Total Commander 11.57

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.57:

- Command line: Run program as administrator by putting an asterisk * at the start of the command line
- Configuration - Button bar: The icon index field is now a text area, allowing a quick jump to a specific icon
- Find files: Show name of loaded settings in title bar
- Lister: Configure which context menu items are allowed
- cm_MkDir now supports parameters like /N="Name(s)"
- Updated unrar and 7-zip dlls

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.56:

- Security issue in unrar.dll fixed
- Updated 7-zip dlls

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.55:

Copying:
- When "Copy to all selected folders/links..." is enabled, the "Keep relative paths" option is also respected
- Supports copying directories anywhere in subdirectories. For example, if "Only files of this type:" is set to "test\", the "test" folder will be found anywhere in the selected folders
- An overlay icon is displayed in the system tray when an overwrite confirmation dialog is open while Total Commander is not in the foreground
- When copying sparse files, only the parts containing non-zero data are copied. This option needs to be enabled via wincmd.ini [Configuration] CopySparseFiles=1

General:
- Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [v] for inserting milliseconds, e.g. [hms].[v]
- Create/Verify Checksums: Use multiple threads for Blake3 checksums (64-bit only, on Windows 7 and newer)
- Use tc7z.dll as a fallback for unrar.dll if unrar.dll fails to load
- Rename directories in 7z archives when using the internal 7z packer
- New parameter for the internal MULTIRENAME command opens the tool and offers the user to undo the last operation
- Use external DLL tcsha64.dll to create/verify SHA3 checksums faster
- Bug fixes


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.51:

- New parameters for internal command cm_SwitchToNextTab, e.g. to switch to last visited tab
- Main menu and "Start" menu: Use icons defined in em_command even if they are located in shell32.dll or imageres.dll
- Configure how the Microsoft Photos app is called: wincmd.ini [Configuration] PhotoAppMode
- Bugfixes


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.50:

General:
- File lists: Option to show seconds in the date/time field
- File lists: Shorten date/time with "..." when the value is too long for the available space
- Folder tabs: Always scroll current tab into view when resizing main window
- Always load icons from .ico files directly instead of associated program
- Drive list (cm_OpenDrives): Show volume labels/descriptions behind drive letters
- Recycle bin (cm_OpenRecycled): Show original location of deleted files in comment view
- Thumbnails view: Show thumbnails of link (.lnk file) targets instead of link files themselves, e.g. links to photos
- Main menu: Use icon defined in em_command, but only from wcmicons.dll or .ico files or the main executable, for speed reasons (virus scanners)
- Configure button bar/single button or configure internal command: New button "->.ico" to extract single icon from .exe/.dll/.icl
- Everything: Support network drives when getting folder sizes with option "Automatic, only with 'Everything'"
- Change directory via "cd" command: Append \: to go to the parent and place cursor on directory or archive
- OPENBARMENU now also works when there is no main button bar
- FTP connect dialog (Ctrl+F): File system plugins can now also be entered in the form \\\Pluginname\Path, or any directories (with drive letter or UNC path).
- New pseudo environment variables %$CLIPBOARD%, %$CLIPNAME% and %$CLIPNAME_NE% to access clipboard content, e.g. in button commands

File operations:
- Internal 7-Zip compression via 7-Zip dll (included)
- Wildcards to rename files when copying files with F5: Options to put text in front of name, or append text after name
- Packer about box (Alt+Enter on file in archive): Show which plugin opened the archive in the "Packer" field
- Open the Photos app with new command to enable previous/next buttons
- Files - Associate With: New button "Delete" sets association to "(none)"
- Synchronize dirs: Time stamps can now be copied also to file system plugins and FTP servers
- Delete files by Drag&Drop to button 'F8 Delete': Confirmation can now be turned off separately from copy confirmation

Verify checksums:
- New checkbox "Only errors" to only show lines with errors and the summary
- When verifying a checksum from the file name or clipboard, let the user choose a different checksum method if there are multiple with the same checksum size
- Ctrl+A now selects the entire list when the focus is in the list
- Verify checksums from clipboard: Support also SHA224 and SSH384

