New functions in Total Commander 9:

User interface:

• Use icons for folders and drives from Explorer, can be switched to old icons via main settings - icons
• New button bar icons (optional, can be chosen during first start or via right click )
• Vertical button bar (can be disabled via main settings - Layout)
• Extra space between lines in file list (configurable via main settings - Icons)
• Windows 10: Use Windows Photo Viewer instead of Photo app (disable with wincmd.ini [Configuration] ReplacePhotoApp=0)
• View modes, can be switched manually via menu "Show", or automatically by rules
• Show icons on folder tabs depending on the displayed folder
• Rubber band selection mode when using left mouse button selection, disable via settings
• Show up to 3 external devices without drive letter (e.g. Android or Windows Phone) in Alt+F1/F2 drive dropdown list
• Background transfer manager (F5-F2): Show second progress bar with overall progress if available
• Themed text cursor, enable/disable in Configuration - Options - Colors
• Dimmed icons for hidden files/folders (configurable via main settings - Icons)
• Show small green arrow as overlay icon when a folder is open, e.g. in tree or when opening very large folder
• Click on tab header with "locked but directory changed allowed" returns to base directory of that tab
• Better support for high resolution screens
• Default font is now "Segoe UI regular" for new installations
• Set scaling of dialog boxes (OverrideDPI) via main settings - fonts
• Option to show sizes with 1k=1000bytes instead of 1k=1024bytes
• Option to show numbers in TBytes, with 1 or 2 decimal digits

File operations:

• Unicode support for descript.ion files
• Inplace rename: Use up/down arrow to jump to previous/next file (configurable)
• F5 Copy/F6 Move: Show combobox with all open tabs and all subdirectories in the target panel (Shift: Source panel)
• F5 copy: Skip empty dirs by appending |**\ to line "only files of this type"
• Create and verify additional checksum types: SHA224, SHA384, SHA3_224, SHA3_256, SHA3_384, SHA3_512
• Create checksums separately in each directory
• Speed up hash check of MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512 by using Microsoft Crypto API functions
• Delete files directly (not to recycle bin): In case of errors, ask at the end of the entire operation
• Delete files directly: Also offer "Skip all" when a file is missing
• Re-use threads for delete, loading hints and ID-lists
• Disable overwrite confirmation in sync: wincmd.ini [Confirmation] SyncConfirmOverwrite=0

FTPS, HTTPS:

• Support TLS 1.1 and 1.2 with new openssl dlls (optional) or Windows sChannel library
• Use Windows certificate stores "ROOT" and "CA" to verify purchased server certificates
• Always verify certificates now, even when wincmd.pem is missing, since we use the root certs from Internet Explorer now
• Self-signed certs can be trusted with a checkbox in the certificate dialog

Packer:

• ZIP unpacker: Support new compression method XZ (method 95) with updated tcmdlzma.dll and tclzma64.dll
• Support invalid ZIP archives with no CRC in the local header and behind the zip file, e.g. created by owncloud
• Support invalid ZIP archives with UTF-8-encoded names but missing UTF-8 flag (created by Dropbox)

Search function:

• Use "Everything" tool for much faster search on NTFS drives, also on network shares if possible
• Search with content plugins for text on main search page
• Regular expressions supported in more types: Unicode UTF-8+UTF-16, Office XML
• New option "Older than" working just like "Not older than"
• Standalone search: Allow to search in search results (after feed to listbox) and selected files

Compare by content:

• Show only differences, with additional lines above/below the differences, including editing
• Edit mode: triple click now selects entire line

Multi-rename tool:

• New buttons to insert other fields like parent [P]
• Improved range selection dialog
• If there are duplicate names, or names that already exist, offer to auto-rename to "name (2).ext", "name (3).ext" etc.
• Undo now supports multiple undo steps (Undo multiple rename operations).

Lister:

• Ctrl+Shift+Q: Opens Quick View in separate Lister window, updates contents when going to other file
• View files of type RTF, BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, ICO, HTML with internal viewers also in read-protected folders (via DuplicateHandle)
• Use larger buffer sizes to handle longer blocks of text without line breaks

Other operations:

• Double click/ENTER: Follow .url files pointing to directrories within Total Commander. Disable via wincmd.ini
• Manual update check via menu Help - Check for updates now, using DNS lookup (TXT record)
• Automatic update check, can be enabled in manual update check function
• Ctrl+B in search result = Go to directory of file under cursor
• Read virtual folders like the Network Neighborhood asynchronously (faster initial response) and in a background thread
• Directory history: Remember name under cursor and position in list when entering a subdir via double click/Enter
• Content plugins: new content field chooser dialog instead of menu. Also show field preview for file/dir under cursor
• Synchronize dirs: Compare with multi-part ZIP, supports compare by content and view
• Buttonbar, Start menu: New Parameter %C1..%C9, %c1..%c9

Internal commands:

• to focus specific panels, including tree: cm_FocusSrc, cm_FocusTrg, cm_FocusLeftTree etc.
• to select/unselect one or more files: cm_Select, cm_Unselect, cm_Reverse
• to open lister: cm_ListOnly, cm_ListMulti, cm_ListInternalMulti, cm_SeparateQuickView, cm_SeparateQuickInternalOnly
• to save tabs to a specified file: SAVETABS, SAVETABSL, SAVETABSR, SAVETABS2, SAVETABS2L, SAVETABS2R
• cm_wait, accepting wait time in milliseconds, e.g. cm_wait 1000. Can be combined, e.g. em_cmd1,cm_wait 1000,em_cmd2
• cm_100percent accepts parameter 1..100 to set specific position of divider
• Send WM_USER+50 to TC to get various numerical values like index of current file, first file, control window handles etc. (see history.txt)

Installer (of the demo version):

• The Installer now accepts the following options: /AHLMGDUK
  A=Auto install,
  H=Run hidden,
  L=Language number,
  M=Multi-language,
  G=Create group,
  D=Create desktop icon,
  U=Update if target exists,
  K=installs wincmd.key file located in same directory as the installer.
  All options accept parameters 1 or 0, e.g. G0 or G1. L accepts language Nr. from install.inf, e.g. L18=Romanian
• Note: All options MUST be passed as a single parameter after a single slash, not as separate parameters