Quick Access Popup Changelog

What's new in Quick Access Popup 11.6.3.3

Apr 29, 2024

Stop showing the snippet default prompt when using a snippet on the Desktop (for example when renaming a Desktop file)
Fix a bug with the working directory when launching an application from a shortcut file (.lnk) in a Live folder
When opening a document from the QAP menu, add the document's parent folder in the "Recent folders" menu
Add an option under "Various Advanced Options" to set the "Maximum number of seconds to wait when the Clipboard is busy" (default 5 seconds)
Stop waiting after 1 second when opening the menu from QAPmessenger and the menu is not ready
Fix a bug when getting the current location in "Add this folder" dialog boxes and in some placeholders
Prevent loading Customize window in an invisible position if invalid position was remembered at last exit
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New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.3.2 (Jan 24, 2024)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.3.1 (Oct 17, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.3.0 (Oct 17, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.2.3 (Aug 29, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.2.2 (Jul 11, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.2.1 (Jul 5, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.2.0 (Jun 5, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.9.7 Beta (Jun 1, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.9.6 Beta (May 29, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.9.3 Beta (May 22, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.5 (Apr 16, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.4 (Feb 24, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.3 (Feb 21, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.9.2 Beta (Feb 9, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6.1.1 (Feb 5, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.6 (Jan 22, 2023)

Https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-quickly-search-qap-to-launch-one-of-my-favorites/
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ibBAh9_Bsc
A new quick way to launch your favorites: type a few characters and press Enter or double-click your item in the search result
To show the "Quick Launch" box:
For new installations: the feature is automatically added under the "My QAP Essentials" menu and is associated with the Shift+Control+Q keyboard shortcut
IMPORTANT! users UPGRADING to v11.6 must add this feature to their menu (add a favorite of type "QAP Feature" and select the feature "Quick Launch")
In both cases, the "Quick Launch" box can be open from the "Customize" window menu "Tools, Quick Search"
By default, the "Quick Launch" searches in the name of all your favorites and in the content of your "Recent/Frequent Files" and "Recent/Frequent Folders"
You can search one or more sequence of characters (for example "qui pop" to search items having "qui" AND "pop" in their name)
"Quick Launch Options" under "Options, Customize window"
A checkbox to use "Extended search" to search in all properties instead of only in the favorite name (default is disabled)
Checkbox to include or not "Recent/Frequent" menus items in "Quick Search" results (default is checked)
The initial height of "Quick Launch" window (default is 10 rows)
Set the order of "Quick Search" result by "Usage" (default sort order), by "Favorite name" or by "Menu order" (QAP menu natural order)
The "Quick Launch" box is displayed...
Always on top and is closed automatically when you select an item in the search result, when you click the Close button or when you hit Escape
Initially at the center of the main monitor and is afterward displayed at its last location (if the box ever becomes invisible, for example, after a change of monitors configuration, it can be centered again on the main monitor using the menu "Tools, Restore 'Quick Launch' window position")
Alternative menu features
- show the "Alternative menu" in "Quick Launch" by right-clicking an item or using the "Alternative menus" modifiers hotkeys (see "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys")
- features supported are "Edit a Favorite", "Copy a Favorite Path or URL" (or snippet content), "Run as administrator" and "Open the Containing folder"
Placeholders:
Https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/
{Menu:...} placeholder replaced with the selected item in a popup menu
{Menu:text1|text2|text3} show a menu with the specified items
Menu text can be preceed with a short label and the tilde (~) separator, for example {Menu:label1~long or multiline text|label2~another item|...} if text is long or includes line breaks
For better readability in the "Edit favorite" dialog box, the labels can include line breaks and tabs (that will not be displayed in the menu)
Make the first menu item bold when it has a label but no content (to make it look like a title)
{RandomText:...} and {RandomNumber:...} placeholders replaced with random text, random integer or random floating point numbers
{RandomText:text1|text2|text3} is replaced with one of the three pieces of text (for example, {RandomText:Today|Tomorrow|One of these days})
{RandomNumber:x|y} is replaced with an integer number between integers x and y (for example, {RandomNumber:5|10})
{RandomNumber:x|y|n} is replaced with a floating point number between x and y with n decimals (for example, {RandomNumber:0.5|1.49|2}
{GUID} placeholder replaced with a GUID (Globally Unique ID) of 32 hex digits (128-bit)
{SETTINGS_LOC}, {SETTINGS_DIR}, {SETTINGS_DRIVE}, etc. placeholders replaced with the path (or part of the path) of the QAP Settings ini file
Hotkeys exclusion:
Https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-block-the-qap-keyboard-shortcuts-if-they-interfere-with-one-of-my-apps/
Under "Options, Launch Advanced Options", add an option to disable/enable ("exclude" or "include only") all QAP keyboard shortcuts (favorites shortcuts, Main and Alternative menus shortcuts and Alternative menus features shortcuts)
High DPI screens:
New hires images for QAP dialog boxes ("Customize", "Welcome" and "Startup Tips") for better display results on high DPI screens (hires images are used when resolution is 144 DPI or higher)
In "Add Favorite - Select Type" dialog box, fix icons alignement on both regular and high DPI screens, and make these icons clickable
Bug fixes:
Fix bug when opening a folder in Windows 11 Explorer when active tab is not the first tab
Fix bug when a macro Snippet is calling another QAP favorite using its hotkey
Prevent editing dynamic menu items with the Alternative menu feature "Edit favorite"
Various improvements:
New JLicons.dll file v1.6.4 (user with PORTABLE installation must overwrite JLicons.dll in the working directory with the file in the ZIP file)
Merge dark mode beta options in "Options, Customize Window" and "Options, Menu Appearance" into a new official option under "Options, General", default to true https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/does-qap-support-windows-dark-mode/
Force QAP theme to "Windows" when dark mode is enabled in QAP and active in Windows
In the "Customize" window, you can now search one or more sequence of characters (for example "qui pop" to search items having "qui" AND "pop" in their name)
New option to expand environment variables in a snippet, in "Add favorite", type "Snippet", "Advanced Settings" tab
In "Special Folders", add "Environment Variables" under the "Power User" section
Add the QAPmessenger command "ShowMenuDynamic" to display QAP Feature dynamic menus ("Recent/Frequent Folders", "Current Windows", "TC Directory Hotlist", "DOpus Favorites", etc.); menus must be present in the QAP menu
When gathering usage statistics, consider "Parameters" (in favorites "Advanced options") to distinguish favorites (before this change, favorites with the same location but with different parameters were counted together)
French, Italian, Korean, German, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files update

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.99.9 Beta (Jan 16, 2023)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.99.7 Beta (Dec 28, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.99.6 Beta (Dec 27, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.10 (Nov 8, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.9 (Oct 28, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.8.1 (Sep 8, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.8 (Aug 30, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.7.9.5 Beta (Aug 21, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.7.9.4 Beta (Aug 8, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.7.9.1 Beta (Aug 1, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.7.1 (Jul 19, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.7.0 (May 26, 2022)

Move or Copy Selected file/folder:
Add QAP Features "Move Selected File" and "Copy Selected File" available in the Alternative menu
Add Alternative menu features "Move Selected File" and "Copy Selected File" to "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys"
Menu Icons:
Add a new option under "Options, Menu Icons" to set "Document Default Icons Replacements"; default document icons are used in QAP dynamic menus (like "Recent Files"), in the "Manage Icons" window and as default icons for new Document favorites; they are normally configured in Windows but you can now override them with your list of custom icons; each custom icon is associated to documents type(s) by their file extension(s), for example "txt=c:my_iconstext_icon.png"; you can specify multiple extensions separated with "+", for example "xlsx+xlsm=c:my_iconexcel_icon.png"
Get Link (URL) favorites default icon from the entry in the Windows Registry for the default browser configured in Windows (instead of using the icon associated to the html file extension)
In "Options, Menu Icons" the "QAP Icon Replacements" list now support image file (.png, .bmp, .gif, .jpg)
New option under "Options, Menu Icons" to set an "Icons custom folder"; this folder is open using a link in the "Select Icon" dialog box
In "Tools, Manage Icons" dialog box, calculate the number of rows considering the screen scaling (making obsolete the "Manage Icons number of rows", now moved to "Various Advanced Options")
In the "Manage Icons" dialog box, make the "Previous" and "Next" buttons easier to access by moving them to the center on each side of the "Close" button
Placeholders:
Process placeholders in the "Launch with" property of Documents, URLs and FTP favorites
New placeholder "{ActiveWindow}" allowing, for example, to open a text file in the active editor when the "Launch with" field of a document contains "{ActiveWindow}"; QAP asks for confirmation before launching the active app
When a Snippet or other favorites contains an {Input:...} placeholder, abort the execution if the input is cancelled or returned empty
Various:
Custom Hotkeys: in "Change shortcut" dialog box, add link to enter a hotkey code or a scan code (SCnnn) manually
Close Menu: if the "Add Close to menu" option is enabled (in "Options, Menus Appearance"), add the "Close menu" item to menus that can be open with a shortcut or a hotstring
QAP Messenger "LaunchFavorite": when launching a favorite from QAPmessenger, detect the last active file manager window and use its location to expand the "current location" placeholders (e.g. {CUR_LOC})
QAP Features: prevent changing the name of the QAP Features "Repeat Last Action" and "Repeat Last Actions" menu to avoid issues caused by some code relying on their unchanged name
Adding File Shortcuts: in "Add Multiple Favorites", when adding file shortcuts (.lnk files) from a folder, add the extracted location instead of location of the shortcut (processing file shortcut properties, like its icon, is not supported at this time)
In "Add Favorite - Select type" dialog box and "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog boxes, replace buttons to navigate between these two dialog boxes with more discrete links
File Dialog Boxes: new code to detect file dialog boxes (please report issues if QAP can't change folder in some file dialog boxes)
Language files updated for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and Korean

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.6.9.4 Beta (May 17, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.6.9.3 Beta (May 10, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.6.9.2 Beta (May 1, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.6.0 (Mar 15, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.5.0 (Mar 1, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.4.9.1 Beta (Feb 26, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.4.0 (Jan 19, 2022)

Autoexecutable favorites or groups
Add the "Launch at startup" option on "Basic tab" of the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for all types of favorites including "Groups" (except "Text Separator" and individual group members)
Press the Shift key while launching QAP to bypass the autoexecution of these favorites
In "Tools, Special Searches", add a new item "Search Favorites Launched at Startup"
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-launch-a-favorite-or-group-of-favorites-at-qap-startup/
Launch QAP favorites from the command line
Add the command "LaunchFavorite" to QAPmessenger tat launches the favorite specified in the second parameter (between double-quotes)
For example, if the favorite "FavName" is in the Main menu, launch it with: C:...QAPmessenger.exe LaunchFavorite "> FavName"
If the favorite "FavName" is in a submenu, launch it with: C:...QAPmessenger.exe LaunchFavorite "> SubMenu1 > SubMenu2 > FavName"
If the favorite name includes ampersand (like "&FavName" or "FavName && Co.c"), make sure you enter them as they appear in the Favorite name
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-file/
Total Commander and Directory Opus side options
The following changes are for users who selected "Directory Opus" (DOpus) or "Total Commander" (TC) in "Options, File Managers"
Add an option in "Options, File Managers" to open favorites of type "Folder" or "Special Folder" in the "Destination" pane
When opening a "Group", add two options to open favorites of types "Folder" or "Special Folder" in the "Active side" or the "Destination" side
Fix an "infinite loop" bug when opening a group in TC when it contains a Special folder (like "My Computer")
In "Options, File managers", when the option "the current TC/DOpus tab" is selected under "File manager preferences", disable the irrelevant options "Use tabs instead of opening a new window" and the side options below this checkbox
Total Commander Directory Hotist
When opening a folder from the QAP Feature "TC Directory Hotlist", open the folder in the active pane and, if specified in WinCmd.ini, open the "Target path" in the target pane
Note: TC commands like cm_OpenDesktop or cm_OpenDrives are currently not supported in QAP TC Directory Hotlist (these entries are skipped in the "TC Directory Hotlist" menu)
Various bug fixes and improvements
Fix issue when calling the "Always on top" QAP Feature from the popup menu on an Explorer.exe window
After executing the "Always on top" command, add a confirmation popup when turning it "On" or when the command fails
Fix a bug when positioning a secondary dialog box when the main window is maximized or close to top-right of a screen
Italian language file update

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.3.9.4 Beta (Jan 16, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.3.9.2 Beta (Jan 13, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.3.9.1 Beta (Jan 11, 2022)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.3.1 (Dec 22, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.3 (Nov 30, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.2.1.2 Beta (Nov 28, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.2.1.1 Beta (Nov 28, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.2.1 (Nov 10, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.2 (Nov 5, 2021)

This release fixes a bug when using drag and drop to move multiple items in the favorites list of the Customize window. Upgrade strongly recommended.
Windows 10 Dark mode compatibility (beta)
Https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=1763
New dark mode option for menus under "Options, Menu appearance" (requires Windows 10 version 1903/build 18362 or more recent)
New dark mode option for "Customize" window under "Options, Customize" (only for the "Customize" window at this time, not other QAP dialog boxes)
Display dark mode "Customize" window and menus if Windows 10 dark mode for apps option is enabled in Windows Settings (Personalization, Colors)
Dark mode compatibility options are released as a "beta" options and could be changed or removed based on users feedback
Known issue: menus including column breaks do not support dark mode
Customize window - Drag and drop
Fix bug in the favorites list when using drag and drop to move more than one favorite at a time
Support drag and drop of multiple favorites with contiguous selection (with Shift+Click) or non-contiguous selection (with Ctrl+Click)
Debugging Placeholders and User variables
Https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#debugging
Add under "Options, Various Advanced Options" an option to display or not the debug option in "Add/Edit Favorites", "Basic Settings" tab
When launching a favorite with debug option enabled, display a dialog box with the location, parameters and start in option with placeholders and user variables expanded
Debug option is available for Folders, Documents, Applications, Links, FTP sites and Snippets (text and macro)
Reusable Input placeholders
Https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-insert-values-in-favorites-location-or-parameters-using-placeholders/#input
When pasting a favorite with a placeholder {Input:Prompt}, place the content entered by the user in a temporary user variable named based on the Input's prompt (e.g. for "{Input:Email?}, the variable name is "{Email?})
This temporary user variable allows to re-use the content entered by the user more than once in the current favorite

