
07.12.04 Added: Clear file lists before switching to new tab, to avoid sorting of
the old list by the new sort order (slow)
07.12.04 Added: totalcmd.inc: Moved section FileOperations in front of section
Configuration (necessary so cm_Edit is found before cm_EditConfig!)
07.12.04 Added: Win9x/ME: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer than
32700 files, the maximum supported by standard listbox controls
07.12.04 Fixed: 16-bit version: Show error "Too many files" with lists longer
than 16380 files, the maximum supported by 16-bit tcollection
07.12.04 Fixed: Multiline files.bbs comments: Remove leading spaces and | from
additional lines when editing and displaying hints
07.12.04 Added: Windows NT/2000/XP: Copy file lists to clipboard as Unicode text
(cm_copynamestoclip etc.)
07.12.04 Fixed: Changed MD5 checksum format to Unix standard: MD5 checksum, one
space, an asterisk "*" indicating binary check, then the file name
07.12.04 Added: Search dialog: Move "encrypted" checkbox to location of
"compressed" on Win9x
05.12.04 Fixed: Could not unpack while in thumbnails view
05.12.04 Fixed: Name+Ext. columns weren't initially translated when TC started
with custom columns view
05.12.04 Fixed: Move current thumbnail into view when resizing panel or
maximizing Total Commander
05.12.04 Added: Correctly truncate file extension also in Show - Brief with
BriefViewWidthLimit= set
05.12.04 Added: Custom columns view: cut off name only at end of ext column when
there is no extension
03.12.04 Added: Thumbnails view: Show extension always attached to name (not
right-aligned) if thumbnail width <72 pixels
03.12.04 Fixed: Tabstops lost in custom columns configuration list
03.12.04 Fixed: restrictinterface=4 blocked only the context menu, not
cm_buttonconfig
03.12.04 Added: Search by content plugins: translated operators can now have a
length of max. 48 characters
03.12.04 Fixed: Switching away from a custom columns view tab and back reverted
sort order to "by name"
03.12.04 Fixed: Resorting custom columns view to "unsorted" mode made on demand
extra fields disappear!
03.12.04 Fixed: Better centering of icons in thumbnails view

01.12.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 9


01.12.04 Fixed: Using backslash in search function (content plugins) not
correctly saved
01.12.04 Added: 16-bit version (without the thumbnail+custom view features, they
require options not available on Win16)
30.11.04 Fixed: Icons in Nethood sometimes not shown
30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP: File sizes >2 GB not always working
30.11.04 Fixed: FTP over HTTP not working if the proxy was sending a login banner
larger than 8 kBytes (now: up to 16 k possible)
30.11.04 Fixed: Close TC 6.5 with custom columns mode sorted by one of the
columns, start older TC version -> crash. Solution: Save custom sort orders in
separate variables
30.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Sorting by (int).size or (int).date not
working in FTP, plugins and Nethood
30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Ignore invalid thumbnails returned by the
Explorer method
30.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Don't send notification for thumbnails without an
image
29.11.04 Fixed: (again, see 19.11.) Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view
selected first item on the next line
29.11.04 Fixed: Disabled Ctrl+PageDown on files in plugins or ftp, it could hang
the program for a while
29.11.04 Fixed: Don't create quick search dialog when typing letters during
Drag&Drop, could lead to freezing of TC
29.11.04 Fixed: Maximized custom-columns dialog was shown at the wrong position
29.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: vertical position thumb wasn't updated when
changing sort order
29.11.04 Fixed: Update header position in custom columns view also when scrolling
horizontally with an Intellimouse (untested)
28.11.04 Fixed: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when switching to
thumbnails view
28.11.04 Fixed: Don't count dir size on <spacebar> in custom columns mode if
(int).size isn't shown
28.11.04 Fixed: Scroll back to 0 horizontal position when switching between
custom column views
28.11.04 Added: Larger width of dropdown comboboxes in search - plugins
28.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Revert to sort by name when switching
between custom column views
28.11.04 Fixed: Sorting with on demand or delayed custom columns not always
working
28.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon shown for junctions in thumbnail view
24.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 8
24.11.04 Added: More options for UseIniInProgramDir: Add 2 for wcx_ftp.ini also
in TC dir, add 4 to override registry settings
24.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini, [Configuration] UseIniInProgramDir=1 causes TC to use
wincmd.ini in program dir (must be written in that ini!)
24.11.04 Added: Content plugins now support on demand retrieval of fields (fields
may not be mixed with delayed fields in same section)
24.11.04 Fixed: Button bar edit misbehaviour on Win9x only (click on icon
sometimes selects wrong item)
23.11.04 Added: Show big icons (32x32) in thumbnails view, also added Win2k 32x32
folder icons
23.11.04 Added: FTP: New firewall/proxy type: HTTP CONNECT (tunnels ftp through a
HTTP proxy like SQUID).
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnail extraction stopped when changing sort
order
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: LongInStatus=1 not updating status line when
using left/right cursor keys
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: Thumbnails are now horizontally centered within
their cell
23.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails mode: current item frame now around the entire item
including the thumbnail
23.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Colors] ThumbnailFrame= sets color of frame around
thumbnails. -1=default, -2=invisible, or RGB value red+256*green+65536*blue
21.11.04 Added: Translation of bytes, kBytes and and MBytes in Search dialog
(second page)
21.11.04 Added: New default hotkey for custom columns mode list: Shift+F1
21.11.04 Fixed: Wrong icon displayed in zip files for file types like .bmp with
icons per file
21.11.04 Fixed: No extension shown in Search - feed to listbox when using a
custom view
19.11.04 Fixed: Clicking behind LAST column in thumbnail view selected first item
on the next line
19.11.04 Fixed: Wrong report for equal/unequal files in the status line of sync
dirs
19.11.04 Fixed: Some corrections to totalcmd.inc
19.11.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: dosname: Show uppercase long name when
no short name is returned by FindFirstFile()
19.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration list: show spaces instead of \n
19.11.04 Fixed: Return results from slow content plugins not ignored when
changing dirs
19.11.04 Added: Changed order of thumbnail extraction options to order used by
Total Commander
19.11.04 Added: New item in tabstop header right click menu: "Configure this
custom columns view"
19.11.04 Fixed: Apply button not enabled when changing horizontal scrollbar or
auto-adjust options in custom columns dialog
19.11.04 Added: New internal field "offline" for files with offline attribute