Search:
- Search for *.ext \test1\test2\ will find files in current directory plus subdirectory \test1\test2\ although test1 isn't searched
- Search for *.ext test1\test2\ will find files in current directory plus in subdirectories containing directories test1\test2\ anywhere in the path
- Standalone search started via /S=F: Extra parameter S* tells search to get the sort order from a currently running Total Commander
- Plugins tab: Entries can now be sorted manually with Ctrl cursor up/down or via sort buttons

List of open tabs (Ctrl+Shift+A):
- Option to show last visited tabs first, hotkey Ctrl+L
- Shift+Enter on recently closed tab now restores the tab, but doesn't focus it
- Configuration - Options - Folder tabs: New options "Ctrl+Tab opens as list" and "Last visited first"
- Configuration - Options - Folder tabs: New option to jump to last opened tab with Ctrl+Tab.

Lister:
- Ctrl+Mouse wheel and Ctrl+'+'/'-' now also zooms in all text modes (control via [Lister] ZoomFont=1/0)
- Ask user whether he wants to manually set a font to ASCII/DOS which does not contain the encoding
- Right click on URL starting with http://, https://, www. or alphanumeric text with at least one dot before the end selects it and shows context menu item 'Open in default browser'

Internal commands:
- OPENBAR, OPENBAR1, OPENBAR2, OPENBARMENU: New parameter * opens default bar defined for the main bar/vertical bar
- All commands starting with cm_SelectAll or cm_ClearAll now support a numeric parameter n: if not 0, select every nth file from the current position, e.g. cm_SelectAllFolders 2 -> every second folder from the cursor position
- Add 4 to parameter of the following commands to not save the change to wincmd.ini: cm_SwitchLongNames, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchHid, cm_SwitchSys, cm_Switch83Names, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchOverlayIcons, cm_SwitchIgnoreList, cm_SwitchX64Redirection, cm_SwitchFileTipWindows, cm_SwitchColorsByFileType, cm_ToggleAutoViewModeSwitch, cm_Vis*

Button bar/Start menu parameters:
- Parameters %S, %R, %P%S and %T%R in double quotes now support prefix/suffix text for each file

Multi-rename tool:
- Field [T4] followed by any date/time fields like [YMD] now gets EXIF date also from HEIC image files, and recording date from MP4 videos
- Placeholder [T4] now also works when creating directories (F7) or text files (Shift+F4)
- Load names from file now supports Unix line breaks

New wincmd.ini options:
- [Configuration] OldStyleHistory=1 gets back old style history as a dropdown menu without frequently used directories
- [Configuration] CopyStayOnFile=1 keeps cursor on currently active file after copying file with Shift+F5
- [Configuration] BriefViewWidthLimitMin=0 sets minimum column width for brief view


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.03:

- Copy files: The option "Keep relative paths" is now also available in search results, copies with entire path
- Lister: Press F4 to open currently viewed file in user-defined editor (configurable via wincmd.ini [Lister] F4Edit)
- New environment variable %COMMANDER_INI_PATH%: Directory of the settings file wincmd.ini
- cm_CompareDirs, cm_CompareDirsWithSubdirs: New parameter 1 to only select files which do not exist on the other side
- List of open tabs: Switch between tab title and tab directory with Ctrl+Shift+A
- Pseudo environment variable %$DATE% now supports an offset, e.g. %$DATE+1Y% (use %|$DATE+1Y| in parameters field)
- Set a different location for DirectShow filters: wincmd.ini [Lister] Filter32dir=/Filter64dir
- Windows 10 and newer: Open Windows Photo app with current directory parameter so it can switch through all images in the same folder as the opened image, configurable with PhotoAppFilter field
- Bugfixes


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.02:

- Synchronize directories: Comparison can now be paused (pause button)
- Updated libdeflate/libdeflate64 DLLs: In rare cases Windows Explorer 7/10/11 could not extract archives created by this DLL even if the archive is 100% correct and can be extracted with Win7zip/pkzip/ WinRAR/7Zip without problems.
- Files - Test archive(s) finds affected ZIP files, unless disabled (wincmd.ini [Packer] ZipTestWarnExplorer=0)
- Improved thumbnail caching in thumbnail view
- Multiple options available for cm_SyncChangeDir function (SyncChangeDirMode in wincmd.ini)
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.01:

