SE-Explorer is a freeware portable file manager for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 which can be used as alternative to Windows Explorer

Windows Explorer

This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface...

. It is sharply different from FAR Manager

FAR Manager

FAR Manager is an orthodox file manager for Microsoft Windows and a clone of Norton Commander...

 and Norton Commander

Norton Commander

Norton Commander was a prototypical orthodox file manager , written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing . NC is a file manager which provides a text user interface on top of DOS. It was officially produced by Symantec between 1986 and 1998...

 because it is GUI based application with tabbed interface which made it possible to manipulate more than one directory or file view at the time and it has both types of file managers: orthodox two-panelled manager with two file windows side by side and native explorer

Windows Explorer

This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface...

 emulator.

The application key features are:

• Clear tabbed interface
• Different file browsers: dual panel, classic windows explorer, command prompt
• Enhanced file search function and embedded size scanner
• Media player for audio and video files: MP3
  MP3
  MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
  
  , WAV
  WAV
  Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...
  
  , AVI
  Audio Video Interleave
  Audio Video Interleave , known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback...
  
  , MPEG, WMV, SWF
  SWF
  SWF is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.,...
  
  , MOV, etc.
• Picture viewer which supports most popular image file formats
• Archive explorer for ZIP
  ZIP (file format)
  Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is...
  
  , RAR, ISO
  ISO image
  An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system...
  
  , 7Z
  7z
  7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public...
  
  , MSI
  Windows Installer
  The Windows Installer is a software component used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software on modern Microsoft Windows systems...
  
  , CAB
  Cabinet (file format)
  In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. It supports compression and digital signing, and is used in a variety of Microsoft installation engines: Setup API, Device Installer, AdvPack and Windows Installer.Though Cabinet was originally called Diamond, its .CAB...
  
  , etc.
• Resource view for executable files and icon libraries
• PDF, DjVu
  DjVu
  DjVu is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, and photographs. It uses technologies such as image layer separation of text and background/images, progressive loading, arithmetic coding, and lossy...
  
  , DOC
  DOC (computing)
  In computing, DOC or doc is a filename extension for word processing documents; most commonly for Microsoft Word. Historically, the extension was used for documentation in plain-text format, particularly of programs or computer hardware, on a wide range of operating systems...
  
  , WRI
  Windows Write
  Microsoft Write is a basic word processor that came with Microsoft Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, and the Windows 3.x series. Throughout its lifespan it was minimally updated, and is comparable to early versions of MacWrite...
  
  , Html Help and RTF document view
• Text viewer with syntax highlighting
• Folder comparison
• Text file compare
  File comparison
  File comparison in computing compares the contents of computer files, finding their common contents and their differences. The result of the comparison may be presented in a graphic user interface or as part of larger tasks in networks, file systems, or revision control.Some widely-used file...
  
   (difference)
• Hex viewer for binary files
• Dll Inspector with resources/dependencies
  Dependency walker
  Dependency Walker or depends.exe is a free program for Microsoft Windows used to list the imported and exported functions of a portable executable file. It also displays a recursive tree of all the dependencies of the executable file...
  
  /objects views for executable files
• Web Browser for web and email files
• TrueType TTF
  TrueType
  TrueType is an outline font standard originally developed by Apple Computer in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe's Type 1 fonts used in PostScript...
  
   font files view
• XML structure view

The application is written in .NET, so the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

 is required.

Main executable file can be easily copied onto USB flash drive and used as a portable application

Portable application

A portable application , sometimes also called standalone, is a computer software program designed to run independently from an operating system...

.

Licensing

SE-Explorer is a freeware

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

 and requires no registration or activation. You can download and use it for your own needs for free.

History

The first version of SE-Explorer was uploaded to the site in 20 June 2008. At present the latest version is 1.31.1.610 which now has "Folder Comparison" feature.

See also

• SE-Explorer home page
• File managers
• Comparison of file managers
  Comparison of file managers
  The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable file managers.-General information:Basic general information about the managers: creator/company etc.-Cross-platform file managers:...