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Q: How do I compare two files by content?
A: Please follow these steps:

1. Select the two files you want to compare, either in the same window, or one in each window
2. From the menu, choose "Files" - "Compare" by content
3. The differences are shown in blue (text files) or red (binaries)
4. To modify one of the files, switch back to Total Commander without closing the compare tool (Alt+Tab), and load the file in an editor
5. When you save the file and switch back to the compare tool, it offers to recompare the files

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Q: How do I associate file types with programs?
A: Please follow these steps:

1. Place the cursor on a file of that specific type
2. From the "Files" menu, choose "Associate With"
3. If the desired program (e.g. Microsoft Word) is already in the list, choose it
4. If it's not in the list, click on "New Type"
5. Browse for the program you want
6. Click OK

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Q: How do I search for specific files on my harddisk?
A: Please follow these steps:

1. Go to the directory in which you want to start your search
2. From the "Commands" menu, choose "Search"
3. Enter a file mask for the search. Example: *.doc will search for all Word documents
4. You may search for text contained in the files, using the "Find text" option
5. On the second search page, you can search by size, date, and attributes
6. The function also contains a duplicate file finder
7. Start the search with the "Start search" button
8. You can either go to a search result with the "Go to" button, or work with the whole file list by clicking "Feed to listbox"

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Q: How do I rename a lot of files?
A: You can use the multi-rename tool like this:

1. Select the files you want to rename, either with Insert, or the mouse, or with the Plus key on the numeric keypad
2. From the "Files" menu, choose "Multi-Rename tool"
3. Now you can use placeholders in square brackets to build your new name. For example 329 means the name of the file (without the extension), [N1-5] means the first 5 characters of the file name, [C] means a counter, etc.
4. you can use the buttons to insert common placeholders
5. The file list below the buttons show the rename result in real time, without actually renaming the files!
6. With F1 (Help), you get a detailed list of all placeholders
7. When you're satisfied with the results, click "Start!"
8. If you made a mistake, you can click on "Undo". This even works after closing and re-opening the rename tool!

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Q: How do I synchronize two directories?
A: Use the "Synchronize dirs" tool like this:

1. Switch to the two directories which you want to compare, one in the left and one in the right window
2. If you only want to synchronize certain subdirectories, select them now
3. From the "Commands" menu, choose "Synchronize Dirs"
4. Click on "Compare"
5. Wait for the comparison to complete
6. Files which are newer in the left window will have a green arrow pointing to the right, those which are newer in the right window a blue arrow pointing to the left. Identical files will have an equal sign, different files with identical date an unequal sign.
7. You can choose which files to show using the buttons in the "Show" box. Singles are those which exist on only one side, duplicates exist on both
8. To synchronize the two sides, click on the "Synchronize" button, then OK

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Q: How do I connect to an FTP server?
A: Follow these steps to use the built-in ftp client:

1. Click the URL button or choose "FTP new connection" from the menu
2. Type (or paste) the server address, e.g. ftp.microsoft.com
3. If you have an account on the server, uncheck "anonymous connection"
4. Click OK
5. If you have an account on the server, you will be asked for user name and password
6. You are now connected to the server
7. Now you can work on the server almost as on a local harddisk. You can upload and download files easily with F5 (Copy), delete them with F8/Delete, view them with F3 and edit with F4
8. To terminate the connection, click on "Disconnect" in the FTP toolbar
9. You can now save the connection, so you can use it later with the FTP button

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Q: How do I connect two machines through the parallel port?
A: Just follow these steps:

1. Get a parallel link cable. These are often sold as "Interlink" cable or "Direct cable connection" cable.
2. Start Total Commander on both machines. You only need 1 licence if you are the only user.
3. On both machines, select 'Net' - 'PORT connection to other PC'.
4. One machine will act as a server, and one as a client. You will be working on the client, while Total Commander cannot be used on the server during the connection.
5. Select 'Server' on one machine, and 'Client' on the other.
6. If your computer has multiple parallel ports, Total Commander will ask for the port which you want to use. Choose the port to which the parallel cable is connected.
7. The connection is now established. It works similar to an FTP connection, i.e. you can now upload, download, delete, rename, view, and edit files, but not execute programs. Furthermore, you can use 'synchronize dirs'.
8. Close the connection on the client (Disconnect) and server (Abort).

