Xyplorer Keyboard Shortcuts – Useful Shortcut Keys

Xyplorer Shortcuts:

Xyplorer is a file manager software application used to manage the files on a computer. It is a really fast and powerful software. You can easily navigate through files and make other file managing operations. In this article, we are going to explore all the keyboard shortcuts for Xyplorer software, make use of it.

Last updated on Aug 6, 2020.

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File Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
Enter	Used to Open Selected Item
CTRL+Alt+Enter	Open with Option
CTRL+Enter	It is used to Open Focused Item
CTRL+O	Open Option
CTRL+D	Used for Copy Here with Increment
CTRL+Shift+Alt+D	Used to Copy Here with Current Date
CTRL+Shift+D	This shortcut is used to Copy Here with Last Mofified Date
CTRL+S	Copy Here As option
CTRL+Shift+C	Used for Copy Here to New Subfolder
CTRL+Shift+X	It will Move Here to New Subfolder
Del	Used to Delete items
Shift+Del	Delete Option (Deleted items will not be saved in the recycle bin)
CTRL+Del	It is Used to Delete items
F2	Rename option
Shift+F2	Used for Batch Rename
Alt+Enter	It will show Properties
CTRL+Q	It is used for Quick File View
F11	It helps to Foalting Preview
CTRL+Alt+F4	It will Exit Without Saving
Alt+F4	Used to Exit
CTRL+P	It will Copy the Selected Item with Name and Path to the Clipboard
CTRL+Shift+P	It is Used to Copy the Selected item with Name to Clipboard

Edit Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+Z	Undo Option
CTRL+Shift+Z	Redo Option
CTRL+Alt+Z	Action Log helps you to view actions performed by users
CTRL+X	Used to Cut files
CTRL+C	It is used to Copy Files
CTRL+V	Paste
CTRL+Shift+V	Used for Paste Here to New Subfolder
Shift+F7	Move to
CTRL+F7	It enable Copy To option
CTRL+Shift+F7	Used to enable Backup To option
CTRL+Alt+N	It will go to the New Path
CTRL+A	Used to Select All Items that are Currently Listed
CTRL+Shift+A	It will Deselect All Items that are Currently Listed
CTRL+Shift+I	Used for Invert Selection
CTRL+M	Open Selection Filter
CTRL+Alt+M	This shortcut is used to Select Items by Selected Type
CTRL+Shift+M	Used to Select Items
CTRL+Shift+Alt+M	Used to Select All Files
CTRL+F	It is used to Open Find File Tab (if not visible anyway)
CTRL+Alt+F	Enable Find Now option
F3	Used to Quick Search
CTRL+Shift+F3	Used to Toggle Quick Search
Shift+F3	It will Repeat last Quick Search
CTRL+F3	Used to Show All Items in a Branch
CTRL+N	It will Create New Folder
CTRL+Shift+N	Used to Create New Text File

View Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
F5	Used to Refresh
CTRL+Shift+R	It is used for Auto Refresh
CTRL+R	It will Suspend Auto Refresh
F4	Enable Refresh Tree
Shift+F4	Used to Refresh Current Folder
CTRL+Shift+F4	Used to Reset Tree. It will rebuild the folder tree and move to the location where you were before when closing all open branches
CTRL+F5	Used to Refresh the List, and it will update the current list data without modifying the selection and scroll position.
CTRL+Shift+F5	It will Reset the List, and scroll back to the top then unselect any selections.
Shift+F5	Used to Calculate Current Folder Size ( refresh the current file with folder sizes shown)
CTRL+Shift+H	Used to Show or Hidden Files or Folders
CTRL+T	Used to Open New Tab
Alt+Home	Used to Go Home
CTRL+L	Used to Lock Location
CTRL+WorCTRL+F4	It is used to Close Tab
CTRL+Shift+W	Used to Close All Other Unlocked Tabs
CTRL+J	Helps to Set Visual Filter
Shift+Alt+J	Used to Filter By Selection
CTRL+Alt+J	It will Filter By Selected Extensions
CTRL+Shift+Alt+J	Used to Filter Out Selected Extensions
CTRL+Num +	Used to Auto size Columns Now
CTRL+Shift+Num +	It will Grow Name Column
CTRL+Shift+Num +	Used to Shrink Name Column
CTRL+Alt+R	This shortcuts will Sort By Random Order

