This is technically a third-party application, which is the free version of Universal Viewer (made by UVviewsoft).

Unreal Commander has an internal viewer that you can use to open text, Microsoft Office Documents, PDFs, Images, and Videos. Refer to the help section to access the complete list of shortcuts supported by the program. Select the edit option to quickly open the file in Notepad. There are a few shortcuts displayed at the bottom (again, similar to Total Commander) that you can use to copy, move or delete files and folders, or create a new folder. Pick an item from the unreal menu and the column will be added to your new mode.

To view more attributes, click on customize columns, name the mode whatever you want, and select the + button next to Tag. Right click on a column's name to switch to Brief, Full, Comment, or Thumbnail View. The Show Report option displays a log of the operation when it has been completed. You can preserve symbolic links while moving the files. The Copy to dialog offers additional options to replace, skip, rename, overwrite or append all files. You can set folders as favorites using the Hotlist feature.Â Drag and drop files and folders from one pane to the other to copy them. The program remembers the last opened locations, so you don't have to search for these manually.Â There is a 'History' button which helps in navigating to recently visitedÂ directories. The toolbar and menubar contain many tools, which we'll talk about in a bit. There is a drive bar at the top of each pane that's useful for jumping between drives. Unreal Commander has a dual pane interface, which makes it easy to navigate between two folders and manage files quickly.

Note: Select the Portable Mode option during the installation process, if you want to use the program from a USB drive. Though not open source, it is a similar free file manager for Windows and has a lot more options.

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