Thanks to a dozen of beta testers (Steve, Frank A, Lou G, Geert, Todd, Martin, and other who preferred to contact me by email), Folders Popup has been well tested and is now ready for prime time! This is version 3.1 (releases 3.0.x were used for the beta phase). Here is a slideshow of the renewed menus and dialog boxes and a list of additions and improvements.

At its launch, FoldersPopup add an icon in the System Tray and await your orders.

In a Windows Explorer or a file dialog box, click the Middle mouse button or press Windows-K to popup your favorite folders.

Built-in submenus gives access to Windows "Special folders", "Recent folders" and allow to "Switch" to opened Explorer.

Choose "Settings" to add favorite folders, documents, links or submenus, move, rename or delete them. Click "Save" to save your changes.

To quickly add new folders to your menu: in this folder, click the Middle mouse button (Windows-K) and choose "Add This Folder" (next slide).

Give the folder a short name and select its parent menu, Click "Add" and "Save" in the settings window.

In the "Settings" window, click the "Help" button for a reminder of Folders Popup main features.

Select a favorite and click "Edit" to rename it, edit the destination or move it to another submenu.

Choose the "Menu to edit:" in the dropdown list. Use the Up arrow to move to the parent menu or Left arrow to go back to a previously edited menu.

Switch instantly to any opened Windows Explorer Window or jump to one of these folders in the current dialog box.

Integration with the Windows Explorer replacement software Directory Opus

Configure your popup menu triggers in "Settings, Options". Also, choose your preferred language, set the Startup option, select built-in folders to display, add numeric keyboard shortcuts to the favorites menu or pin the popup menu at a fix position.

Choose your preferred mouse buttons or keyboard shortcuts for: popup menu, popup in a new Explorer and Settings shortcut.

Folders Popup is available in various languages. Translator's help welcomed!

Thanks to Edgar “Fast Edi” Hoffmann for the German translation.

Thanks to Pieter Dejonghe for the Dutch translation.

Thanks to Om Il-Sung (aka Dollnamul) for the Korean translation.

I will be ready to release v3 of Folders Popup in the next weeks. There are many funny improvements that I would like to test with beta users before going live with it. I already have a dozen of testers but there is an opportunity now to grow this nice team :-) Please, send me an email if you are interested.

I'm not sure if this discussion will be very successful in the middle of a so nice summer (at least here, in Canada :-) But lets try it...

If you used Folders Popup enough, you probably got at some point a special menu when you clicked the middle mouse button over a dialog box saying:

Dialog box not supported menu

This post is outdated. Please read:
Using Folders Popup with Directory Opus

The second version of Folders Popup is now available for free public distribution. Thanks you to the beta testers group who helped making this product ready and to all users who helped to make it always better with their suggestions and comments.

What’s new in version 2
- Submenus
- Switch to another Explorer
- Recent folders
- Language support (English, French and German... and more to come with some help)
- New more user friendly "Settings" dialog box
- Support for Directory Opus (see Using Folders Popup with Directory Opus)

Here is a preview of this new version.

Following the suggestion of users of Clover and FreeCommander, I added some code to FoldersPopup v1.2.5 in order to support these two applications.

Clover is an extension of the Windows Explorer, to add multi-tab functionality similar to Google Chrome browser.

FreeCommander is a powerful alternative to the standard windows file manager.

Users can make suggestions or report bugs specific to these apps in this thread.

Folders Popup download, comments and general support!

Talking about web coverage, I Love Free Software had these nice words about Folders Popup:

While using FoldersPopup, I realized again that life is lot easier because we have software like this. You’d realize it, when you start using it.