17.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 7


17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Invalid date/time shown for virtual file
items
17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: Resorting by columns requested custom fields
for ".." updir item by mistake
17.11.04 Added: Show warning to plugin writers and translators when a custom
field contains an invalid character .=:"|[] which are used for special purposes
17.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: Views with no additional columns
were not shown in the list
17.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in local dir of configured ftp
server connection
17.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] BriefViewWidthLimit= sets width limit
(in pixels) for a column in brief view
17.11.04 Fixed: Packer problem with latest rar version 3.4x packing subdirs twice
16.11.04 Added: New internal content value 'directory'
16.11.04 Added: Custom view modes support two new options: horizontal scrollbar
on/off, auto-adjust name field width to window width
14.11.04 Fixed: Big fonts mode: Horizontal scrollbar was shown in custom columns
dialog
16.11.04 Added: Show XP-style thin frames for thumbnails instead of 3d frames
16.11.04 Added: Refresh comment also in extra fields view when editing it with
Ctrl+Z
16.11.04 Added: F2/Ctrl+R will now also cause a reload of all custom fields
16.11.04 Added: Win32-style hints can now also contain custom fields from content
plugins
14.11.04 Added: wincmd.ini PreloadThumbnails=1 pre-load thumbnails when entering
a dir (not only when scrolling to the file)
14.11.04 Added: Thumbnail extraction queue: Extract those thumbnails first which
are in the currently visible part of the list
14.11.04 Fixed: Stop wild flickering when changing width of panel with thumbnails
(sometimes even causing a crash)
14.11.04 Added: New internal field (int).path
14.11.04 Added: New internal commands to cycle through custom views:
cm_srcnextcustomview, cm_srcprevcustomview, cm_trgnextcustomview,
cm_trgprevcustomview, cm_leftnextcustomview, cm_leftprevcustomview,
cm_rightnextcustomview, cm_rightprevcustomview
14.11.04 Fixed: Ctrl-F5 and Ctrl-F6 in custom columns view didn't sort in
descending order by default
14.11.04 Fixed: Some search parameters were no longer saved

12.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 6


12.11.04 Fixed: Quick search with search dialog, click on file -> dotted frame
around last match not removed
12.11.04 Fixed: Field (int).VersionString was broken
12.11.04 Added: Custom columns dialog: Only show up/down column sorting scroller
when a line is active
12.11.04 Added: Listbox for custom columns: Edit configuration with double click
12.11.04 Added: Changed title of listbox for custom columns to Custom column
configurations (sort with Drag&Drop):
12.11.04 Fixed: Search files dialog: When saving a search, don't save plugins if
the option "Search plugins" is NOT checked
12.11.04 Added: Save screen position of custom columns configuration dialog
12.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns dialog header wasn't translated
11.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails via Irfanview/Xnview stopped working correctly

10.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 5


10.11.04 Fixed: Switching directly from custom columns view to thumbnails view
showed wrong sorting headers
10.11.04 Fixed: DetectString for WDX plugin didn't work with checks by content,
e.g. [0]="M" & [1]="Z". However, this is really not recommended, because it cannot
be postponed and will slow down file display a lot.
10.11.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 now also works in search function
10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: Support 2 cases: all plugins in their own
dir below the plugin base dir, and all plugins in subdirs below plugin type subdir
10.11.04 Added: Auto-install plugins: If a plugin with the same name is already
installed, TC will suggest its directory for the installation
10.11.04 Added: Internal plugin (int).dosname field containing the 8.3 form of
the file name used by dos
10.11.04 Added: VersionInOverwrite=0 turns off display of file version
information in overwrite dialog
09.11.04 Added: Allow to check md5 checksums from files named md5sum.txt
09.11.04 Added: Support for content plugins in spread/shrink selection
09.11.04 Added: WinXP: Configuration - Misc - Sounds: Try to open second page of
sounds panel
09.11.04 Added: New configuration dialog for custom columns view
07.11.04 Added: New internal command cm_visHistHotButtons to switch
history+hotlist button on/off
07.11.04 Fixed: Option "remove thumbnails for inaccessible disks" had no effect
for USB disks
07.11.04 Fixed: Colors by content plugins were no longer shown
07.11.04 Fixed: Crash when closing all duplicate tabs via right click menu causes
tab header to disappear
07.11.04 Fixed: Tab header right click menu wasn't translated
05.11.04 Added: Support for environment variables in parameters /L= and /R=
05.11.04 Fixed: Custom columns not working with translated strings if they
contained conditional text in "", e.g. [=(int).taille" k"]
05.11.04 Fixed: Disallow \n string in custom columns view (it's used to separate
fields)
05.11.04 Fixed: Unpacking Cab file to a Windows 2000 share (UNC path) creates
truncated files, due to a bug in Windows (SetFileAttributes truncates open file!)
05.11.04 Added: Try to remove background color borders from Explorer thumbnails
05.11.04 Fixed: Sometimes Explorer returned thumbnails larger than requested
(e.g. always the Explorer standard of 128x128)
05.11.04 Added: Call to GdiFlush in Icon thread to ensure that all images are
fully drawn

