Some Lagniappe for You
By Tiny Ruisch
la·gniappe (lnyp, ln-yp)
n. Chiefly Southern Louisiana & Mississippi
1. A small gift presented by a storeowner to a customer with the customer’s purchase.
2. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. Also called regionally boot.
There is a really efficient utility program that I’ve been using for several years now. FileMenu Tools lets you customize the right click menu of Windows Explorer. The program adds utilities to perform operations on files and folders and adds customized commands that let you run external applications, copy or move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
With the built in commands you can:
Run With Parameters – Runs a program with parameters that you input in a dialog box.
Command Line From Here – Opens a command line window.
Copy/Move – No need to cut and paste. You can also use filters in your file selection.
Duplicate Files – Make a copy in the same folder.
Pack to Folder – Moves all the selected elements to new subfolder in the current folder.
Copy Path/Name/Content – Copies the selected item(s) to the clipboard.
Attributes – You can view and change them without opening a properties dialog box.
Find and Replace – Lets you find or replace a text for all the files in a selected folder.
Advanced Rename – With lots of options.
Change Icon – Quickly and easily change folder options.
Advanced Delete – lets you delete specific file types in a folder.
Synchronize Two Folders – Lets you synchronize two folders quickly and easily.
Shred Files – Overwrites several times so it is impossible to recover the file in the future.
Send to Mail Recipient – Lets you send an e-mail with selected elements as attachments.
These are about half of the FileMenu commands you can select from. In the configuration menu, a simple check box will turn off the commands you don’t want to appear when you right click. If you can’t find the FileMenu function you need, you can add a customized command to run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
FileMenu Tools lets you configure the “Send to” sub-menu. You can add new items, change the properties of the existing items or delete them. You also can disable existing “Send to” items in order to hide them from the menu.
FileMenu Tools will also let you enable/disable the commands which are added to the context menu of the Windows Explorer by other programs. This is the only function that is not one hundred percent reliable. When it works, it works well, but it doesn‘t catch all of the programs that add to your right click.
Download FileMenu Tools from the developers website. Give this program a test. I’m pretty sure that you’ll like it. FileMenu Tools is a 7.6 MB download and runs on all Windows platforms. Did I mention the price? This program is freeware and costs nothing. While you’re on the Lopesoft website, you can also download and try LopeEdit Lite. If you do, you’ll probably never use Windows Notepad again.
If you like the program, just tell everyone that you’ve got a SWLAPCUG extra, bonus perk; a little lagniappe.