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.1 (Oct 25, 2021)

Live Folders:
In "Edit favorite" dialog box, "Live Folders" tab
Add a checkbox "Exclude folders" when "Include documents" is selected (if there are multiple levels of folders, folders are excluded only in the deepest level)
Support wildcards (* and ?) and regular expressions (in addition to a list of extensions) to specify which documents to "Include/Exclude" in Live Folders
Enter extensions separated by spaces (for example "bak bk")
Or wildcards expressions separated by spaces ("*.bak "my file??.ext" *copy*.*")
Or enter a regular expression with "Regex:"
Add a dropdown list to select "Size of icons" in the Live Folders:
Select a custom size (from 16 to 64 pixels)
Inherit the size from the parent menu
Use the default size from "Options, Menu Icons" dialog box
Choose to display no icon in this menu
Groups:
New option "Launch and wait" to enter a delay (in milliseconds) to wait after a favorite in a group is launched before launching the next favorite in the group
For favorite if type "Application" in a group:
New option "Wait until the program finishes" before launching the next favorite in the group
New option "Stop in case of error" to interrupt group opening if an application favorite returns a non-zero error code (show an error message if group opening was stopped)
New option to launch the application in a "Minimized" window
For favorites included in a group, rename the "Menu Options" tab to "Group Member Options"
Increase the optional delay after each group member to a maximum of 999,999,999 ms (167 minutes)
Various:
Add icons in "Add Favorite Type" dialog box
In "Edit Favorite" dialog box for "Link" favorites, under the "Menu Options" tab, add the text box "Enter favicon.ico URL"
When opening a "Document" favorite, if the location does not exist, offer to edit the favorite
Fix bug adding an undesired character at the end of snippets in some situations
Fix bug not opening folder on the specified side when opening a folder with Total Commander
French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and Dutch language files update

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.0.9.2 Beta (Oct 2, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5.0.1 (Sep 27, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.5 (Sep 12, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.4.0.0 (Sep 1, 2021)

SUMMARY:
Search and replace: search values in all the favorites of the selected types (folders, documents, applications, links, FTP sites and snippets) and replace these values (location or content, favorite name, icon resource or parameters fields) one at a time or all in one step.
see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-search-and-replace-values-globally-in-my-favorites/
Special folders: new location codes for some Special Folders allowing to change their location in Windows without breaking the favorite (conversion of existing Special folder favorites is NOT backward compatible).
Multiple improvements in: "Add Multiple Favorites" command, Total Commander support, "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box and Shared menus.
Bug fixes: fix various unnoticed or rarely visible bugs in the "Customize" window, "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Add Multiple Favorites" command, "Options" window, CMD/PowerShell support, Total Commander support and others.
IN DETAIL:
Search and replace:
new menu item "Search and replace" under the "Tools" menu
new "Search and replace" dialog box to search and replace values in location or content, favorite name, icon resource or parameters fields
select the types of favorites included in the search and replace command: Folder, Document, Application, Link (URL), FTP Site and Snippet
in the "Confirmation" dialog box, indicate for each favorite if you want to:
"Find next" favorite (skip this one)
"Replace this favorite"
"Replace all favorites" (all remaining favorites at once)
or "Stop" to interrupt the search and replace command
search starts from the menu currently in "Customize" window and covers all its submenus
the new QAP feature "Search and replace" under the "QAP Menu Editing" section allows to launch the command from your QAP menu
Special Folders:
internal change (in the Settings file) to use new location codes for some Special Folders, allowing to change their location in Windows without breaking the favorite
Special Folders updated are: Common Desktop, Common Start Menu, Common Startup Menu, Desktop, Downloads, History, My Music, My Video, Pictures, Programs Folder (Start Menu), Public Folder, Public Libraries, Quick Launch, Recent Items, Start Menu, Startup, Templates, Temporary Files and Windows directory
replace existing Special Folders favorite's locations with the new codes *** Take note that this conversion is NOT backward compatible. If you need to revert to an older version of QAP, the location for the updated Special Folders will not be recognized in the older version. They will show as "* Unknown Special Folder *" (with a random number to make the menu entry unique) and you will have to re-create these Special Folders entries.
before saving favorites after this conversion, QAP creates a backup named QuickAccessPopup-HOME-backup-special_folders-[date and time].ini
when a desktop.ini hidden file is found in a Special Folder, QAP uses the localized name and the icon defined in this file
two new Special Folders items "Send To" and "System32"
Welcome dialog box:
a new more friendly "Welcome" dialog box is shown at the first QAP launch
it includes buttons to "Save license code or to "Try the free version" and a link to the "QAP First Steps" video
Add Multiple Favorites:
when loading favorites from a "QAP Settings file (flat view)", load all item's properties (parameters, etc.), not only name and location
when adding from "Special Folder" list, stop showing the codes in the "Content" column and show their default names instead
when loading favorites from a "QAP Settings file (tree view)", fix a bug when adding an item in an existing submenu, stop creating a duplicate submenu
Customize window:
fix a bug not updating correctly the menu navigation buttons up/back/forward when the "Customize" window is open from a "Customize" menu item in the QAP menu not located in the Main menu
in the favorites list, fix a bug not enabling the "Save" button if moving a favorite by continuously pressing the up/down button until the top/bottom of the list is reached
in the "Select icon" and "Manage icons" dialog box, replace the next/previous text button with arrow buttons and remove duplicate "Cancel" buttons in "Select icon"
fix a bug when showing the "Customize" window from an external command and when the previous content of the favorites list was a search result
fix a bug in favorites list when using drag and drop to move an item and dropping it beyond the first or last item of the list, sometimes causing an "empty favorite name" error
add the menu item "Share QAP" under "Help" menu to open QAP website referrer page
Add/Edit Favorite dialog box:
for Application favorites, stop updating the short menu name when the location is changed; update the name only when the location is changed using the "Running applications" dropdown list
when adding or editing a favorite in a sorted menu, in the menu options tab, fill the position dropdown list with the read-only message "menu sorted automatically"
when getting the name for a regular favorite folder, check if we can get it from a desktop.ini hidden file, else continue as before and use the last part of the path
fix a bug when trying to open a favorite not found after user selected to edit the favorite
Options:
in "Options, Alternative Menu Hotkeys", rename the button "Reset default modifiers" to "Reset to saved modifiers" (to restore modifiers to their currently saved value) and add a new button "Reset to default modifiers" (to reset the modifiers to their default value)
fix a display bug when opening the "Popup Menu" tab using the link "excluded applications" under the "Popup Hotkeys" tab
Shared menus:
create backups for Shared menus ini file (one per day for the last five days)
the backup is created in the same folder as the Shared menu file except if a value "BackupFolder=" is found under the "[Global]" section of the Shared menu settings file
File managers:
in "Total Commander Directory hotlist", support the hide menu character for submenus
fix bug when the "Total Commander Directory hotlist" is saved in a redirected file
add support for One Commander in QAPconnect file managers
add the most recent QAPconnect-default.ini file to QAP Settings folder if a QAPconnect.ini file already exists
fix a bug when changing the folder in a CMD, PowerShell, ConEmu or Terminal windows and when the file manager preferences is set to "open in the current Windows Explorer window" (or "the current tab")
Various issues:
"Icons larger than expected" issue in the "Select icons" and "Manage icons" dialog boxes: try to solve this intermittent and infrequent issue by setting the size of the icons again when changing page
"Menu keyboard focus issue": after the change in v11.3.0.1 trying to fix this intermittent issue, add a new option in the Settings file that determines if the mouse move is done or not; this option must be inserted in the ini file under the [Global] section, as "MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard=1" to do the mouse move (else, the situation is as in v11.3 and before)
"201 hotkeys have been received in the last 0ms": intermittent and infrequent issue that seems to be caused by the change in v11.3.0.1 for the previous issue; not inserting the value "MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard=1" (or setting it to 0) seems to resolve this issue
Language updates:
Italian, Russian, German, French, Korean, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language translation for search and replace

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.8 Beta (Aug 21, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.8 Beta (Aug 11, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.6 Beta (Jul 29, 2021)

Customize" window bug fixes and improvements:
Fix bug not updating correctly the menu navigation buttons up/back/forward when the "Customize" window is open from "Customize" menu item not located in the Main menu
In the favorites list, fix bug not enabling the "Save" button if moving a favorite by continuously pressing the up/down button until the top/bottom of the list is reached
Remove numeric shortcuts from parts of the favorites list context menu
Rename the favorites list context menu label "Sort this menu" to "Sort this menu (or group)"
Other bugs and improvements:
Fix bug when the option under "File managers" labeled "when opening QAP menu outside Explorer: open folders in the current window" is enabled that was breaking some Alternative menu features
In the "Select icon" dialog box, replace the next/previous text button with arrow buttons and remove duplicate "Cancel" buttons
In the "Manage icons" dialog box, replace the next/previous text button with arrow buttons
Fix error in a SQLite database dialog box message
When editing a favorite from the dialog box shown when a favorite's location is not found, stop showing an error message about not being able to open the favorite
Various issues:
"icons larger than expected" issue in the "Select icons" and "Manage icons" dialog boxes: try to solve an intermittent bug displaying icons larger than the expected size by resizing the icons when changing page
"menu keyboard focus issue": about the fix in v11.3.0.1, add a new option in the settings file (quickaccesspopup.ini) that determines if the mouse move is done or not; for now, this option has to be inserted in the ini file under the [General] section, as "MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard=1" to do the mouse move (else, the situation is as in v11.3 and before; also, a pause of the value of MovePointerAfterHotkeyKeyboard in milliseconds is inserted after the mouse move (this is to try to mitigate the " "201 hotkeys have been received in the last 0ms" error message that seems to be a side effect of the mouse move)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.5 Beta (Jul 20, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.4 Beta (Jun 28, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.3 Beta (Jun 21, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.2 Beta (May 28, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.9.1 Beta (May 22, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.3.0.0 (May 12, 2021)

In short:
Custom icons size for each submenu
Improved "Select Icon" dialog box
Retrieve website icons automatically for favorites links (favicon)
Shortened long paths in "Recent..." and "Frequent..." menus
Tips and tricks shown when you launch QAP
Menu Icons Size:
allow to set custom menu icons size for each submenu
for each menu, a new dropdown list in the "Menu Options" tab of the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, allows to:
select a custom size (from 16 to 64 pixels) for this menu
inherit the size from the parent menu
use the default size from "Options, Menu Icons" dialog box
choose to display no icon in this menu
the Main menu always has the default icon size
Menu Icons Selection:
improve the "Select Icon" dialog box when selecting an icon for a favorite
support for image files (*.png, *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg) in addition to previously supported icon files (*.dll, *.exe, *.ico, *.ocx, *.cpl)
image file (*.png, *.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg) must be square and between 16x16 and 64x64 pixels
support keyboard navigation and selection of menu icons
move links to select banks of icons in dll files (JLicons.dll, Shell32.dll and ImageRes.dll) from the "Edit Favorite" dialog box to the "Select Icon" dialog box
in the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Menu Options" tab, fix a bug if user hits Cancel in "Edit icon resource" dialog box
Startup tips:
tips and tricks shown when you launch QAP- you can choose the interval between tips in "Options, General" or you can browse them as you wish- each tip includes links to dialog boxes or Knowledge Base web pages
Customize window:
keep moving items in favorites list when holding the mouse click on "Up" and "Down" arrow buttons in "Customize" window
Retrieve icon automatically for favorite links:
a new button to retrieve the web site icon (favicon) and assign it to the added or edited favorite (replacing the existing icon if it has one)
website icon images are saved in the folder "icons" under the QAP working directory (it is created the first time if it did not exist)
when adding or editing a favorite of type "Link", rename the button "Get title" to "Get title and icon" and retrieve both
retrieve website icon and webpage title using asynchronous HTTP requests with a timeout after 10 seconds (each) avoiding hanging QAP if the website does not respond
Various:
added a new option in "Options, Menu Appearance" to shorten long paths in "Recent Folders", "Recent Files", "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" menus
for new installations, under the "In the Works" submenu, move the "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus to the top
in the "Free Edition", limit "Frequent Folders", Frequent Files", "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus to 5 enabled items
add two QAP Features "Current Folders" and "Current Applications" to show only open folders or only running applications as an alternatives to the "Current Windows" menu that shows both (add a favorite of type "QAP Feature" and select the category "Dynamic Menus")
when building a menu, prevent the unexpected situation where a favorite would not have a short name for the menu by giving it a temporary name
Translation:
French, Italian, Spanish, German, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Chinese language files updates
fix encoding errors in some translation files

New in Quick Access Popup 11.2.0.3 (Mar 10, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.2.0.2 (Feb 8, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.2.0.1 (Feb 2, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.2 (Feb 1, 2021)

