The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file managers. Please see the individual products articles for further information.

=General information=

Basic general information about the managers: creator/company etc.

=Operating system support=

The operating systems the file managers can run on without emulation.

=Manager views=

Information about what common file manager views are implemented natively (without third-party add-ons).

=Network protocols=

Information on what networking protocols the file managers support.

NFS support in Windows Explorer requires installation of Services for UNIX.

=Basic features=

Information on what basic file features the file managers support.

The encryption feature in Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Server 2003 is in fact a user transparent filesystem-level encryption feature. Explorer merely enables or disables it.

=Search features=

Information on what file searching features the file managers support.

= See also =