xplorer² lite

Truth is, I've never been a big fan of 3rd party file managers, but a lot of people are. (I'm an old DOS-head and will fire up a command prompt to do a lot of things.) Oh, I've tried them, but I never wind up using them consistently.

An extended file manager is basically Windows Explorer on steroids. It will support dual-pane windows, will often preview files, will allow filtering by whatever you want to filter by, will mass-rename, etc.

I have to say that the best of the (free) lot is xplorer² lite. It has a lot of bells and whistles, is fairly intuitive to use, and does pretty much anything you would want a file manager to do. You can't go wrong here.

http://zabkat.com/x2lite.htm