Productivity Tools on PC (3)

19 Aug 2013 Category: Productivity

I found Total Commander was used by almost everyone in our company when I got on board. Because we have to work among several different scripts with different directories in our daily work. I fell in love with Total Commander soon after I tried it. And thanks to my firm, I can use an authorized one.

All the configurations are stored in a file names as “wincmd.ini” under directory Application Data.

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F2 to rename

There has already been lots of defaul shortcusts in Total Commander.

Some work in Firefox way, e.g. Ctrl + T to open new tab, Ctrl + W to close current tab, etc.
Some are quite convenient, e.g. F5 to copy, F6 to move, F7 to create new folder, etc.

But I still cannot get used to a few of them.

For example, by default, we cannot press F2 to rename file or folder. You just need to add below lines in “wincmd.ini”.

[Shortcuts]
F2=cm_RenameOnly

Enable right button of mouse

You might be pissed of by some of the default configurations of Total Commander. For instance, right button of mouse is disable by default. You cannot use it to select file/check properties like the way in Windows Explorer, etc. I don’t know the intension of author for disabling right button (maybe he wishes all operations should be executed by keyboard shortcuts :-)). But sometimes I really need it, especially when I want to compare some files via Beyond Compare.

So just copy this line in [Configuration] part of “wincmd.ini”.

UseRightButton=0

Drives list

Drives are listed as drop-down list by default which is not convenient when I try to select different hard drives. Instead, I like all of them being displayed in the upper part of Total Commander. Then I could choose any drive with only one click.

Add [Layout] in “wincmd.ini” as followings:

[layout]
DriveBar1=1
DriveBar2=1

You will see the change as below picture:

TotalCMD driverlist

Using Specific Configuration File

As mentioned, all the settings are stored in “wincmd.ini” file. So you could over-write this file in Application Data by your own configuration file.

Just in case you want to keep the default file still, you could open Total Commander in Command:

> C:\Program Files\TOTALCMD.EXE i="d:\Dropbox\wincmd.ini"

Then you could store your Total Commander configuration file in Dropbox and bring it anywhere.

But you may be tired of open Command and type so many letters. You could turn to AutoHotKey for quick opening.

^!q::
Run, "C:\Program Files\TOTALCMD.EXE" "/i="d:\Dropbox\wincmd.ini""
return

Press Ctrl + Alt + q. And you could launch Total Commander with your own “wincmd.ini” like a charm.

See, this is the second time I integrated my tools together: Total Commander, Dropbox and AutoHotKey.

Others Configurations

You might want to change the colore for selected files from red to others. Or some other configurations.

Please refer to my configuration file as below for details.

[Configuration]
StartupScreen=0
firstmnu=1591
PanelsVertical=0
test=33
SoundDelay=-10
FirstTimeUnpack=0
ShowCentury=1
Aligned extension=0
SizeStyle=1
SizeFooter=1
DirTabOptions=824
DirTabLimit=32
onlyonce=1
TrayIcon=0
UseRightButton=0
Savepath=1
Savepanels=1
MarkDirectories=1
AltSearch=2
SaveCommands=1
CountSpace=1
CountMarked=1
1hourdif=0
CopyComments=6
ShowHiddenSystem=0
UseLongNames=1
Small83Names=0
OldStyleTree=0
autotreechange=0
ShowParentDirInRoot=0
IconOverlays=0
Showicons=2
ShowEXEandLNKicons=2
SortDirsByName=0
Tips=3
IconsOnNet=1
FileTipWindows=1
Win32TipWindows=0
ThumbsLocation=%$LOCAL_APPDATA%\GHISLER
ThumbsCopyDel=1
ThumbsCustomFieldsEnabled=1
ThumbOptions=15
ThumbExplTypes=*.* | *.htm *.html
ThumbPlgTypes=*.*
ThumbIrfXnTypes=*.*
ThumbTxtTypes=*.txt *.ini
FirstTimeZIP=0
ExplorerForCopy=0
Win95Delete=0
UseTrash=1
InstallDir=D:\Software\Utilities\totalcmd
AlwaysToRoot=0
SingleClickStart=0
RenameSelOnlyName=0
SaveHistory=1
SeparateTree=0
DirBrackets=1
SortUpper=0
QuickSearchAutoFilter=1
[left]
path=D:\
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=0
[right]
path=D:\
ShowAllDetails=1
SpecialView=0
show=1
sortorder=0
negative Sortorder=1
[Command line history]
[1280x800 (8x16)]
TreeDlgX=434
TreeDlgY=201
TreeDlgDX=411
TreeDlgDY=397
TreeDlgMax=0
Tabstops=278,281,339,-1,736,93
MenuChangeX=160
MenuChangeY=120
MenuChangeDX=960
MenuChangeDY=560
MenuChangeMax=1
ConnectX=397
ConnectY=215
ConnectDX=485
ConnectDY=370
ConnectMax=0
[Confirmation]
deleteDirs=1
OverwriteFiles=1
OverwriteReadonly=1
OverwriteHidSys=1
MouseActions=1
[Shortcuts]
F2=cm_RenameOnly
C+A+e=em_everything
[Layout]
ButtonBar=1
DriveBar1=1
DriveBar2=1
DriveBarFlat=1
InterfaceFlat=1
DriveCombo=1
DirectoryTabs=1
CurDir=1
TabHeader=1
StatusBar=1
CmdLine=1
KeyButtons=1
HistoryHotlistButtons=1
XPthemeBg=1
BreadCrumbBar=1
[Lister]
Startup=17
textwidth=81
binwidth=75
SearchGoBack=3
BmpStartup=1
Multimedia=1
RTF=1
IView=0
IViewPath=i_view32.exe
HTMLasText=1
LinkBraces=1
[Colors]
InverseCursor=0
InverseSelection=1
BackColor=-1
ForeColor=-1
MarkColor=8388608
CursorColor=255
CursorText=-1
[Packer]
InternalZip=1
InternalUnzip=1
zipnt=0
ZIP=pkzip.exe
UnZIP=pkunzip.exe
InternalZipRate=6
Zip83Name=0
ZipSetDateToNewest=0
nodelete=0
OpenPartial=0
ZIPlikeDirectory=1
InternalUnarj=1
ARJlongnames=0
InternalUnlzh=1
InternalUnrar=1
InternalUnace=1
LinuxCompatible=1
ARJ=arj.exe
LHA=lha.exe
RAR=rar.exe
UC2=uc.exe
ACE=ace32.exe
[Tabstops]
0=278
1=281
3=339
4=-1
6=736
5=93
AdjustWidth=1
[MkDirHistory]
[1440x900 (8x16)]
CmdSelX=394
CmdSelY=220
CmdSelDX=637
CmdSelDY=371
CmdSelMax=0
ConnectX=477
ConnectY=265
ConnectDX=485
ConnectDY=370
ConnectMax=0
[1440x900 (10x20)]
ConnectX=472
ConnectY=263
ConnectDX=485
ConnectDY=451
ConnectMax=0
MenuChangeX=150
MenuChangeY=150
MenuChangeDX=864
MenuChangeDY=496
MenuChangeMax=0
[1280x800 (10x20)]
MenuChangeX=145
MenuChangeY=25
MenuChangeDX=768
MenuChangeDY=436
MenuChangeMax=0
[DirMenu]
[lefttabs]
[righttabs]
[RightHistory]
[LeftHistory]

Sound/Noise