Introduction

• What is Multi Commander
• System Requirements
• Download and Installation
• Upgrading
• License

Overview / Layout

• Main Application Layout
  • Menu Bar
  • Standard Command Bar
  • File Commands
  • Drive Bar
  • Command line Bar
  • Quick Launch Bar
  • Status Bar
• Extensions and Plug-ins
• Favorites
• Button Panel
• Panel Tabs

Panels

• Explorer Panel
  • Layout
    • Path Field
  • Navigation
  • Customize Columns
  • Customize Column Layouts
  • Folder Tree
  • File Coloring
  • Pasting Clipboard Data into Explorer Panel
• File Search

FileSystem

• Multi Commander's Virtual FileSystem
• Archives (Zip, Rar, 7Zip)
• Network (NET:)
• Portable (WPD:)
• Registry (REG:)
• FTP (FTP:)
• Favorites (FAV:)

File Operations

• Copy/Move Operations
  • Copy/Move using Presets
  • Copy/Move using Filters
  • Copy/Move Progress Window
• Delete Operations
• Pack Files
  • Packer Profiles
  • External Packers
• Unpack Files

Extensions

• MultiRename
• File Checksum
  • Create
  • Verify
• MultiDataViewer - The File Viewer 
• Internal Picture Viewer
• Language Editor

Tools

• Select/Unselect files and folders
• Calculate Folder Size
• Change File Properties (Attributes, Date/Time)
• Create Folders
• Correct Folder Date/Time
• Find Opened/Locked Files
• Send to the Clipboard (Path, Filename, ... )
• Rename Tools
• Text Tools
  • Text Conversion Tools
  • Sort Lines in Files
  • Find and Replace in Files
• Base 64 Encoding/Decoding
• File Security
• File Checksum Tools
• Picture Tools
• Audio Tools
• Video Tools

Customization and Configuration

• Managing Aliases (Alias Editor)
• File Type Setup
• Button Editor
  • Button Panel - Wizard Mode
• User Menu Editor
• Keyboard Customization (Shortcuts)
  • Default Keyboard Shortcuts (Commander Style)
  • Default Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows Explorer Style)
• Custom ContexMenu Editor
• Filters

Configuring the Layout

• Core Settings
• Explorer Panel Settings 
• Change Look and Feel to Windows Explorer Mode

User Commands and Scripting

• User Defined Commands
  • Internal Commands
  • External Commands
  • Custom Commands
    • List of Custom Commands
    • Examples
  • Batch Script (.BAT)
  • MultiScript
    • Language Syntax
    • Script Functions
      • Type checks and type converters
      • Array functions
      • String functions
      • RowList functions
      • Date/Time functions
      • File System functions
      • Registry functions
      • Panel Selections and Paths
      • Tab Panel
      • Misc functions (Logging, Load/Save to file, Clipboard, MessageBox, ... )
    • Extension defined MultiScript functions
      • FTP functions
      • Checksum functions
    • MultiScript Debugger
    • Examples
  • MultiTags

Other

• Backup and Restore Configuration
• Cleanup User Data
• MultiUpdate
• Command Line Parameters
• Custom configuration paths, Additional script folders
• Credits and Acknowledgements

API

• Multi Commander Windows Message API

Troubleshooting

• Multi Commander Hangs and is Not Responding
• Multi Commander Crashes

FAQ (pages to follow)

• Favorites
• Show Hidden files/folders
• Customize Colors
• Enter folder on Single Click
• Save and Resize Columns

Index

• Content Index

Quick Launch Bar

The Quick Launch Bar is located after the command line field and the more buttons that are added the shorter the command line field will be.

Here is a list of some of the features of the Quick Launch bar:

• If you drop a file or folder on the Quick Launch bar area, a button for it will be automatically added for it.

• You can rearrange the buttons in the Quick Launch bar by dragging them around.

• If a file is dropped on a program button, that file is sent as a parameter to the program it is dropped on. For example, if you drop a text file on the notepad button, the text file will be opened in notepad.

• If you click on a folder button, that folder will be opened inside Multi Commander.

• If you (left-) click on a program button, that program will be started. If you right-click on it, a menu will be opened that allows you to:

  1. Start it normally
  2. Start it as Administrator (Vista/Win7 +)
  3. Go to the folder containing the program file
  4. Remove the button from the Quick Launch bar
  5. Customize the way the program is opened, or what icon or tooltip to show for it, etc.
  6. Insert a user-defined command button on its left
  7. Insert a separator to its left. (This lets you group Quick Launch buttons.)

Entire Quick Launch Row

To add an entire Quick Launch row, go to Configuration > Core Settings > Application Layout > Toolbars > Quicklaunch bar (Entire row) and click on the checkbox. (Clear the checkbox to remove the extra row.)

You will now have two Quick Launch Bars.

 

Enable/Disable

If the Quick Launch Bar items are unchecked under Core Settings, then they are not created or loaded during startup. But if they are checked in Core Settings, they can still be hidden if Configuration > Core Settings > Application Layout > Toolbars > CommandLine Bar > Quick Launch bar is unchecked.
You should only use that option to temporarily hide them. If you want to permanently remove them, then uncheck them under Core Settings. If they are just hidden they are still using memory resources and are loaded and created during startup. To minimize resource usage, disable them under Core Settings.