Skywander Soft

Program module File manager - main advantages.

Combines the speed and simplicity of the clones of Norton Commander with power and versatility of the modern Windows Explorer.
The possibility to view the contents of the folders as directories of the file system and as WinShell objects at the same time.
Inheritance of the properties and commands of the WinShell objects through the context menu.
Full support of the drag-and-drop operations, dynamic change of the width of fields for all styles of file presentation, including thumbnail style.
Viewing of the network resources using mapped drives or network neighborhood.
The navigation panel displays current location and complete path to the open folder relative to desktop (WinShell style) or relative to disk (DOS style). Quick navigation from one folder to another, skipping intermediate folders. Creating favorite folders using navigation panel tools or by simple drag-and-drop of the current folder onto the menu button of the panel.
Viewing of the animated files (gif, cursor etc.) as thumbnails.
Quick view of the nested folders as a tree of the context menus.
The possibility to add system folders as menu items of the Device panel menu to provide quick access to those folders.
Optional automatic case adjustment for the names of the files and folders. Creating of the file filters based on the file name extension. Setting specific font and color for each file filter. Filtering output to the screen by allowing only files from certain groups to be displayed.
Choice between two the file operation styles. Windows Explorer style, using separate window to output result of the current copy/move file operation, or SwExplorer style using special panel to display the result of the file operation. Using window to output result of the Windows operations can slow down to some extent copy operations, especially for the case of the large number of small files.
Deleting of the files and folders using shortcut. Shortcut is deleted as well. Special operation – destroying of the file, completely excludes possibility to restore file information after file was destroyed.
File manager floating toolbar. Changing of the toolbar style, adding buttons and separators.
Assigning aliases to the command line procedures.
Saving search results into the special folders as shortcuts.

Examples: File manager screenshots:

Contents of the History folder. WinShell style on the left, MS DOS style on the right	Use of the context menu of the WinShell object when working with archives	Use of the context menu of the WinShell object when working with CD-RW disks

Dynamic change of the width of the fields (distance between tags)	Displaying of the network path by navigation panel	Quick view of the nested folders as a tree of the context menus

Setting font for the selected groups of files (filters)	Changing the style of the toolbar, adding buttons and separators	Viewing of the animated files (gif, cursors etc.) as thumbnails

Copying into the adjacent panel using SwToolsMan operation	Copying into the adjacent panel using Windows Explorer operation	Saving search results into the special folders as shortcuts