Special Searches:
add the submenu "Special Searches" under the "Tools" menu and move the "Search All Favorites" under this menu
add the "Search Folders, Documents or Applications not found" menu item under "Special Searches"
add the "Search Broken Favorites Links (404)" menu item under "Special Searches"; display progress info while searching for broken links
Drag and Drop:
in the "Customize" window, items can now be moved up or down in a menu using Drag & Drop (thanks to LV_Rows class from Rodolfo U. Batista aka Pulover)
to move a favorite above or below the visible list, drag the mouse over or above the list to scroll its content
Free Edition:
when executed without a license (or with an expired or invalid license), QAP runs with the following limitations:
the total number of items in the menu cannot exceed 100 items;
the total number of items inside Live Folder menus is limited to 50 items;
only one Shared Menu can be included in the menu.
at its first launch, QAP shows information about limitations (user with a license can select "Help, Manage your license" to save their license)
items exceeding the limits will be disabled
the dialog box about limitations is also shown when at least one limit is exceeded
when running in Free mode, the tag "Free" is added to the version number in QAP window title
Improvements:
Saving favorites: optimize saving time by showing a "wait" cursor instead of showing the submenu currently processed
Placeholders: improve retrieving the selected file or folder for the {SEL...} placeholders
Licensing: improve dialog box message when installing a new license and deleting previous license info; for subscription licenses, show license expiration date in "About" dialog box
Check for update: in the dialog box show only the download button for the current installation (Easy Setup or Portable ZIP)
Changing folder in a dialog box: improve changing folder in applications having more that one text field in the "Open" or "Save As" dialog boxes (technical note: when identifying the Edit control used to change folder, use the control having the focus if it is an Edit control, else use the control "Edit1" as before; this fixes an issue in UltraEdit and other app's file dialog boxes)
"About" dialog box: redesign the "About Quick Access Popup" dialog box and add credits for contributors
Bug fixes:
"Customize" window:
fix bug when showing hand cursor when the mouse hovers some of the window buttons
fix a bug retrieving the web page title when adding a Link favorite using the command "Add Active Folder or Web Page Express"
fix bug when moving favorites up or down in the list to also move the dates and stats columns content if the "Display dates and stats columns" option is enabled
fix bug when saving the options after the maximum number of Live folder items was exceeded
fix bug when selecting the "Customize" menu item from the QAP tray menu while the QAP main window is open with a search result
Launching favorites:
send hotstring ending character when executing a snippet in macro mode
fix a bug retrieving the current location for {CUR...} placeholders when the current location is the Desktop
Startup:
fix bug causing error message at startup when Special folders locations was changed
Language update:
German, French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Deutsh language files language update for v11.2
Spanish and Chinese language update for v11
remove obsolete translations in Russian and Chinese language files

New in Quick Access Popup 11.1.0.9.6 Beta (Jan 28, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.1.0.9.5 Beta (Jan 24, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.1.0.9.3 Beta (Jan 19, 2021)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.1.0 (Dec 2, 2020)

Exclusions in Recent/Frequent menus:
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-filter-out-items-in-current-windows-recent-or-frequent-menus
Add new section "Menu Exclusions" under the "Options" menu with zones for folders and files exclusions in "Recent" or "Frequent" menus
Move the "Current Windows Exclusions" option from "Various Advanced Options" to "Menu Exclusions"
Filter out items in "Recent Folders" and "Frequent Folders" if their path is under one of the items in the "Folder Exclusions" list of the "Menu Exclusions" options
Filter out items in "Recent Files" and "Frequent Files" if their path is under one of the items in "Folder Exclusions" or if their extensions is one of the items in "Files Exclusion" of the "Menu Exclusions" options
Support wildcards * and ? when filtering files and folder in "Frequent" and "Recent" menus
Add Multiple favorites / Import Favorites:
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-add-multiple-favorites-in-one-click/
Add a new source in "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites" named "QAP Settings File (tree view)" allowing to import favorites by selecting the menus or submenus to import
This imports favorites of any types from the selected .ini file with all their properties
Rename existing source from "QAP Settings File (items)" to "QAP Settings File (flat view)" to distinguish it from the new source
This new feature replaces the "Import Favorites" with a stronger validation against duplicate favorite names
In "File, Import/Export Settings", disable the "Favorites" checkbox and add a button "Import Favorites" opening the "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box with the source "QAP Settings File (tree view)"
Various improvements:
Support comments in user variables list; any lines not starting with { is treated as a comment
Add the "Suspend Hotkeys" menu to QAP System menu (right-click on the QAP icon) and keep it under the "Tools" menu
In the "Options, Customize Window" section, add the new checkbox "When saving a favorite, check if an existing favorite has the same location or content"
When replacing an hotstring trigger with a snippet's content, by default keep the ending character (this is an new behaviour for existing snippets with hotstrings)
Add the hotstring option "Omit the ending character when pasting snippets" for situations where the user wants the ending character to be removed when pasting a snippet (applicable only to hotstrings for "Text Mode" snippets
When saving a favorite, if its location does not exist, offer to save the favorite anyway (default is No)
When expanding user variables in locations or elsewhere, also expand environment variables embedded inside user variables
Do not open "Add/Edit Favorites" and other dialog boxes inside the "Customize" window while favorites are being saved (preventing save errors in some situations)
In the "Add/Edit Favorites" for menu and shared menus, save space (needed when editing a shared menu) by moving the automatic sort options to a new dialog box
Display extended error codes in case of SQLite database error
Bug fixes:
Fix bug to enable the "Save" button in "Add Multiple favorites" dialog box when selecting all items
Fix bug when adding multiple favorites in an empty destination menu
Fix bug when escaping the "Change Hotstring" dialog box and fix bug when loading favorites in "Manage Hotstrings" dialog box with "See all favorites" option enabled
Fix minor display bug and delete temporary files when cancelling the save license process
Language update:
German, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese and French language files update
Looking for translators to update Spanish and Russian language files

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.7.1 (Nov 14, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.7 (Nov 11, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.6.9.3 Beta (Nov 10, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.6.9.2 Beta (Nov 9, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.6.9.1 Beta (Nov 3, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.6.1 (Oct 31, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.6 (Oct 31, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.5.1 (Oct 30, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.5.0 (Oct 24, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.3.0 (Oct 20, 2020)

New licensing system replacing the sponsor codes with various paid licenses and a free edition
Add multiple favorites in one step: folders, documents, applications, Special Folders or QAP Features to a specified submenu or group
Improvements to: Customize window, Live folders, Windows Terminal support, Directory Opus and Total Commander support
License processing:
Implement a new licensing system replacing the sponsor codes; new licenses are available for a modest price and a free edition is also available
When users launch QAP without a valid license, it displays the "Manage License" dialog box where users can get a license on QAP website or to enter their license they
The "Help, Manage your license" menu in the "Customize" window allows to manage the license on QAP website (using a password sent when getting the license), remove installations, etc.
The "About" dialog box now displays the license info with a link to copy the info to the Clipboard
The new QAP feature "Manage License" allows to insert this feature anywhere in your QAP menu
New license text in the "About" dialog box, setup file and portable zip file
Add Multiple Favorites:
A new menu "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites" in the "Cuszomize" window allows to add various favorites to a menu or group in one step;
Multiple favorites sources are:
add favorites folders or applications from the "Current Windows";
add items from the "Recent Folders" or the "Recent Files";
add items from the "Frequent Folders" or the "Frequent Files";
add multiple QAP Features or Special Folders;
add folders, documents or applications favorites from a selected folder;
add any favporites from any QAP settings file.
The list in the "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box can be filtered by keywords or sorted
Optionally a checkbox excludes from the list the favorites already found in the QAP menu
Customize window:
Right-click entries in the favorites list of the "Customize" window to open a contextual menu allowing to "Add", "Edit", "Remove", "Copy" or "Move" the selected favorite(s)
Live Folders:
In favorites folders with "Live folder" option enabled, the option "Refresh this Live Folder menu only with the command 'Refresh Live Folders'" will prevent refreshing this live folder menu each time the menu is refreshed
Allow "Live folder" option in favorite folders inside groups
Various improvements:
Replace the old (an unfriendly) Windows "Select Folder" dialog box with a more workable dialog box (thanks to Flipeador) where the folder can be changed with the QAP menu
For Directory Opus and Total Commander users, add an option in "Options, File Managers" section to set the default side (lister or pane) for new tabs to "Left" (or top), "Right" (or botton) or "Active side"
Add support for the Windows app "Windows Terminal" (with same features as for CMD command line or PowerShell)
Optimize the menu refresh when items are on an offline network drive (UNC)
In portable ZIP file, update readme.txt file and merge Update_instructions.txt
Small bug fixes:
Fix bug not removing the small status popup window when using the "Refresh Live Folders and Shared menus" command
Fix bug when saving changes to the properties of a Shared menu
Translation:
German, Italian, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese, Korean and French language files update for v11

New in Quick Access Popup 11.0.0.0 (Oct 17, 2020)

SUMMARY:
New licensing system replacing the sponsor codes with various paid licenses and a free edition
Add in one step multiple folders, documents, applications, Special Folders or QAP Features to a specified submenu or group
Improvements to: Customize window, Livefolders, Windows Terminal support, Directory Opus and Total Commander support
License processing:
Implement a new licensing system replacing the sponsor codes; new licenses are available for a modest price and a free edition is also available
(more info: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=1208)
When users launch QAP without a valid license, it displays the "Manage License" dialog box where users can get a license on QAP website or to enter their license they
The "Help, Manage your license" menu in the "Customize" window allows to manage the license on QAP website (using a password sent when getting the license), remove installations, etc.
The "About" dialog box now displays the license info with a link to copy the info to the Clipboard
The new QAP feature "Manage License" allows to insert this feature anywhere in your QAP menu
New license text in the "About" dialog box, setup file and portable zip file
Add Multiple Favorites:
A new menu "Favorite, Add Multiple Favorites" in the "Cuszomize" window allows to add various favorites to a menu or group in one step;
Multiple favorites sources are:
Add favorites folders or applications from the "Current Windows";
Add items from the "Recent Folders" or the "Recent Files";
Add items from the "Frequent Folders" or the "Frequent Files";
Add multiple QAP Features or Special Folders;
Add folders, documents or applications favorites from a selected folder;
Add any favporites from any QAP settings file.
The list in the "Add Multiple Favorites" dialog box can be filtered by keywords or sorted
Optionally a checkbox excludes from the list the favorites already found in the QAP menu
Customize window:
Right-click entries in the favorites list of the "Customize" window to open a contextual menu allowing to "Add", "Edit", "Remove", "Copy" or "Move" the selected favorite(s)
Live Folders:
In favorites folders with "Live folder" option enabled, the option "Refresh this Live Folder menu only with the command 'Refresh Live Folders'" will prevent refreshing this live folder menu each time the menu is refreshed
Allow "Live folder" option in favorite folders inside groups
Various improvements:
Replace the old (an unfriendly) Windows "Select Folder" dialog box with a more workable dialog box (thanks to Flipeador) where the folder can be changed with the QAP menu
For Directory Opus and Total Commander users, add an option in "Options, File Managers" section to set the default side (lister or pane) for new tabs to "Left" (or top), "Right" (or botton) or "Active side"
Add support for the Windows app "Windows Terminal" (with same features as for CMD command line or PowerShell)
Optimize the menu refresh when items are on an offline network drive (UNC)
In portable ZIP file, update readme.txt file and merge Update_instructions.txt
Small bug fixes:
Fix bug not removing the small status popup window when using the "Refresh Live Folders and Shared menus" command
Fix bug when saving changes to the properties of a Shared menu
Translation:
German, Italian, Protuguese-Brazil, Portuguese, Korean and French language files update for v11

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.9.7 Beta (Oct 10, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.9.6 Beta (Oct 3, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.6 (Aug 24, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.5 (Aug 14, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.4 (Jul 21, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.9.3 Beta (Jul 13, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.3 (Jul 12, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.9.1 Beta (Jul 4, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.2 (Jun 28, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.1 (Jun 19, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.5.0 (Jun 13, 2020)

Six new Windows Special Folders favorites:
New QAP Special Folders entries...
In "Basic" section: "Windows Search"
In "Power User" section: "Notification Area Icons", "Task Manager", "Disk Management"
In "Sysadmin" section: "Event Viewer" and
In "Hardware" section: "Computer Management"
Do use these new items, add them to your menu by adding a favorite of type "Special Folder" (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-add-windows-special-folders-to-my-menu/)
Automatic sorting of submenus (in "Edit Favorite" dialog box for iems of types "Menu" or "Shared menu"):
New option allowing to automatically sort favorites in the menu
Sort by "Name", "Type", "Hotkey", "Location or content", "Created date", "Modified date" and, if the QAP database is enabled, by "Last used date" or "Usage" level
Open a subfolder automatically (in "Edit Favorite" dialog box, "Advanced Settings" tab):
New option for favorites of type "Folder" to open automatically one of its subfolder based on its date
Open the most recently or most anciently created, modified or accessed subfolder
For more info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-advanced-options-for-favorite-folders/
Favorites list in Customize window:
In "Options, Customize Window", a new option to display additional columns in the favorites list: last modification date, creation date, last usage date and usage level (the same options also applies to the search result list)
A new "Sort" button on the left side of the "Customize" window opens a popup menu allowing to sort the favorites in the displayed menu by any column (this does a one-time sorting in regular submenus or change the sort criteria in automatically sorted menus)
In the "Sort" menu, two additional entries allow to edit the current menu and access the "Customize Window" options
Right-clicking in the favorites list, open the "Sort" menu allowing to sort the items or access the "Edit this menu" or "Customize Window Options" dialog boxes
Various bug fixes:
Fix a bug in the installer (setup mode only) when checking for the Explorer context menu option
When adding a favorite with the "Add Active Folder or Web page Express" command or with the context menu entries "Add Folder/File to QAP menu Express", make the ampersands "&" visibles automatically in favorite name by doubling them ("&&")
Fix bug when setting the submenu for items added from context menu entries "Add Folder/File to QAP menu Express" or other QAPmessenger commands
Fix bug updating the created date and last modified date when saving favorites and when converting UTC time to local time (and, at load time, fill the empty dates with current date-time for items that were not filled previously because of this bug)
Various improvements:
Add support for ConEmu (a console emulator) similar to support for Windows Console (command line) and PowerShell (https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-change-folder-in-windows-command-line-cmd-or-powershell/)
New JLicon.DLL icon file v1.6 with icons used in "Customize" window "Sort" popup menu to flag the current sort criteria
In "Options", the "Show QAP menu" option from "Customize Window" option was moved to the "Menu Advanced Options" section
Feature removed: "Starting number" option in Shared menus files is now not supported (this option has been deprecated since v8.1.9.1)
Update French, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (fix some file encoding errors in this language), Russian, German, Italian, Dutch and Chinese language files for v10.5

New in Quick Access Popup 10.4.2 (May 9, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.4.1.1 (May 2, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.4 (Apr 19, 2020)

