Folder Guide is a great little freeware application that will let you customize a list of folders to place in your right-click context menu that is displayed in Windows Explorer. If you are constantly navigating around Windows Explorer then I am sure you’ll find this extension useful.
It has a nice configuration editor so that you can easily modify the folders that are available in the context menu as well. The editor pretty much makes it a no-brainer. Here are some of the other features that you will find in Folder Guide:
- Quick access folders in Open/Save As/Browse dialogs.
- Quick access folders in Windows Explorer and the desktop and the Star button.
- Easy to add folder to the list of “Folder Guide”.
- Easy to edit or reorder folders in the list of “Folder Guide”.
- Runs automatically as part of the context menu.
Folder Guide is essentially a bookmark system for your folders. Microsoft must have seen that they needed to make finding your folders easier because in Windows Vista they have your “Favorite Links” in the sidebar of Windows Explorer. It gives you quick access to your favorite folders which is essentially the whole point of Folder Guide. I think it would be a great idea if the Vista team had made a context menu option as an additional way to access the folders.
Thanks for the tip Radu!
nice. i like it.
Just to point out, there’s already a Favourites menu in Explorer anyway – I use it and it can be very handy. No need for extra applications and stuff in the context menu either.
Ooh, just a point – that app appears to have it’s own sort of Luna skin. Now with using WindowBlinds, I get quite annoyed when apps decide to skin themselves and won’t integrate with Windows. For every application that skins itself I have to trawl the net for new skins every time I redo my desktop. I reckon M$ should bring out a standard – every application must have an option to integrate with the current Windows style.
True, but that Favorites menu is integrated with Internet Explorer which is something that I don’t like.
Wow, you must be a hardcore FF user if you won’t even use a feature in Windows Explorer because it ties in with IE.
Inferno_str1ke, Folder Guide is great in Open/Save dialogs!!! Where you have no Favorites. There I use it daily. Just right click on a clear space in Open/Save dialog box and I choose the directory instant. Of course Folder Guide it’s kind of useless in MS Explorer.
You’re right, it would be great in the Open/Save dialog boxes…I never even thought about that.