Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer

[siringo]

Anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to Windows 10's file explorer? Must be free.

[scottalanmiller]

What are you looking for in the alternative?

[scottalanmiller]

Double Commander

choco install doublecmd

[scottalanmiller]

Total Commander

choco install totalcommander

[scottalanmiller]

Unreal Commander

choco install unreal-commander

[wrx7m]

Didn't even know this was a thing anymore lol

[scottalanmiller]

MultiCommander

choco install multicommander

[scottalanmiller]

The original... Midnight Commander

choco install mc

[scottalanmiller]

FreeCommander

choco install freecommander-xe.install

[scottalanmiller]

muCommand.... decent on Mac, but requires Java

choco install mucommander

[scottalanmiller]

Far Manager to a TUI based system.

choco install far

[scottalanmiller]

Those appear to be the most prominent options.

[scottalanmiller]

Explorer++

Not on Chocolatey, but free download from the site.

[scottalanmiller]

Tablacus

[scottalanmiller]

CubicExplorer

[scottalanmiller]

trolCommander

[scottalanmiller]

Saladin

[siringo]

Hey thanks Scott, that's above and beyond.

Time for me to look dumb, what's chocolatey?

[scottalanmiller]

@siringo said in Alternatives to Windows 10 File Explorer:

Hey thanks Scott, that's above and beyond.

Time for me to look dumb, what's chocolatey?

That's the second time that that question came up today! Taught @LilAng about it just a few hours ago.

[scottalanmiller]

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a package management system for the Windows NuGet packaging format. Analogous to YUM, APT, or DNF on Linux. Chocolatey is as close to official as it gets with Windows not quite having an official package manager. It's very powerful and useful, free, too.

https://chocolatey.org/

You can install it with this command in PowerShell...

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))