IN SHORT:
COPY and MOVE SUBMENUS and groups
IMPROVED SEARCH tool with more actions on found items and optional advanced view
Improved navigation in submenus, groups and search results
Other various improvements, including new Russian language
More info: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what_s_new-in-v10_4/
Copy and move submenus and groups:
allow to copy a single submenu or group and its contents (moving was already possible)
allow to copy or move multiple submenus or groups and all their contents (using shift+click or ctrl+click to select multiple items)
when copying or moving favorites, add [!] to their name when an existing favorite has the same name (instead of aborting the copy/move)
Search:
improved "Search" tool in the "Customize" window
add three buttons on the left side of the Search result:
"Sort" button to sort by any search result column
"View menu" button to open a popup menu with the favorites currently in the search result (duplicate menu names are appended with the "[!]" suffix to make them unique)
"Open submenu" to open in the Customize window the submenu containing the selected item in the search result
when editing a favorite from the search result, stay in the search result (instead of changing the menu to the edited favorite as before)
allow to move multiple favorites from search result (multiple copy was already possible)
show all favorites in the search result when selecting the new menu item "Search All Favorites" under the "Tool" menu of the "Customize" window or when setting the search filter to "{All}"
in "Extended search", also search based on the favorite's menu path
when searching favorites in the "Customize" window, use the locale settings making (e.g. "�" considered as "e")
when favorite names include an ampersand (&) as a keyboard shortcut, search names wtih or without the ampersand
New Options for Search tool:
add an option in "Customize Window" section to set the "Search scope" to all favorites from main menu (default) or ton only favorites under the menu currently displayed in the "Customize" window
add an option to display additional columns in search result with dates and statistical info: date modified, date created, last usage date and usage frequency (QAP must me restarted after changing this option)
when QAP window is maximized and showing additional columns, squeeze larger columns to show all columns in the available space
do not display last used and usage stats columns if database disabled
add an option in section "Customize Window" to make the use locale settings optional when searching favorites (default enabled)
Previous/Next arrows:
in the "Customize" window, add "Next" arrow in addition to the "Previous" arrow, allowing to browse backward and forward in QAP already visited menus, groups or search results
add hotkeys Shift+Ctrl+Left to return to previous menu and Shift+Ctrl+Right move forward in visited menus in the "Customize" window
display the list of menu and groups already visited in the previous/next menus when hovering these arrows buttons
Various:
when saving a new, edited or copied favorite, alert user if an existing favorite in any submenu has the same location and some other properties
when clicking the "Sort" button in the "Customize" window, sort favorites based on user's locale setting (taking into account all non-English characters)
in the "Customize" window, add an icon on the bottom left side to open a popup menu with the favorites in the menu or group currently displayed
add the QAP feature "Favorites in Customize window" to show a menu with the current content (a sumenu, a group or a search result) of the "Customize" window (this dynamic menu can only be added to the "Main" menu)
Bug fixes:
fix bug when activating a running application instead of relaunching it if this option is selected in Application favorites
fix bug playing favorite's sound
fix bug when launching with the "Run as administrator" option enabled
fix various other minor bugs
Language:
add Russian language file
update of language files for German, French, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch language and Simplified Chinese languages (still looking for new a Spanish translator)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.9.11 Beta (Mar 29, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.9.10 Beta (Mar 20, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.6 (Mar 9, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.9.9 Beta (Mar 9, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.9.8 Beta (Mar 5, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.5 (Mar 1, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.9.6 Beta (Feb 9, 2020)

Copy and move submenus and groups:
Allow to copy or move multiple submenus or groups and all their contents
Allow to copy a single submenu or group and its contents (moving was already possible)
When copying or moving favorites, add [!] to their name when an existing favorite has the same name (instead of aborting the copy/move)
Search:
New "Search" implementation in "Customize" window with improved usability
When editing a favorite from the search result, stay in the search result (instead of changing the menu to the edited favorite as before)
Search result can be sorted by clicking the sort button on left side of the "Customize" window
In search results, add an icon on the left side to open a menu with the favorites currently in the search result (duplicate menu names are appended with the "[!]" suffix to make them unique)
Add another icon to open the menu containing the selected item
Allow to move multiple favorites from search result (multiple copy was already possible)
Show all favorites in the search result when the filter is set to "{All}" and add a menu item "Search All Favorites" under the "Tool" menu of the "Customize" window
In extended search, also search based on the menu path and stop searching in location for QAP features (as QAP feature code names are internal names)
When favorite names include an ampersand (&) as a keyboard shortcut, search the filter string in names w/o the ampersand
Fix bug when hitting Escape in search mode, close the search box instead of closing the "Customize" window
Customize Window Options:
Add an option to set the search scope for all favorites from main menu (default) or only for favorites under the menu currently displayed in the "Customize" window
Add an option to display additional columns in search result with statistical info (usage frequency, last usage date, date modified and date created)
Previous/Next arrows:
Add "Next" arrow in additon to the "Previous", allowing to browse backward and forward in QAP menus, groups or search results
Add hotkeys Shift+Ctrl+Left to return to previous menu and Shift+Ctrl+Right move forward in visited menus
Skip previous/next menu items if they has been removed since they were added to the previous/next stacks
Display the list of menu and groups in previous/next menus when hovering the arrows
Various:
In the "Customize" window, add an icon on the bottom left side to open a menu with the favorites in the menu or group currently displayed
Add the QAP feature "Favorites in Customize window" to show a menu with the current content (a sumenu, a group or a search result) of the "Customize" window (this dynamic menu can only be added to the Main menu)
Update the menus dropdown list in "Customize" window after submenus or groups were moved using up/down arrows
Lock window display during favorites loading and when closing the app
Fix bug when updating usage stats displayed in menu and "Customize window"

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.4 (Feb 7, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.3 (Jan 18, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.2 (Jan 1, 2020)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.3.1 (Dec 23, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.2.9.3 Beta (Nov 21, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.2.9.2 Beta (Nov 19, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.2.2 (Nov 11, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.2.1 (Nov 5, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.2 (Oct 29, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 10.1.1 (Oct 21, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.5.3.0 (Aug 25, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.5.2.0 (Jul 15, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.5.1.0 (Jul 15, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.9.2 Beta (Jul 11, 2019)

Settings window menu bar:
add a menu bar with "File", "Favorite", "Tools", "Options" and "Help" menus
make these menus available from the the QAP system menu (right click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
remove from Settings window various buttons for features and links now available in the menu bar
remove program title/version at the top of window (keep it in the window title)
Settings window keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl-O opens the new Options window
Ctrl-E edits selected item (menu or favorites)
Ctrl-Right now changes the menu in Settings window if a menu is selected or opens the selected favorite
Settings window various improvements:
hide the Search box under the submenus dropdown list and add a Search button to show the Search box (the "X" button shows the submenu dropdown list)
the Search box now filters items from current menu instead of from the top menu (main)
in items list, remove the "parent menu" item ("..") and make parent menu (up) and previous menu (back) arrows more visible
add an option under "General" section of the "Options" dialog box to open the "Settings" window at startup (default on)
when saving a favorite of types folder, document or application, check if the file exists (except if location includes a placeholder {...})
give feedback to user if a Sort command must stop at a line or column separator
Settings Folder:
(these changes impact only users who installed QAP using the Setup executable file)
for new installations, the default Settings Folder is now under "My DocumentsQuick Access Popup" (instead of user's AppData folder)
the Settings Folder is registered in user's registry under "HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareJean LalondeWorkingFolder"
Settings Folder can be changed in "Options", "General" section, with dialog box asking if user wants to copy actual settings to the new folder or use the settings already in this new location (or create new settings, if necessary)
after the Settings Folder content is copied, if an error is detected, display an error message; if it succeeded, confirm it and inform user that the original files were *not* deleted
Sponsoring:
new dialog box to enter Sponsor code and add the "Enter your sponsor code" menu item to "Help" menu
Donor code must now matched the sponsor's name displayed at bottom of Settings window (the sponsor name cannot be changed except to change upper/lower case of name)
remove donation reminders shown at startup for users who did not make a donation
display a sponsoring reminder when launching a new release for the first time (not in beta releases), for portable installation only (setup installation see a reminder in the setup program)
Install/Uninstall:
Setup mode: use the Registry Run key to set QAP as a startup program (delete old startup file shortcut)
Setup mode: when uninstalling QAP, delete from Registry the QAP Run key and QAP Settings Folder key
Portable mode: keep startup file shortcut
Various changes:
when in portable mode, add "Run at Startup" menu in QAP system menu (right click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
in "Options" dialog box, show "Sponsor this software" button only if user is not a sponsor
when switching Settings file, stop asking for confirmation
stop display submenus in a popup when refreshing some menus
support environment variables (like %TEMP%) in temporary, working and backup folders
Internal changes:
implement object oriented data model (using classes, etc.) for favorites data
keyboard shortcut in QAP menus or dialog boxes (using ampersand "&") are now assigned automatically in any language (except Korean and Chineese); this will simplify the insertion of ampersands (&) in these labels when translating labels
Bug fixes:
fix bug ampersand lost in Recent items when numeric shortcuts are enabled
fix bug about Total Commander ini file not found when saving options
clean up temporary folders older than 7 days not deleted when quitting QAP (as it should be normally done)
fix bug when launching a folder with Directory Opus as active file manager but when DOpus is not running, launch DOpus keeping previously saved folders

New in Quick Access Popup 9.5.0.0 (Jun 12, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.5 (Feb 28, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.4 (Feb 18, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.3 (Feb 15, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.2 (Jan 21, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.1 (Jan 10, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.1.0 (Jan 4, 2019)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.4.0.0 (Dec 24, 2018)

Note: User installing the portable version (ZIP file) must update the JLicons.dll file to v1.5. *
Opening Explorer windows on multi-monitor systems
If the default file manager in "File Managers" tab is Windows Explorer, the tab includes a new option "On a multi-monitor system, always open the Explorer window on the active monitor" when system has more than one monitor
Detect the active monitor based on the mouse position (if favorite folder was launched with mouse trigger) or else based on the active window position
Maximize folder on multiple-monitors systems
Show the "Window Options" tab in "Add/Edit favorite" dialog box for favorites of types Folder, Special and FTP when Explorer or Total Commander is the active file manager (Directory Opus users should use DOpus Layouts instead)
When, in the "Window Options" tab, the window state is "Maximized" or "Minimized", allow to select on which monitor to open the new Explorer or Total Commander window (monitor 1 by default)
QAP windows position
On "General" tab of the "Options" window, new option "Open Settings window on Active monitor" to open the QAP "Settings" window on the active monitor when system has more than one monitor
Detect the active monitor based on mouse or active window position
Always position other QAP windows relative to the center of the main "Settings" window or of their parent window
Remember width of the "Add/Edit/Copy/Move Favorite" window in ini file (useful when menu paths become long)
Remove tray menu command to "Restore dialog box position"
Add the "TryWindowPosition=1" option in quickaccesspopup.ini to show the "Add/Edit Favorite" tab "Window Options" for favorite types "Document", "Application", "URL" and "Windows Apps"; but there is no official support for these options because most applications for these favorite types block window positioning; you can try this option and... all the better if it works for some apps!
QAP icons
New version of JLicons.dll v1.5 with new icons for the QAP app itself (regular icon, loading icon, admin icon, etc.)
Use icons QAP loading, QAP master and QAP beta from JLicons.dll instead of from the QAP temporary folder
JLicons.dll v1.5 also includes improved "Live Folder" and "Live Folder opened" icons
Other changes and bug fixes
In "Options", "Basic" tab, add the option "Main settings file backup folder" to select a destination folder for backups of the main settings file (quickaccesspopup.ini); backup are created only for main ini file; Shared menu settings files and Alternative settings files (open with the "Switch Settings file...") are still backuped in their own folder
In "Live Folders" and in "Add/Edit Favorite", when resolving a Windows File Shortcut (.lnk file) that does not return a target location, keep the .lnk file name as location
Add copyright and company name, and update description in file version info of QAP executable and setup files
Update language files for French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Portuguese and Korean
Version: 9.3.2.1 (2018-12-11)
In "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for type Snippet, moved "Fix width font" and "Font size" controls under the content box
Fix bug introduced in v9.3.2 when moving a favorite of types Folder, Document or Application or when copying multiple favorites of the same types
Fix other small bugs
Update Portuguese language file

New in Quick Access Popup 9.3.2.1 (Dec 12, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.3.2 (Dec 9, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.3.1 (Nov 23, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.3.0 (Nov 21, 2018)

[ update is STRONGLY recommended for v9.2.x users and recommended for all other users ]
Directory Opus Favorites menu:
Add the new QAP feature "Directory Opus Favorites" under the "Dynamic Menus" category
At first QAP launch, add the QAP feature "Directory Opus Favorites" to main menu if DOpus is selected as supported manager (NOTE: users upgrading to this release must add the QAP feature manualy)
Fix bug when opening a group of folders in Directory Opus and DOpus is not launched, or when the first group item is not a folder
Total Commander Hotlist menu:
When builing Total Commander Hotlist menu, support path redirected by "RedirectSection=" value under [DirMenu] (in addition to supporting "AlternateUserIni=" under [Configuration]), with path relative to folder of wincmd.ini
At first QAP launch, detect Total Commander ini file location and save it to the settings file
Fix bug when opening a group of folders in Total Commander when the first group item is not a folder
Various improvements:
Add the option "Start Numeric Menu Shortcuts at 1 (instead of 0)" in "Options", "Menu" tab
Add "Refresh Live Folders and Shared menus" and "Open QAP working directory" items to Tray menu (QAP system menu)
Always close the "Update Quick Access Popup" dialog box after any buttons is clicked
Change QAP icon to gray "loading" icon at the beginning of QAP load sequence and set the normal blue icon when loading is complete and menu can be open
Performance improvements:
When checking if a path in Windows Recent Items is a document, if path is on a server (starting with "\"), check if server is offline and if yes avoid trying to retreive info from the file
When checking if a file in Windows Recent Items exists, if path is on a server, return that file does not exist if server is offline
Stop refreshing the Windows Apps list at each startup, do it at first QAP launch before adding the "My Windows Apps" menu to ini file, on demand when user adds a Windows App favorite or when RefreshWindowsAppsListAtStartup=1 in settings file
When refreshing the "Clipboard" menu, do not refresh the menu if the Clipboard size is greater than 10,000 bytes to avoid too long delay before showing the menu (the maximum value can be changed using "ClipboardMaxSize=" in settings file)
Bug fixes:
Fix bug in "Options", stop changing the QAP temporary folder from %TEMP% to QAP working folder by error
After Settings import, reset the QAP temporary folder to %TEMP% to avoid dependency on local folder from other system
Fix bug in "Settings" tool tips labels were inversed for "Sort" and "Always on top" buttons