03.11.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 4


03.11.04 Added: Custom columns: Always show size field (and other fields of type
int64) with thousands separators as configured in control panel
03.11.04 Fixed: Plugin detect strings were sometimes truncated in the
configuration dialog, now strings up to 2000 characters should work
03.11.04 Added: Limit the number of loaded thumbnail images per side to 500
(Win9x: 200) in very large dirs to keep resource+memory usage low
03.11.04 Fixed: Find files - Plugins page: Help didn't work
03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Ctrl+Home/End now places cursor on first/last
item
03.11.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Shift+cursor up/down now selects all files
between the current item and the previously current item
03.11.04 Added: Some more strings can now be translated: RegEx, LS Plugins,
Lister Plugins
02.11.04 Added: Don't save custom columns having only name+extension columns and
no name
02.11.04 Added: TC now supports a maximum of 29 custom view modes, only the
configured modes with a name are listed in the menu!
02.11.04 Added: cm_LeftDirBranch and cm_RightDirBranch activates branch view in
left/right panel
02.11.04 Fixed: No custom fields and no EXE icons shown for files with Unicode
names
02.11.04 Fixed: Always scroll viewed file name into view when activating quick
view (Ctrl+Q)
02.11.04 Fixed: Removed some more calls to content plugins which cannot work
(e.g. for ftp in multi-rename tool, or archives in search)
02.11.04 Fixed: Could not sort by [=(int).size] field
02.11.04 Fixed: Re-display thumbnails when switching between two thumbnail
database locations (e.g. with different thumbnail sizes)
02.11.04 Added: "Configure custom columns" to sorting header right click menu
also on inactive panel
02.11.04 Added: "Comments view" and "Thumbnails view" to sorting header right
click menu
31.10.04 Fixed: Auto-install plugins: wrong base dir saved if proposed install
path contained a backslash
31.10.04 Fixed: Color filters not working properly after feed search results to
panel when using content plugins
31.10.04 Fixed: switching directly from custom columns to thumbnails view shows
distorted text
31.10.04 Fixed: cm_ReloadSelThumbs selected current file if nothing was selected
31.10.04 Fixed: Some problems with locked tabs containing search results
31.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini [Lister] IviewAdditionalTypes=*.xyz *.abc will pass
files matching these filters to Irfanview/Xnview (note that these programs may not
be able to handle them)
31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type not shown when slow-loading
(in background)
31.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Fields by file type configuration didn't work
correctly
31.10.04 Fixed: Long delay when trying to switch from a virtual folder to a path
starting with an invalid environment variable
31.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: Left/right keys switch to command line if
there is no horizontal scrollbar
31.10.04 Added: The following internal content plugin fields now also work in
archives, ftp etc: size, writedate, writetime, attributes, attributestr
31.10.04 Fixed: Compact thumbnails database: USB sticks were treated like CDs,
but they have a separate menu option
31.10.04 Fixed: Show smaller vertical scroller in compare by contents listbox
with better resolution on large screens
31.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns configuration: '+' buttons were 'translated' when
changing language
31.10.04 Fixed: Memory leak in overlay icon extract function
29.10.04 Added: Made the option to show custom fields below thumbnails
independent from the default custom field, so it's now possible to have no default
custom field, but per file type custom fields.
29.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: Compact thumbnail database + delete thumbnails for no
longer existing files deleted all thumbnails
29.10.04 Added: Don't drop search results when switching between full, custom
columns and thumbnail views (selecting long view in long view will revert to normal
file list as in previous versions)
29.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysUnpackInBackground=, moves
unpacker dialog to background automatically: 1 only unzip, 2 also external, 3 show
external minimized
29.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Ctrl+F3 to compare left and right
29.10.04 Fixed: Alt+F10 tree not shown correctly when in thumbnails view
29.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view: Rightmost thumbnail column could be partly
hidden below right scrollbar
29.10.04 Fixed: [(int) Plugin] size.Mbytes no longer showed size in Megabytes
29.10.04 Fixed: Content plugins were also called for FTP, packers, file system
plugins and virtual folders, where they cannot work but cause slowdowns
29.10.04 Fixed: No ole Drag&Drop (e.g. from other windows) when starting up in
thumbnail view
29.10.04 Fixed: When unchecking "locked with dir changes allowed", the tab wasn't
really unlocked
29.10.04 Fixed: TC sometimes crashed when switching from/to tab "locked with dir
changes allowed" containing a virtual folder

