Another cool tool for your Windows right-click menu

Ken — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:25:20 +0000

Last week, I told you about a neat tool that adds certain features to your right-click Windows context menu. Well, here’s another helper of sorts, with an even more impressive array of features that render the right-click context menu an immediately available – and quite powerful – tool you can use to manage files and folders on your computer.

Lammer Context Menu updates your right-click context menu with several useful additions that many of you might find handy.

With this tool, you can:

Mount a virtual drive
Copy paths
Select specific file types within a folder
Search within a folder
Register DLL files
Open a command prompt

As you can see, some of the features are a good deal more powerful than your basic commands. Additionally, it offers even more advanced options, allowing you to access the path operations screen where you can manage files based on wildcards.

This is a free utility available for use on Windows (working with both 32bit and 64bit versions).

You can grab it here.

JDContextMenu is a cool utility (P.S. this is my 100th blog)

Ken — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:39:47 +0000

When navigating through your Windows file menus, you often find yourself performing a number of tasks, from altering the timestamp to creating new folders. In the Geek Choice office, one of my jobs entails the management of certain directories, which means the creation of multiple folders and management of the files contained therein are routine tasks.

Aiding in this process is an extremely helpful utility called JDContextMenu, a utility that updates your right-click Windows context menu with a number of helpful additions. This application bundles various features that you’d otherwise have to perform multiple clicks to use, including them all in your right-click context menu.

Some of those features include altering the time and date of a file, creating new folders (where you can, in fact, generate multiple new folders at once), copying the full filename to your clipboard, and running an MD5 checksum to assess the integrity of a file.

These are all tasks that you can perform right now, but JDContextMenu consolidates them in one convenient menu, sparing you those extra clicks executing them would normally require. If you’re someone who spends a considerable amount of time managing the folders on your computer, this might be something to look into.

You can grab JDContextMenu here.

NOTE: This is my 100^th blog, something of a special occasion. For those who’ve followed the Geek Choice blog from its inception, you know that I’ve tried to keep the public as informed as possible, linking you to helpful utilities and updating you on news that’s relevant to your computing experience. As long as I’m here, I will continue to contribute to this blog, keeping you informed and making your life on the PC a little bit easier. If you ever have feedback to share, never hesitate to drop me a line.