New in Quick Access Popup 9.2.1 (Oct 23, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.2.0.1 (Oct 10, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.2 (Oct 3, 2018)

Frequent Items QAP Features:
new "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" QAP Features showing a menu with the ten most frequently used folders or files (excluding folders or files not found) sorted by frequency
categorize "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" QAP Features under the section "Dynamic Menus" of the QAP features list in the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
if, in early usage, "Frequent Folders" and "Frequent Files" menus are incomplete, a notice is added to explain that the menus will improve with QAP usage
Frequent Items menus options:
reorganize "Options" dialog box tabs: remove "Exclusions" tab and add the "More" tab with buttons for "Exclusions list", "Frequent Items Dabatase" and "User Variables" options dialog boxes
in the "Frequent Items Database" options dialog box:
show QAP Privacy Statement
enable/disable Frequent Items database checkbox
collection interval for Windows Recent Items (in seconds, minimum 60, default 60)
number of days covered by the Frequent Items menus (default 30 days)
maximum size of the database in MB, decimal values allowed (default 3 MB)
checkbox to show the favorites frequency index in Frequent Items menus and in "Settings" window
button to "Flush Recent Items database"
Frequent Items database technical notes:
a background task collects (for user's usage only) Windows Recent Items and QAP usage in an SQLite local database named QAP_Frequent.DB
QAP is now distributed with files sqlite3.dll and sqlite3.def (32-bit or 64-bit - appropriate version is used according to user's system)
when maximal database size is exceeded, QAP removes oldest items until the maximal size minus 10% is respected
when exiting QAP, it creates a backup of the database under the name QAP_Frequent.DB-BK, always overwriting the previous copy (this allows scheduled backup programs to copy the backup file even when the live database is locked by QAP)
"In the Works" menu:
at first launch of QAP, a new "In the Works" menu is added to Main menu including items "Frequent Folders", "Frequent Files", "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Current Windows" (aka "Switch")
this menu is added at the top of Main menu for new users or at the bottom of Main menu for users upgrading to v9.2+
assign to the "In the Works" menu the QAP icon and the Shift + Control + W shortcut
users upgrading to v9.2 can remove the duplicates "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Current Windows" (aka "Switch") items previously in the "My QAP Essentials" menu
Recent Items menus:
"Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" are now refreshed from the Frequent Items database (keeping the previous method if Frequent Items database is disabled)
Recent Items menus are now always attached to the Main menu (because they are now built more reliably from the database)
PLACEHOLDERS:
New {Clipboard} and {SEL_LOC} Placeholders
the new "{Clipboard}" placeholder can be used to insert in favorites paths and snippets content the current content of the Windows Clipboard (if it contains text)
the new placeholders "{SEL_LOC}" inserts in favorites paths and snippets the path of the item currently under the mouse pointer or the item selected in the the file manager window
the "{SEL_LOC}" placeholder variants are: "{SEL_LOC}" (full path), "{SEL_NAME}" (file name only), "{SEL_DIR}" (directory), "{SEL_EXT}" (extension), "{SEL_NOEXT}" (file name without extension) and "{SEL_DRIVE}" (drive letter)
the "{SEL_LOC}" placeholder is supported when using Windows Explorer and Directory Opus (this feature is currently not available in Total Commander)
Improved Placeholders:
replace all placeholders ("{Clipboard}", "{LOC}", "{CUR_LOC}" and "{SEL_LOC}" and their variants) in favorite's "Location", "Parameters" and "Start In" fields (for all types of favorites supporting these options)
also replace these placeholders in Windows Apps parameters
Placeholders in Snippets:
placeholders "{Clipboard}", current location "{CUR_LOC}", selected item "{SEL_LOC}" and their variants are now replaced in Snippet content
placeholders can be inserted in both in "Text" and "Macro" modes Snippets
when displaying a prompt before launching a Snippet, placeholders in prompt text are expanded
tip: if a Snippet includes a location placeholder, use the "Prompt before launching the snippet" option in "Advanced Settigns" to allow moving from the Explorer window to the window where the snippet must be pasted
tip: if you need to insert the name of a placeholder "as-is" in a Snippet, preceeds the opening bracket with backtick (eg: "`{Clipboard}")
User Variables and Cloud Drives Placeholders:
user variables are custom placeholders that can be inserted in favorites properties and snippet content
the button "User Variables" under the "More" tab of the "Options" dialog box opens the "User Variables" dialog box
at its first launch (or when user variables list is empty), QAP creates user variables for these cloud drives (if detected): "{Dropbox}", "{Google Drive}", "{OneDrive}" (SkyDrive) and "{iCoudDrive}"
VARIOUS:
Improvements:
allow sorting of favorites list when filtered using the Search field
language of QAPmessenger v1.2 (used to send Windows Explorer contect menu commands to QAP) is now translated
when an error message is displayed because a Shared menu ini file is not found, offer to skip future error messages for this Shared menu file
add "NeverQuotes=1" to QAPconnect file manager properties to skip enclosing of location path between double-quotes when it includes space(s)
rename the QAP feature "Switch" to "Current Windows"
Language:
update of Brazilian Portugueze, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish language files
language files include text of QAP Messenger v1.2

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.11 Beta (Sep 23, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.10 Beta (Sep 15, 2018)

Popular Menus:
Reorganize "Options" dialog box tabs:
Remove "Exclusions" tab
Add "More" tab with buttons for "Exclusions list" and "Popular Menus Dabatase" options dialog boxes
Options for "Popular Menus Database":
Enable Popular Menus database checkbox
Recent items collection interval (in seconds, minimum 60, default 60)
Number of days to take into account in Popular Menus (default 30)
Maximum size of the database in MB (default 1)
Checkbox to show popularity index in Popular Menus and Settings window
Button to Flush Popular Menus database
Privacy statement
SQLite files are not required if Popular Menus Database option is disabled
If Popular Menus database is disabled, recent items are collected directly from Windows when refreshing the Recent items menus
When building Popular Menus, hide files or folders not found
Implement number of days taken into account when building the Popular Menus
When launching QAP, delete 10% oldest entries of Popular Menus database if its size exceeds the maximum value
For this release only:
Convert dates columns in database to SQLite date format (for users of previous beta releases, this could take a few minutes the first time you execute this version of QAP)
Rename database file from "QAP_Usage.DB" to "QAP_Popular.DB" after dates are converted (keep old file as backup)
IMPORTANT: users of previous beta v9.1.9.x versions MUST RUN THIS VERSION to keep their historical data (if they don't, the next version of QAP will create a new, empty database)
Placeholders:
In "Basic Settings" and "Advanced Settings" tab of "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, replace placeholders help text with links to FAQ on web site
In Snippet "Basic Settings" tab, add a link for placeholder help
When using placeholders "{SEL_...}", get selected file in DOpus using a more reliable DOpus internal command (DOpusRt)
Remove support for selected file in Total Commander because this was not enough reliable
Display an error message if user try to use selected file placeholders in Total Commander or in a dialog box
When displaying prompt before launching a Snippet, expand placeholders in prompt text for current location "{CUR_...}" and selected item "{SEL_...}"
Other:
Fix bug in shortcut of "Popular Folders" and "Popular Files" menus
Fix bug when using Popular Menus QAP features in other language than English
Update QAP Messenger v1.1.9 BETA: English language for QAPmessenger that can now be localized; only French translation is included in this release

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.2 (Sep 11, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.9 Beta (Sep 8, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.8 Beta (Sep 6, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.7 Beta (Sep 4, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.6 Beta (Aug 31, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.5 Beta (Aug 28, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.9.4 Beta (Aug 27, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.1 (Aug 24, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.1.0 (Aug 13, 2018)

Windows Apps
Support Windows Apps (downloaded from Windows Store or pre-installed in Windows 10, also called Metro Apps under Windows 8, Universal Applications, UWP applications)
Automatically add the submenu "My Windows Apps" to your Main menu with sample of Windows Apps installed with Windows 10 (created only if you run QAP under Windows 10; you can move or delete this submenu if you wish)
New favorite type "Windows App" in the "Select Favorite Type " dialog box
Adapt the "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for a Windows Apps:
Select the Windows App to add in a dropdown list of Windows Apps installed on your system
Click the "Refresh" button to include freshly installed Windows Apps
Select the last dropdown list entry "Custom Windows App" to add manualy a Windows App identifier
In the "Advanced Settings" tab, the "Parameter" option is available
Known limitations: at this time, QAP could not retrieve the "friendly" localized app name and its icon, but you can change the app's name or icon as you wish
Technical note: the Windows Apps list is refreshed by a PowerShell script running silently; the list is automatically refreshed at QAP launch, unless the [Global] value "RefreshWindowsAppsListAtStartup=0" is added to the QAP ini file
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/how-do-i-launch-windows-apps-windows-store-universal/
Favorite Sound
Add capability to play a sound after any menu item is launched
The favorite sound location field is added to "Advanced Settings" tab of "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box for all types of favorites
Support for sounds from a sound as file (wave, mp3, midi, etc. depending on your system configuration), a system sound or your own sound sequence
See: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-play-a-sound-when-i-launch-a-favorite/
Various improvements and bug fixes
Add QAP Feature "List Applications" used to analyse properties of currently open applications and windows (mostly for debugging use)
Sort favorite in Settings window without considering the ampersand (&) in their names
Optimize "Recent Folders" and "Recent Files" menus refresh when these menus are attached to the Main menu
Fix bug to prevent shared menu file name to be empty or only ".ini"
Set default icons when adding Shared menu from Catalogue
Update links to QAP website from http:// to https:// (Yes! QAP website is now more secure with an SSL certficate.)
Update of all language files, thanks to translators

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.7 (Jul 28, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.6 (Jun 11, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.5 (Jun 4, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.4 (May 21, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.3 (May 13, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.2 (May 7, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 9.0.1 (Apr 30, 2018)

Version: 9.0.1 (2018-04-28)
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Scheduled refresh
New option to refresh periodically the Live Folders menus and Shared Menus (during the short refresh period, the menu is not available)
Set the "Interval between refresh (seconds)" in "Menu" tab of "Options" windows
Recommended interval is 300 seconds (5 minutes) or more and minimal interval is 30 seconds
Use the check box "Beep before and after refresh (debug)" to help estimate the time required to refresh the menu
Tree views when adding QAP features and Windows Special folders
In "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box, replace dropdown lists new tree view lists help selecting new QAP features or Windows Special folders
QAP Features and Windows Special folders are grouped in the tree view by categories
Each QAP features has a description and is linked to a FAQ page on QAP web site
You can double click an item in the tree view to add immediately the new QAP feature or Windows Special folder
Hotstrings
An hotstring is a small sequence of characters used as trigger to expand an abbreviation into the full text of a Snippet (auto-replace) or to launch any type of favorite
A new "Hotstrings" section is added to the "Menu Options" tab in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
In the "Change hotstring" dialog box, you set the trigger (abbreviation) and options: Case sensitive, Do not conform to typed case, Expand inside other words, Keep hotstring abbreviation, Do not wait for Ending key, Do not keep Ending key (see FAQ page for explanations of options: http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-hotstrings/)
Due to large number of options combinations (taking into account case-sensitivity and other options), QAP does not validate that hotstring triggers are unique; in case of duplication, depending on various options, only one of the favorites having the same hotstring will be triggered
In "Options", "Hotkeys" tab, a new button "Hotstrings default options" opens a dialog box where you can set default values for options of newly created hotstrings (these defaults do not impact existing hotstrings)
The "Manage Hotkeys" window now has two tabs: the existing list of Favorite Shortcuts is inserted in a first tab and a second tab now lists the Favorites Hotstrings
A new QAP feature named "Hotstrings" opens the "Manage Hotkeys" window in the "Hotstrings" tab
The QAP feature "Hotkeys" has been renamed "Shortcuts"
Settings window improvements
A new "Sort" button on the left side of the "Settings" window to "Sort all or selected favorites in list"; sorting stops at the first line separator or column break, if present
A new "Move" button on the right side of the "Settings" window to move one or multiple favorites to another sub menu (no more need to edit a favorite to move it to another menu)
The "Hotkeys" button has been moved to the bottom of the "Settings" window and now has two distinct labels: "Shortcuts" to manage shortcuts and "Hotstrings" to open directly the Hotstrings tab
Remove support for old black and white buttons (already deprecated since v8.1.1)
Extended Search in favorites
In "Settings" window, a new check box "Extended Search" beside the "Search" text box gives more power to the Search tool
By default, with the "Extended Search" not checked, the Search tool only filters favorites based on their name
If the "Extended Search" is checked, search also covers favorite type, shortcut text, hotstring trigger, location (file or folder path), snippet content, FTP login and advanced settings "Parameters" and "Start in" folder
Sort Live folders
New "Sort" options in "Live Folders Options" of favorite folders allow to sort the content of Live folders by file name, extension, size or modified date
Live folder content can be sorted ascending or descending
Default sort order is alphabetically by file name
Close computer QAP Features
New QAP Feature "Close Computer Control Center", a dialog box giving full control on the way you close or suspend your computer with commands "Power down", "Shutdown", "Restart" and "Logoff", with option to force closing or not; "Sleep" or "Hibernate", with options to suspend immediately or not, or to disable wake events or not; "Turn monitor off", "Put monitor in low-power mode" or "Start screen saver"
New individual QAP Features to "Restart computer", "Logoff user", "Sleep computer", "Hibernate computer", "Turn monitor off", "Put monitor in low-power mode" and "Start screen saver"
Add Favorites QAP Features
Twelve new QAP features to add a favorite for each type of favorite
When adding a favorite using any of the "Add Favorite" QAP features (including "Add this Folder or Link"), the default parent menu of the new favorite is now the same menu where the QAP feature was launched
When adding a favorite with "Add this Folder or Link Express" QAP feature, the new favorite is immediately added to the same menu where the QAP feature was launched
The position of the new favorite is set accordingly to the options "When adding automatically, add a favorite at..." top or bottom, in the "Menu" tab of the "Options" window
At first QAP launch, when creating the default QuickAccessPopup.ini file, the item "Add Feature - QAP Feature" is added at the top of the "My QAP Essentials" menu and the item "Add Feature - Special" is added at the top of the "My Special Folders" menu
Other new QAP Features
- "Close All Windows" shows a list of all the windows of running application where you can close all or selected windows in one click
- "Reopen Current Folder from Dialog Box" will open a new Windows Explorer window and load the folder that is active in the dialog box
- "Switch to default settings file" reloads the normal QAP settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini
Various QAP features for existing features that were available only in Tray menu but can now be added in any menu: "Restore Settings Position", "Check for update" and "Edit Settings file"
Tray menu (right-click on QAP icon in Notification zone)
Group some Tray menu options under a new sub menu "Settings file options"
Add the item "Switch to default settings file" to the Tray sub menu "Settings file options"
Keyboard shortcuts (internal changes)
Internal keyboard shortcuts management has been simplified and now allows to have various shortcuts for the same location with different parameters
In the settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini, shortcuts are now saved with the favorites info (in the [Favorites] section instead of the separate [LocationHotkeys] section as before)
The existing shortcuts in the [LocationHotkeys] section are automatically upgraded to the new favorites shortcuts format
IMPORTANT NOTE: once you upgraded to a version greater than v9.0 (or beta release v8.7.1.92), you should not revert to an earlier version (if whenever you have to do it, your keyboard shortcuts will be lost)
Other minor improvements
Shared menus: prevent user from changing the location or file name of a Shared menu (avoiding errors); if the file for a shared menu has been renamed or moved, first remove the shared menu and create a new one with the moved or renamed file
Snippets: when displaying a prompt waiting to send a text snippet or execute a macro snippet, QAP now accepts Escape to cancel the snippet
Drag & Drop: when adding a file shortcut (.lnk) using drag and drop, set the default name of the favorite to the name of the shortcut
File Shortcuts (.lnk): when adding a file shortcut with the "Add favorite" dialog box or using drag and drop, get the favorite default icon value and, for applications, the "Parameters" (command line arguments) and "Start In" working directory values from the file shortcut (this is already done that way when adding the shortcut using the Explorer context menu)
Add favorite: reorder the types of favorites radio buttons in the "Select Type" dialog box when you add a favorite
Windows Explorer: opening a folder that is already open in another Explorer window now brings the existing window to front (instead of creating a new window) except, of course, if you click inside an existing Explorer window, in which case it changes the folder inside this window
Windows Explorer instances: before this release, opening a folder in a new window was creating a new Explorer instance for every new folder; now, the window for a new folder is created under the existing Explorer instance and only one Explorer instance is created by QAP (unless user open the Alternative menu "Open in new window" or if user adds an argument to the folder in "Advanced Settings" in which cases QAP must create new Explorer instances)
Exclusions: add the capability to exclude menu mouse trigger (by default, Middle mouse button) by process name in addition to window title and class name (the process name is usually the name of the executable file of an application, for example: NOTEPAD.EXE) and add detection of process name when using the "Get window info" button below exclusion list in "Exclusion" tab of the "Options" window
Make sure location ends with backslash for app's Save As dialog box (like with Notepad++ v7.5.6) trying to save instead of navigating if location does not end with backslash
QAP development framework AutoHotkey has been upgraded to v1.1.28.00
Language
Language updates for Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Removed Sweedish language (not updated since v8.0)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.9.1.2 Beta (Feb 24, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1.2 (Feb 23, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.9.1.1 Beta (Feb 20, 2018)