27.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 3


27.10.04 Fixed: OLE Drag&Drop (right mouse button) no longer working after
switching to thumbnail view
27.10.04 Added: Internal command cm_GoToLockedDir: Go to the base dir of locked
tab (locked with directory changes allowed)
27.10.04 Fixed: [install plugin] Confirm overwrites modified the file name (the
dialog was re-used from a different function)
27.10.04 Fixed: Files with unknown size in virtual folders got wrong color
filters color
27.10.04 Fixed: When pressing Ctrl+Q during thumbnail view and the quick view
panel has different width, the thumbnail could have scrolled out of view
27.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini, LockedGoToDriveRoot=1: Clicking the "\" button or
pressing Ctrl+\ goes to drive root instead of locked tab root
27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The first unit name is now not shown as
empty but as "<default>"
27.10.04 Added: Custom columns view: The total of all fields can now be 1023
characters (before: 259 characters)
27.10.04 Added: Thumbnails view will now no longer expect images of the full size
(96x96), but max. with this size. Smaller images will be centered. Reason: The
border will have TCs background color!
26.10.04 Added: Allow to "lock-with dir change" also virtual folders, if they can
be represented in the form ::{idlist}::{idlist} ...
26.10.04 Fixed: Virtual folders on Tabs were no longer remembered
26.10.04 Fixed: When packing file with spaces to same dir and switching to one
archive per file, the initial " was forgotten
26.10.04 Added: Sort named filters in copy dialog by name (those with a > in
front)
26.10.04 Added: When switching from/to branch view with Ctrl+B, keep the cursor
on the file currently under the cursor
26.10.04 Added: Save thumbnail size also in wincmd.ini for the case when the
database is deleted by accident
26.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F5 (when assigned manually to cm_packfiles) opens
pack dialog for moving to archive in same dir
26.10.04 Fixed: Sorting by custom fields not working correctly in branch view
(slow field wasn't pre-fetched)
26.10.04 Added: Support for zip-nt 2.3 for packing
26.10.04 Fixed: Internal content plugin: field versionnr was sometimes returning
invalid values
26.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show small dotted rectangle around selected
copy filters (reason: on WinXP it's often hard to distinguish pressed and non-
pressed buttons)
26.10.04 Added: Content plugin variables can now contain conditional text which
is only displayed if the variable exists, e.g. [="text1"plugin.variable.unit:4-
7"text2"]
26.10.04 Fixed: cm_CompareDirs didn't select a file when a directory with
identical name existed in the other panel
26.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: Like
cm_CompareDirs, but also mark subdirs not present in other dir
26.10.04 Added: Changed default location for thumbnail database on non-win9x
systems to %$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER (reverts to %APPDATA% if local appdata doesn't
exist)
26.10.04 Added: wincmd.ini: Added new option AlwaysPackInBackground=, moves
packer dialog to background automatically: 1 only zip, 2 also external, 3 show
external minimized
26.10.04 Fixed: There was a critical stop sound when pressing ESC in inplace
rename when the edit field was empty
26.10.04 Fixed: Custom view: Selection not cleared when changing dirs
26.10.04 Fixed: The first char was cut off when using "Create separate archives,
one per selected file/dir" and packing to the same dir
26.10.04 Fixed: Win98SE - Compact thumbnail database caused crash when selecting
to delete no longer existing files (cause: missing Unicode function)
24.10.04 Added: "Size" field in custom columns mode can now show the size of
directories when counting with spacebar or alt+shift+enter
24.10.04 Added: Custom columns: For size field, added options bkM and bkM2 to
show in bytes/kbytes/Mbytes mode (2: with 1 fractional digit)
24.10.04 Fixed: Limit thumbnail dimensions to multiples of 8, otherwise some
Explorer extensions seem to crash when extracting plugins!
24.10.04 Fixed: Setting a custom column width of 0 causes access violation
24.10.04 Fixed: Search results (feed to listbox) now also work with custom
columns view
24.10.04 Added: QuickSearchExactMatch=1 in wincmd.ini matches exact string in
quick search (except for first dot), e.g. typing win.i matches win.ini but not
wincmd.ini
24.10.04 Fixed: System information: Detect Intel Itanium (if the operating system
supports it)
24.10.04 Fixed: Win98: long delay when entering root dir when color filter
defined for internal content plugin - comments
22.10.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Show more details in footer
22.10.04 Fixed: Search: When selecting a previous regex search from history,
regex was checked, but not unchecked when selecting normal item. Fix only possible
when history list dropped down.
22.10.04 Added: New internal command cm_ListInternalOnly calls lister without
plugins or multimedia, same as Alt+Shift+F3
22.10.04 Added: Always show tip windows (when enabled) in thumbnail view with
search results
22.10.04 Added: When displaying search result in thumbnail view (after feed to
listbox), show only the file names, without the full path
22.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns view: After switching to a different dir while
fields were still being loaded could send field contents to wrong file
22.10.04 Added: Plugin auto-installation now also supports translated plugin
descriptions, just append 3 character language string xyz from wcmd_xyz.lng file.
Example: descriptiondeu=<description in German>
22.10.04 Added: AutoInstallPlugins=0 in wincmd.ini turns off automatic
installation dialog for plugins
20.10.04 Added: Use Shift+Cursor keys to activate command line in thumbnails view
20.10.04 Fixed: (again) When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for
thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
20.10.04 Added: Copy function: After clicking Abort, it's now possible still to
continue the copy operation
20.10.04 Added: Toggling comment view or thumbnails view will remember brief view
(will switch back to brief view if it was previously active)
20.10.04 Fixed: Avoid delay when trying to switch to file system plugin via
button bar button or directory menu
20.10.04 Added: InplaceRenamePath=2: Disable inplace rename of path, but enable
quick directory changes with single click (no shift needed)
20.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variable $COMMON_PICTURES

