Nostalgia Commander

A file manager for people who never quite got over 1989.

Free

Nostalgia Commander for Windows

Version 0.1.3, for Windows 11 on 64-bit Intel and AMD processors. It takes 23 MB of disk.

Zip archive

NostalgiaCommander-0.1.3.zip

9.9 MB · unpack and run · signed program

The same program in a folder you put wherever you like. Nothing is installed and no administrator rights are needed.

Download .zip

Both are signed by Bishop Certainty Ltd. If Windows asks whether to run something you downloaded, that is the publisher it should name.

Installing

Open the .msi and the setup takes five steps:

The setup's welcome page
1 Welcome. Click Next.
The licence agreement
2 The licence. Tick to accept it, then Next.
Choosing the destination folder
3 Where it goes: Program Files, unless you Change… it. Untick the box if you don't want a desktop shortcut.
Ready to install
4 Click Install. Windows asks for administrator permission here.
Setup complete
5 Done. Nostalgia Commander is in Start.

A newer installer replaces the copy already there, so there is no need to uninstall first. To remove it, use Settings ▸ Apps ▸ Installed apps.

Using the zip instead

  1. In File Explorer, right-click the zip and choose Extract All….
    Extract All in the zip's right-click menu
    Extract All, on the zip's right-click menu.
  2. The zip already holds a folder named after itself, so the destination Windows suggests would put one inside the other. Change it to the folder that should contain Nostalgia Commander, such as C:\Tools. Program Files would need administrator rights; a folder of your own does not.
    The destination Windows suggests
    What Windows suggests: a folder named after the zip.
    The destination changed to C:\Tools
    Changed to the folder that will hold it. Then Extract.
  3. Open NostalgiaCommander-0.1.3\bin and double-click NostalgiaCommander.exe. Keep the three DLLs beside it: it loads them from there.
    The bin folder: the program and its three DLLs
    The bin folder, unpacked.
  4. To start it from Start, right-click NostalgiaCommander.exe and choose Pin to Start.
  5. To remove it, quit it and delete the folder.
NostalgiaCommander-0.1.3\
bin\
NostalgiaCommander.exethe program
libwim-15.dllreads WIM and ESD images
udfread.dllreads UDF disc images
WebView2Loader.dllthe PDF and web page viewers
licenses\the licence of everything above

Your settings

Either way, Nostalgia Commander keeps its settings in %APPDATA%\NostalgiaCommander. Removing the program leaves them there for next time; delete that folder too to remove everything.