Go Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
F7	This shortcut is used to Jump to the Previous Location or Tab or Mode
Shift+Alt+F7	It will Go to the Previous Item in the List in the Current File
CTRL+Alt+F7	It will Go to the Last Target
Backspace	Used to move Up
Shift+Backspace	It is used to move Down
CTRL+Backspace	Show Breadcrumb (it is a hierarchy part of a folder)
Alt+←	Move to Back
Alt+→	Move Forward
CTRL+H	Used to show Hotlist
CTRL+Shift+T	It will Show the Tab List
CTRL+G	It will enter or paste the location to jump to
CTRL+Shift+G	Enter or Paste Location to Jump to the Current Path
CTRL+Shift+L	Used to Go to Line, Enter or Paste a Line Number to Jump to
CTRL+Shift+Alt+G	This shortcut is used to Go to the Application Folder

Favorites Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+B	Used to Toggle Favorite Status of Current Folder
CTRL+Shift+B	This shortcut will Toggle Highlighted Status of the Current Folder
CTRL+Alt+B	It is used to Toggle Boxed Branch Status of the Current Folder

Tools Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
F9	Used to Show Configuration Window
Shift+F9	It will Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
CTRL+Shift+F9	Used to Customize Toolbar
Shift+Alt+F9	It is used to Customize File Icons
CTRL+Shift+E	Used to Toggle Age

Panes Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
F10	Enable Dual Pane
CTRL+F10	It will enable Horizontal Panes
CTRL+Alt+F10	Used to Toggle Active Pane
Shift+F6	It is used to Move to Other Pane
CTRL+F6	This shortcut is used to Copy to Other Pane
CTRL+Shift+F6	Used for Backup to Other Pane

Window Menu Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+Shift+F12	Used to Show Address Bar
CTRL+F12	This shortcut will Show Toolbar
F8	Used to Show Navigation Panels
Shift+F8	It will Show Tree
CTRL+F8	Used to Show Catelog
F12	It will Toggle the Info Panel visibility

Help Menu Shortcut:

Shortcut	Function
F1	Used to Display the Xyplorer Help File

Other Shortcuts:

Tree

Shortcut	Function
A–Z	Used to Select the Next Visible Folder Whose Name Starts with the Letter or Number
Num –	It will Collapse Selected Node
Num +	Used to Expand Selected Node
Num /	Used to Collapse Selected Node Fully
Num *	It will Fully Expand Selected Node
CTRL+Num /	It will Collapse entire drive
Shift+Num /	Used to Optimize Tree
Enter	Used to Toggle Collapse or Expand
Backspace	It will Browse to parent Folder
←↑→↓	These arrow keys are common navigation keys
Alt+Enter	Used to Show Properties Dialog of the Focused Items
CTRL+Home	It will Move to the Top Folder of the Current Folder
Shift+Alt+F6	It will Move the Focused Item into View
CTRL+Alt+P	It is used to Open Command Prompt
	It shows 32-bit or 64-bit Context Menu that depends on the settings in configuration
Shift+	It helps to Access 32-bit Context Menu
CTRL+	To Access 32-bit Context Menu

List

Shortcut	Function
A–Z	It is used to Select the Next File Whose Name Starts with the Letter or Number
Backspace	It will Browse to Parent Folder
Del	It will Delete All Currently Selected Files and Store it in the recycle bin
Shift+Del	Used to Delete All Currently Selected Files without storing it in recycle bin
CTRL+←	It is used to Jump to the Currently Focused Files in its Folder
Alt+Enter	It will Open the Properties Dialog of the Focused Item
CTRL+Num +	Used for Auto Size Columns Now
Esc	Used to Abort Running Search and Calculating Folder Size
Shift+Alt+F6	It will Move the Focused Item into View
	It shows 32-bit or 64-bit Context Menu that depends on the settings in configuration or Shell Integration
Shift+	It will Enable 32-bit Context Menu
CTRL+	To use 64-bit Context Menu
Scorllock	When Scroll lock key is enabled (ON), the Up and Down arrow keys scroll the list and keep the current item in the same position

Catelog

If you want to enable this feature, you need to tweak the XYplorer.ini.file.