19.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 2


19.10.04 Added: Overlay icons are now off by default, because some testers
complained about slow file listings
19.10.04 Fixed: cm_ChangeStartMenu causing access violation if start menu was
disabled via RestrictInterface=1
19.10.04 Fixed: Horizontal scrollbar disappeared after icon or font size change
19.10.04 Added: Custom colors now also supports content plugins (warning, this
can slow down directory listings)
19.10.04 Added: Custom fields: use 'y' for 2 digit year, 'Y' for 4 digit year
19.10.04 Added: New right click menu item "Re-load selected thumbnails", internal
command cm_ReloadSelThumbs
19.10.04 Fixed: Option "EXE/LNK not on net" wasn't correctly detected in UNC
search results
19.10.04 Added: When the option "EXE/LNK not on net" is checked, then overlay
icons will not be retrieved on network drives either
19.10.04 Added: Revert to stored root already when switching away from locked tab
with dir changes allowed (affects Drag&Drop to that tab)
19.10.04 Fixed: Set font size in configuration - plugins to 8 for explanations to
avoid that they are cut off
19.10.04 Fixed: Gray+ now works in background transfer manager even if no control
has focus
19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns: zero floating point values showed as
0.0000000000E0000 instead of 0
19.10.04 Added: New pseudo-environment variables $MYPICTURES,$LOCAL_APPDATA,
$COMMON_APPDATA,$COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY,$COMMON_DOCUMENTS,$COMMON_PROGRAMS,
$COMMON_STARTMENU,$COMMON_STARTUP
19.10.04 Fixed: Sometimes access violation when trying to sort columns in custom
columns configuration
19.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns search page was sometimes opened without any edit
box line (not correctly saved)
18.10.04 Fixed: When MD5 creation was remembered, the wrong extension .sfv was
used
18.10.04 Fixed: Don't check directory tab contents at every program start (TC was
checking whether an archive was open)
17.10.04 Fixed: Problem switching to locked tab containing either thumbnail view
or custom columns
17.10.04 Fixed: Keep selection and current item when switching to/from thumbnail
view
17.10.04 Fixed: When using separate Left/Right menus, the checkmarks for
thumbnail+custom columns view weren't always correct
17.10.04 Fixed: Drag&Drop on archive or dir in thumbnail view copied the files to
the wrong location
17.10.04 Added: On slow drives, when pressing ENTER on ZIP files, show open
package icon earlier, before checking that it is really an archive (better
feedback)
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnails view not working for BMP etc. if Explorer method
disabled or unavailable
14.10.04 Fixed: Custom fields not on same base line as name+ext!
14.10.04 Fixed: Problem with Tab in search dialog
14.10.04 Fixed: Use DIBs instead of DDBs for thumbnails, should avoid problems
with black thumbnails
14.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns+thumbnails view: Specified field units (e.g.
kbytes) were not always working
14.10.04 Fixed: Win9x: F6 or Shift+F6 during rename didn't select the correct
name part for multi-dot file names
14.10.04 Fixed: Plugin installation: a string wasn't translated yet
14.10.04 Added: Custom column mode: append extension to name if this is set in
full view too!
14.10.04 Fixed: Custom column mode: Extension wasn't correctly truncated (too
short)
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database configuration: >> button pointed to file
selection dialog instead of tree dialog
14.10.04 Added: Thumbnail database can now be disabled by specifying empty dir
(the thumbnail size will then be stored in wincmd.ini)
14.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail database location change became effective only after
restarting TC
14.10.04 Added: Ctrl+Shift+F1 hotkey for thumbnail view
14.10.04 Fixed: Disable overlay icon checkbox if option unavailable (it only
works on Windows ME/2000/XP)
14.10.04 Added: Synchronize: When 2 files with same name but different case are
found, then show them both in the error dialog
14.10.04 Added: Changed attribute character for encrypted files to 'e',
compressed to 'c'
13.10.04 Fixed: Unchecking "Show custom fields below thumbnails" wasn't working
13.10.04 Fixed: Apply button not shown when deleting last column in custom view
13.10.04 Added: Commands for thumbnail view and custom view modes to totalcmd.inc
12.10.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view couldn't be activated with internal English
language
12.10.04 Fixed: MODE Z wasn't activated because tcunzlib.dll wasn't loaded
automatically