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7-Zip at SourceForge

7-Zip's Forum at SourceForge

p7zip

p7zip is a port of 7-Zip (command line version only) for Linux and Unix, made by an independent developer.

p7zip at SourceForge

Please note that the code of p7zip was not updated since version 16.02.

There are new forks from p7zip code:

p7zip fork (by szcnick) with additional codecs and improvements

7-Zip Logos and Buttons

If you have your own web site and want to support the 7-Zip project, you can display the 7-Zip link button on your web pages. Use this HTML code:

Some 7-Zip related links:

External plugins for 7-Zip from another developers:

Applications that use 7-Zip (LZMA) compression:

Applications that work with .7z archives:

Articles and tutorials about 7-Zip:

Copyright (C) 2019 Igor Pavlov. The site is hosted at Digital Ocean

Total Commander Plugins

Plugins are extensions of Total Commander with additional functions. Please note that most of these plugins are written by third parties, see the column "Author home".

Packer extensions (plugins)

Name/Ver.	Link	Description	Author (home)
7zip 0.7.6.5a 2011/10/24		7Zip standalone packer/unpacker plugin. No requirement to install 7-zip at all! Source available.	dllee
AmigaDX 3.6 2012/06/03		With this plugin you can extract/view ADF, DMS, ADZ, HDF, HDZ, DMP file types for Amiga Emulators (WinUAE, U*AE). You can also create/modify ADF files. If you are an old Amiga user who have installed WinUAE or other Amiga emulator then this plugin is for you. Source available.	Peter Bakota
AVI 1.5 2011/09/30		Create AVI video files (from BMPs), open AVI files with Ctrl+PgDn and extract frames/the sound with F3! Max. 2 GB AVI supported. Source available.	Sascha Hlusiak
BZIP2 1.6 2014/09/24		Very good compression, but only one file per archive (as with GZip). The update v1.1 is based on the bz2 1.0.5 library, which fixes various security issues. v1.6 fixes memory leak in unpack function. Source available.	myself
Catalog 4.1.0 2020/04/26		Create catalogs (lists) of the selected files/directories, with user-defined list format. Now with Unicode support! Note: Since version 4.x catalog maker plugin does not support Windows XP and older. Please use the previous version of plugin. Source available.	Konstantin Polyakov
Checksum 0.2b		Provides MD5 and SHA1 checksum generator/checker from within TC packer interface. It is able to generate ".md5" and ".sha" list files acceptable by GNU respectively md5sum and sha1sum utilities. There is also 'virtual' browser for these list files. Source available.	Stanislaw Pusep
DBX 1.2		Plugin to open Outlook Express 5/6 mail files. Also available: A configuration tool to change parameters like maximum message title length.	Dmitri R.Letichevski
DEB 1.0 2012/05/15		Unpack Debian Linux .DEB packages. The 64-bit version is an unofficial port by user 'flint'. Source available.	Alexandre Maximov
Dircbm (site)		Plugin to extract/view/create CBM disk images (Commodore 64 disk images). Former D64 plugin. New: 1.1: 64-bit version 0.7: The plugin can now also create disk images! Source available.	Loo
Disk Explorer Professional (site)		This plug-in allows you to view the contents of Disk Explorer Professional Database files. Disk Explorer Professional is a powerful tool for catalogizing CDs, DVDs, floppies, ZIP disks, or other removable media, hard drives, network drives, or even FTP servers.	Tomas Jelinek
Diskdir 1.3 2012/03/25		Creates a list file with all selected files and directories, including subdirs (e.g. as an index for CD-ROMs). It is called like a packer (Files->Pack)! Source available.	myself
DiskDir Extended 1.67 2012/03/23		The same as DiskDir, but also lists contents of archive files ARJ, ACE, CAB, JAR, RAR, ZIP, TAR, TGZ (TAR.GZ), TBZ (TAR.BZ, TBZ2, TAR.BZ2). Format is fully compatible with DiskDir, i.e. this plugin works with DiskDir files, as well as DiskDir works with this plugin's files. Please install this update for TC 7.55!	Peter Trebaticky
GIF 1.3 2011/09/30		Can unpack frames from animated GIFs, and also create them. ENTER still shows the GIFs, press Ctrl+PageDown to see a list of all the frames. Source available.	Sascha Hlusiak
GRP 1.02		Extract/create support for GRP (Duke Nukem 3D and other Build engine-based games group file) file format. First (and only) plugin written in Assembler! Source available.	Stanislaw Pusep
HA (site)		Packer: Good compression, relatively slow. Source available.	Sergey Zharsky
