ShellToys 6.4.0

2.8 out of 5 stars 2.8 (30 votes)

(September 1, 2008)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/Vista/XP / Shareware; $39.00 / 2,436 downloads

CFi ShellToys puts the tools you need right where you need them – just a click away on your context menu. Right-click one or more files or folders, the desktop or the window background for instant access to 50 context-sensitive shell extensions.

  • Publisher

    Cool Focus International Ltd.

  • Homepage

    ShellToys

  • Limitations

    Yes - 45 day timeout

  • Latest Changes

    - Adds support for 64-bit (x64) versions of Windows Vista and Windows XP

    - Adds support for Windows Server 2008

    - The Custom Menus feature now allows you to define your own named submenus (in addition to the default 'Rarely Used' submenu) and organize related context menus items into different submenus. In Windows Vista and higher, with desktop composition enabled, y

    - When setting up the Custom Menus feature, you can leave the Custom Menus configuration dialog open you right-click items in Explorer. Each time you choose "Customize Menus" from the Rarely Used submenu, the dialog will update automatically to show the ite

    - The Custom Menus feature now allows you to keep the familiar "Properties" and "Personalize" menu items at the bottom of the context menu, even if you've chosen to place the custom menus at the bottom of context menus

    - When using Copy/Move To Folder with the chosen action set to 'Copy items to multiple folders', you can now save the list of target folders as a named 'folder group', making it a much quicker task to reselect the same folders in future

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    sweathog

    Reviewing 6.4.0 (Sep 2, 2008)

    This one doesn't clutter up your context menu with an additional "shell toy" entry and is free and does almost as much as shell toys... But you have to make your own icons to differentiate the many sendto functions it creates:

    http://mywebsite.bigpond...michaelpheath/sendtoa3x/

  2. 1 out of 5 stars
    Flebbo

    Reviewing 6.3.1 (May 11, 2008)

    Too expensive....

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    RWW

    Reviewing 6.3.1 (May 9, 2008)

    I agree with oc-athlonxp.com. This would be so handy for me to reccommend to people when I do not have time to setup everything on their machines and if was $10.00 I would do that. The program is fine but the price is too inflated.

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    oc-athlonxp.com

    Reviewing 5.2.3 (Nov 7, 2006)

    I gave it a 3. I know how to install these context menu items for free, and the rest of the reviewers here do as well. However, the NooBs may not know how to and/or may be unwilling to go through the steps to install these. That is where this program comes in. The program itself is fine, however the price is outrageous. $32.00 is nuts, especially for a program where the results can be duplicated for free with relatively minimal effort. If the price was about 2/3 lower, it would have gotten a 5 from me.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    sweathog

    Reviewing 5.0 (Jan 30, 2006)

    You can make virtually every one of these context menu entries, with icons, by judicious use of Microsoft's Free Windows 95 package, which can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com...ts/wutoys/w95pwrtoysset/.

    The MS download installs:
    1. sendto or move a file to any folder
    2. copy a file or file path to the clipboard
    3. send a shortcut to the desktop
    4. send to e-mail
    5. send a command to the run dialog

    After that, just go to the sendto folder (usually a sub folder of the Windows XP user profile directory) and add all the shortcuts you want, including a shortcut to the sendto folder itself, so you can quickly add items. This software is certainly not worth paying for when there is a better, free alternative.

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