Christian Ghisler heeft na drie bètareleases nu de eerste release candidate van versie 7.55 van Total Commander uitgebracht. Dit programma kan als vervanging voor Windows Verkenner worden gebruikt. Doordat het beeld in tweeën is gesplitst, is het eenvoudig om bestanden te kopiëren, maar het programma kan veel meer. Zo zijn er diverse manieren om bestanden aan te passen, zijn er een ingebouwde ftp-client en een multi-renametool aanwezig en is er ondersteuning voor een groot aantal compressieformaten. Verder kan de functionaliteit met plug-ins worden uitgebreid.
Nieuw in versie 7.55 is onder andere de mogelijkheid om opties mee te geven voordat het kopieerproces begint. Verder kunnen bestanden tussen twee computers via een speciale usb-kabel worden uitgewisseld en zijn diverse verbeteringen aan het ftp-gedeelte aangebracht. Verder kunnen er nu veel meer processen in de achtergrond worden uitgevoerd. Hierdoor blijft het hoofdprogramma beschikbaar voor andere zaken en kunnen archiefbestanden nu ook in virtuele mappen worden geopend. Sinds de derde publieke bèta zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
Added:Fixed:
- Correctly install and uninstall 64-bit cglptnt.sys (to be added later)
- Use optimized MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 functions from DCPcrypt Cryptographic Component Library v2, Copyright (c) 1999-2003 David Barton (MIT license)
- Check SHA256 checksum files (creation isn't currently supported)
- New method to install key via clipboard (may be used when TC 7.55 is more common)
- Store key also in registry (binary value "key" under Total Commander key) - must be set via keypath=$ in wincmd.ini
- wincmd.ini [Configuration] SyncWarnErrors=1 controls when the user is warned about dir access errors: 0=never, 1=only when access fails (e.g. network connection loss), 2=when access is denied, 3=both
A list of additions and corrections, also for previous versions, can be found here.
- Port connection to other PC (LPT or USB): Server could crash when there were too many files with extra-long names in the visited directory
- Synchronize dirs with FTP: Show error if "change directory" to given path on server fails
- cglptnt.sys was not working when there are gaps between LPT ports, e.g. LPT1+LPT3 or just LPT3
- Parallel port connection had stopped working between beta 7 and 8
- More crashes when viewing files with F3 from archives and closing the viewer
- FTP: Handling of Abort command during downloads especially with UTF-8
- Compare by content, edit, click on "Compare", write fails, user chooses other name in write-protected dir -> changes are lost
- Copy in background transfer manager: Dialog very unresponsive when using low speed limit for copying
- Copy in background transfer manager: Aborting operation with 'x' button not working when using speed limit
- Breadcrumb bar dropdown button remained visible after Ctr+T or Ctrl+W if this caused the tab panel to appear/disappear/change height
- Synchronize dirs with ZIP archive: Empty directories could not be deleted if comparison was started in a subdirectory of the zip
- Synchronize dirs with RAR archive not working correctly if the archive contained stored directories with no trailing slash or backslash
- Crash when searching with options "Unicode" and "Whole words" for text "edit\n"
- Windows could go to sleep while file operations were active -> use SetThreadExecutionState if available to keep Windows running
- Scrolling of WMF files, centering and fit to window if the file contains size information
- Crash when typing text in command line when packaged with Vmware ThinApp. Reason: auto-complete and auto-append (problem with thread local storage)
- "Copy NTFS permissions" not working for subdirectories in protected directories (via tcmadmin.exe)
- Abort text search if search length too big (>255 bytes)
- Lister crashes when trying to search for very long hexadecimal string
- Show progress bar also when moving files within the same drive
- Don't show second copy progress bar when "Count marked before copying" isn't checked
- Option SyncHideHiddenSystem: Value '4' was implemented incorrectly (reversed)
- When a file is renamed from *.zip to *.exe, don't ask to convert to self-extracting archive if it already is a program file (start with MZ)
- Right click context menu: Call IContextMenu3.HandleMenuMsg2 instead of IContextMenu2.HandleMenuMsg if available
- Right click context menu: Show properties dialog at the location of the menu, not a random location
- Right click with shift, choose "Run as" -> same problem as with cm_OpenAsUser
- Command cm_OpenAsUser didn't pass current dir to starting program. Contrary to the documentation, the current dir was then %windir%\system32
- Wrong tab order in "Verify checksums" dialog
- Synchronize dirs: Failed to create new directories in directories where writing was denied (e.g. Windows directory)
- Synchronize dirs: User wasn't warned if reading from a directory failed or was denied
- Multi-rename tool, function "Load names from file": UTF-8 (with BOM) not handled correctly
- Multi-rename tool, function "Edit names": Store name with extension .txt, because notepad will otherwise store it as .tmp.txt when using "save as" (the user still needs to save the file to the correct directory)

Total Commander 7.55 bèta 1 screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.