12.10.04 Release Total Commander 6.50 Beta 1


12.10.04 Fixed: Color filters were not working correctly with files or dirs >4 GB
(when comparing by size)
12.10.04 Added: New command cm_switchOverlayIcons to switch overlay icons on and
off
06.10.04 Added: Right click menu to tab headers to select between brief, full,
and custom columns mode, and to configure custom columns
06.10.04 Added: When selecting a previously unused custom columns mode, TC will
now open the configuration dialog to define the columns
06.10.04 Fixed: Custom columns mode wasn't marked in the menu after switching to
it
05.10.04 Added: Increased max. button count per button bar to 299
05.10.04 Fixed: Crash when trying to edit button bar with more than 199 buttons
03.10.04 Added: FTP: Option to only use ports from limited range for PORT
connections, useful when behind a NAT firewall.
03.10.04 Added: Moved zlib unpacking (for thumbnails and MODE Z) to separate DLL
tcunzlib.dll, so wcmzip32.dll from previous version can be kept
24.09.04 Added: Configuration - Display: Show overlay icons allows to show/hide
the little overlay icons shown for links, shares, etc.
22.09.04 Added: Search in plugins: restore last used plugin search when switching
to plugins page of the search dialog
21.09.04 Added: Content plugins: Support for detect strings (only call plugin for
those files for which it was written, e.g. the id3 plugin only for mp3 files)
21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom
columns) when closing TC
21.09.04 Added: Remember special display modes (thumbnails, comments, custom
columns) separately per tab
21.09.04 Fixed: Problem with thumbnail database packing (image dimensions were
lost)
19.09.04 Added: Delete thumbs database in uninstall function when choosing to
delete settings files
17.09.04 Fixed: Thumbnail view: Avoid that the empty space after the last item
could get focus
17.09.04 Fixed: gray+ no longer working in background transfer manager
15.09.04 Added: Synchronize dirs: Also allow to set copy direction of equal files
(via right click menu only!), e.g. for copying them to a different location
15.09.04 Fixed: Search window: Tab key allowed to switch to search results list
even if it was invisible
10.09.04 Added: Subdir filters now also work when copying (only files of this
type). Syntax: Include: somedir1\ somedir2\ Exclude: *.* | somedir1\ somedir2\
10.09.04 Fixed: Multi-rename file with comment -> comment preserved. Choose
"undo" -> comment was lost!
10.09.04 Fixed: Brief view: if extension is very long, and displayed in second or
later column, it may overlap with next column
08.09.04 Added: Hints for cut file names in custom view
07.09.04 Added: Store image dimensions in thumbnail database, not in wincmd.ini
07.09.04 Added: Custom column modes 1-9 can be given names
07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Column widths of name+ext column can be
changed individually per mode
07.09.04 Added: Custom column mode: Store width in dialog units, added up/down
selector
01.09.04 Fixed: When copying files in background (F5-F2), no additional NTFS
streams were copied
01.09.04 Fixed: Access violation when entering a zip file name longer than 255
characters in Files - Pack
01.09.04 Fixed: Append to read only file failed -> TC asked to overwrite, and
then overwrote the file instead of appending
01.09.04 Added: Shift+Click on a part of the current path switches up to that dir
31.08.04 Added: Configuration of multiple (up to 9) custom views
22.08.04 Added: Sorting by custom fields (in custom field view only). Note: This
can be slow because the field by which we sort has to be loaded for ALL items
before a single item can be shown
17.08.04 Added: Copy/Delete thumbs now in background thread
11.08.04 Added: Compacting thumbs database now works
11.08.04 Added: New configuration page for configuring all plugin types
08.08.04 Added: Improved thumb database: Re-use space freed when deleting images
(store free blocks in free list tcthumbs.frl), combine subsequent free blocks to
one, split reused block if remaining space >1/2 of inserted image size
04.08.04 Added: Content plugins: New flag to ContentGetValue which asks to delay
info extraction if it is slow. The info will then retrieved in a background thread
04.08.04 Added: New Internal commands cm_GotoDriveA..cm_GotoDriveZ to switch to
one of these drives (same as "cd c:\", but also works for hotkeys)
04.08.04 Added: Two new internal commands cm_GotoNextDrive and
cm_GotoPreviousDrive to switch to next/previous available drive
04.08.04 Added: New pseudo environment variables supported, pointing to locations
of virtual folders: %$APPDATA%, %$DESKTOP%, %$PERSONAL% (My Documents), %$PROGRAMS
%, %$STARTMENU%, %$FONTS%, %$STARTUP% (use lowercase to access env vars with these
names)
03.08.04 Added: F5 - F2 now transfers in background also for FTP
uploads+downloads (without affecting the checkbox)
01.08.04 Fixed: When deleting first tab while cursor on another tab, the current
tab is moved
01.08.04 Added: New function "Close duplicate tabs" in tab header right click
menu
30.07.04 Fixed: Inplace rename not working in thumbs view
27.07.04 Added: CRC-checksum: remember whether md5 is checked or not
27.07.04 Added: MD5-checksum: use lowercase characters for MD5
20.07.04 Fixed: OLE documents support only names up to 31 chars <- problem with
thumbs database. Fix: Split long names into parts of 30 chars starting with '?' as
indicator
16.07.04 Added: New internal command cm_GoToFirstFile places cursor on first file
(not dir) in list
13.07.04 Added: Added: time modifiers for am/pm: A=hour in am/pm format, P=am/pm
string, p=a/p string. Example: [=filesys.writetime.A-M-SP] pastes e.g. 11-30-05am
13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added date modifiers for plugins in multi-
rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writedate.Y-M-D] pastes time in format year-month-day.
Uppercase letters mean fixed with (2004-06-02), lowercase means variable width
(2004-6-2)
13.07.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Added time modifiers for plugins in multi-
rename tools, e.g. [=filesys.writetime.H-M-S] pastes time in format hours-minutes-
seconds. Uppercase letters mean fixed with (05-03-01), lowercase means variable
width (5-3-1)
07.07.04 Added: Content plugins in multi-rename tool. Format:
[=pluginname.fieldname.unit] or [=pluginname.fieldname.unit:4-7] for partial
string
07.07.04 Added: First implementation of content plugins
07.07.04 Added: Option to resize lister plugin configuration dialog (and fs
plugin dlg too), size not remembered
06.07.04 Added: Support for the new AES plugin supporting WinZIP 9 decryption
06.07.04 Added: Show number of selected / total dirs in footer, configurable via
Configuration - Tabstops - "Show directory count in footer"
06.07.04 Added: When leaving branch view mode with Ctrl+B and the cursor stands
on a file in a subdir, go to that subdir instead of the branch view root (use F2 or
Ctrl+R to go to branch view root)
06.07.04 Added: Create multiple dirs (with F7) with syntax dir1|dir2|dir3 or
c:\dir1|c:\dir2|c:\dir3 or a mix of both
06.07.04 Added: Pressing F6 (or Shift+F6) in the inplace rename field will select
just the name/the name+ext
06.07.04 Added: When dropping data from Outlook Express (or other OLE2 sources),
allow to rename if the name already exists (not only overwrite+skip)
30.06.04 Added: New lister plugin function ListGetPreviewBitmap() which is used
by thumbnail view
30.06.04 Added: SortUpper=3 uses StrCmpLogicalW on Windows XP, works like
SortUpper=2 on other operating systems
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Search+Replace now has a history list stored
in wincmd.ini sections RenameSearchFind and RenameSearchReplace
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Resize Search+Replace box to use all available
space
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Button to reload rename results for next
rename step. Hotkey: F5
30.06.04 Added: Multi-rename tool: Multiple search+replace (not with regex).
Example: Remove all German umlauts. Search for: �|�|�|� Replace with: ae|oe|ue|ss
30.06.04 Added: New internal commands cm_srcactivatetab1..10 activates tab 1-10
in source panel, similar for target. Not in totalcmd.inc: 5201-5299 left tabs,
5301-5399 right tabs
30.06.04 Added: Some more shortcuts to synchronize dirs, see right click menu.
Shortcuts not listed there: Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+F select all in current dir
30.06.04 Added: File lists: show <LNK> instead of <DIR> for junctions (dir links)
29.06.04 Added: Two new switches: /T opens passed dirs in new tabs, /S interprets
the passed dirs as source/target instead of left/right (for usage with the /O
switch)
29.06.04 Added: New type of locked tab: still allows to change dirs, but reverts
to tab-root when clicking "\" or switching to other tab and back
24.06.04 Fixed: Tree view: don't jump x dirs up when creating new dir
24.06.04 Fixed: Lister crashed when using 2 monitors with secondary larger than
primary, and lister maximized on secondary
22.06.04 Fixed: Synchronize dirs speed display faulty
19.06.04 Added: Thumbnail viewer
19.06.04 Added: Moved icon overlay extraction to background
18.06.04 Fixed: cm_LoadSelectionFromClip not restoring names with spaces
15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z also for FxP, except if source+target are the
same server (then MODE Z would be slower)
15.06.04 Added: Support for MODE Z compressed uploading/downloading (using zlib
compression 'on the fly')
14.06.04 Fixed: No progress bar when downloading files >4GB via HTTP (Ctrl+N)
14.06.04 Added: Clear timer after pause of copying
06.06.04 Added: Show current speed also when copying in synchronize dirs function
06.06.04 Fixed: Radio buttons problem with tabs
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation__server_share= sets location of treeinfo file
only for drive \\server\share
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocationE= sets location of treeinfo file only for drive
E (note: only works if treefilelocation= is set too)
06.06.04 Added: treefilelocation= supports variables %D% =current drive, %R%=
root path, %L% =volume label <- must be uppercase, otherwise TC will look for
environment variables with this name!
06.06.04 Added: Define different location of files treeinfo.wc via wincmd.ini,
treefilelocation=c:\somedir\treeinfo%D%.wc
06.06.04 Added: NTFS-packed files are shown with a 'p' in the attributes column,
NTFS-encrypted files with a 'c'.
06.06.04 Added: Search for encrypted files added (finds both NTFS-encrypted files
and encrypted files inside of archives), can also be used for coloring
06.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of languages when archive contains file
pluginst.inf (same method as for plugins)
04.06.04 Added: Don't check for sharing flags if icon overlays enabled (they will
handle that)
01.06.04 Added: Support for icon overlays, can be turned off in wincmd.ini under
[Configuration] iconoverlays=0
01.06.04 Added: Shift+button click in search on 'go to file' or 'feed to listbox'
opens dir in new tab
01.06.04 Added: Alt+Shift+F3 loads lister without any multimedia additions
(images, plugins etc), e.g. to view a picture as binary
01.06.04 Added: Automatic installation of plugins when archive contains file
pluginst.inf (see bz2 plugin for sample inf)
31.05.04 Added: Reset speed measurement timers to 0 when pausing
31.05.04 Fixed: The current speed wasn't always shown when copying
31.05.04 Fixed: Shift+Click selected wrong files in dir with more than 65535
files (problem of lb_selitemrange)
05.05.04 Fixed: Internal Unzip CRC-check (Alt+Shift+F9) reported error when a ZIP
contained dirs stored with compression method 8 (deflated) instead of 0 (stored)

