Folder Menu

Accessing your favorite files, folders, and websites can be done quite fast if you properly tweak OS settings. However, a lot more comfort can be enabled through third-party alternatives like Folder Menu. Quietly sitting in the tray area, it’s configurable with cascading menus, and provides flexibility through hotkey support.

On the bright side of things, the application skips you the effort of going through a setup process, and makes all of its features available right after download. This also enables you to carry around, which comes in handy for creating a portable menu for all your programs you keep on a thumb drive.

By default, there’s a preset list of general locations, such as the system drive, users, program files folder, Windows folder, some programs like Notepad, Windows Media Player, or Internet explorer, access to several registry locations, and even websites, just to show you the variety of configurable locations.

All editing is done in the options menu, which is fitted with quite the number of tabs. These let you handle favorite locations, applications, hotkeys, icons, menus, and other options in intuitive panels.

Customizing menu elements is done from the Favorites tab. Here, you can fully choose the visual layout, and types of elements to quickly launch from the menu. This can mean any kind of file, and even a website, with the default web browser brought up.

For greater comfort, the application gives you the possibility to assign hotkeys to different commands. Probably the most useful is the menu launcher, which is assigned to the middle mouse button by default, making the menu show up on cursor position.

All things considered, we can safely state that Folder Menu is a powerful launcher which is sure to help you keep a clean desktop, and launch favorite offline and online items with a few mouse clicks. Menus are fully configurable, while hotkey support enhances the way functions are triggered, and items launched.