mdAxel

mdAxel is a lightweight and portable application that enables you to create new folders with any names in the specified directory by triggering a global keyboard shortcut.

It runs in the systray and has several options that are intuitive enough to be configured by any types of users, even the ones less accustomed to such apps.

As soon as it's fired up, the utility gets integrated into the taskbar notifications area and provides quick access to its configuration panel via the right-click menu.

It's possible to establish the default new folder name (instead of the classical "New Folder"), as well as set a key combination out of Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Win and any other key from the keyboard.

A message dialog pops up on the screen once the hotkey is activated, listing the new folder name and giving you the possibility to make modifications before generating it. Presets are available for inserting the current date, time, counter, and default name. The current name can be set as default. Apart from the fact that you can create the new object, you can immediately open it.

As far as additional settings are concerned, you can integrate the tool into the Windows autostart sequence, hide the systray icon, as well as send the hotkey to the foreground window.

The entire tool's packed in a single executable file that can be copied to a removable storage unit, in order to seamlessly launch mdAxel on any PC with as little effort as possible.

It doesn't need DLLs or other files to work properly. However, it creates and updates an .ini file to remember your settings, as well as adds new entries to the system registry if you integrate it into the OS autorun lineup.

We failed in our attempt to get mdAxel to run on newer Windows versions in our tests (even with administrative rights). However, the issue was resolved by launching it in compatibility mode for Windows XP. System resources usage was minimal.

To wrap it up, mdAxel facilitates a straightforward method for creating new directories by activating a keyboard shortcut. On the other hand, it doesn't have an option implemented for skipping the confirmation window. The software project doesn't seem to be in development anymore and remained in beta development stage.