Category: Windows / File managers

License: Freeware

Limitations :

OS: Windows 2K/XP/2003

Size: 0.52 MB (539,280 bytes)

Introduction: SurF File Manager is a free Windows file manager featuring Tabs and drag'n'drop support, QuickPath, Dynamic directories size analysis takes into account NTFS compression, Realtime highlighting for just created and modified files and many other features. Here are some key features of "SurF File Manager": Tabs · Startup directories [tabs] are fixed. Changing directory inside fixed tab creates new tab. You can close fixed tab like an ordinary one. Views · Besides standard file view you can view files by size and by time. Size view dynamically calculates subdirectories size and sorts them by size on disk. Size of the files on disk takes into account NTFS compression, NTFS sparse files and disk cluster size. Icons · Besides standard icons for files, SurF makes icons from image files. This process is slow, so, some limitations based on picture file size apply. Default limitations can be changed using Pictures icons settings dialog. Groups · Files are divided by groups based on their extensions. Inside each group sorting is based on file name. Default groups can be modified using File groups settings dialog. Settings · SurF registers Win+S global hotkey for you to activate it at any time. Pressing hotkey when SurF window is already active minimizes it. Hot key is configurable via General settings dialog. · Editing favorites and startup directories you can drag rows with mouse. To delete row - select it by Shift + Space or by clicking on row header and then press Delete key. Use F2 key to edit cells. File operations · If current directory has parent directory, it is represented as " . . ". Current directory is represented as " . ". · You can drag'n'drop selected files from SurF to Windows Explorer and back. Default mode is move. To copy files hold down Control key. You can drag selected file name from SurF to cmd.exe. If you drop file on directory item in SurF, then it will be the target directory. You can additionally hold Alt key while dropping files to auto-rename files on paste. If you drop file on tab name, files go there. You can additionally hold Shift key to open selected tab (or target directory) after paste. · When you copy files to clipboard full path text is placed to clipboard along with files and you can paste it in text edit fields. · To find file in current directory - quickly type several first characters of file name. QuickPath · In QuickPath Search field you can type for example csys32 to open c:windowssystem32. First letter should be a drive letter. Search is limited to 3 subdirectories: c36 will find c:123456, but c4 will not find c:1234. · To search only subdirectories of current directory enter .(dot) as first character. For example, when file tab shows c:1 typing .45 will find 2345. · Access to network shares · If you enter server name in Network server dialog (e.g. our_server) Select share dialog will appear. Shares that you can't open look gray. You can select several shares to open at once. Connecting to Windows 9x computer with password protected share, select this share and check "Connect to selected share" before clicking Reconnect as.