Universal Explorer (UE) - a super turbo-charged Windows Explorer File Manager - plus MUCH, MUCH More!!

It is a powerful Windows Explorer file manager software designed to replace the rather restricted features of the standard Windows Explorer File Manager. It is fully featured and offers many advantages to Windows Explorer.

With Universal Explorer, you can manage your files (move/copy/paste/delete) quickly and effectively. Plus, you can also VIEW and EDIT almost any file directly in UE with built-in File Viewer Windows! View and Edit text documents, HTML, a wide range of graphic files, programming source code and more. You can even view Microsoft Word and Excel documents without launching Word or Excel.

Universal Explorer offers a full Archive Manager (Archive Extractor) that allows you to create, view, edit, file and text search, convert and extract compressed files using multiple formats (ace, arc, arj, bh, cab, qz, jar, lha, lzh, rar, tar, zip, zoo). A Make .EXE option is included to turn a compressed file into a self-extracting Windows executable (.exe) file.

In addition, UE comes fully loaded with a wide range of great utility tools: Find Files, Replace Text, Split File, Encrypt/Decrypt, Disk Copy, Directory Size, Directory Printer, Directory Compare, Set Properties, Batch Rename, Slide Show, Thumbview, Screen Ruler, Screen Capture, Calendar, Calculator, Ascii List, Color List, System Information and Hex Window.

Overview

With Universal Explorer, you can manage your files (move/copy/paste/delete) quickly and effectively. Plus, you can also VIEW and EDIT almost any file directly in UE with built-in file viewer windows! View and Edit text documents, HTML, a wide range of graphic files, programming source code and more. You can even view Microsoft Word and Excel documents without launching Word or Excel.

Using File Manager

Universal Explorer is identical in appearance and functions to Windows Explorer. Universal Explorer allows you to move, copy, rename, and delete files. The major difference between Windows Explorer and Universal Explorer is that when you left-click on any individual file, that file will be opened into a Viewer/Editing window directly within the UE program. You can assign any file extension to specific types of Viewing/Editing windows (Text, Browser, Graphic, Source Code, Binary/Hex, or Word or Excel Viewers).

One of the great features in the UE File Manager system is the ability to display Split Screens by "View - Double Panel" menu command. This is similar to opening multiple instances of Windows Explorer - except in UE, both File Manager windows open in the same screen - one above the other. This allows you to quickly manage your files when working with different drives or directories. The UE File Manager system fully supports Windows networks giving you access to your local drives along with all network drives.

Using File Viewer

What sets Universal Explorer apart from the standard Windows Explorer (besides the dozens of extra tools and special features) - is the ability to View and Edit almost any file on your system or network without having to launch the file's native application. In other words, if you are trying to find a specific text file you created - with Windows Explorer you would have to open each possible text file into Notepad or Wordpad - look at it and then repeat the procedure again and again until you found the desired file. If you wanted to quickly find a specific Word or Excel document - you would have to open Word or Excel and then open each possible file. Click on a graphic file in Windows Explorer and your designated graphics program will launch. NOT ANY LONGER!