ICL 1.4.1.1 2009/08/21		Open and change icon ICL library files.	ProgMan13
IMG(1) 0.9		Open floppy disk image files (1.44 MB). Only supports short (DOS) names. Source available.	IvGzury
IMG(2) 1.6		Advanced floppy image (diskimage, rawread etc.) plugin: create IMG (different sizes, use "Configure" button to choose), extract, add and delete files. Long filename support. More advanced than IMG(1), but without source code.	Andreas Ziemer
ISO 1.7.9 2013/08/27		Reads CD-ROM image files! Also supports: - BIN/CUE images - IMG (CloneCD) images - NRG (Nero) images - Large (>4GB) images (that is, DVD images with ISO Bridge format) Source available.	Sergey Oblomov
Kryptel (site)		For the encryption program Kryptel.	Kryptel
lzma 2.1 2012/06/18		Pack and unpack files in .lzma format, mostly used on Linux/Unix to pack .TAR files, or .CPIO within RPM. Based on the older lzma 1.0 format. Use .xz plugin for the newer lzma2 format. Source available.	myself
LZOP 1.0		Plugin to extract files created with LZOP packer.	"Netolish"
LZX 2.2 2012/07/13		Unpacks the popular Amiga pack format LZX. It handles file date/time (with Y2K workarounds), file attributes, filenotes (saved to descript.ion) and some more. Everything can be customized. Source available.	Michael Ofner Sebastian Erbert
MakeBAT 1.5 2015/08/13		Write-only plugin to create batch files (*.bat) with all the selected files, e.g. for repetitive tasks. May also be used to create mp3 playlists. Source included! 1.4: Increased template length to 1023 characters. 1.5: Fixed problem with 64-bit version (not saving old batch strings correctly).	myself
MSI 1.2.1 2010/04/21		Opens Microsoft Installer files.	Alex Gretha
Multi-Arc (site)		Calls external programs like JAR, AIN, IMP, 777 and many more - user-configurable!	Sergey Zharsky
PACK 1.1		Packing/unpacking of Quake levels. Source available.	"DarkOne"
PPMd 1.0		Similar packer as GZIP and BZ2.	Andreas Muegge
Progress PL 1.70 2016/07/06		This plugin can list, view or extract files stored in PROGRESS PL archives (procedure libraries). Replacement for PROLIB utility. This plugin is NOT for perl PL files! New: Support for V11 libraries.	Progress Tools
RPM+CPIO 1.7 2013/09/06		Read Linux installation files! New in 1.5: Detect RPM files packed with BZip2. Requires Bzip2 plugin to unpack. The 64-bit version is an unofficial port by 'flint'. New in 1.7: When USTAR payload is used, display TAR archive instead of CPIO inside the RPM. Source available.	Mandryka Yurij, Konstantin Vlasov aka Flint
SFF 1.2		Opens SFF Fax files as BMP in Total Commander. Source available.	Amenna Heratsini
SIS 1.0		Opens SIS installation files (Psion, EPOC5 and new also EPOC6). Developed mainly for using with Nokia EPOC5 and EPOC6 packages, but can be used with other types.	Patrik Daranský
Total7zip (site) 2012/11/20		This plugin can create, update and delete files from 7z. Supports sfx and encryption. Can read many other formats besides 7z: XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG ... Uses 7z.dll, supports Unicode file names, can open files by content, search text in archives. Use the standalone 7zip plugin above in 64-bit.	Total7zip team
TotalISO 1.0.0.15 2011/04/26		Total ISO maker (TotalISO) is a packer/unpacker plugin for creating ISO image files. TotalISO is a front end for mkisofs.exe and cdimage.exe, which need to be downloaded separately (see download link in the readme of the plugin).	taohe
TreeCopyPlus 1.051 2011/09/26		It's intended for copying/moving files while keeping the full folder tree. The main differences from TreeCopy: - Support standard, Branch View, search results modes - Presence of an option "Number of upper levels to exclude" - Possibility Overwrite/Skip all	Alexander Golikov aka SUKER
xz 1.1 2018/10/05		Pack+Unpack files in .xz format, mostly used on Linux/Unix to pack .TAR files, or .CPIO within RPM. Very good compression based on the lzma2 format (7zip). Source available.	myself
Z 1.0 2010/05/14		Z packer plugin (Unix archive format). The 64-bit version is an unofficial port by 'Christian Ghisler'.	Unusual Works
WCX Plugin Guide 2.21se 2019/01/03		HTML Help description of the plugin interface - write your own plugin! If you want to write a plugin of general interest, and want to offer it through this page, please contact us first so there are no duplicates! New (2.21se): 64-bit support. New (2.21): Backround operations (TC7.55)! New (2.20): Optional Unicode support for Total Commander 7.5!	myself