Hotstrings:
see FAQ page http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-hotstrings/
add "Hotstrings" section to "Menu Options" tab in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
add "Change hotstring" dialog box to set the trigger (or abbreviation) of an hotstring and its options
checkbox options in "Change hotstring" dialog box are: Case sensitive, Do not conform to typed case, Expand inside other words, Keep hotstring abbreviation, Do not wait for Ending key, Do not keep Ending key (see FAQ page for explanations of options: http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-hotstrings/#options)
hotstrings can trigger any type of favorites, most useful with "Text Snippets" to use an abbreviation (the trigger) to expand in the longer replacement text of a Text Snippet
due to large number of options combinations (taking into account case-sensitivity and other options), QAP does not validate that hotstring triggers are unique; in case of duplication, depending on various options, only one of the favorites having the same hotstring will be triggered
in "Options", "Hotkeys" tab, add the "Hotstrings default options" button to to set default hotstrings options for newly created hotstrings (these defaults do not impact existing hotstrings)
to "Manage Hotkeys" window, add the "Hotstrings" tab with a list of all favorites having an hotstring
in "Settings" window, add a label under the "Hotkeys" (renamed "Shortcuts, see below) to open the "Manage Hotkeys" dialog box in the "Hotstrings" tab
add a new QAP feature named "Hotstrings" to open the "Manage Hotkeys" dialog box in the "Hotstrings" tab
Keyboard shortcuts:
rename button and labels "Hotkeys" to "Shortcuts" in windows "Settings", "Add/Edit Favorites", "Manage Hotkeys", etc. (in QAP, the term "Hotkeys" now encompass both "Shortcuts" (mostly keyboard shortcuts, but also mouse shortcuts) and the new "Hotstrings" (described above)
simplified management of favorites keyboard and mouse shortcuts (internal changes only)
in the settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini, shortcuts are now saved in the favorites lines in the [Favorites] section (instead of the separate [LocationHotkeys] section as before)
the existing shortcuts in the [LocationHotkeys] section are automatically upgraded to the new favorites shortcuts format
NOTE: once you upgraded to a version greater than 8.7.1.92, you should not revert to an earlier version (if whenever you have to do it, your keyboard shortcuts will be lost)
Extended Search:
add the "Extended Search" checkbox after the "Search" text box in the "Settings" window
by default, the "Extended Search" is not checked, and search filters only based on the favorites name
if the "Extended Search" is checked, search covers favorite name, type, shortcut, hotstring trigger, location (file or folder path), snippet content, FTP login name and password, and advanced settings "Parameters" and "Start in" folder
Bug fixes and minor changes:
enable some keyboard shortcuts in the "Settings" window that were disabled by error when favorite list was filtered by the Search
stop offering to edit a favorite when its location is not found for items from dynamic menus (like "Recent Folder")
in the "Settings" window, change the default button to "Close" (instead of "Save & Close") and, if user hits the Enter key when the focus is not in the favorites list, send the Enter key to the default "Close" button
QAP development framework AutoHotkey has been upgraded to v1.1.28.00

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1.93 Beta (Jan 31, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1.92 Beta (Jan 31, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1.91 Beta (Jan 31, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1.1 (Jan 22, 2018)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.1 (Dec 30, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7.0.9.1 Beta (Dec 21, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.7 (Dec 6, 2017)

New QAP Features:
new QAP feature "Repeat Last Actions" displaying a submenu with the last 10 items selected in the popup menu
adding a new submenu "Repeat Last Actions" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
when an item is selected from the "Repeat Last Actions" menu, it is moved to the top of the menu
new option in "Options", "Menu" tab, to select the number of items in "Repeat Last Actions" menu (default 10)
new QAP feature "Repeat Last Action" (singular) to repeat the last item selected in the popup menu (* users must add it themselves to their menu *)
new QAP Feature "Recent Files" displaying a submenu with recent files as remembered by Windows
adding a new submenu "Recent Files" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
adding a new submenu "Repeat Last Actions" to the "My QAP Essentials" menu for new installation only (* existing users must add it themselves *)
the "Recent Files" submenu contains the same number of items as the "Recent Folders" submenu
new option in "Options", "Menu" tab, to display the refreshed folders "Recent Folders", "Recent Files" and "Drives" attached to the main menu (with a refresh delay that may vary at each menu popup) or detached as stand-alone menus refreshed on demand (as before this release)
Russian keyboard support:
various adjustments for systems where current input language (keyboard) is Russian (language code 0419)
if Russian keyboard is detected, replace Windows + W and Shift + Windows + W menu keyboard hotkeys with equivalent keys on Russian keyboard (ASCII Unicode 1094)
at first execution, do not assign default hotkeys to favorites if running on a system with Russian keyboard
change method of initialization of shortcuts in "Settings" window to avoid errors with Russian keyboard
Temporary folder:
add an option in "General" tab to select the folder where the QAP temporary folder is created (and deleted when you exit QAP)
for new installation starting with this version, the default temporary folder is created in Windows %TEMP% folder (e.g. C:UsersUserNameAppDataLocalTemp)
Other improvements:
support navigation (change folder) in PowerShell window as in the command-line console (CMD)
add an item to the QAP system menu (richt-click on QAP icon menu in Notification zone) labeled "Restore Settings window position" that move the "Settings" window to its default position and size, in case it would become invisible following changes by user in screens configuration
when activating a running application with Applications favorite option "If the application is already running, activate it instead of launching", activate it only if it has the requested admnin (UAC) level (elevated or normal), if not, launch a new instance with the required admin level (if the application supports multiple instances)
allow resize of dialog box shown when selecting a destination menu for copied or moved multiple favorites, allowing to see longer destination menus and save window last position to ini file to restore it when using this dialog box again
add code to be more specific when detecting a file dialog box (Open, Save As, etc.) and exclude non-file dialog boxes (Preferences, Options, etc.)
Bug fixes:
changes in Manage Icons window were not saved if favorites were part of a shared menu
could not use the Alternative menu feature "Edit a favorite" for running apps favorites if the "If this application is already running, activate..." option was enabled
default hotkeys for QAP features in "My QAP Essentials" were not correctly initializes when creating the settings file at first execution
bug in error message when a hotkey was not available in current keyboard layout
opening Special folder "Control panel" in Directory Opus was causing a blank tab to be added
make sure the application window does not stay minimized when activating a running application with Applications favorite option "If the application is already running, activate it instead of launching"
Language updates:
update to Traditional Chinese (ZH-TW, back to v8.1), Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Spanish, Dutch and French language files
English language revision (thanks to Richard for proofreading)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.4 (Nov 29, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.9.7 Beta (Nov 22, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.9.4 Beta (Nov 17, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.3 (Nov 16, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.2 (Nov 7, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.9.3 Beta (Nov 6, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.9.2 Beta (Nov 2, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.9.1 Beta (Oct 29, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6.1 (Oct 29, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.6 (Oct 27, 2017)

Add this Link:
the QAP Feature "Add This Folder" has been renamed "Add this Folder or Link" and now detects URL locations in browsers as well as folder locations in supported file managers
when adding a link, QAP retrieves the web page title automatically as default favorite name; if the URL returns an error (this can happen even for valid pages), it leaves the favorite name empty
when adding or editing a favorite link, a button allows to retrieve the page title from the web page
a tooltip is displayed when retrieving web page title (in case fetching the tile takes some time)
Copy multiple favorites:
support copy multiple favorites (still excluding menus and groups)
multiple copy stops when an existing favorite in the destination menu has the same name as the cop�ed favorite (as for multiple move in previous versions)
an error message is displayed when user ask to move or copy multiple favorites to their actual location
Text Separators:
a new favorite type "Text Separator" allows to insert text entries as headers or sub-headers in the QAP menu (selecting these entries in the menu has no effect)
a new "T" icon in the left column of Settings window can be clicked to add Text Separators
by default, Text Separators have no icon but one can be selected in the "Menu Options" tab
Favorites icons management:
QAP now allows favorites to have "no icon"
in add/edit favorite dialog box "Menu Options" tab, a new link labeled "no icon" selects the "no icon" pseudo-icon (the "forbidden" sign with a diagonal bar)
the "no icon" icon can also be selected in the JLicons.dll file
the favorite icons taken in JLicons.dll are now saved in the settings file by their name (e.g. "iconFolder") instead of the "file,index" format used for icons from other files
current icons from JLindex.dll in the settings file are be converted from "file,index" format to names (e.g. "iconFolder") the first time settings are saved with this version (and future versions)
in add/edit favorite dialog box "Menu Options" tab, a new link labeled "select in JLicons.dll"
a new icon file named JLicons.dll v1.3 including the new iconNoIcon pseudo-icon will be automatically updated for Setup users (for portable installation, make sure the previous file is replaced)
Unicode conversion:
QAP now save its settings (QuickAccessPopup.ini) with Unicode encoding, allowing more international and special charactes to be saved in favorites location, snippets content or favorites names
QAP still supports existing settings file saved in ANSI encoding but it offers to do the conversion QAP is loaded with this version (and future versions)
if settings file is encoded in ANSI, QAP displays a dialog box offering the user to:
1) convert its settings file to Unicode encoding (for better int'l and special characters support);
2) not convert (value "DoNotConvertSettingsToUnicode=1" is added to settings to remember this choice);
3) or ask again at next startup.
- the dialog box includes a link to a FAQ web page for explanation and help (http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/why-converting-the-settings-file-to-unicode-and-conversion-troubleshooting/)
Various:
the option "Always open folders in current file manager window" in Options, "Files mamagers" tab is added to always change folder in the current Explorer, Total Commander or Directory Opus window, except when using the Alternative menu "Open in new window"; this applies to favorites of types Folder, Special Folder and FTP
improve visibility of the "Explorer context menu" option in Options "Menu" tab
new value SendToConsoleWithAlt in Global settings, default 1 (true), to use the ALT+0nnn ASCII codes when changing folder in a command-line window (CMD)
partial update of all language files (complete updates in next versions), full update of the French language file
Bug fixes:
fix bug when changing folder in command-line window (CMD) with some international keyboard input language (by using the ALT+0nnn ASCII codes)
fix bug when opening an application favorite with {CUR_LOC} and when location is empty (this was happening when the current window was not an Explorer window)
fix bug when user cancels the pick icon dialog box, now QAP keeps the selected icon

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.9.4 Beta (Oct 26, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.9.3 Beta (Oct 1, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.9.2 Beta (Sep 25, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.9.1 Beta (Sep 20, 2017)

