![]() and you get tired, after a while, of dealing with their launching systems. The biggest reason that one needs one’s own menuing system, if one tries to make portable as many of one’s apps as possible, is because it’s common to use a few apps from the “PortableApps” system, and then a few others the “LiberKey” system, etc. Seriously… there are some REALLY hot ones out there. That said, all it takes is an investigation into what’s out there that’s alternative to the various portable application interfaces (like the menuing systems by “PortableApps,” or “LiberKey,” or “WinPenPack,” etc.) and you’ll suddenly find seemingly no end of really nice menuing systems… all of them capable of linking to either files, folders, URLs, etc. The only thing you have to remember to do is create a shortcut to the often-used folder and then link to that. ![]() I ended-up using the little-known Alentum Software’s “Advanced Launcher,” which I realize is old, but it’s perfect somewhat more flexible and configurable than even I thought at first. I checked-out “Folder Menu 3,” and liked what I saw… that is, until I saw that it was written in AutoIt. I used to use CodeSector’s “Direct Folders,” but didn’t want to pay for it in order to get sub-folders. I just search for files (and sometimes folders, but mostly files and I certainly wouldn’t use it for often-used/favorite folders) with it. I also use the portable version of Voidtools’s “Everything,” but not for this function. I also this for extremely effective naming – eg finding “Couer de Pirate” vs CÅ“ur de Pirate or Tiesto vs Tiësto, or finding rogue characters on my music drive such as ` instead of ‘, double spaces etc.Īs for system directories its quicker to type %userprofile% etc for me NOTHING i have found beats this for speed and ease. and voila, there was my website url (which i put in every portable app). so i doubled clicked my Everything system tray icon and typed everything then doubled clicked the “Everything” folder that showed up at the top, this opened a new tab in Explorer for D:\Portable\Utils \System \Everything with focus. So, for example, I wanted to find the url for Everything for you guys above. And the results windows, you can edit the name right there, or drag and drop into an editor – or double click to open, or right click to open path etc (this then opens a new tab in my Explorer) Its extremely powerful – case/diacritics/regex if need be etc – accent insensitive by default. ![]() ![]() It’s also integrated it into folder’s context menu. I start it when my machine starts – it sits in my tray. It needs to run as admin, as it uses the MFT. For this I simply use Everything ( ) – as portable. However – I am constantly wanting to open files or folders – hundreds, maybe thousands, of times a day. And I always have this folder open in Windows Explorer. Even software recoding/extraction/save directories all point to this (if not the original dir eg when encoding). I keep this clean – incoming is dealt with, archived, etc. It actually has a couple of subfolders (eg torrents in progress uses D:/DLs/DLs /, completed they move to the parent folder. I’m extremely well organized – anything landing on my machine only ends up in one directory (D:/DLs/DLs) – it’s like my clearing house. While it is necessary to run the program in the background at all times for the functionality, its low memory footprint ensures that it won't snag away too many system resources from other applications and processes. The program provides you with quick access to as many folders as you want. The remaining options allow you to change start up settings and other program related features, including an option to display numeric shortcuts next to each folder so that you can select them with a tap on the right number on the keyboard. Shift Windows F to open the settings window of the program.Shift Windows K to open a new Windows Explorer instance.Shift middle mouse button to open a new Windows Explorer instance.Windows K to open the folder selection menu using the keyboard.Middle mouse button to open the folder selection menu.There is also an options menu that displays the list of supported shortcuts along with options to modify those, and to change other program related features.
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