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FileBox eXtender™ - keep favorite folders at your fingertips
- free software for everyone, now also working under
Vista

Ver.
2.00.01 is now available for download

Welcome to FileBox eXtender, a product of Hyperionics Technology LLC. FileBox eXtender (or FbX for short) enhances the Windows
user interface in several powerful ways. It allows you to:

v     
Navigate easily through the Windows folder maze with its “favorites” and “recently accessed” buttons added to standard Windows File Open, File Save
dialog boxes and Explorer folders. With these buttons you can access
your favorite and recently visited folders and documents with one mouse
click.

v     
Add 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.

v     
Add a "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.
The Always on Top and Rollup commands can be also displayed on the
system menu of any window.

FileBox eXtender Features

FileBox 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.

FileBox can 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:

Standard Windows File/Save As… box

with and without FileBox eXtender buttons

These
special buttons will appear for all styles of file dialogs (the old
Windows 3.1 style file dialog boxes, new "Explorer" style boxes
introduced with Windows 95, and even with the latest file dialog boxes
in MS Office and Windows XP).

And don’t worry---if you don’t like the pictures on our buttons, there's a very
easy way to change them.

FileBox
eXtender has a nifty option to display these buttons on Windows
Explorer folders too, and this can greatly speed up navigation through
today's huge hard disks.

Okay, I'm hooked, so what do these extra buttons do?

The button with a little heart on it like this:
 displays a "Favorites" menu. The
FileBox Extender Configuration window allows you to add your
favorite folders, files, document names, or other text items on it. You
can use this to make Windows work as you want it to work (not how it
wants to do things "out of the box").

Here's what happens when I press that button on my computer:

As
you can see, a menu of my favorite places appeared, and now I can
navigate across my hard disk to where I need to go with just a single
click. I've also 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 the Add: item
near the bottom of the menu. It lets you add the currently-displayed
folder seen in the dialog box to the Favorites list. If the current
folder was already on that list, this item would appear as Remove: letting you quickly delete it if you no longer need rapid access to that location.

       It's
important to remember that it's the folder location of the dialog box's
window, not the cursor's position within it (which might be
highlighting another sub-folder) that determines the location that will
be added to your list. So be sure to double-click a sub-folder to "go
into" that folder before choosing Add if that folder is
what you really want to add to the list. The current folder is never
visible as a folder graphic within a dialog box window, those are
folders beneath the current folder. The current folder is often
displayed within the drop-down list (usually) at the top left of most
common dialog boxes. So read the name displayed there if you're about
to add a folder to your list to make sure that's what you want. (It's
easy to be confused by this if you're new to Windows or computers in
general.)

The button with a little clock on it
 is the button that opens the "Recent Folders" menu. It opens a list of the folders that you most recently accessed through the Open File or Save File
dialog boxes. These folders are at the top, sorted by access time with
the most recent at the top, least recent going downward on the list.

You can set how many of the recent folders are listed here, or hide this button completely by visiting the
How to Configure FbX window and changing the default settings for this function. Unlicensed copy of FileBox eXtender
will let you use only two items on Favorites menu.

Always on top and Roll-up buttons on
windows

FileBox eXtender adds also 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.
The Always on Top and Rollup commands can be also displayed on the system menu of any window.

Window title bars with roll-up and push-pin buttons

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