FileBox eXtenderв„ў - keep favorite folders at your fingertips
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FileBox eXtender enhances the Windows user interface in several powerful ways. It adds a "push-pin" button to your "top level" windows. This function prevents any window you "pin" to the desktop from being covered by any other windows. This is great when you want to keep an eye on one program, but use another. (For example, refer to a document window in Word while typing an E-mail in another program.)

Another FileBox enhancement is the "roll-up" button added to top level windows. When you click it, the window is "rolled up" leaving only its title bar visible, and uncovering what was underneath it. Click that button again, and the window rolls back down.

FileBox further enhances Windows by adding several advanced functions to the standard Open File and Save File dialog boxes. (Note that if a program uses its own "private" dialog boxes for these functions, you won't see our FileBox buttons, sorry.)

FileBox adds two handy buttons to these standard dialogs. These appear on the right side of the Windows dialog box title bars. These buttons appear next to the minimize, restore, and maximize buttons with which you're probably already familiar.

FileBoxcan also forcibly resize the standard Windows file management dialog boxes so they're bigger, and thus easier to use if you've got lots of files in a folder through which you need to look. The two pictures below show a small part of the Windows standard Open File dialog box:

Without FileBX buttons

With FileBX buttons

These buttons appear for all styles of file dialogs (the old Windows 3.1 style file boxes, new "Explorer" style boxes introduced with Windows 95, and even with the latest file boxes in MS Office 2000 and Windows 2000). And don't worry, If you don't like the pictures on our buttons, there is a way to change them!

FileBX has also an option to display these buttons on Windows Explorer folders to ease the navigation and easily launch other programs or open documents.

What do these extra buttons do?

The button with a little heart on it displays a "Favorites" menu. The FileBX Configuration window allows you to place your favorite folders, file or document names, or other text items on it. This is what happens when I press that button on my computer:

As you can see, a little menu of my favorite places appeared and I can go where I need to with just a single click. Additionally I created a "File Filters" sub-menu, which lists the file types I open frequently, such as *.zip and *.doc, which I often attach to email messages. Please note also the "Add: пїЅ" item near the bottom of the menu. It lets you add the current folder to the Favorites list. If the current folder was already found on that list, this item would be "Remove: пїЅ" to let you delete it.

The button with a little clock on it is the "Recent Folders" menu. It pulls down a menu of the folders you recently accessed through the File|Open or File|Save dialog boxes. The most recently accessed folders are at the top. You can decide how many of the recent folders are listed here, or hide this button completely