How to install and use a packer plugin:
1. Unzip the downloaded archive to any directory
2. In Total Commander, choose Configuration - Options
3. Open the 'Packer' page
4. Click 'Configure packer extension WCXs'
5. Type an extension suitable for the plugin, e.g. "lst" for diskdir
6. Click 'New type', and select the .wcx file
7. Click OK in all open dialog boxes.
You can now use the plugin via Files - Pack (or by opening archives of this type).

File system extensions (plugins)

Name/Ver.	Link	Description	Author (home)
ADO Data Sources 1.6 2006/03/14		The plugin gives you access to the objects of server-based and local databases that can be connected using Microsoft ADO technology: OLE DB providers and ODBC drivers. Some special plugin features are available for MS SQL Server. Note: The link on the left does not include the crypto DLL crsqlwfx.dll, for legal reasons.	OlegY
Back2Life 2.7 2013/05/15		Undelete erased files from FAT and now also NTFS volumes. Also shows degree of damage and cluster map (Alt+Enter). There is also an excellent standalone version available at the author's site. Shareware (US$10). No more size limit in the test version!	Alex Mokrov
CanonCam 1.5		Plugin to download/delete files (JPG, CRW, WAV, AVI) from Canon Digital Cameras. Most PowerShot, IXUS and EOS digital cameras supported! Note: You also need the file SDKlibs.rar (579k) on the first download of this plugin, or if you use plugin version 1.4 or earlier.	Vladislav Sagunov
CDDatabase (site)		CDDataBase is a plugin, designed to organize and maintain a catalog of your disk collection, including CD-ROMs, harddrives, MP3s, removable disks... for quick searching and navigation. Shareware.	Crown_s Soft
Cloud 2.2 2020/02/09		Access the following cloud services without the need of installing their client software: - Box - Dropbox - Google Drive - Microsoft OneDrive (business+private) - Microsoft Azure Datalake Store - Yandex drive What's new: 2.20: Google Drive: Downloads no longer worked because of an invalid parameter 2.10: Access shared drives on Google Drive 2.00: Option to login with external browser installed on PC	myself
ComplexCD (CD/DVD burner) (site)		Complex CD/DVD Burner is a light, fast, and easy-to-use CD/DVD burning plugin for Total Commander. It can burn a data disc in the following formats: CD-R, CD-RW, ISO files, DVD+R/W, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-R/W, and DVD-RAM disk. Shareware – 14.95 US (Pro) or $9.95 (Lite)	Complex New Technologies
Device Manager 1.4		Improved Windows device manager for Windows 2000/XP/2003	Alexey Ryabinin
DiskInternals Reader (site) 2019/03/04		This plugin offers access to harddisk partitions and disk images. Native reader for: Ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, HFS/HFS+, NTFS, ReFS, Fat/exFAT, UFS2 Native support for: - Windows and Linux software raid arrays - DDF, MegaRaid, Adaptec, nVidia, Intel, Via, Silicon raid arrays - MBR, GPT, Apple and BSD partitions - VMWare, VirtualPC, VirtualBox and Parallels disk images 100% symbolic links support for Linux, Mac and Ntfs. First ever Linux and Mac Reader that can display correct size for link that point to file.	Alex Babenko
Events NT 1.3		Plugin to view system events on Windows NT/2000/XP. Does NOT work with Win9x/ME!	Sergey Kostyuk
Ext2+ Reiser 1.6 2010/06/29		Plugin to open Ext2 and Reiser file systems on your own machine! This is useful when you have Linux installed on the same machine (multi-boot) and want to access your files. For security reasons, this plugin is read-only. It combines two open source projects to access Ext2 partitions and Reiser partitions. This plugin is Open-Source (GPL). Version 1.4 adds UTF-8 support, see readme.txt. Version 1.5 can read EXT2/EXT3 partitions with 256 byte inode size Version 1.6 supports Unicode file names in TC 7.5x Ext2 code author: John Newbigin Reiser code author: Gerson Kurz Source available.	unknown
Ext4 (site)		Plugin to open Ext2, Ext3 and Ext4 partitions.	Krzysztof Stasiak
HPLX 1.2		Plugin to open file system on HP100/200LX (older HP palmtop machines). Source included!	Pavel Zampach
HTTP browser 1.0.4		Browse websites, follow links and download files and pages via HTTP as you do with FTP clients. Source available.	Fabio Chelly
HTTP SmartBrowser (site)		Use HTTP services which implies browsing the web and downloading of all kinds of files which are linked from websites. Similar to HTTP browser (try both!).	André Martin
POP3/SMTP EmailPlugin (site)		Access your POP3 mailbox, download and upload (send) mails as text files (in eml format) or delete huge unwanted mails from the server directly. (also available as packer plugin).	André Martin