Text Separators:
new favorite type "Text Separator" allowing to insert text entries as headers in the QAP menu (selecting these entries does just nothing)
new "T" icon in the left column of Settings window to add Text Separators
by default, Text Separators have no icon but you can select one in the "Menu Options" tab
Favorites icons management:
allow favorites to have "no icon"
new link labeled "no icon" in add/edit favorite dialog box, "Menu Options", selecting the "no icon" pseudo-icon (the "forbidden" sign with a diagonal bar) for this favorite
the "no icon" icon can also be selected in the JLicons.dll file
the icons from JLicons.dll are now saved in the settings file by their name (e.g. "iconFolder") instead of the "file,index" format used for icons from other files
current icons from JLindex.dll in the settings file will be converted from "file,index" format to names (e.g. "iconFolder") next time you save your settings
new link labeled "select in JLicons.dll" in add/edit favorite dialog box, "Menu Options", shown only if current icon is not already picked from this file
new JLicons.dll v1.3 including iconNoIcon will automatically replace the current JLicons.dll file for Setup users (user preferinf portable installation, make sure you unzip and update this file)
Add this Link:
rename QAP Feature "Add This Folder" to "Add this Folder or Link" and detect URL location as well as folder location
when using "Add this Folder or Link" to add a link, retrieve the web page title automatically as default favorite name; it the URL returns an error (this can happen even for valid pages), leave the favorite name empty
when adding or editing a favorite link, add a button to get the page title from the we page and put it as default for the favorite name
Unicode conversion:
if QAP settings file (QuickAccessPopup.ini) is encoded using ANSI standard, display a dialog box offering the user to:
1) convert its settings file to Unicode (for better int'l and special characters support);
2) not convert (value DoNotConvertSettingsToUnicode=1 is added to settings to remember this choice);
3) or ask user next startup.
dialog box includes a link to a FAQ web page for explanation and help (http://www.quickaccesspopup.com/why-converting-the-settings-file-to-unicode-and-conversion-troubleshooting/)
Various:
fix bug when opening an application favorite with {CUR_LOC} and when location is empty (when the current window is not an Explorer window)
fix bug when user cancel the pick icon dialog box, now it always keep the selected icon
Duth language file updated

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.3 (Sep 9, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.2 (Sep 8, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5.1 (Sep 8, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.5 (Sep 5, 2017)

Menu key:
you can now use the Menu key (also called Context menu key or Application key) to pop up the QAP menu or launch any favorite
to select the Menu key, in the "Select Hotkey" dialog box, click on the "menu key (application)" link below the hotkey selector
this hotkey can be combined with any modifiers (Shift, Alt, Ctrl or Win)
Snippets:
major improvements to make Snippets easier to create and edit
a button in snippet add/edit favorite dialog box to enlarge the snippet content text box
font size selector for snippet text box
check box to display a snippet with fixed font (useful for code snippets)
display preferences saved with each snippet
default preferences for snippets can be selected in Options, General tab
when launching a snippet with the "Prompt before" option, QAP also accepts Space to kick-off a snippet (in addition to Enter)
change help link to new FAQ page about snippets (see improved FAQ content about Snippets)
Reopen Current Folder in dialog box:
a feature I should have included much earlier... Warning: to take advantage of it, existing users must add themselves this new feature to their menu
new QAP feature "Reopen Current Folder in dialog box" allowing to reopen in a dialog box the current location in Windows Explorer
the current location is the folder currently displayed in the active (or in the last active) Windows Explorer window
current location is also detected in Directory Opus or Total Commander if one of these file magagers is enabled
Hotkeys:
set QAP feature default hotkeys for "Reopen Current Folder" to Shift + Ctrl + C (of course, you can change it at any time)
change QAP feature "Clipboard" default hotkeys from Shift + Ctrl + C to Shift + Ctrl + V
this change is only for new installations - exising users must do this change themselves, if they wish
Various:
the "Ctrl + Ctrl" option has been moved to the "Alternative menu" tab in Options dialog box, and its presentation has been improved
add a link beside the "Check for update" checkbox in the Options dialog box to check for update immediately
check if the "Start in" folder location exists before launching a favorite and do not launch it if the location is not found
offer to edit the favorite when one of these folder locations is not found: folder, document or application location, "Launch with" application location or "Start in" folder location
Language:
new! Dutch language is now available
German translation update for changes since v8
updates for Spanish, Italian and French language files
Bug fixes:
fix an error in QAP 32-bit executable file preventing the Windows Explorer context menus to work with QAP installed in portable mode
allow favorite location to be a UNC root path (like \127.0.0.1 or \MyDomain) assuming the location is online because Windows does not allow to check if an UNC root location is available (on my system, Windows 10 defaults to the "Documents" folder if the UNC drive is not mounted)
fix bug when adding a QAP feature and when its default hotkey is already in use for another favorite
fix bug when processing backtick (accent grave) in snippets (used for code snippets) and add help about backticks in add/edit dialog box
fix bug && displayed in Drag & Drop help window title instead of &
add diagnostic code to track the "71 hotkeys limit" bug - if someone encounter this error message, please contact me

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9.5 Beta (Sep 4, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9.4 Beta (Aug 27, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9.3 Beta (Aug 24, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.2 (Aug 21, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9.2 Beta (Aug 9, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9.1 Beta (Aug 8, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.9 Beta (Aug 7, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4.1 (Aug 7, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.4 (Aug 2, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.3 (Jul 21, 2017)

Search:
add search text box to filter favorites in all submenus in Settings window
add an X button to empty the filter text box and restore the full favorites list
filtering is done based on the existence of the search string in the favorites name (only) in all menus and submenus
filtering is case insensitive
filtered favorites are displayed in the order they were found, starting from top main menu
in filtered favorites list, the Edit button, Enter key or double-click open the edit favorite dialog box with the selected favorite
double-clicking a menu favorite in filtered favorites list opens this menu unfiltered
after edition of a favorite, the regular favorites list is restored in the location of the edited favorite
the Remove button or Delete key removes a favorite from the filtered list (with confirmation before deleting a menu and its submenus); after deletion, the filtered list remains active
in filtered list, only single selection is available, allowing edition or deletion of only one favorite at a time
left columns buttons to move favorites or insert separator buttons (and their associated hotkeys) are disabled in filtered list
in filtered list, the Add button (and its associated hotkey Ctrl-N) adds a new favorite at the top of the main menu
changing menu using the dropdown list, using back or top arrows and closing and re-opening the Settings window restore the regular unfiltered list
in Settings window, the new shortcut Ctrl-F moves the cursor to search box
Shared menus:
complete rewrite of Shared menus file locking (reservation to avoid conflicting changes by simultaneous users)
when opening the add/edit favorite dialog box, QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and displays a message if the menu is read-only, locked (reserved) by another user or if it was changed since QAP was launched
when saving a favorite (or when moving a favorite using arrows in Settings, or when adding a separator or a column break), QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and, if yes, checks if the shared menu was locked or modified since the dialog box was opened and, if yes, displays a message
after a favorite in a shared menu is saved in QAP "internal" memory, QAP locks (reserves) the shared menu file until the changes in shared menu are actualy saved to the settings file QuickAccessPopup.ini, preventing other users from editing this shared menu
QAP display "Read-only" in the Settings window's content column and prevent opening this menu in the Settings window if it is saved in a folder where the user has no write access and for shared menus of type "Centralized" where user does not have write-access for this menu
when creating a Shared menu of type "Centralized", QAP automatically adds the current username to the write-access list (preventing the user to be locked out of its own new menu)
in "Centralized" Shared menus write-access list, names can also be separated by semicolon (in addition to comma)
a shared menu cannot be added under another shared menu
QAP now supports Shared menu file locking when changes are done using the "Manage icons" window
in Settings window column labeled "Content", QAP now displays the Shared menu settings file location
New Explorer Context menu for Windows shortcuts:
add an Explorer context menu for Windows shortcuts file (.lnk files) labeled "Import Windows shortcut to Quick Access Popup menu" to import shortcut settings to QAP favorites
QAP imports the following settings from Windows shortcut: working directory (for application favorites), window state (for folder favorites) and icon settings (for any type of favorites)
note for user of portable version: the file ManageContextMenu.bat has been updated to include the new context menu "Import Windows shortcut to Quick Access Popup menu"
Various:
add Settings shortcut F1 to open the Help window
add Settings shortcut Ctrl-H to display the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
update the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
Bug fixes:
fix bug having various side effects after user made changes to Settings and cancelled these changes with the Cancel button
fix bug when opening a folder and active window is QAP Settings window

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.9.3 Beta (Jul 17, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.9.2 Beta (Jun 26, 2017)

Search in Settings:
add search text box to Settings window above favorites list with an x button to empty the filter text box
add a filtered favorites list shown automatically over the regular favorites list when text is typed in the filter text box and hidden when the search text box is emptied
filtering is done based on the existence of the search string in the name (only) of favorites in all menus and submenus, starting from top main menu
in filtered favorites list, show the same columns as in the regular list plus the menu path in second column, after favorite name
Edit button, Enter key or double-click in the filtered list open the edit favorite dialog box with the selected favorite, except if it is a menu where the double-click will open the submenu
when edited favorites is saved (or cancelled), the regular favorites list is restored in the location of the edited favorite
Remove button or Delete key removes a favorite from the filtered list (with confirmation before deleting a menu and its submenus); after deletion, the filtered list remains active
in filtered list, only single selection is available, allowinf edit or deletion of only one favorite at a time (support for multiple deletion or multiple move could be added but requires more work)
disable left columns move and separator buttons (and associated hotkeys) in Settings when filtered list is active
in filtered list, the Add button (and its associated hotkey Ctrl-N) adds a new favorite at the top of the main menu
hide filtered list anjd restore regular favorite list, when changing menu using the dropdown list or back or top arrows in Settings, and when closing and re-opening the Settings window
add Settings shortcut Ctrl-F to move the cursor to search box
Other:
add Settings shortcuts F1 to open Help window
add Settings shortcut Ctrl-H to display the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
update the Favorites Shortcuts Help window
fix bugs having various side effects after user made changes to Settings and cancelled these changes (with the Cancel button), breaking the backlinks ("..") to parent menu, breaking the check for shared menus changes in since menu was loaded
Bug fixes from master branch v8.2.3:
fix bug blocking removal of multiple favorites when user answers no when asked to confirm removal of a submenu
fix label display bug under Remove button preventing showing the number of selected favorites

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.9.1 Beta (Jun 26, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.9 Beta (Jun 26, 2017)

complete rewrite of Shared menus file locking (reservation to avoid conflicutal changes by simulatneous users)
when opening the add/edit favorite dialog box, QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and displays a message if the menu is read-only, locked (reserved) by another user or if it was changed since QAP was launched
when saving a new or edited favorite (or when moving a favorite using arrows in Settings, or when adding a separator or a column break), QAP checks if the favorites belongs to a Shared menu and, if yes, checks if the shared menu was locked or modified since the dialog box was opened and, if yes, displays a message
after the new or edited favorite in a shared menu is saved in QAP "internal" memory, QAP locks (reserves) the shared menu file until the changes in shared menu are actualy saved to its settings file, preventing other users to edit this shared menu
QAP handles scenarios where the parent menu in the favorites dialog box "Menu Options" tab is changed, handling file locking if one or both menus are shared menus
QAP display "Read-only" in the Settings window's content column and prevent opening this menu in the Settings window if it is saved in a folder where the user has no write access and for shared menus of type "Centralized" where user does not appear in the write-access users list
QAP checks if a shared menu is in a read-only folder by attempting to create a temporary settings file in this folder, test filename being "~$_QAP_Test_file_nnn.ini", where "nnn" is a random number (by convention file sync tools like Dropbox ignore file starting with "~$")
QAP checks if folders containing Shared menus files are read-only only once in a session; if the read-only setting of a folder is changed during QAP is running, QAP will consider it can be written to until QAP is restarted (this could cause a file write error, visible or not)
when creating a Shared menu of type "Centralized", QAP automatically adds the current username to the write-access list (preventing the user to be locked out of its own new menu)
in "Centralized" Shared menus write-access list, names can also be separated by semicolon (in addition to comma)
QAP checks that an external settings file cannot be added under another external settings file (this is not supported in current version)
QAP now supports Shared menu file locking in the "Manage icons" window (in previous QAP versions, this window was not properly handling shared menu file locking)
in Settings window's "Content" column, QAP now displays the Shared menu settings file location

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.3 (Jun 26, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.2 (Jun 8, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2.1 (May 19, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.2 (May 15, 2017)

Shared menus revamped:
three type of Shared menus:
Personal: menu shared on different computers by the same user
Collaborative: menu on a shared drive for a team or a workgroup (every member can edit the menu)
Centralized: menu on a shared drive maintained by one or more menu administrator(s)
new "Shared menu" tab in shared menu favorites to select shared menu type (radio buttons), name and options
options for "Centralized" shared menus: list of users with right to edit the shared menu (coma separated list), message about shared menu access shown to users without access
Shared menu options are saved in the "[Global]" section of the share menu ini file, in variables "MenuName", "WriteAccessUsers", "WriteAccessMessage" and "MenuType"
in favorites list, display Shared menu name and display "Read-only" if current user does not have write access to the centralized menu
when adding a Shared menu, get the favorite name from the menu ini file if the variable "MenuName" exists
deprecate the option "Number of the first favorite" in shared menu files (now
favorites always starting at 1 but starting number in old menu are still supported)
Shared menus catalogue:
new option in "General" tab to "Enable Shared Menu Catalogue" and select the "Catalogue root folder"
when user adds a Shared menu and when the catalogue is enabled, give user the option to select the Shared menu from a dialog box
new Shared menu dialog box containing the shared menu files under the catalogue root with menu names, paths and checkboxes to select menu(s) to add to QAP popup menu
in Shared menu dialog box, button "Add selected shared menu(s)" to add selected menu(s) from catalogue to the QAP menu at the current menu and position in favorites list
in Shared menu dialog box, button "Add another shared menu" to browse the file system for any Shared menu settings file and add it to current position in favorites list
in Shared menu dialog box, respond to double-click on a row by showing Shared menu info and a button to open the settings file in a text editor if it is not read-only
new "ExternalMenusCataloguePathReadOnly" variable (in QAP ini file only) to prevent user from changing the catalogue root folder when value is 1, and display an error message if user tries to change the root if read-only
Shared menus mutli-user edition:
alert message when user tries to edit an external menu that was modified by another user or on another computer, based on last modification date-time
reserve external menu when user loads a Shared menu in Settings or when user add or move favorites to a Shared menu, user and computer name are savec in the Shared menu variable "MenuReservedBy"
release Shared menu reservation when user saves or cancels settings changes or quits QAP
store and read last modified date in Shared menu ini file and update it only when favorites or external menu properties are changed, not when only reserved without changes
in "About" dialog box, display user name and computer name
Other changes:
new Alternative menu QAP features "Open the Containing Folder in the Current Window" and "Open the Containing Folder in a New Window" to open the folder containing the selected document, application or folder favorite in the current window or in a new window
in Export file name, translate placeholder "%A_Now%" to current local date-time and "%A_NowUTC%" to current Coordinated Universal Time (based on computer time), using "YYYYMMDDHH24MISS" format
in "Import/Export Settings", remember lats destination file in quickaccesspopup.ini when exporting and restore last used file name in when exporting settings
in "Live folders", exclude folders with the Hidden (H) attribute (keeping those having System attribute without the Hidden attribute)
enlarge submenus dropdown lists to 500 px in "Add/Edit Favorite" dialog box
disable the popup menu during settings saving
remove Patreon donation option; add Paypal links to make donations in EUR and CAD funds
update to Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese language files
Bug fixes and improvements:
fix bug in Setup program when updating QAP causing QAP Explorer context menus to be re-enabled even if user turned them off in Settings
fix bug "Open this menu" button missing in "Edit favorite" dialog box for Shared menus favorites

