FTP Desktop lets you access FTP sites as if they were folders on your computer. FTP Desktop turns Windows Explorer into a full-featured FTP client. Add and remove FTP sites. Change FTP site settings. View/edit remote files without having to download them first. Automatically upload changes after you close an editor. It supports background file transfers (initiate a file transfer and continue browsing), and batch uploads and downloads. It lets you change permissions on UNIX servers in the file properties dialog. It lets you drag and drop an FTP link from a Web browser to an FTP site manager.

The program resumes broken downloads and uploads. It has passive mode support, configurable for individual sites. It lets you issue custom FTP commands, lets you specify user-defined FTP commands to automatically send after logon, supports site-to-site file transfers, sends keep-alives to prevent connection timeouts (can be turned off), and features configurable cache for directory listings and files, and proxy/firewall support. It can show hidden files on a remote server, and has the ability to preserve server file time on downloaded files.