Set the MindScrollLock Key as 1: MindScrollLock=1

Shortcut	Function
Del	Used to Remove Selected Item from the Catelog
Shift+Del	It will Remove Selected Item from the Catelog
Insert	Used to Add New Item
CTRL+Insert	Used for Duplicate Item
Shift+Alt+F6	Used to Move the Focused Item into View
CTRL+Shift+Enter	It will Open Selected Item using the Clicked Application
CTRL+Shift+Alt+Enter	Used to Show the Catelog Items Location in the Tree, Without selecting the tree

Tabs

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+T	It is Used to Open New Tab
ALT+Home	Used to Go Home
CTRL+WorCTRL+F4	It will Close Current tab
CTRL+Tab	Used to Cycle through Tabs in Forward Direction
CTRL+Shift+Tab	It is also used to cycle through tabs in backward direction
Shift+	Used to Close that Tab

File Find

Shortcut	Function
Enter	Used to start file find when any control on the find files tab is focused
Esc	It will abort a running file find action or folder report process

Audio or Video Preview

Shortcut	Function
Space	Used to Start or Pause Playing
Shift+Space	It will Go to the beginning and stop

Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview

Shortcut	Function
F11	Used to Open current image file in floating preview
Shift+F11	It will open current image file in full screen preview
Shift+F11orEsc	Used to close full screen preview
Page UporShift+Spaceor	Go to previous image
Page DownorSpaceor	Move to the next image
Shift+←↑→↓	Used for pan cropped image
HomeorEnd	Go to the First or Last Image
AorNum +	Used to Fit All
W	Used to Fit Width
H	Used to fit height
I	Used for Zoom to Fill
Oor1orNum /	Used to find original size
Dor2	Used to Double Size
Num +	Zoom In
Num –	Zoom Out
Shift+Num +	Used to fine zoom in
Shift+Num –	Used for fine zoom out
K	Used to Lock Zoom
X	Used to Lock Zoom Position
G	It is used to toggle zoom
Z	This shortcut is used to zoom to fit
V	Used for top-align when vertically cropped
S	Used to show the status bar
M	It is used for mouse down blow up
L	Used to rotate left
R	It is used to rotate right
F	Flipped option
CTRL+Alt+Enter	Open with option
Del	Used to delete file
F2	It is used to rename the file
F5	Used for Refresh
F12	Used to view Full Screen
CTRL+	Go to advanced Options
F11orEsc	It will close floating preview

Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview:

Advanced Options

Shortcut	Function
N	It will navigate by click
M	Used for mouse down blow up
CTRL+M	It is used to shrink to fit(mouse down blow up)
Q	Used for high-quality image resampling
CTRL+T	It is used to open transperancy grid
CTRL+W	Used for white border
B	Used to cycle background color
Shift+B	it is used for cycle background color backward
S	Used to show status bar
P	it will show photo data
T	It will show tag bar
F8	used to run script
CTRL+H	Used to show histogram
CTRL+R	used to color histogram
CTRL+I	Invert option
CTRL+G	Grayscale option
C	Used to copy original
CTRL+C	Used to copy preview

Configuration Dialog

Shortcut	Function
F3	It will jump to setting
F7	Used to jump back and forth between the current and the previous page

Customize Toolbar

Shortcut	Function
Del	Used to remove selected item
Insert	Used to insert selected item
S	It will add separator
Backspace	Used to remove the item right before the currently selected item
F3	Used to focus filter box
F6	Used to switch between the two lists
ALT+V	It will focus left list
ALT+B	It is used to Focus right list

Edit Boxes

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+Aor	Used to select all
CTRL+F	Used to open find text dialog box
F2	Used to select toggle all or nothing
F3	It will find the next occurrence of the search string in the find text dialog box
F3	Used to open find text dialog when there was not any previous search in the edit box
Shift+F3	This shortcut is used to find the previous occurrence of the search string in the find text dialog box
↑	if there is a selection, caret to the start of the selection and unselect otherwise caret to the start of the text
↓	it will allows, if there is a selection, caret to the end of the selection and unselect otherwise caret to the end of the text
F5	This shortcut will convert selected text to title case
Shift+F5	it will convert selected text to Uppercase
CTRL+F5	It will convert selected text to lower case
CTRL+Backspace	Used to delete the previous word

Small Lists

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+ +	This shortcut is used to create a clone of the dragged item in a new position. It works only in the list where you can add new items

