gHacks technology news » folder http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:02:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Use Favorites to access Folders faster http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/12/use-favorites-to-access-folders-faster-2/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/12/use-favorites-to-access-folders-faster-2/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:20:19 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/12/use-favorites-to-access-folders-faster-2/ The Open and Save file dialog in Windows is not really optimized and Microsoft somehow misses to improve that dialog with every release of a new Windows operating system. Saving different file types in different folders always means to click through your folder structure whenever the file type changes which puts a strain on the right (or left) trigger finger.

Flashfolder to the rescue. Flashfolder is small tool that docks a window onto open and save dialogs in Windows giving users the option to access favorite folders, currently open file folders and the global folder history each with two clicks. The absolute path of the current folder is displayed as well which is ideal if you want to manually edit it in case you are a fast typer.

Flashfolder can be configured for three types of dialogs, those are Common Open / Save, Common Browser for folder and Microsoft Office Open / Save dialogs. Each comes with an option to exclude applications from showing the Flashfolder overlay and with options to set a minimum height, width and position of the overlay window.

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Flashfolders uses less than 2 Megabytes of Ram while running which is excellent. It adds itself to as a service in Windows which is essential for compatibility according to the author of the program.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/12/use-favorites-to-access-folders-faster-2/feed/ 1 Move MyDocuments to another drive http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/03/move-mydocuments-to-another-drive/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/03/move-mydocuments-to-another-drive/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:10:30 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/03/move-mydocuments-to-another-drive/ Microsoft tried to enhance Windows XP by adding a central folder for user data which is called MyDocuments which is the default place for save games, pictures, music and everything else that is user related. The default location has some disadvantages though. First, it adds another folder that has to be backed up if you do backup your data regularly.

More problematic though can be that it could grow so big that the partition of your Windows operating system is not big enough to contain all of the files anymore. This happened to me. I was clever enough to create a 8 Gigabyte C: partition for Windows XP which was soon to small because of music and images that have been saved in that folder.

Instead of moving single application folders to another drive I decided to find a way to move the MyDocuments folder instead. This is actually pretty easy.

Press Windows E to start up Windows Explorer. Right-click the MyDocuments folder and select Properties from the menu. The Target Folder Location displays the current location of the MyDocuments folder. If you click on the Move button below you may select a new folder or hard drive and move the contents of the MyDocuments folder there.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/03/move-mydocuments-to-another-drive/feed/ 12 Change all the icons that you want in windows http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/19/change-all-the-icons-that-you-want-in-windows/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/19/change-all-the-icons-that-you-want-in-windows/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:01:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/19/change-all-the-icons-that-you-want-in-windows/ The freeware IconX makes it possible to change any icon that you can get your hands on in Windows. It takes care of file type and specific files, folders and even drives. The installation is pretty simple. Download the IconX software and right-click IconX.inf and select install to install the shell extension. Please note that you need to write the author to receive a validation code because the software was shareware and is now freeware.

After all of this is done right-click a file, folder or drive and select Change Icon from the context menu. A window pops up showing the path to the file, folder or drive. You will have to choose a icon library, some of which can be loaded from the developers page, and all the icons of that library will be displayed.

Just click on the icon that you want to use and use the optional “Use icon for all files of that type” if you wish that as well. Changes will be visible immediately and you can repeat the process if you don’t like the icon anymore.

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