- Updated unrar dlls to 6.23.0.
- Shift+F4 edit new file(s): Multiple names can now be passed also in double quotes separated by spaces, e.g. "file1.txt" "file2.txt" "file3.txt"
- cm_Edit: Parameter /N now supports alternate syntax /N=<"file1.txt" "file2.txt" "file3.txt"> to pass multiple names to the function more easily
- Compare by content: Set number of lines which must be matching after a difference (CompareFindLines)
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 11.00:

General:
- Show searchable list of all open tabs with Ctrl+Shift+A (as in the Chrome browser) or right clicking on the rightmost edge of the tab headers
- Ignore list now supports entries for file system plugins and FTP servers (separate syntax)
- Search with "Everything": Support search in indexed subfolders
- Show full path with all parents in nested virtual folders, e.g. when accessing a phone
- Show free and total space of Android devices in the base folder
- Follow link files (*.lnk) pointing to directories relative to the current location, e.g. %WinDir%\explorer.exe ..\..\content
- Inform other Total Commander instances on the same PC when the user changes the "Start" menu or button bars
- In place rename, command line: Stop on Ctrl+Left/Right at extra non-alphanumeric characters
- Standalone Lister, search, compare and synchronize dirs can be started maximized and minimized
- New pseudo environment variable %$DATE% inserts current date and time in 24 hour format, supports template like %$DATE:YMD%
- Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [I] to ignore dots in folder names: Entire name in [N], [E] is empty.

File operations:
- High speed packing and unpacking of ZIP and GZ files with modified libdeflate library
- Change compression rate for ZIP, GZ and TGZ directly in the pack dialog
- F5 copy: New overwrite mode "Rename older target files, skip newer"
- F5 copy, ftp/plugin transfers: Show transfer speed of the entire copy operation in the second progress bar when available
- File system plugins and FTP: Show new option "Finish copying the current file" when aborting copying
- Unpack ZIP files with ZSTD (by Facebook) compression
- Unpack .zst (ZSTD) and .br (BROTLI) files
- 7z.exe or 7zg.exe can now also be used as an external zip packer

Directory history:
- New style directory history list which is no longer based on a Windows menu
- Quick search and quick filter support
- Quick search in whole path by starting search strings with an asterisk
- Right click context menu support with many options like opening the directory in the other panel or a new tab
- Context menu, option to copy path to clipboard
- Context menu, option to remove entries from history
- Context menu, option to show all items when history thinning is enabled
- Keep track of most frequently used directories and show them in the directory history in addition to the history entries
- Keep list of frequently used directories synchronized between multiple Total Commander instances on the same PC
- New page "History" in the main settings dialog

Lister:
- Hex mode: highlighting in both text and hex representation of file content
- Copy the selection to the clipboard as hexadecimal characters, with Ctrl+Shift+C or via the right-click menu

Internal commands:
- cm_Copy, cm_RenMov, cm_CreateShortcut, cm_PackFiles, cm_UnpackFiles and cm_Edit support parameters to set dialog box options
- New tab commands: cm_RenameTab, cm_SetTabOption*, cm_SetAllTabsOption*, cm_OpenNewTabOther, cm_OpenNewTabBgOther
- New quick search commands: cm_QuickSearch, cm_QuickFilter, cm_QuickFilter 1 (restore last quick filter)
- New drive commands: cm_DriveContextMenu, cm_OpenDriveByIndex
- New command line commands: cm_ShowCmdLineHistory, cm_AddFileNameToCmdline, cm_AddPathAndFileNameToCmdline
- New internal command OPENBARMENU opens the passed .bar file as a dropdown menu
- Hotkeys defined via Configuration - Options - Misc now support commands with parameters
- Internal commands can now be used in internal associations, .e.g. ***cm_List %1

Command line parameters in button bar/start menu:
- New parameter %y (lowercase) keeps other parameters and skips only list file parameters if the list is empty
- New parameter %a (lowercase) includes all selected files from both panels in list parameters like %L
- New parameter %|envvar| inserts environment variable envvar, e.g. %|windir| or %|$DESKTOP|


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 10.52:

