The most basic usage I searched for was the two pane file manager; Yes, Norton Commander style.
There are lots of Norton Commander clones out in the wild, the most famous is Total Commander, many of whom are free!
I tried lots of them, and while they do look somewhat alike, they have their differences (of course). The file manager I searched for had to be easy to use, light and most important – be better than the basic file explorer windows supplies us, I wanted a file manager to make my life easier, not to just replace the default windows file manager.
Built in a really smart way – being modular, extendable using plugins
Open sourced
With very easy to use shortcuts – Yes! this makes my work amazingly simpler, using the CTRL+p to find any (cached) folder, or CTRL+SHIFT+P to find anything in the settings
And yes, it has the Norton Commander shortcuts (F5 to copy, etc…)
The only (HUGE) cons I found are:
It feels still as if it is a beta version
No updates in the recent years
The above points are huge cons against this tool, but still even with them it overmatches all of the rest of the file managers.