FoldersPopup

NAME

SYNOPSIS

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

Click the middle mouse button to access your favorite folders within the menu.

For the full comprehensive documentation of FoldersPopup see: http://code.jeanlalonde.ca/#quickstart

Quick start

When you run it, FoldersPopup adds an icon in the System Tray and await your orders. You want to retrieve a document in a frequently used folder?

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In Windows Explorer or in a file dialog box, just click the middle mouse button (MMB).

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In the popup menu, select the desired folder.

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FoldersPopup will take you there this instantly!

Need a new file Explorer window while working in any application or window?

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From any window, hold the Shift key while pressing the MMB.

Or simply click on the FoldersPopup icon in the System Tray.

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In the popup menu, choose the folder to open in the new Explorer window. You're done!

In this menu, choose FoldersPopup Settings to open the FoldersPopup settings window where you can add to your menu all kind of favorites, delete, move or rename them and group your folders in submenus. Click Save to keep your changes.

Main features

All your favorite folders, documents and web pages at your finger tip

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To open the popup menu, press the middle mouse button (MMB) or press Windows-A *over* a file dialog box, a file Explorer window or the desktop to popup your personalized favorites launcher menu:

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The folder you choose in the menu is open in the current Explorer window or file dialog box.

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If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can press it: this is the middle mouse button.

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If your mouse does not have a middle button, you can choose another trigger in the Options dialog box.

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OR...

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Hold the Shift key while pressing the MMB (or press Shift-Windows-A) from *any* window.

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The folder you choose will open in a new File Explorer window.

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In addition to your own favorites, these special menus add more efficient ways to browse your content:

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The My Special folders menu gives an easy access to Desktop, Document, Pictures, Downloads, My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Control Panel and Recycle Bin.

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The Current Folders menu lists the folders currently open in all active Windows Explorer windows.

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The Group of Folders menu allows to save and restore groups of folders at their original state.

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The Recent folders menu lists the recent folders memorized by Windows.

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The Clipboard menu shows the folders, documents, application path or URL saved in your Windows Clipboard.

Manage your personalized popup menu

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Add folders on the fly with the Add This Folder item in the popup menu.

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To edit your menu, choose FoldersPopup Settings in the popup menu or press Shift-Control-S.

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Use the various buttons to add, reorder, remove or edit favorites in the Settings window. The horizontal line button inserts separators in your menu and the vertical line button inserts column breaks to give even more

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room to your menu.

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Move favorites with hotkeys (see hotkeys help under the favorites list), select multiple favorites to move them together.

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Assign custom icons to your favorites in the Add / Edit Favorite window. Pick icons in any .EXE, .DLL or .ICO file (see www.iconverticons.com to create your own icons from PNG or JPG files).

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Drag and drop favorite folders or documents to the Settings window to add them to your menu.

Five types of favorites

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Folder: add your most frequently used local or network directories to reach them in a snap in a Windows Explorer or a file dialog box.

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Special Folder: add Windows system folders from a list of more than 50 special folders, for example: Libraries, Recent items, Recycle Bin, Startup folder, History, Favorites, Quick Launch, Downloads, Cookies, Temporary .TP - files, etc. (Windows 7 and more recent).

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Document: create your day-to-day documents list and launch them in their native application from any window.

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Application: add your favorite applications and get full control on their execution (command line parameters and working directory).

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Link (URL): add your preferred web pages and open them in your default browser at any time. Note: In any file path (folder, document or application), the system environment variables like %appdata%, %public%, %temp% or %userprofile% are supported in favorite location (for example: "%appdata%MicrosoftTemplates" will take you to the folder C:Users[your_name]AppDataRoamingMicrosoftTemplates). Tech support, sysadmin and other power users love it!

Submenus

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Group favorites by subjects or locations in nested submenus.

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To add a submenu, in the Settings window, click the Add button and, in the new dialog box, select the last radio button Submenu.

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In the Settings window, select the menu to edit in the Menu to edit: dropdown list.

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To move a folder from one menu to another, click the Edit button or double-click the folder name in the Settings window and select the new menu in the Folder parent menu dropdown list.

Current folders

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Use the Current Folders menu to open a folder already open in another Explorer window (especially convenient in a file dialog box).

