Take Command, for Free!

I teach a technology course at a community college near where I live. This week one of my students managed to delete all of her work for the period. Now normally I would have just done a search of the system and LAN resources to see if I could find her stuff. But, being a college, environment, there are a lot of things that have been disabled, "Search" among them.

So I logged onto a download site and downloaded FreeCommander. I then installed it on the computer in question and went looking for useful files. We found two.

When I was doing end-user support, I resorted to Norton Commander pretty much every day. When Windows came along, I made do with File Manager, but I kept Norton loaded just in case. Now Windows offers next to nothing in the way of meaningful file management, and Norton is no longer in the game.

Enter Free Commander.

This program is what Norton would have done if he'd not sold out to Symantec. Free Commander offers a side-by-side listing of disk contents, in the view of your choice. An optional divider bar can facilitate copying, moving and a host of other manipulations.

I would be hard to document all of the useful tricks this well designed and well written program can do. Maybe I should just say that I use it every day and would be quite lost without it.

You can find it at http://www.freecommander.com