PROC 3.0 2013/07/16		Show list of running processes (similar to Task Manager). A double click on a task reveals details like Windows belonging to this task. Donateware. If you had any problems with the first version, then please re-download it!	Alexey Babenko
Registry 5.2 2012/08/04		Plugin to browse the Windows registry database, change and export registry keys. New: Unicode support for TC 7.5!	Vitaly Knyazev
Serial 2.0 2011/09/07		Plugin to access another PC via the serial port (RS232), or a PalmOS® device via Serial or USB. The palm version now supports the Treo.	myself
Services 2.4		Plugin to view and manage services on WinNT/2k/XP/Vista/7.	Serge Kandakov (KaSA)
SFTP 2.70 2020/05/19		Allows to access remote servers via secure FTP (FTP via SSH). Requires SSH2. Now also supports SSH+SCP without SFTP! NEW! On Windows Vista, 7 or newer, no extra DLLs are needed any more! It uses the sChannel secure library built into Windows. New in 2.70: Bugfixes to new hmac algorithms New in 2.60: Two new hmac algorithms (authenticity verification): hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com and hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com New in 2.50: Support for ED25519 elliptic curve certificates New in 2.40: Don't show error if login via keyboard interactive failed, but worked via password. New in 2.30: Plugin no longer worked on Windows 10 1903 (Spring 2019). For Windows XP, please get this separate version which only needs the OpenSSL DLLs: sftpplugxp Source available.	myself
Startup Guard 0.52		Contains links to files, which will start on windows start up.	Sergej Puljajev aka Gorbush
SymbFS 0.4		Allows to access the file system of Symbian based mobile devices (e.g. Nokia or Sony Ericsson phones). This provides a convenient way of transferring files (e.g. JPGs, ring tones, application files in the software development cycle) between desktop PC and mobile device.	Ralf "Sabo" Saborowski
Temporary Panel 1.0		Container with links to real files, on HDD or Network, allows to aggregate files, can import M3U, PLS playlists.	Sergej Puljajev aka Gorbush
Uninstaller64 1.01 2012/06/11		List installed programs (32+64 bit), view their settings, and uninstall specific programs. Source available.	Flint
WebDAV 3.0 2019/05/27		Access to Web servers (read+write) via the WebDAV protocol over HTTP and HTTPS, also known as Web Folders. The Web server needs to have WebDAV services installed, which are available for Microsoft IIS, Apache, and many others. What's new? 1.5 adds Windows Vista/7 support, and fixes several problems. 1.9 adds Unicode support, fixes crashes on 64-bit Windows. 2.0 supports files >2GB 2.1 shows locked files with "r" attribute, lock owner in Alt+Enter 2.3 adds 64-bit support 2.4 sends file type (MIME type) when uploading a file 2.5 adds support for servers which append a slash to file names 2.6 adds scanning of QR codes shown by the Wifi Plugin on Android 2.7 Fixed rename problem with Barracudadrive server 2.8 Fixed access violation when server returns empty entries 2.9 Fixes crash/empty list when directory listing starts with byte order marker 3.0 Append / to path when creating folder and append option is checked Source available.	myself
WinCE 2.2 2011/10/24		Access PocketPC and other Windows CE devices via ActiveSync directly in Total Commander! Requires installed ActiveSync, otherwise it cannot be installed! On Windows Vista/7, the new Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 is needed! 2.1: Unicode support for Total Commander 7.5! 2.2: 64-bit support Source available.	myself
Windows Media Audio (MP3) 1.0 2010/06/29		With this plugin, you can access MP3 player which do not have a drive letter, but appear in Windows Media Player (so-called "Plays for sure"-Player). Source available.	myself
Windows Media Audio 2 (MP3) 1.4 2019/01/17		With this plugin, you can access MP3 players and phones (e.g. Android) which do not have a drive letter, but appear in Windows Media Player (so-called "Plays for sure"-Player). Requires Windows Media Player 10 or newer! Please update! Older versions than 1.2 may delete the wrong file in directories with more than 128 files! Source available.	myself
FS Plugin Guide 2.1se 2019/01/03		A HTML help file which describes how to write your own file system plugin. Also available: A very small sample plugin (mirrors local file system). It's well suited as a starting point for your own plugins. New (2.1): Background transfers (TC 7.55)! New (2.0): Unicode support for Total Commander 7.5!	myself

