Fast
Explorer is a veeery handy program! I absolutely love
it! Only a bit over a meg installed and free to boot.
What it does is let you add items to the right click menu (for
more about that, see "Context
Menus"). This is what the interface looks like. What
you see here is a bit smaller than the actual one because I
reduced it to save space in this file. The GUI can't be changed
in size which is a bit of a pain because you have to keep scrolling
to see your entries.
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There is no "help" either so it would be a good
idea to save the file type and shell information at the site
to help you get started.
The only thing that takes a bit of time to understand is that
when a particular thing is displayed on the context menu depends
upon where you put it in Fast Explorer. For example, if it is
associated with a particular file type, clicking on that file
type and that file type only will open the menu for that type.
For example, I have several associated with MP3s...
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The "MP3" on the context menu is associated in Fast
Explorer with that file extension and each of the sub-menus
in the context menu are sub-entries under "MP3" in
Fast Explorer. By the way, the vertical lines that look like
bar codes in the screen shot of the Fast Explorer GUI are separators...you
can put them wherever you like to help catagorize the context
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| The context menu sub-menus can have sub-menus
too as illustrated in this shot of the context menu associated
withwaves. |
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| If you associate the context menu entries with "File
Folder" you can get something like this whenever you
right click on a folder... |
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The sub-menus under "Music" are similar to the ones
that were in the MP3 menu but there are fewer. That's because
some programs will behave differently if started from a folder
context menu...like try to open an instance of themselves for
each file contained in the folder. You can run out of memory
in a BIG hurry! :)
Here's one more screen shot to maybe give you some ideas... |
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| I really like this program...it
gives me virtually instant access to those programs I use most
frequently. If you keep shortcuts on the desk top, you can clear
off a bunch. No need to do Start > Programs and scroll through
a long list either. The only thing faster and easier is Hot
Key Plus...but that's a different story. |
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