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Save and restore groups of folders based on projects or tasks

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Create a new group of folders including all folders currently open in Explorer windows with the Group of folders Save Current Folders as Group menu.

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Select a group in the Group of folders menu to restore these folders in their original Explorer window size and location.

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Restored windows can replace the windows currently open or can be added to them. You decide it when you save a group.

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Currently, Windows Explorer and Directory Opus windows are supported (Total Commander windows support is waiting for a new command in a future version of TC).

Recent folders

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The Recent folders menu lists the recent places memorized by Windows.

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An option in Settings determines the number of displayed recent folders in the menu (default is 10).

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More info and discussions about how FoldersPopup handles Recent folders.

Clipboard submenu

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Use the Clipboard menu to open folders, documents, applications path(s) or URLs found in the Clipboard.

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Only existing folder, documents or application files are displayed in the submenu.

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When the Clipboard contains no path or URL, the previous Clipboard submenu content is preserved.

In FoldersPopup Settings, Options

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In the Settings dialog box, click the Options button to open the Options dialog box.

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Select Run at Startup option to launch FoldersPopup automatically.

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Select your working language: English, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Italian and Swedish are currently supported.

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Display or hide the Current Folders, Group of Folders, Recent folders and Clipboard special menus.

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Select the option to use numeric menu shortcuts to launch favorites with your keyboard.

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Display or hide menu icons, and choose menu icons size.

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Select the option to remember the Settings window position and size from one session to the other.

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Display the popup menu near the mouse pointer, in the active window or at a fix position.

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Display or hide the startup Tray tip.

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Enable the popup menu when clicking on the taskbar (or disable it for compatibility with other utilities like 7+ Taskbar Tweaker).

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In the File managers support tab, enable Directory Opus (DOpus) or Total Commander (TC) support.

Configurable triggers

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In the Options dialog box, Menu hotkeys tab, change the mouse triggers to open the folders menu (by default, middle mouse button and Shift-MMB).

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Choose the keyboard triggers to open the folders menu (by default, Windows-A and Shift-Windows-A).

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In the Other hotkeys tab, choose the keyboard trigger to open the Settings dialog box (by default, Shift-Control-F).

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Choose the keyboard triggers opening instantly the special menus Current Folders (Shift-Control-F), Groups of Folders (Shift-Control-G), Recent Folders (Shift-Control-R) and Clipboard (Shift-Control-C).

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Select the option to display or hide the special menus shortcuts reminders in the main menu.

Directory Opus support (DOpus)

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Automatic enabling of DOpus support if the software is found on your system.

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Change user folders, recent folders and special folders (My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Recycle Bin, etc.) in DOpus listers reliably and seamlessly.

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More info here: Using FoldersPopup with Directory Opus.

Total Commander support (TC)

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Automatic enabling of Total Commander support if the software is found on your system.

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Change user folders, recent folders and special folders (My Computer, Network Neighborhood, Recycle Bin, etc.) in TC windows reliably and seamlessly.

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More info here: Using FoldersPopup with Total Commander.

Universal File Managers Support

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FPconnect is an universal file manager connector for FoldersPopup from Roland Toth (https://github.com/rolandtoth/FPconnect).

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This FoldersPopup addon allows integration of any file manager that supports command line navigation. Thanks to tpr (Roland's nickname).

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Support on FPconnect is available on Roland's blog.

System Tray menu

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Left-click on the FoldersPopup icon in the Tray menu to open your favorites menu.

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Right-click the icon in the Tray menu to:

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open the Settings dialog box;

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open the FoldersPopup.ini file;

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select the Run at Startup option;

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suspend temporarily the FP hotkeys;

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check for new version of FP;

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open the Help, About and Support Freeware! windows;

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and quit FoldersPopup and unload it from the active memory.

OPTIONS

-h

usage message.

Start FoldersPopup.

-i

install the FoldersPopup command to 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-u

uninstall the FoldersPopup shortcut from 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-V

print program version.

ENVIRONMENT

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

4

usage message displayed.

5

version message displayed.

FILES

etc/FoldersPopup.cfg

config file for FoldersPopup.

EXAMPLES

SEE ALSO

NOTES

See there for more information about FoldersPopup.

BUGS

AUTHOR

COPYRIGHT

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.