With Folders Popup, you assign different mouse buttons or hotkeys to trigger the popup menu (choose "Folders Popup Settings, Options". Also, you can left-click the tray icon and click "Exit FoldersPopup" to release the mouse buttons an hotkeys.
If you want to completely remove Folders popup from your system, all you have to do is to delete the .EXE and .INI file. No installation required... and no uninstall required
If you are refering to the admin's remark in the "Help & Support" section, I would say these restrictions would not apply to this forum section dedicated to "Sharing tools which are especially useful in combination with Opus."
Since the last update of this thread, new features has been added to Folders Popup.
New in v4.2:
Hotkeys to manage favorites in Settings window
Multiple selection to manage a group of favorites in one step
More than 50 Special Folders favorites available
Universal File Managers Support with FPconnect
Select the menu position of new favorite in the Add Favorite window
New in v4 and 4.1:
New standard installation tool
Groups of folders
Custom favorite icons
Various additions or improvements
All these features work with Directory Opus. Also, FP is now available in English, French, German, Dutch, Korean, Swedish and Italian.
Power users (sysadmin, etc.) should appreciate the new Windows Special Folders support in v4.2. Here is a list of the 50 special folders that can now be inserted in the main popup menu or in any submenu:
Administrative Tools
Application Data
Backup and Restore
Cache
Common Application Data
Common Desktop
Common Start Menu
Common Startup Menu
Computer
Control Panel (All Tasks)
Control Panel (Icons view)
Cookies
Desktop
Documents
Downloads
Favorites
Favorites (Internet)
Flip 3D
Folder Options
Fonts
Games Explorer
History
HomeGroup
Libraries
My Music
My Video
Network
Network Connections
Performance Information and Tools
Pictures
Portable Devices
Printers and Faxes
Program Files
Program Files (x86)
Programs Folder (Start Menu)
Public Folder
Public Libraries
Quick Launch
Recent Items
Recent Places
Recycle Bin
Show Desktop
Start Menu
Startup
System
System Certificates
Templates
Temporary Files
User Folder
User Pinned
Windows
These special folders open in Directory Opus when supported, or in a WIndows Explorer window.
I should write a more complete post about this but just a word, for now, to let you know that Folders Popup has been completely rebuilt and is now distributed under the new name Quick Access Popup (QAP). QAP v7 offers the same compatibility with DOpus.
Major additions to QAP include: mouse or keyboard shortcuts for favorites, submenus and groups, switch to any active app window, reopen current folders in file dialog boxes (Open, Save As, ...). For DOpus users, the QAP Groups has been redesigned and now allow to select on which DOpus pane each folder part of a group will be open.
Of course, some QAP features are in duplication with DOpus features. But the possibility to open a folder in DOpus from any window, or to switch folder in a DOpus lister with a single middle-mouse click is still an interesting addition to DOpus.
At Windows startup, if Quick Access Popup runs "DOpusRt.exe / info" (to get the list of listers, etc.) before DOpus has been launched, DOpus is launched and its window is restored in the state it had at shutdown.
Is there a way to run DOpusRt.exe without displaying DOpus main window if it is not running?
It probably makes sense to only run DOpusRT.exe /info if you detect dopus.exe is in the process list. If there's no dopus.exe then you can assume no windows/tabs are open.
We could change DOpusRT.exe /info to do the same, but then you'd need to check the version and do different things with old & new versions, and probably still need to have code to check for dopus.exe running, so it wouldn't gain much.
First, to follow-up on the previous message, QAP now checks the list of running programs and do not launch DOpus inadvertently.
Also, I take the opportunity to confirm that QAP works perfectly with DOpus 12. After a full set of tests, no change to QAP were needed thanks to DOpus team's good work. Congrats for this excellent new release!
Hi Jean..... Thanks for making a very helpful tool and working with DOpus for enhanced compatibility! I'm a very long-time DOpus user and only discovered QAP a few weeks ago.
I do have a request/suggestion.......
I have been using a similar utility for years, but it hasn't been updated since 2011 - Filebox eXtender. Only one thing that I don't see in QAP that I miss: a button on the title bar. Filebox eXtender uses the favorite folder icon like so:
I never used Filebox but, as I understand it, it used a DLL file (Windows system file) that allows to "inject" features under the hood of Explorer windows or dialog boxes. Other popular products like DirectFolders do that. I don't want to use this approach in order to preserve portability, one of the appreciated qualities of Quick Access Popup. QAP is only calling standard Windows commands (using AutoHotkey). This makes QAP easier to maintain when Microsoft releases new Windows versions.
This also explains why FileBox or DirectoFolders became unstable when migrating from Windows XP and stopped being updated.
You may be interested into the product Actual File Folders (20 $) that seems to do what DirectFolders was doing. I never tried it however.
I had a similar problem, easy access to the QAP-menu with the mouse.
Solved it with ObjectDock (a commercial Dock/MenuBar thingy, there are probably others that do the same).
In ObjectDock You can create a toolbar with all/some/one of the icons from the System Tray.
I created one showing only the QAP-icon, and have it floating at the upper edge of my screen, showing only a tiny-tiny tab. Screenshots of the the tiny tab, icon and menu
When the mouse is moved over the tab, it drops down showing the QAP-icon, and click, the menu is there.
I then have access to the QAP-menu no matter what program runs in the front.
Thanks for the reference. This app is too much for my personal needs and I'm used to start QAP directly from the tray of using the middle mouse button. But users could find ObjectDock a convenient way to start QAP menu.
In this app or in any other app that would provide custom links, instead of relying to the system tray, you could use the QAPmessenger utility that was developed for Explorer context menus but that could also be useful in other situation. To show the QAP menu from any shortcut, enter the path and parameter:
This will show the QAP menu at the mouse position (or at other position as set in QAP options). ShowMenuLaunch will launch a favorite folder in a new DOpus tab (or Explorer window) and ShowMenuNavigate will change the folder in the current tab or window.
Thanks for the tip, but I can't get this to work from a dock.
When using QAPmessenger, the menu pops up and I can open/start programs, open the settings, etc.
But, if I try to open a folder or drive I get this error:
"An error occurred while trying to open this favorite. Please, try again..."
This is ONLY when I try via a shortcut on my dock.
The shortcut works normally when started as a shortcut, ie. double-click on the lnk-file .
(So QAPmessenger, QAP Portable, DOPus and ObjectDock doesn't quite see eye to eye, lol)
Will look into it, but for now I'll stick with the "System Tray dock".