This is far more than most home users would like to spend on a file manager, so we couldn’t bring ourselves to call it the “best” in this directory, though it is well deserving of your use if you’re willing to throw down the cash. It also can’t replace Windows Explorer in your system, which is a big downside.ĭirectory Opus rivals Xplorer2 in features, boasting things like global hotkeys, a standalone viewer, and a wicked FTP system, but it comes at the very high price of $85.
While these are the most powerful options around, the interface is pretty horrible, and not something you would want to use on a regular basis for regular browsing. The most obvious competitors are Total Commander and the programs based off it, like Unreal Commander. In 1995 XTree Company ended their attempts to produce XTree products.There is a lot of competition in this space. The product was a disaster for XTree Company who had dropped many of the features liked in the DOS versions. The built in Windows file manager had a vaguely similar appearance to XTree, and while it lacked the speed, keyboard shortcuts and power, it did benefit greatly from being included free with Windows. XTree suffered a terminal decline after the widespread usuage of Microsoft Windows. The program also had the benefit of requiring very little memory, essential at a time when less than 640kb of memory were available for programs to run. Even at this point, the speed and features of XTree Gold (specifically support for the ZIP compression format and ability to undelete files). The program filled a required niche in the market, as DOS shipped with no graphical file manager, until the generally unsuccessful DosShell that was provided with MS-DOS 5. Although the user interface was composed of text characters, it had many graphical elements, especially when XTree Gold was released in 1989, and pull-down menus were introduced. It was first released on 1 April 1985 and became highly popular. XTree XTree is file manager software, originally designed for use under DOS.
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