General:
- Command line parameters: option /O now supports a parameter, e.g. /O0 to never open a new instance in any case
- New hotkey F9 in "Compare by content" to toggle visibility of the two line compare box at the bottom
- Internal associations: New command **path\filename.bar opens the given button bar file as a menu
- Button command LOADLIST0 loads list of files without any error messages when files cannot be found
- Command line parameters now support value LOADLIST:path\listfile.txt instead of a directory name to load list file into file panel
- Quick search with search dialog and Ctrl+S Quick filter: New hotkey Ctrl+Z to clear search text
- New method to open virtual folders via button or command line, with command cd shell:Folder name (e.g. cd shell:Fonts)

Internal commands:
- cm_UnloadPlugins: Parameter 16 (cm_UnloadPlugins 16) now unloads an external tcmatch dll
- cm_Exit now supports a parameter. Sum of 1: Close and restart Total Commander, 2: Close and switch between 32-bit and 64-bit, 4: Save paths, tabs and display options even when disabled in settings, 8: Pass current left and right directory and file under cursor to new instance, 16: Restart as administrator
- cm_*ActivateTab* (e.g. cm_SrcActivateTab1) now supports numerical parameter for tab. Negative numbers mean counting from the end
- cm_50percent now accepts a parameter: It adds the value (in percent) to the width of the active panel

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 10.51:

General:
- Button bar, start menu: New parameter %Q turns off automatic quotation marks around certain parameter combinations like %P%N
- Verify checksums: Support extension .bk3 for Blake3, and arbitrary length Blake3 checksum verification
- OneDrive folder: Show green overlay icon with checkmark for files which are marked for always being available offline
- Lister, Compare by content: Support side scrolling by tilting mouse wheel left/right (only supported by some mice)
- Multi-rename tool: New placeholder [X] inserts text from the clipboard
- Synchronize dirs: Show yellow progress bar in task bar when done and the comparison took longer than 10 seconds
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 10.50:

General:
- Files - Create checksum file(s): Support for very fast BLAKE3 hash algorithm
- New option "Finish copying the current file" when aborting copying in the middle of a file
- New command line parameter /P opens parent of the passed path and places cursor on last directory
- Internal content plugin (tc): New fields from id3v1/id3v2/ape/flac/wav/ogg/m4a metadata tags, like Title, Artist etc.
- Unpack ZIP files with Brotli (by Google) compression, mainly used in XPI files
- Synchronize dirs: Show progress when comparing by content also in taskbar icon
- FTPS/HTTPS: Support for OpenSSL 3.0
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] ExecUseContextMenu: set to 1 to open files as if the user right clicked on it and clicked on the default context menu item
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] AlwaysShowAppdata=0 hides Appdata folder when hidden files are not shown
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] FileTipWindowsOnIcon=1 only shows tooltips when the cursor is over the icon (FileTipWindows must also be enabled).
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] CountMarkedInDialog=0 turns off the memory requirement determination in the F5 copy dialog

User interface:
- Option to always load directory sizes after a directory change, either internally or via 'Everything' tool
- Option to set custom date/time format and separators (Configuration - Options - Tabstops)
- Show total bytes, files and folders to be copied already in F5 copy dialog
- Show transfer speed with mixed units (e.g. x.xx b/M/G/T), configured via [Configuration] SizeTransfer, defaults to value of footer
- Configure extra space around drive button icons via Configuration - Options - Icons
- Dark mode: Option to configure border color (lines between controls)
- Button bar: set the "Tooltip" field to a single space to disable tooltip
- Menu Files - Print - File content now prints all selected files (after a warning)
- On Windows 10 older than 1709 (Fall 2017) and older Windows versions, support thumbnails larger than 240 pixels
- Directory hotlist (Ctrl+D): For add/remove button and Configure, use hotkeys +, - and * (configurable)
- Ctrl+Z on ".." allows to set the comment of the current directory

Lister:
- Show additional main menu item "Plugins" to directly choose a Lister plugin
- Quick view panel: Show used plugin in title (normally used for path) behind the file name
- Command line parameter /S=L to open a separate Lister window: New sub-parameter F to open Lister in full screen view