How to install a file system plugin:
1. Unzip the plugin to a directory of your choice.
2. In Totalcmd, choose Configuration - Options - Operation - FS-Plugins
3. Click on "Add"
4. Choose the .wfx file of that plugin and click OK

You can now access the new file system via the Network Neighborhood.

Lister extensions (plugins)

Name/Ver.	Link	Description	Author (home)
Anytag (site)		Anytag displays metadata of audio files in lister. It supports the following audio formats: AAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MP4, M4A, M4B, MPC, OFR, OFS, OGG, SPX, TTA, WMA and WV.	Florian Heidenreich
ArcView 1.2.0.28		Allows you to display info about archives in the Lister or the QuickView window of Total Commander.Currently supported archive types: RAR, ZIP (ACE, 7Z and ... planned).	Dmitrie Murzaikin aka poiuytr
Baseview 1.2		Allows to view and edit dBase and FoxPro files (*.dbf) with MEMO-fields. Extensive filtering options.	Roman Novostavsky aka StayAtHome
CAD View (site) 2018/11/15		View AutoCAD DWG and DXF; HPGL, SVG, CGM formats. Convenient navigation: right-mouse pan, mouse wheel zoom, export to BMP, WMF, GIF, JPEG, Layouts (commercial). Shareware (only €24). New: - 64-bit version available	CAD Soft Tools
DBF-View 1.20		View DBF database files (Dbase, Paradox etc.). Very small and fast plugin.	Sergey Chehuta
EBCDICview 1.1 2015/11/03		Simple plugin to view EBCDIC-Encoded text files. Source available.	myself
Excellence 1.20 2010/02/04		This plugin displays text and numbers from spreadsheet (xls) files created by OpenOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel and similar programs. It does not require any program or library to be installed on your system.	Ivan Petrovic
fileinfo 2.23 2017/05/18		Display Version Information, Executable Header Information and Symbol (like Dumper) for MZ, NE, LE, LX and PE format (programs, DLLs etc).	GANNIER François
Flashview 1.4		View Shockwave Flash files (SWF). Needs an installed Macromedia Flash Player. Use SWFView instead in the 64-bit version.	Roman Novostavsky aka StayAtHome
Flic 1.0.0.0		Autodesk Flic Animation(FLC/FLI) Lister Plugin for Total Commander. Extracts a frame to BMP/GIF/TGA file. Exports to Animated GIF file/AVI/Pro Motion Animation.	Chun Sejin
hpg-ed 0.5.13		Viewer AND Editor with syntax highlighting support of 9 different programming languages and text formats. Other features: 10 bookmarks, undo, creation of backup files, auto association in lister.	hpg
HTMLView (site)		View HTML documents using the Internet Explorer HTML control. Source available.	Rk
IclView v14.6.18 2018/06/14		Show icons in *.icl, *.exe, *.dll files. Extract one or all icons.	ProgMan13 Original: Pavel
Imagine 1.1.1 2020/02/22		Image & Animation Viewer - Support for numerous image/animation file formats: PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TGA, TIFF, ICO, CUR, LBM, ANI, FLI, WMF, EMF, etc. - Support for numerous archive file formats: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ, HV3, CBZ, CBR, CB7, ARJ, LZH, EGG, TAR, ISO, CAB, etc. - Extract single/all frames from animation files - Image manipulation (resize, flip, rotate, grayscale, filters etc.)	Chun Sejin
ImgView (site)		TC lister plugin primarily designed as a JPG viewer which can optionally also display BMP, EMF, EPS, GIF, ICO, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSP, SCR, SGI, TGA, TIF and WMF files. Context pop-up menu allows for printing, for copying to the clipboard etc.	Michael Diegelmann