Other

Shortcut	Function
Esc	This shortcut is used to stop All processes by pressing Esc
F6	This shortcut will focus in the following sequence Address bar> Tree> List> Catelog
ALT+D	Used to focus address bar
CTRL+↑↓	Used to shift selected items up and down in the list
CTRL+Num /	Used to collapse the current drive and drive root will be automatically selected
Shift	It will open a location you are going to in a new tab
CTRL+Shift	It will open the location you are going to in the inactive pane
ALT+F12	Used to last size or minimize the info panel
ALT+Shift	It is used to maximize or minimize the info panel

Mouse Tricks Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+	Used to zoom font size of buttons and labels over status bar
CTRL+	It is used to zoom font size of main controls

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+	Used to scroll focused item into view on the white space
CTRL+Shift+	Used to scroll to the top on the white space
	it will pop up the favorites context menu
CTRL+	Used to Open in a new background tab
CTRL+Shift+ orShift+	Used to Open in a new tab
Alt+	Used to open in the inactive pane
Shift+Alt+	It will open in the new tab in the inactive pane
	Used to open in new tab
Shift+	Used to scroll horizontally
CTRL+Shift+	Used to increase or decrease the row size
Shift+Alt+	It will increase or decrease indent
	Used to collapse or expand the selected node
CTRL+	Used to fully collapse or expand the selected node on the expansion icon

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+	Used for open in a new background tab
Shift+	It will open in a new tab
CTRL+Alt+	It will open in this tab
	This will open a folder in a new tab
CTRL+Shift+	It will open selected list items using the clicked application
CTRL+Shift+Alt+Enter	It will show the catalog items location in the tree without selecting the tree folder and not displaying its contents in the file
+	Used to move dragged item to a new position
CTRL+ +	Used to copy dragged item to the new position
CTRL+Shift+	Used to increase or decrease row height
	It will select item but do not trigger action
Shortcut	Function
	It will autosize column now on the line numbers column header or on the area to the right of all column headers
CTRL+	Used to scroll focused item into view on the white space
	It will pop the sort by menu on the line numbers column header
	It is used to pop the show columns context menu
Shift+	Used to apply the view to all tabs
	It will open a new tab
Shift+	Used to scroll horizontally
CTRL+Shift+	Used to increase or decrease row height
CTRL+Shift+	Used to browse the folder in the inactive pane
On	This shortcut is used to open the containing folder in the inactive pane and the file is selected
On	It will scroll to top

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+	It will button captions font size
CTRL+Shift+	Used for toolbar zoom

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+Shift+	Used to increase or decrease bar height

Shortcut	Function
	Used for mouse down blow up when mouse button is down
	Used for mouse down blow up, stay up until you hit any key or click it again

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+ +	Used for force copying dragged objects
Shift+ +	it will used for force moving dragged objects

Shortcut	Function
	Used to Scroll through the tabs
	Used to Close Tab
	It is used to Close tab

Tabbed Info Panel

Shortcut	Function
	Used to Toggle Info Panel Minimum or Maximum Size
CTRL+1–9	It is used to select tab 1, 2, 3, etc.

Find Files

Shortcut	Function
CTRL+	Used to toggle search filter On or Off

Image Preview Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
	Used for Mouse down blow up. If the image is larger than the main window move the mouse while holding it down to scroll the image in any direction.
CTRL+	It is used to toggle zoom or original size
	It will pop up the image preview context menu

Audio or Video Preview Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
	It will go to the mouse position
	Used to start or pause playing
Shift+	This shortcut will move to the beginning
Shift+	This will move to the beginning and stop
CTRL+	Used to set start of sub loop
CTRL+	It will set the end of the sub loop
CTRL+ALT+	This shortcut will reset the sub loop

Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview Shortcuts:

Shortcut	Function
	Used to show context menu
CTRL+ + or +	It is used to pan a cropped image
	Used to Close Preview
	Move to the previos image
	Go to the next image
CTRL+	Zoom In
CTRL+	Zoom out
CTRL+Shift+	Used for fine zoom in
CTRL+Shift+	It is used for fine zoom out

Verdict:

In the above article, you can clearly understand all the keyboard shortcuts for Xyplorer. If you feel this article is useful, then leave your feedback in the comment section.