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Look at this adorable little chap, thinking Norton Commander even comes close to Xtree Gold, I just wanna rub your nose and pinch your cheek.

http://www.ztree.com/ my good man, http://www.ztree.com/

Look at this adorable little chap, thinking Norton Commander even comes close to Xtree Gold, I just wanna rub your nose and pinch your cheek.

http://www.ztree.com/ my good man, http://www.ztree.com/

--Xtree Pro Gold was Teh Unbeatable file manager for DOS back in the day. For modern equipment, Midnight Commander does the job reasonably well (safest way to delete files, for one thing.) MC is also available for Cygwin.

For the true diehards, see here:

http://www.ztree.com/

ZTree is a Win32 console mode clone.

Go Get ZTREE.
http://ztree.com/

No need for searching with bloated crap.
Turn off and remove your *indexing* services
Turn off and remove your *windows update* *wsus* services

net (service) stop
sc (delete) service (EXTREMELY DRASTIC, but effective)

I'd even argue that ztree can be used as anti-virus by the adept.
example: taskmanager | find high cpu service or unknown process | track down (search/google) the filename | fire up ztree | (v)iew the filename | (F9) search for other filenames, .dll's, http, ftp etc. | (d)elete the files and block the IP's | ALT-(g)raft, ALT-(p)rune, (d)elete, or (m)ove the crap for analysis

Of course you could just have terabytes of data indexed by allowing annoying services run instead.
Or you could have blazing fast control of your file system.
You could automatically update windows, and get unscheduled problems.
Or you could manually update windows at technet.

It takes some getting used to ztree, but xtree users are at home.

Also please support Kim (a really nice guy), and actually buy the program.
It kicks ass and pays for him to keep pumping out betas!

I ain't going to tell you what to do with your microsoft boxes. Your an adult. Run your box like a tard if you want.
If you can use linux (midnight commander is similar to ztree), use it, but if you have to use windows (and there ARE reasons), analyze, learn, and protect it.

This will probably teach you to better manage your data anyway.
MyDocuments folder (What a joke), look at an ftp site and see how they create directories and classify things. It will save you time with GIGS of data for backup if you managed your data properly in the first place. Why would you need to search for? Everything is listed alpha-numerically. Why does explorer need to load every damn file for?

Now you have no more excuses, and no more hidden files.
Just a giant pile of firefox/SCRAPBOOK pages, and the tools to fix any problem yourself.

Wrong! I have the 3.0 version running with XP Pro. Of course long file names are not supported. Mapped drives however, do work.

The windows version is called ZTree.
http://www.ztree.com/

It still comes in handy for viewing old file formats.

It is usable still.

If you're new to Windows, you're used to an honest filesystem that isn't actively trying to hide things from you and take control away from you. Ztree for Windows gives you back some of that control and transparency.(Ob.Disclaimer: no connection other than having bought and used it.)

Back in the DOS days, there was Xtree, XtreePro and then XtreeGold from Executive Systems. This was a character-mode file-manager/navigator-plus-toolbox. Symantec bought it and promptly took it off the market. Today, XtreeGold is memorialized at the Xtree Fan Page; go there to get a feel for the program. The original Xtree programs are now quite dated -- they can't handle FAT32, much less NTFS.

ZtreeWin is a clean reimplementation of XtreePro (actually by now it's most of the way from XtreePro to XtreeGold in that development effort) for Win32. It's shareware (but, hey, it's for Windows, where, FLOSS aside, it's rare that you're not expected to pay for every little thing). In my time using it on Windows (I'm pretty much solely on Linux now), I got quite pleased with how much Windows didn't get in my way because I used it; I considered it indispensable.

Yea, Though I compute through the user interface of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for ZTree is with me.

No joke - ZTree is a character for character re-write of an old utility called XTree Gold v2.0 or 2.5 - and it is by far the most effective and influential interface between me and my data. The entire file system is but an extension of my mental processes, and I can slice and dice through the multi-dimensional (time, space, attributes, multi-layered directory structure, multi-drive architecture,) in effect creating a virtual directory within which I control the parameters driving what is listed, in what order - then copy, view, move, delete, diff (file compare), view in hex mode (and edit it in hex mode), search for text in lists of files, compare directory trees for like or different files (binary, time stamp, etc.)

It is totally CUI, about like Midnight commander but a ton better. Take time to get fluent in ZTree (UnixTree for Unix / Linux, a bit older with a few quirks, but still pretty damn good) and you will be like the guys in the Matrix sitting at their green screen terminals.

ZTree Don't leave $HOME without it.

ZTree

That's the one you are looking for - character based user interface using Win32 API for file manipulation. It is a shareware release of XTreeGold from the early 90's with a cult following dating back to about 1986. It won just about every user interface award known to man until it got dropped in about 1995.

Basically it recursively reads your entire drive (or a subset) and all the directories, gets the file names, sizes, attributes (RASH), dates, and directory structure, presents it in a multi-box character based user interface, and allows you to slice and dice your fileset using filters to only see the files you are interested in, and either walk up and down the tree using the arrow keys, move in and around files in a single directory, or treat branches of the tree (or the entire drive) as if all the files were in a single directory. Originally the program was written as an easy way to copy, delete, view, edit, move files, create and delete directories in the DOS world, but it grew over time into what it is today. One of the best 'side effects' of how it works is heuristic searching for file(s) when you know absolutely nothing firm about what you are looking for, but you would recognise it when you saw it (ie, a file you last edited sometime around Christmas, either a .doc or a .txt file, and it contains the word 'fragment' in the body of the text, and it is somewhere on your hard drive or one of your network drives.

XTree users might care to check out the xtree clone ZTBold and ZTreeWin