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Folders Popup v4 is here with brand new features and improvements. Thank you again to users for their suggestions and to beta testers for their help in making FP doing it right!

What's new

The 4th generation of Folders Popup is on its way. I'm now ready to distribute a beta version and ask for your participation in making it bug-free. As usual, your comments and suggestions to make it an always greater tool are welcome!

The main addition of v4 is the brand new Group of folders menu (previously named "Switch"). As before, it makes it easy to switch to any folders currently open in an Explorer or a Directory Opus window. But, the menu now allows to save and restore groups of windows. Consider these two scenarios and you'll be convinced...

Folders Popup is now available in Swedish language, thanks to Åke Engelbrektson.

Also, FP is now aware of Total Commander and offer a reliable and seamless support to TC windows ans tabs. More info here: Using Folders Popup with Total Commander.

Thanks to Horst Epp, I learned that the default shortcut Windows-K used in Folders Popup to open the popup menu is now used by Windows 8/8.1 (it was available until Windows 7). In the next FP major release (v4, to be released in a few weeks probably), I will change the default shortcut key. This will not affect current user since their shortcut key is registered in the folderspopup.ini file. But for FP new installations, the default will be changed to one of the only few shortcut keys left available by Microsoft.

In order to determine what should be the new shortcut, I'd like to have Folders Popup users opinion: please, answer this SURVEY.

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Using Folders Popup with Total Commander

Many, many thanks to all Total Commander users who participated to this beta test to help making Folders Popup working well with TC!

UPDATE (2014-11-02): There is a new beta test phase for Folders Popup v4: FoldersPopup v4 ready for beta test – testers wanted

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Using Folders Popup with Directory Opus

If you land here because you are testing Folders Popup beta v4, this is the wrong link :-(

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FoldersPopup v4 ready for beta test – testers wanted

Release v3.2 of Folders Popup in now ready for beta tests. This release includes mainly additions that improve integration of FP with for Directory Opus (DOpus) version 11. Although, it is not freeware, DOpus is a remarkable file manager program that can replace Windows Explorer and proposes lots of features, including file compression and FTP capabilities. Take note that I'm not affiliated with the GPSoft (developers of Directory Opus) in any way. However, I'm thanking them for their support.

Regular Windows Explorer users will also find enhancements and bug fixes in this release.

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.