Lister, internal image viewer:
- Zoom images with Ctrl+Mouse wheel or +/- on numeric keypad, or via click on percent value in the menu
- Use Shift+Cursor left/right to scroll images in smaller steps than Cursor left/right

Lister, internal media player:
- Show track name and artist from a track's tags (id3v1, id3v2.2, id3v2.3/2.4, ape, flac, wav, ogg and m4a)
- Show cover image from a track's tags, or from a file named cover.jpg, folder.jpg, cover.png, or folder.png in the same folder
- Button to show/hide cover image
- Load track positions and names from .cue file with the same name as the opened media file, e.g. for seeking in long compilations
- Single step now also works for audio only (1/10 second steps)
- New hotkeys in multimedia mode: M=Mute, E=Single step, C=Cover, Ctrl/Shift+arrow keys to fast forward/rewind
- Prefer DirectShow filters from filter32/64 subdirectory when present, even when a different version of that filter is registered in the system. Disable via wincmd.ini [Lister] PreferFiltersFromFile=0
- Set foreground and background color of Lister media player controls via Configuration-Options-Color

Change attributes:
- Set partial date and/or time by using letters in place of the unchanged parts, e.g. 10:mm:ss to change just the hours. The actual characters don't matter, 10:xx:xx will also work.

Compare by content:
- New hotkey F2 in edit mode jumps to the next difference within a line, Shift+F2 to the previous difference
- Accept one or two file names via drag&drop to the path edit boxes
- Button "Sync" to choose re-synchronize method, e.g. to look for equal characters only after a space

Multi-rename tool:
- Offer to auto-rename files also when moving them to subdirs and a file with the same name already exists in that directory
- New placeholders [B0]..[B9] insert parent, grandparent, great grandparent folder etc. from the path
- New placeholders [B+0]..[B+9] insert drive letter, first folder, second folder etc. from the path
- New field [T4] will use EXIF date (when a photo was taken) for all date fields after this placeholder
- The Fields [T1] to [T4] now support a time offset in the form [T1+60m] or [T1-10h]

Internal commands:
- cm_ReloadFileIcons to reload all icons and icon overlays without re-reading the file lists
- cm_CloseDuplicateTabs to close all duplicate tabs in current panel
- cm_SwitchColorsByFileType to turn colors by file type on/off
- cm_SwitchFileTipWindows to enable/disable the display of tooltips (hints) for files
- cm_CopyToArchive/cm_MoveToArchive to open pack dialog with "Move" option unchecked/checked
- cm_CloseCurrentTab, cm_CloseAllTabs, cm_UnloadPlugins, cm_CopyFileDetailsToClip, cm_CopyHdrFileDetailsToClip etc. now support parameters, see description
- command cd "path" can now be combined with internal commands, with the path in double quotes
- MULTIRENAME= starts renaming immediately with the given saved settings, two equal signs close the dialog afterwards


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 10.00:

General:
- Directories created by MacOS on ExFAT flash drives are now shown in TC. They were not shown because they had the invalid attribute 8: Volume label
- Always show hidden directory "AppData" in c:\Users\ even with hidden files disabled
- Allow user to install key file automatically when double clicking on it.
- Add a "Zone Transfer" data stream when downloading files via anonymous FTP (Ctrl+F), or HTTP (Ctrl+N) from outside the intranet, like web browsers
- When unpacking files internally or via plugins, copy "Zone Transfer" data stream from archive to unpacked files, just like the Explorer
- New zone transfer option can be disabled via WantZoneData=0
- Always look for key file also in c:\totalcmd, even if Total Commander is installed elsewhere