Jpegthumbs 1.3		This plugin does not show anything in Lister! It is used for displaying thumbnails for huge jpeg files in thumbnails view on system with limited memory, and on Windows 95/98/ME. Uses jpeglib by independent jpeg group. Source available.	myself
LinkInfo 1.52 2011/10/02		Plugin for viewing all possible parameters of LNK-files, and changing them via right click.	Konstantin Vlasov
Mmedia (site)		Interface MCI, MediaPlayer 6.4+, or WMP 7+ to play virtually all media files (with appropriate codec). It can play directly cda files from audio CD, play and show m3u list and display mp3 frame information, Id3V1 and V2 tags.	GANNIER François
Multimedia factory 0.8.3		View/edit/delete information tags in multimedia files: OGG, MP3 (ID3v1 and v2). If you use this plugin together with the Mmedia plugin, make sure to install this plugin after Mmedia, then you can press '4' to switch to this plugin and edit the tags.	Alexey Tarasov
OfficeView 1.1		This plugin is intended for viewing MS Word, Excel, Write and other files for which a convertor into RTF format is installed (and configured for the plugin). Convertors for Word, Excel, Write and HTML formats come with MS Office and can be found in directory: \Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\TextConv\ Source available.	Yuri Gershanov
pdfview (site)		pdfview.wlx is a basic lister plugin for Total Commander 5.5x to display pdf-files (portable document format), ps-files (postscript) and eps-files (encapsulated postscript) using the Ghostscript postscript and pdf interpreter.	Florian Heidenreich
playlist 1.06		Displays and plays the contents of m3u and pls files. For every song in the list, it displays file location, duration, filesize and id3tag info. You can copy either list or song info to clipboard...	Dark One
SWFview 1.3.8.1 2011/10/21		View Shockwave Flash files (SWF). Needs an installed Adobe Flash Player.	Progman13
SynUs 1.6		View files with highlighted syntax: ObjectPascal, C++, Fortran, Java, Visual Basic, HTML document and many more. Export to HTML, RTF and copy to clipboard. Print files with highlighted syntax. And many more...	Sergey Chernih
SynWrite 6.7.1460 2014/09/04		Text editor (plugin and program) for programmers. Supports syntax highlighting for many languages, code folding, tree structure, autocomplete, support for many encodings, customizable hotkeys, themes and more.	UVViewSoft
xBaseView 10.0 2012/02/17		xBaseView Database Explorer has a Windows Explorer-like user interface, supports the typical operations for databases and data export/import. It works with file extensions: .CDS, .CSV, .DB, .DBF, .TAB and additional .HTML, .HTM, .XML.	xBaseView_Support
LS-Plugin Guide 2.1 2019/01/03		A HTML help file which describes how to write your own lister plugin. Also available: A very small sample plugin (shows line numbers to the left of each line). It's well suited as a starting point for your own plugins. 2.0: Optional Unicode support for Total Commander 7.5!	myself

How to install a lister plugin:
1. Unzip the plugin to a directory of your choice.
2. In Totalcmd, view any file with F3
3. Choose Options - Configure - LS-Plugins
3. Click on "Add"
4. Choose the .wlx file of that plugin and click OK

You can now access the new lister plugin with F3.

