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- FastFolders V2.42 Readme
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- Welcome to FastFolders, a system extension which increases your
- productivity dramatically by giving you quick and easy access to
- folder contents and files. Without opening each and every folder,
- you can browse the directory structure starting at any point by
- clicking the right mouse button on a file, folder or drive. The
- program modifies the context menus of shell objects, adding a menu
- item which displays the directory structure on demand. If you drag
- and drop an object on a folder or drive using the right mouse button,
- you can copy or move the object(s) to any folder of your computer by
- selecting it from the FastFolders menu. In addition, FastFolders
- includes a revolutionary feature to resize the items of the status
- bars of all Explorer windows to fit all important information (e.g.
- file sizes) optimally.
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- Instructions:
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- To use FastFolders, open the context menu of any shell object ("My
- Computer", "Network Neighborhood", a drive, folder or file, etc.)
- by right-clicking it. When you move the mouse pointer over the
- FastFolders menu item, a submenu opens which displays the contents
- of the selected object. To open any object, simply click the menu
- item with the left mouse button. To access the context menu of the
- object, click the right mouse button on the item.
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- CLICKING THE FASTFOLDERS MENU ITEM ITSELF OPENS THE FASTFOLDERS
- OPTIONS DIALOG, which allows you to customize many options of
- FastFolders, including a filter for the file extensions to display.
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- The FastFolders item of the context menu of the "Start" button in
- the Taskbar contains all items of the Desktop. This allows quick
- access to all objects on the Desktop.
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- The usual keyboard navigation for menus also works with the
- FastFolders menus.
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- IMPORTANT: Some users have reported, that SmartStatus occasionally
- causes Windows to hang at startup. If you experience this problem,
- please select the option "Safe mode" in the SmartStatus group of
- the main dialog. This way, SmartStatus will only be activated
- after you right-click any object for the first time after booting
- Windows.
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- Uninstallation:
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- To uninstall FastFolders, open the Windows Control Panel, select
- "Add/Remove Programs" and the select the FastFolders item from
- the list of installed programs. Click "Add/Remove" to remove
- FastFolders from your system.
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- Remarks:
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- Menu speed:
- It is recommended to set the menu show delay to 0 seconds, because
- this will allow the fastest navigation through the directory tree.
- Under certain circumstances, this setting may have no effect, e.g.
- if an old version of the MS IntelliMouse Driver is installed. In
- this case, please update the driver to the newest version available
- from the Microsoft website (http://www.microsoft.com/mouse/).
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- Default editor / viewer:
- This edit field allows you to specify a command line which is
- invoked if you select a file type which has no executable program
- associated with it. Typical examples are files like: "Readme.1st",
- "Disk.id", "Setup.nfo", etc. It is recommended to enter your
- favorite text editor, so you can view all these files quickly.
- By default, FastFolders chooses the program which is associated
- with .TXT files (generally this is NOTEPAD.EXE). So the default
- command line is: "C:\WINDOWS\NOTEPAD.EXE %1". The "%1" at the end
- makes NotePad load the file which was selected by the user. If
- you choose any other program than NotePad, loading the selected
- file probably works the same way, so please make sure that the "%1"
- is specified at the end of the command line.
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- SmartStatus 98:
- If you are using Windows 98 or Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4
- and its desktop enhancements, you will probably have noticed that
- the important information in the status bars of Explorer windows
- (e.g. volume information for drives, file sizes) is only visible
- if you make the window very large. SmartStatus resizes the parts
- of the status bars to display all information optimally. (If you
- are using Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows 95 without IE 4.0,
- SmartStatus has no effect!)
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- Transition effects for menus and tooltips:
- For Windows 98 and 2000, transition effects for menus and tooltips
- (e.g. fading, scrolling) are disabled for the FastFolders menus.
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- FastFolders System requirements:
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- *) Pentium CPU or higher
- *) 8 MB of RAM
- *) Windows 95 / 98 / NT 4.0 / 2000 or higher
- *) Mouse or compatible pointing device
- *) 1 MB of free harddisk space
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- If you have any questions or comments, please write to
- 'support@desksoft.com'. If you experience any problems running the
- program, please make sure to include information about your computer
- configuration, hardware and software.
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- The DeskSoft Team.
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- Windows 95 / 98 / NT, Internet Explorer, etc. are registered
- trademarks of Microsoft. All other registered trademarks are
- registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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