User interface:
- Allow to use "Windows Hello" on Windows 10 to securely store master password until TC is closed. Use fingerprint, face or pin to connect again
- Use mouse wheel to scroll through directory tabs (like in Firefox) when not using multi-line tabs
- Zoom thumbnails with Ctrl+Mouse wheel between 10% and 200% of the size configured in Configuration - Options - Thumbnails
- Load thumbnails from EXIF data (preview image) from JPG and various camera RAW formats: Canon RAW 1-3, DNG, Fuji, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sony
- New option "Return to locked tab root directory on tab change" in Configuration - Options - Folder tabs
- Show "!" prefix when current dir differs from locked dir on tabs which are locked with directory changes allowed
- New option to only execute command line when it is focused (Configuration - Options - Layout)
- When closing TC while there are unpacked temporary files, show the user the first 3 file names and their origin
- When dropping file from outside (e.g. virtual folder in Explorer) to a directory without write rights (e.g. c:\windows): Show better dialogs to allow overwrite and copy as administrator
- Automatically scale dialog boxes with the chosen font if the font needs more space than the default font
- Ctrl+L on single file now also shows the Zone.Identifier stream data for that file
- Save displayed file types (e.g. *.txt) separately for each tab. Configuration - Options - Folder Tabs - Save displayed file types separately for each tab
- Ctrl+U and Ctrl+Shift+U now also swap the displayed file types if DirTabFilters=1, because they are part of the tab
- Directory menu (Ctrl+D): Option to hide menu items which begin with a user-defined character, by default a question mark '?'
- View modes, Auto-run commands: Put '-' at the start of the command field to not execute commands on tab change, only on directory change
- For locked folder tabs with directory changes allowed, show both the current directory and the locked directory if they are different

Saving settings:
- When user cannot save settings (e.g. in Configuration menu or main settings): Offer to copy the ini files to user profile
- For plugins in write protected directories, intercept calls to CreateFileA/W and all INI functions, and redirect write calls to %APPDATA%\GHISLER\redirect
- Disable redirection of plugins: Add 8192 to RestrictInterface in wincmd.ini or registry
- Specify different ini locations for specific plugins: wincmd.ini [ReplaceIniLocation]

Lister:
- New DirectShow media player in Lister, replacing the old one based on Video for Windows (can still be chosen via configuration)
- Support full screen playback via double click or Alt+Enter, leave the same way or with ESC
- Change audio and subtitle streams via context menu
- Configure preferred DirectShow filters via Lister configuration (3rd Tab)
- Show chapters as tickmarks below seek bar, jump there with Ctrl+PageDown/Ctrl+PageUp
- Buttons to jump backward/forward by x seconds (default 10s and 60s, configurable via right click)
- Preload DirectVobSub filter if the source filter has a pin "Subtitle"
- Allow to use LAV filters and ffdshow filters without installing them, by putting them in subdir filter32 or filter64, respectively
- Save last playback position of the last played tracks longer than 10 minutes
- Keep sound pitch constant when changing playback speed, using custom DirectShow filter based on open source SoundTouch.dll
- New option "Additional multimedia file types" and "Additional Irfanview/Xnview file types"

Search:
- Internal regular expression library updated to latest version (faster, more functions)
- Warn user when he enters a text in "Find text" which cannot be converted to ANSI and/or ASCII (if checked)

Synchronize dirs:
- Allow to use regular expressions and saved searches, with options where to apply them, e.g. one side, both sides, etc. via button [1x]
- New context menu items to show file context menu and file properties, and to edit left/right file
- Show exclamation mark in button "Singles" or "Duplicates" if it isn't down when opening the dialog

Compare by content:
- Show extra listbox with the two lines from the current cursor position for easier character by character comparison
- Show progress dialog when pasting large text buffer takes more than 2 seconds, allows to abort paste, but doesn't revert it
- Focus the bottom 2 line compare list directly with Ctrl+Tab
- Bottom 2 line compare list can be scrolled with cursor left/right, page up/down, home/end, and the mouse wheel
- Ctrl+Mouse wheel now scrolls the two line panel at the bottom even when the mouse isn't on it. Ctrl+Alt+Mouse Wheel still scrolls by page

FTPS/HTTPS:
- Support for OpenSSL 1.1 and newer. The main dll must be named libssl-*_*.dll / libssl-*_*-x64.dll (with *_* the version number, e.g. 1_1), the libcrypto*.dll must NOT be renamed!