Content plugins (for Total Commander >=6.50)

Name/Ver.	Link	Description	Author (home)
Anytag (site)		Anytag.wdx displays metadata (like Artist, Album, ...) and technical info of almost all audio files in custom file lists. It supports the following audio formats: AAC, APE, FLAC, MP3, MP4, M4A, M4B, MPC, OFR, OFS, OGG, SPX, TTA, WMA and WV.	Florian Heidenreich
AudioInfo 1.4.3		Shows info/tags from audio files. Supported formats: MPEG, OGG, WMA, WAV, VQF, AAC, APE, MPC, FLAC, IT, XM, S3M, MTM, MOD, UMX.	UVViewSoft
CDocProp 1.10 2011/09/19		Compound document properties (e.g. Word, Excel files)	MGP Software Ltd.
DirSizeCalc 2.21 2012/07/21		DirSizeCalc displays size, subdirectory and file count of a directory. All calculations are processed in background.	Lefteous
ExeFormat 0.6b 2012/10/11		The ExeFormat plugin can show information about executable files: Currently supported are MZ, NE, LE/LX, PE(PE32/PE32+). Ported to 64-bit by 'tbeu'. Source available.	Sergey Urbanovich
ExeInfo 1.1 2011/12/12		Checks all files for a Version Resource and extract information.	GANNIER François
Exif 2.6 2020/03/13		Show camera data like aperture and exposure time from JPG and Canon RAW image files. 1.8: Supports Unicode file names 2.1: Supports GPS coordinates, altitude and time 2.2: Support GPS data: Image direction (in degrees) 2.3: 64-bit support 2.4: Bugfixes: Hangs with some JPGs, GPS data wrong using type "floating" 2.5: Support new fields Compression and CompressionName 2.6: Support for Canon RAW 3 format (CR3). To use, uninstall the old plugin first via Configuration - Options - Plugins - Content plugins! Source available.	myself
File descriptions 1.3.2 2011/10/07		Shows file descriptions: from files.bbs/descript.ion, from contents of text/HTML files, for executables/DLLs: from VersionInfo fields. Sources included!	UVViewSoft
Filename ChrCount (site)		Purpose: Checking pathnames exceeds the 256 character limit after moving folders... Columns: Pathname(ChrCount), Filename(ChrCount), Path(ChrCount), Ext(ChrCount), Filename(ChrCount excl Ext), Path.	J. Bleichroth
id3 1.2 2012/05/14		Show mp3 ID3 tags (only ID3 version 1), like Artist, Title etc. Very small and fast plugin. Source available.	myself
ImgSize (site)		Purpose: Sorting images by size, showing image size below thumbnails... Columns: Width, Height, Pixel, Diagonal, Orientation, Size, Aspect Ratio Formats: PSD PCX EPS/PS JPG GIF BMP PNG TIFF	J. Bleichroth
Media 0.6.1		Supports the displaying of: Duration in time-format, Duration in ms format, Audio stream information (codec, bitrate and etc.), Video stream compressor (codec, video bitrate and etc.), Video tags information (AVI only). Information cached in database.	Sergey Chernih (aka SCHMaster)
NL_Info 1.20 2011/10/08		Plugin for displaying information about NTFS hard links and reparse points (junctions, mount points and so on). Source available.	Konstantin Vlasov
ShellDetails 1.25 2015/07/08		ShellDetails displays all Windows Explorer fields in Total Commander.	Lefteous
TextSearch 1.4.3 2011/09/30		Plugin allows to perform full-text search in any documents, which have command-line converters to the plain-text form. Included converters are: RTF, OpenOffice, DOC, DOCX, PDF. Sources included!	UVViewSoft
xPDFSearch 1.11 2015/01/11		xPDFSearch can be used to perform fulltext search in PDF files. In addition xPDFSearch provides meta data information from PDF files. Source available.	Lefteous
Content-Plugin Guide 2.1se 2019/01/03		A HTML help file which describes how to write your own content plugin. Also available: A very small sample plugin with source (shows file details like date, time similar to Total Commander's internal plugin). It's well suited as a starting point for your own plugins. New in 2.1: Function ContentCompareFiles used in "Synchronize dirs" to compare two files by a custom method (TC 7.55) New in 2.0: Optional Unicode support for Total Commander 7.5!	myself

More plugins can be found on the unofficial plugins site totalcmd.net. This site is independent from us and also hosts new and beta plugins.