It is a powerful Windows Explorer replacement designed to replace the rather restricted features of the standard Windows Explorer file management program. It is fully featured and offers many advantages to Windows Explorer.With Universal Explorer, you can manage your files (move/copy/paste/delete) quickly and effectively. Plus, you can also VIEW and EDIT almost any file directly in UE without launching the files native application!  View and Edit text documents, HTML, a wide range of graphic files, programming source code and more. You can even view Microsoft Word and Excel documents without launching Word or Excel.

Universal Explorer offers a full Archive Manager that allows you to create, view, edit, file and text search, convert and extract compressed files using multiple formats (bh, cab, qz, jar, lha,lzh, tar, zip, zoo). A Make .EXE option is included to turn a compressed file into a self-extracitng Window's executable (.exe) file.In addition, UE comes fully loaded with a wide range of great utility tools: Find Files, Replace Text, Split File, Encrypt/Decrypt, Disk Copy, Directory Size, Directory Printer, Directory Compare, Set Properties, Batch Rename, Slide Show, Thumbview, Screen Capture, Calculator, Ascii List, ColorList, System Information and Hex Window.