

But for me, the biggest negative is that you still must use the Windows Explorer search function in order to search for any files.

This can make for an extremely frustrating experience while using it, because many of the options (those that are made unavailable) are not clearly labeled as such. Often time's free versions of software are independent of their paid upgrade, however Xplorer2 Lite is simply Xplorer2 with more than just a few of the far more useful options turned off. Three other man features of the Xplorer2 Professional version not present in the lite version are advanced search (Omni-Finder), full Unicode support and robust transfer. For example: As opposed to the professional version this lesser version basically lacks customizability and any "search command." Additionally, Check Duplicates and Compare Subfolders functions are disabled in the 'free' lite version. However, I gradually became disenchanted that the more advanced features are restricted to the Pro version. I actually used Xplorer2 (as well as its predecessor: 2圎xplorer) "Lite" version a dual-pane file manager for Microsoft Windows operating systems, for several years and enjoyed it very much as an alternative to Windows Explorer.