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 this
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
closing, both the current dir and other tabs!
- Drop tab on target path adds this tab in the target window even if no tab header
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 FTP
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
tabfile.tab

[FTP]
- FTP resume all for uploads and downloads
- When an FTP server or file system plugin reports illegal chars in a name, TC
converts them to underscores on download
- Synchronize dirs now uses inofficial MDTM command to set remote file date. This
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
firewalls

[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 preceded
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 operations

[Plugins]
- Changed the way how multimedia plugins are detected: To override the internal
handling (or Irfanview), it's now sufficient that MULTIMEDIA appears as ANY node in
the detect string
- Alt+Enter on file system plugins now opens the plugin's properties (if the plugin
supports it)
- Lister plugin interface version 1.3: Allow to replace internal Multimedia viewers

[Unicode]
- Show Unicode file names in file lists
- Copying and moving of files with Unicode names on Windows NT/2000/XP, also with
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 of
"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
calculation, 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
window (not available in zip or ftp)
- Sync now also works with archives other than ZIP! Everything except for compare
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 copy
direction of any files!

[Multi-rename tool]
- When clicking on [N#-#], user can select letters interactively in currently
selected file name
- [G] placeholder inserts grandparent directory name

[New ini options]


- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] ShowInstanceNr=0 turns off numbered commander title
bar
- Search in archives recognized by content: Needs to set SearchInFiles= in
Wincmd.ini to extensions of this packer
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] SortUpper=2 uses mixed lexical and numerical
sorting, e.g. file10.txt comes AFTER file1.txt
- wincmd.ini, [Configuration] CompareIgnoreRepSpace=0 turns off ignoring of
repeated 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
64bit extra field
- Unpacking of ZIP files created with the Deflate64(TM) method (Deflate64 is a
trademark 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
tree+notebook (Mozilla style)
- cm_ShowHint shows tooltip for current file in active file list (and places mouse
cursor on it)
- CMF_EXTENDEDVERBS added to context menu call when shift is pressed -> adds "open
with" menu item!
- Possibility to change drive icons
- Button bar: Support for 48x48 and 64x64 icons for very high resolution displays,
better scaling of sizes between 16 and 32
- Show in title when there is more than one instance of TC, e.g. [2] Total
Commander
- 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 systems
- 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 last
opened background transfer manager
- In F5 copy dialog, "Options" button: New option to rename copied file or target
file when target exists. Names are filename(2).ext, filename(3).ext etc.
- 3 new internal commands: cm_copySamepanel, cm_copyOtherpanel, cm_createShortcuts:
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 effect
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.key.
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
(counterpart to cm_CopyNamesToClip)
- Internal commands cm_SaveSelectionToFile, cm_LoadSelectionFromFile to save/load
current selection (names of all selected files)
- In Right click menu - new document, look in CSIDL_COMMON_TEMPLATES folder if not
found in CSIDL_TEMPLATES folder
- Set environment variable COMMANDER_PATH to location of Total Commander's EXE file
(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
current 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 all"
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 instead
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
RunAs
- 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 type
- FTP+HTTP: Auto-Resume download if download-connection lost
- FTP: SOCKS4+SOCKS5 Proxy support (active+passive mode!), SOCKS5 without
encryption
- Multi-Rename-Tool: Placeholder [P] puts name of parent dir into file name
- Internal command cm_SyncChangeDir makes Commander change to the directory of the
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-defined
intervals (for max. 1 hour of inactivity)
- Support for packing of TAR/GZ/TGZ archives. Make sure to choose the correct
target 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
target dir is given, the packed file will be placed in the same dir as the original
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 ->
targetname 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
restricted rights)
- FTP: Resume upload (binary files only). WARNING: With some versions of the server
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 (32-bit
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 copying
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
'Synchronize 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) files

