Total Commander 7.56a 32 bit for Windows 95/98/ME/NT3.51/NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista/7
(Version 6.5x 16 bit for Windows 3.1 can be downloaded from www.ghisler.com)

To install Total Commander, just run install.exe

If you have installed a previous version of Total Commander or Wincmd (old
name), you can install the new version to the same directory without removing
the previous version. You can remove an old wincmd version AFTERWARDS with
tcuninst.exe.

What is Total Commander?

Total Commander (former Wincmd) is a file manager for Windows, a tool like the
Explorer or file manager, which comes with windows. But Total Commander uses a
different approach: it has two fixed windows, which makes copying files much
easier.

Total Commander is shareware. The shareware version is freely distributable, 
as long as it is unchanged!

Here some key features of Total Commander:

- Long filename support (up to 1022 characters on NT-based systems)
- FTP client to transfer files over the Internet
- Direct access to Network Neighborhood (without mounting a drive)
- Directory history list, supports 'go back' and 'go forward'
- Directory hotlist (configurable bookmark menu) - CTRL+D
- Split/Combine big files
- Encode/Decode files in UUE, XXE and MIME format
- New flat look (old 3d look configurable)
- Supports Drag & Drop with the mouse
- Drag&drop from and to explorer and the desktop.
- Extended copying, moving, renaming and deleting of entire trees.
- Compare files by content
- Copy and pack in the background (separate thread)
- Synchronize two directories or a ZIP archive and a directory
- Bitmap viewer in lister
- Print in lister
- Restore selection with NUM /
- Archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files
  to and from archives. The appropriate archiver program is automatically
  called. ZIP packer/unpacker built-in.
- Internal unpacker for ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, CAB, RAR and ACE. Plugins are
  available on www.ghisler.com
- Start menu (User-defined commands).
- Configurable button bar.
- Command line for the simple starting of programs with parameters.
- Enhanced search function with full text search even inside archives.
- File search for duplicate files
- Built in file viewer (F3) to view files of ANY SIZE in hex, binary or text
  format, using either the ASCII- (DOS) or the ANSI- (Windows) character set.
- Internal ZIP packer.
- Copy files directly from one archive to another
- Direct cable connection through the parallel port
- Powerful multi-rename tool
- Print directories, subdirectories and whole trees
- Background transfer manager for long operations
- Unicode support in most functions
- Support for file names of up to 1022 characters length

Removing Total Commander: Double click tcuninst.exe !

Installation BY HAND: Just copy the files to a directory on your hard disk.
Unpack the file install.cab with a cab unpacker (like CABVIEW from Microsoft)
to an empty dir, like c:\totalcmd . Then move all files with the extension
.pif into the Windows directory. They let external packers run in a DOS window
instead of full screen. Files in subdir e\ need to be moved to the dir where
totalcmd.exe is.

Removal by hand: If you remove the program (totalcmd dir), also delete the
files wincmd.ini, wcx_ftp.ini and noclose.pif in your Windows directory!

Christian Ghisler      e-mail: support@ghisler.com
Ghisler Software GmbH  WWW: http://www.ghisler.com