FreeCommander Forum

Have been using FC for a while and finding it very good. I would though like to suggest the following for future versions:-

1. Extend the Help file to fully cover all aspects of the Settings - for example I could not find anything about the Shell menu.

2. Make the help context sensitive ...

This also works the other way round. I have, for example, a 'main' folder with lots of sub-folders (and no files). I want to sort the sub-folders alphabetically and the files in the sub-folders by date. Checking the View setting to 'Sort directory always name' does this.

However, I would like to be ...

I find the drives bar very useful. I have seven drives and if flash drives are in use this can become ten. To use a dropdown menu for this would need two mouse clicks instead of one each time one needs to change to another drive.

Perhaps an option to change the size of these buttons independently ...

Have been trying out FreeCommander. Looks rather complex at first but benefits by spending time on customising - and there are lots of options for this.

I would though prefer to access the Favorites using a main menu item from the menu bar in the same way as in Windows Explorer (in Win XP). The ...

Thank you for the links to possible solutions.
Using the Unblock in properties did the trick.

Derek Shaw

I am trying out FreeCommander in Windows XP Professional SP2 and have also extracted the help file and copied it to the program folder. The main program works but when I try to use this help it does not open but I get a message

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