Verify checksums:
- Support checksum created from a stream, showing up as " -" (checksum followed by two spaces and a dash)
- In checksum files created by other programs, more OpenSSL format types are supported: SHA224, SHA384, SHA3-224, SHA3-256, SHA3-384, SHA3-512

Internal commands:
- LOADLIST listfilename loads list of files/folders from text file.
- cm_ZoomIn and cm_ZoomOut to zoom thumbnails (like Ctrl+Mouse wheel)
- cm_syncchangedir: When pressing ENTER, do not enter a directory when it doesn't exist on the other side. Only turn off cm_syncchangedir when the user tries again
- Support parameters 0 (or none)=toggle, 1=set, 2(or -1)=reset for the following internal commands: cm_*Comments, cm_*DirBranch, cm_*DirBranchSel, cm_ToggleAutoViewModeSwitch, cm_SyncChangeDir, cm_SwitchLongNames, cm_SwitchHidSys, cm_SwitchHid, cm_SwitchSys, cm_Switch83Names, cm_FtpHiddenFiles, cm_SwitchDirSort, cm_SwitchOverlayIcons, cm_SwitchWatchDirs, cm_SwitchIgnoreList, cm_SwitchX64Redirection, cm_Vis*
- Command LOADSEARCH (e.g. on button): Put one equal sign = in front of name to start searching immediately, two == to start and feed to listbox after search
- Improved ZIPFROMLIST command: The file list name can now contain Unicode characters, and the content can be ANSI, UTF-16 (with byte order marker BOM) or UTF-8 (with or without BOM), and the archive name can now also be put in the parameters field.
- Support parameters 0=toggle, 1=set, 2(or -1)=reset also for: cm_SrcQuickview, cm_LeftQuickview, cm_RightQuickview, cm_SrcQuickInternalOnly, cm_LeftQuickInternalOnly, cm_RightQuickInternalOnly, cm_SeparateQuickview, cm_SeparateQuickInternalOnly
- New internal command OPENATTRIBUTES Change attributes: +s (subfolders), +a/-a +r/-r +h/-h +s/-s +dDate +tTime +L +L2 Plugin_settings

Placeholders for commands in button bar/start menu:
- All placeholders in button bar or start menu like %N, %P now support substring fields in the form :~start,end, e.g. %N:~2,5 (5 characters from the second) or %N:~-8,5 (5 from the 8-last)
- Placeholders %S, %R, %P%S and %T%R now support appended text for each file. The parameter must be in double quotes, e.g. "%P%S.bak" would append .bak to each name
- New placeholder %B for part of path (including branch view paths): %B or %B0 parent, %B1 grandparent etc. %B-, %B-1, %B-2 same but without branch view
- New placeholder %Bt, %Bt1 etc: Parent, grandparent directory of target folder
- New placeholder %B+ for part of path (including branch view paths), start counting from the beginning: %B+ drive with ":", %B+0 drive without ":", %B+1 first subdirectory, %B+2 second subdirectory etc.

Content plugin fields:
- 3 new internal fields: tc->ZoneId, tc->HostUrl and tc->ReferrerUrl read these fields from Zone.Identifier stream data. ZoneId is set to 0 if not present

Installer:
- Default to c:\Program Files\totalcmd on new systems. If the user fails to get admin rights, change to c:\totalcmd
- When not installed in Program Files, allow to set permissions for authenticated users to read only, installing user to full control
- New parameter /W enables write protecting target folder: /W0 unchanged, /W1 give current user write rights, /W2 give only elevated users write rights
- Last parameter can be a target path, e.g. installername.exe /F "c:\totalcmdnew"


New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 final:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 6:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 5:

- Allow to install/uninstall/repair and use Total Commander even if the current user profile directory contains characters from a different codepage (e.g. Cyrillic on English Windows)
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 4:

- Support for new Windows 10 option in regional settings "Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support"
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 3:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.51 release candidate 2:

- Changed version number to 9.51 because the test takes longer and there are more changes than expected
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50a release candidate 1:

- Dark mode: F1 opens help file named totalcmddark.chm (separate download) if it exists in the same location as totalcmd.chm
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 final:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 release candidate 2:

- Reduced flickering of the main menu in dark mode
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 release candidate 1:

- New Menu item "Dark<->Normal" in menu "Configure"
- Mouse cursor now jumps to default button if this is enabled in Control Panel under "Mouse"
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 8-13:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 7:

- Show up to 3 connected USB devices without drive letter (e.g. phones, tablets) also in drive buttonbar
- Always show borders around file lists in dark mode
- Support substrings from environment variables, e.g. %variable:~2,3%
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 6:

