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{{Short description|Discontinued orthodox file manager software}}
{{About|the software package|the motorcycle of the same name|Norton Commander (motorcycle)}}
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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Norton Commander
| screenshot             = Norton Commander 5.51.png
| caption                = Norton Commander v.5.51 for DOS. Note the long file names present when running on Windows.
| author                 = [[John Socha]]
| developer              = 
| programming language   = C, assembly
| released               = {{start date and age|1986}}
| latest release version = 5.51
| latest release date    = {{start date and age|1998|07|01|df=yes}}
| operating system       = [[MS-DOS]]
| discontinued           = yes
| genre                  = [[File manager]]
| license                = [[Commercial software|Commercial]] [[proprietary software]]
}}

'''Norton Commander''' ('''NC''') is a discontinued prototypical [[orthodox file manager]] (OFM), written by [[John Socha]] and released by [[Peter Norton Computing]] (later acquired in 1990 by the [[NortonLifeLock|Symantec]] corporation). NC provides a [[text-based user interface]] for managing files on top of [[MS-DOS]]. It was officially produced between 1986 and 1998. The last MS-DOS version of Norton Commander, 5.51, was released on July 1, 1998.

A related product, ''Norton Desktop'', a graphical [[Shell (computing)|shell]] for MS-DOS and Windows, succeeded Norton Commander. It came in two variants, ''Norton Desktop for DOS'' and ''Norton Desktop for Windows''.