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 one
- 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 run
an installer from inside an archive
- Define custom colors for different file types, e.g. all directories, all zip
files 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
lister.
- cm_ShowFileUser: Show which remote user has opened a local file (through a shared
directory)
- cm_EditPersmissionInfo: Show permissions dialog on Windows NT (NTFS file system)
- 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 function
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!
Concerning the date/time synchronizing problems with ftp, please read the section
important note on the page Synchronize dirs.
- Tray icon right click menu (context menu).
- Direct upload of files from inside an archive to an FTP server.
- Better parsing of FTP file lists downloaded via a HTTP proxy.
- User-defined keyboard shortcuts.
- Split "Equal/Unequal" button into two buttons in synchronize function
- Change date/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 and
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
- HTTP downloads enhanced (now supports passwords, and special sites which require
'host:' line)
- Settings what to do when second ftp connection opened in same window:
wcx_ftp.ini, [General] AutoDisconnect =1 disconnect previous =2 keep previous =0
ask user

New in Version 4.00 (17.06.99):


General:
- Directory synchronize: Compare two dirs with subdirs, or 1 dir and 1 archive
- Compare files by content
- Allow to abort binary compare in 'synchronize' with ESC
- Copy/move in the background - 32 bit only
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], AlwaysCopyInBackground=1 always copies in background
- Connect to UNC path (\\server\path) in background (separate thread), allow to
abort after 3 seconds
- Dialog box Change Attributes, button to set current date&time
- wincmd.ini, [configuration], activeright=1 activates right file listbox at start
- Support for virtual folders through button bar. Use commands: cm_OpenDesktop,
cm_OpenDrives, cm_OpenControls, cm_OpenFonts, cm_OpenNetwork, cm_OpenPrinters
- Copy and Move files from and to virtual folders
- Copy to nul, prn, lptx and comx now supported
- Rename or append when copying and target exists
- Files - Split now also accepts fractions of a number, like 0.5 MB
- Use NTFS time compare method (2 seconds difference considered as same) in
'Compare directories' and 'Synchronize dirs'
User interface:
- 2 drive button bars, one per file window (configurable)
- 256 color folder icons, and support for external icon library (icl): wincmd.ini,
[configuration], iconlib=dllname.dll (sample DLL on www.ghisler.com)
- User-defined drive names (for drive list+button bar). Example: wincmd.ini,
[DriveHints], E=ZIP drive
- File window tabstops (column width) are now saved separately by resolution, and
adjust to the right (configurable)
- Save current position and maximized state separately for search, compare and
synchronize 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
- Rename while unpacking (internally) and target exists
- Support for ARJ SFX 2.62
- LZH files with comment field (starting with -com-) now supported
- Configuration - Save settings saves current file display settings and directories
even if auto-save turned off
FTP Client:
- FTP resume download even if multiple files selected
- FTP Connection dialog allows to specify commands executed after connecting,
separated by a ";"
- FTP connect dialog, "duplicate entry" added - allows to create new connection
from an existing one
- CTRL+M allows to select FTP transfer mode (text, binary, auto) with keyboard
- Warn if binary file is downloaded or uploaded in text mode (to turn off: modify
wcx_ftp.ini, section [General], WarnWrongMode=0)
- Support for some more ftp server types (OS9 etc.)
- HTTP proxy for FTP connections
- Transparent FTP proxy: Send firewalluser, firewallpass, user, pass
Search function:
- Search for/select files which do NOT match certain wildcards. Use | to separate,
e.g. w*.*|*.bak finds all files starting with w, without extension .bak
- Search for all files NOT containing a certain string
- Duplicate file finder can find files with same name, size, contents or any
combination of the 3
Lister:
- Bitmap viewer, more formats through IrfanView plugin (see addons page on
www.ghisler.com)
- Lister can now play sound and video (configurable)
- Printing in lister (Text+Graphics)
- Select all in lister: CTRL+A selects whole file
- Search for Hexadecimal strings, even mixed. Example: "PK"0102 will find 504B0102
- Lister now wraps at word boundaries (may be disabled: wincmd.ini, [lister],
WordWrap=0)

New in Version 3.53 (8.11.98):


- Did extensive Year 2000 (Y2k) tests. Results: no internal date problems, only one
interface prob to FTP
- Possible Y2k problem with FTP servers showing a 2 digit year only. Rule: date<80
->20xx, date>=80 -> 19xx
- bugfixes

New in Version 3.52 (11.08.1998):


- cd \\Servername in command line (32 bit)
- Added: ACE packer/unpacker support
- unrar.dll and unace.dll internal unpackers for RAR and ACE (32 bit)
- bugfixes

Release Version 3.51 (07.05.1998):


- wcx_ftp.ini, [general], LogFile=Path\Log.txt writes FTP log to specified file
- Support for creating RAR SFX files
- Support for files > 2 GB (display, copy, rename, move, delete; NOT: ZIP, FTP,
Lister)
- CTRL+P copies current path to command line
- FTP: Preserve file dates when downloading (selectable)
- FTP: Convert file names to lowercase when uploaded (selectable)
- FTP: Change Unix attributes (permissions) dialog for FTP sites (uses 'SITE
chmod', which isn't supported by all sites)
- Bugfixes

New in Version 3.50 (18.3.1998):


- FTP client
- flat look
- Network Neighborhood
- IntelliMouse wheel support
- Directory history list (alt+cursor down)
- Go back, go forward (alt+cursor left / alt+cursor right)
- Create self extracting ZIP archive
- Expandable tree as in Explorer
- UUE/MIME/XXE-encode and decode, Binhex-decode
- Split/Combine files
- Start menu now supports shortcut keys (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F12)
- More command line switches (see help)
- ALT+GrayPlus selects all files with the same extension

New in Version 3.02 (14.4.1997):


- Cut/Copy/Paste of button bar buttons
- Deletion method used by explorer can be used also in Wincmd [Configuration]
Win95Delete=1
- CTRL+Q on archive shows contained file_id.diz, readme*, or *.txt (in this order)
- Support for archives in archives
- CTRL+PgDn to open archives in archives
- TAR and GZ packers
- New commands cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchHidSys,
cm_SwitchLongNames to button bar commands

New in Version 3.01 (31.12.1996):


- Bugfixes

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 the
configuration
- The file window separator can now be moved

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