- Hint colors are now configurable both in normal and dark mode
- Default dark mode background color is now a bit brighter
- Configuration - Options - Color: Show preview (example output) also for Lister, Compare by contents, title bars, hint windows, and dark mode
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 5:

- Dark mode: Show border around file panels when not using the option "Flat user interface"
- Upload from archive directly to FTP: Option to preserve timestamps
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 4:

- Find files: "F2 search in found files" now also searches in previously found folders
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 3:

- Dark mode is now available by default on Windows XP and newer
- Dark mode: Scrollbars in the main file lists are now drawn dark when not scrolling with the mouse
- Three new internal commands to switch dark mode on and off: cm_SwitchDarkmode: on/off, cm_EnableDarkmode: on, cm_DisableDarkmode: off
- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 2:

- Bugfixes

New functions and fixes in Total Commander 9.50 beta 1:

User interface:
- Dark mode, starting with Windows 10 Fall 2018, inofficially also with older Windows versions (ForceDarkModeOptions=1)
- Increased directory history length to 200 (configurable via HistoryLenStored)
- History: Only show directories in which the user performed some operation (configurable). Alt+Shift+Down arrow shows full history
- Drive dropdown list, drive buttonbar: Show "eject" overlay over drive icon for removable drives
- When scrolling through file lists with the keyboard, keep a margin of 4 lines above/below the current position (configurable)
- Directory panels: Show for hard links/soft links to files instead of 0 size
- Ctrl+Q quick view: Show contents of link target instead of lnk file content
- Configuration - Options - Display: New option "Append \" to show folders as Folder\ instead of [Folder]
- Internal associations: Optional: Add extra verbs from ALL matching filters, default "open" only from the first match
- Show "New" submenu also in context menu for [..] entry, to create new file in current directory
- Windows 10, context menu: Menu item "Share" didn't do anything -> handle it internally
- Quick search dialog: Clear search with Ctrl+Y
- Right click on directory tab -> "Recently closed tabs"
- Show location of Total Commander EXE file in about box

File operations:
- Archives: Choose codepage when unpacking files, e.g. to unpack names with cyrillic characters. Show [Auto] or chosen encoding in tab header.
- OneDrive folder: Handle folders appearing as file system links
- F5 copy dialog: Support directory hotlist (Ctrl+D)
- Create CRC checksums: New options to use Unix format, and to always use UTF-8

FTP / File system plugins:
- Transfer from FTP server to FTP server with F5: Option to copy via local PC
- Transfer from/to FTP/FS plugins: Support copy filters like the local file copy function, e.g. *.txt | excludeddir\
- FTP, upload/download with F5 - F2 in background: Support client certificate
- RestrictInterface=6144: Disallow all plugins, or 4096: Only allow plugins with a valid digital signature

Multi-rename tool:

- New placeholder [c] = number of files in list
- New placeholder [S] = file size

Alt+F10 tree:
- Option to use 'Everything' to load the tree
- Combobox to change drive, open with Alt+F1 or Alt+F2

Search:
- Search with 'Everything': Show percent of the search results transferred to Total Commander
- Improved search in Office xml files (e.g. .docx, .ods etc): find accented characters
- Automatically check 'Everything' option when using prefix ev: or ed: in search field
- Option to search in search results only
- View previous search results

Lister (F3):
- Define which view method and plugin should be used when opened, separately by file type, e.g. all jpg files with internal image viewer
- Press '8' to show preview as the Explorer (uses IPreviewHandler or IThumbnailProvider if the former isn't available)
- Support printing of JPG/PNG/GIF in Lister with internal image viewer

Compare by content:
- Set color for underlined search results

Synchronize dirs:
- Use Ctrl+PageUp/PageDown to jump to next/previous directory

Internal commands:
- New internal commands with parameters: LOADSELECTION, SAVESELECTION, SAVEDETAILS plus ANSI/Unicode versions
- cm_ModernShare allows to use the new Windows 10 "Share" context menu item directly
- cm_ChangeArchiveEncoding to open the archive encoding popup menu
- cm_MoveTabLeft and cm_MoveTabRight to manually move current tab