FileMenu Tools is an application designed to customize the context menu within Windows File Explorer, offering users a range of utilities and options for managing files and folders directly from the right-click menu. It addresses the need for enhanced file management by allowing users to tailor the context menu to their workflow, adding both built-in and custom commands.
The tool provides a variety of built-in utilities that perform operations such as synchronizing folders, extended deletion of specific file types with wildcards, finding and replacing text (with regular expression support), advanced renaming with rules, deleting locked files, and permanently deleting files and folders without moving them to the Recycle Bin. Additional features include changing folder icons, running programs with specified arguments, opening command line windows in selected folders, and modifying file or folder attributes recursively. Users can also split and join files, copy or move selected items with filters, and copy names, paths (including UNC and internet formats), or content to the clipboard. FileMenu Tools allows appending clipboard text to files, saving clipboard content as new files (supporting both text and images), deleting empty folders recursively, changing file and folder timestamps, displaying folder sizes, registering or unregistering DLL and OCX files, creating new folders, sending files as email attachments, shredding files to prevent recovery, duplicating files, packing and unpacking folders, and creating symbolic links (in Windows Vista or later). The tool can calculate and verify file checksums and convert image formats among BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF.
Users can further customize their experience by adding custom commands to run external programs or perform file operations, modifying the "Send to" menu entries, and enabling or disabling commands added by other applications to the context menu. The platform is aimed at Windows users seeking greater control and efficiency in file management tasks.
In the Other productivity space, FileMenu Tools takes a focused approach. It focuses on customizing and extending the Windows File Explorer context menu to streamline file and folder operations. FileMenu Tools is a consumer product aimed at windows power users. A free plan is available. FileMenu Tools is available on the command line and Windows.
LopeSoft builds and maintains FileMenu Tools, and the product first shipped in 2011. The project is developed in the open on GitHub with 174.5k stars and 80 commits in the last 90 days. Among its 9 catalogued features are context menu customization, built-in utilities, and custom commands.
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