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.6 Beta (Apr 3, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.1 (Mar 31, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.5 Beta (Mar 28, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.4 Beta (Mar 17, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.3 Beta (Mar 10, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.2 Beta (Mar 3, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1.9.1 Beta (Mar 3, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.1 (Feb 20, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.9.2 Beta (Feb 15, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.9.1 Beta (Feb 6, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.4 (Jan 13, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.3 (Jan 9, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.2 (Jan 9, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8.0.1 (Jan 9, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 8 (Jan 4, 2017)

LIVE FOLDER OPTIONS:
Add the new QAP Feature "Refresh Live Folders menus" to your menu to refresh Live Folder on-demand (normally, Live Folder menus are refreshed when you launch QAP of when you save changes in Settings)
QAP adds items to Live Folders up to a maximum of 500 items; if this number is exceeded, it displays an alert message
You can edit a Live Folder favorite in the "Settings" window or using the Alternative menu "Edit a Favorite" (Shift+Middle Mouse Button or Shift+Win+W) and also by clicking any item in a Live Folder menu with Shift+Ctrl menu modifiers pressed
To enable a Live Folder favorite, add or edit a Folder favorite and go to the new tab "Live Folders Options". In this tab you can select:
the checkbox "Live Folder" to transform this favorite into a menu (and submenus) refreshed with the current content of the folder (and its subfolders)
an option to set the "Number of subfolders levels to include in the Live Folder menu" (1 by default - keep it low for large folders)
an option to "Include Documents" in the Live Folder
an option to "Include" or "Exclude" documents by file extensions
an option to split Live Folder menu in columns of a given "Number of items per column (0 for no column break)"
NEW MENU ICONS:
QAP now uses new color icons from the shared file JLicons.dll installed with QAP
In "Easy Setup" mode, this file JLicons.dll is saved in the shared applications folder "C:ProgramDataJeanLalonde"
In "Portable" mode, the file JLicons.dll is included in the portable ZIP file and must be kept in the same folder as QAP executable file
This change frees QAP from its dependency on Windows files shell32.dll and imageres.dll
Using this icons library, menu icons can now be enabled on Windows Server versions.
Icons from: www.icons8.com
MANAGE ICONS:
The new "Manage Icons" dialog box gives an overview of your current favorites menu icons with buttons to pick a new icon or reset the default icon for each favorite
Click the new button "Icons" in the Settings window (lower right) or add to your menu the QAP Feature named "Icons"
In Options (General tab), the numeric value "Manage Icons window rows" alloow to set the height of the window in case the height is calculated based on inaccurate info returned by Windows (this happens sometimes)
VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS:
Settings window:
New color buttons in Settings window and a new option (first tab) to "Use classic QAP buttons" (black & white) if you prefer the old style buttons
Stop rebuilding all menus after each add or edit favorite
Replace the "Save" button in Settings with two buttons: "Save & Close" and "Save & Reload", the latter keeping the Settings window open after reloading the menu (this replaces holding the Shift or Alt modifier keys when clicking the Save button in previous versions)
When changes are unsaved in the Settings window, if the QAP menu is called or if a favorite is launched via hokey, QAP will prompt user for one of these actions: "Save" - save settings, "Settings" - go to settings or "Cancel" - just cancel the requested action
Add a confirmation prompt before deleting a group in Settings
Manage Hotkeys window:
New item order column in Hotkeys list to sort initialy favorites with hotkeys following the QAP menu order
Stop displaying group members in Hotkeys list (this was useless since hotkeys could not be assigned to individual group members)
In the "Change hotkey" dialog box, new links "Enter" and "Escape" allow to select Enter or Escape as hotkey (idealy associated with keyboard modifiers like Shift, Alt or Ctrl)
Shared menus:
When saving a Shared menu settings file, compare the last modified date after saving and display an error message if the date was not updated (probably because the target file is read-only)
Display an error message if a new Shared menu settings file cannot be created (probably because the target folder is read-only)
Automatically append the .ini extension when selecting a Shared menu settings file
Note that Quick Access Popup still does not manage conflicts if a Shared menu is modified by different users at the same time (see Shared menu help page for more info)
Other improvements:
New option in Options window (Menu hotkeys tab) to enable left or right double Ctrl hotkey (press left or right Control key twice) to open main QAP menu
Add .cmd extension to the list of supported application extensions (with .exe, .com, .bat, .ahk and .vbs) when adding a favorite by drag and drop or using Explorer context menus
Append .ini extension if destination export file has no extension when exporting settings
Replace the "QAP working" notification when rebuilding menu with a small popup message listing the updated menus, close to mouse cursor location
Record Windows Explorer window position when adding a folder from Windows Explorer context menu (allowing to restore this window position in the "Window Options" tab when launching the folder)
Add to QuickAccessPopup.ini the setting "AlternativeTrayIcon" under "[Global]" section to set a tray icon replacement (replacement file must be an .ico file)
In Options, General tab, the new checkbox "Add automatically at the top of menu" makes sure favorites added automatically with "Add this folder", "Add this folder Express" or "Add favorite" from Windows Explorer context menus are added at the top of main menu (by default they are added at the top and, if unchecked, they are added at the bottom)
Support the new placeholder "{CUR_LOC}" in folder, document and application favorites locations allowing to create favorite with a location relative to the folder where the QAP menu is opened
Add up/down buttons to numeric values in various settings in Options and Add/Edit favorite windows
When installing an update with the "Easy Setup" mode, reduce the number of pages (clicks) in setup procedure from 7 to 3
BUG FIXES:
Fix bug working directory not being shown in edit favorite advanced setting tab for application favorites
Changes made in Hotkeys list window are now properly cancelled if user cancels changes in Settings window
Fix bug when editing a QAP Feature or Special folder favorite from Alternative menu, QAP Feature or Special folders drop down list is now correctly initialized
LANGUAGE UPDATES:
Update to Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chineese (TW), Brazilian-Portuguese and German language files

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.2.4 Beta (Jan 3, 2017)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.2.3 Beta (Dec 13, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.2.2 Beta (Dec 5, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.2.1 Beta (Nov 30, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.2 Beta (Nov 25, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.1.5 Beta (Nov 21, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.1.4 Beta (Nov 21, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.1.3 Beta (Nov 18, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.1.2 Beta (Nov 17, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.9.1.1 Beta (Nov 14, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.8 Beta (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.7 Beta (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.6 Beta (Oct 31, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.5 Beta (Oct 31, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.4.3 (Oct 31, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.4 Beta (Oct 18, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.3 Beta (Oct 18, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.4.2 (Oct 14, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.4.1 (Oct 11, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.2 Beta (Oct 10, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.9.1 Beta (Oct 4, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.4 (Sep 25, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.2 (Sep 13, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5.1 (Sep 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.5 (Sep 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.3.2 Beta (Sep 6, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.3.1 Beta (Sep 6, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.3 (Aug 24, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.2 (Aug 22, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.1 (Aug 22, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.0.2 Beta (Aug 17, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4.0.1 Beta (Aug 6, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.4 (Aug 1, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.3.9.1 Beta (Jul 28, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.3.2 (Jul 4, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.3.1 (Jun 27, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.3 (Jun 23, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.3.2 Beta (May 30, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.3.1 Beta (May 30, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.2.1 (May 25, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.2 (May 24, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.1.3 Beta (May 19, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.1.2 Beta (May 13, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.1.1 Beta (May 5, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.2.1 (May 4, 2016)

SNIPPETS:
add new favorite type "Snippet" to paste pieces of text from the QAP popup menu or hotkeys
snippet is pasted to the active window at the current insertion point
an option in "Advanced settings" can make a snippet be sent as "Text" (default) or as "Macro"
snippets of type "Text" are pasted to the active window using the clipboard (the original clipboard content is preserved)
snippets of type "Macro" are sent as keystrokes supporting AHK special characters (handle with care - see help page)
if snippet is selected by clicking on Taskbar, on QAP icon in Notification area (Tray icon) or on Desktop, a keyboard pause allows user to select the insertion point and press the Enter key to start pasting (timeout after 10 seconds)
in snippet text, end-of-line and tab characters can be processed automatically or entered as special codes (`n for new line and `t for tab)
add help link in Add/Edit favorite for snippets
EXTERNAL MENUS:
add "External menu" favorite type allowing to load favorites from a shared .ini file
external menu can be modified as regular submenus
external menu can be made read-only by adding the value "MenuReadOnly=1" in the ini file [Global] section
first favorite number in external settings file can be configured in "Advanced settings"
external menu settings file path supports relative paths, environment variables, UNC and HTTP paths
if external menu settings file cannot be loaded properly, give an error message, display menu as unavailable in Settings favorites list and block menu editing
removing an external menu from QAP menu does not delete the external menu settings file
add help link in Add/Edit favorite for external menus
Bug fixes:
fix bug Settings window occasionally opening inavertandly when clicking on the QAP tray icon (when Total Commander and Directory Opus as file manager only)
option "Open Menu on Taskbar" is now considered
column breaks now inserted in menu when called from a hotkey and now inserted at the correct position in submenus
stop checking for prod update if user decide to download the newest beta version
stop launching Directory Opus when refreshing the list of open folders in listers if Directory Opus is not running
add the auto-detection of .ahk and .vbs extensions when user add a favorite using drag-and-drop to the Settings window
Other:
French, Italian and Swedish language update new v7.2 features
new runtime v1.1.23.5 from AHK

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.11 Beta (May 3, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.10 Beta (May 3, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.9 Beta (Apr 29, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.8 Beta (Apr 24, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.7 Beta (Apr 14, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.6 Beta (Apr 8, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.5 Beta (Apr 7, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.10 (Apr 5, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.2 Beta (Apr 1, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.99.1 Beta (Apr 1, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.9 (Mar 28, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.8 (Mar 27, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.7 (Mar 23, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.6 (Mar 21, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.5 (Mar 21, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.4 (Mar 15, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.3 (Mar 15, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.2 (Feb 22, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1.1 (Feb 16, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.1 (Feb 15, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.0.6 (Feb 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.0.5 (Feb 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.0.3 (Feb 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.0.2 (Feb 12, 2016)

New in Quick Access Popup 7.0.1 (Feb 12, 2016)

WHAT'S NEW IN QUICK ACCESS POPUP COMPARED TO FOLDERS POPUP:
Favorite Types:
In addition to the existing favorite types in Folders Popup (Folders, Documents, Applications, Special Folders, Links and Menus), Quick Access Popup adds three new favorite types:
FTP: Open FTP sites in Explorer, Directory Opus or Total Commander, with automatic login with user name and password inserted in site address.
QAP Features: Allowing to insert features like Reuse an Open Folder, Add This Folder, etc. in any submenu and assign them the shortcuts and icons of you choice.
Groups: Launch a group of favorites of any type in one click; unlike in Folders Popup, groups management has been completely integrated with favorites management.
Favorites dialog box:
Basic Settings: all the info required to create a favorite, menu name and favorite’s path.
Menu Options: optional selection of icon, shortcut and favorite position in menu. Also use this tab to set Windows folders icons to the images selected in QAP.
Window Options: optional position of window when opening a folder in a new window, available for Folders, Special folders and FTP sites, with a configurable delay when moving/resizing the window (Windows Explorer, Directory Opus and Total Commander).
Advanced Settings: various advanced settings depending on favorite types.
These functionalities will ease the creation of favorites:
Add this folder: this QAP feature now remembers the current window position of the added favorite and move/resize the window to that position when the favorite is launched in a new window.
Add this folder Express: add a new folder in one click. No question asked! The new favorite folder is immediately saved at the top of the main menu where you can edit it if required.
Application favorite: add an application favorite by selecting it in a list of running applications.
Hotkeys for favorites and submenus:
This one is a major addition. Each favorite can be assigned a shortcut allowing your folders, document, applications, web or FTP sites to be launched with a hotkey. Even submenus can be open with their own hotkey.
You can set a favorite’s hotkey in the Menu Options tab in the Add/Edit Favorite dialog box. When you assign a shortcut to a favorite, all other favorites with the same location will also be assigned this shortcut.
To view and edit all assigned shortcuts, a new dialog box has been added to the Settings window. Click the Hotkeys button on the right side.
QAP Features:
Instead of selecting in Options the features to display in the FP popup menu, Quick Access Popup gives you full flexibility in the way you want to access is special features. When you install QAP, a configurable menu My QAP Essentials is created. But you can customize this menu: add features, move them to other menus or remove them, in addition to selecting shortcuts or icons. Here is a list of the most useful QAP features:
Switch: switch to a windows from a menu built with the list of running applications and folders open in Explorer or Directory Opus (folders open in Total Commander are not available yet).
Reuse a Folder: open a folder from a menu built with the list of folders open in Explorer or Directory Opus (folders open in Total Commander are not available yet).
Recent Folders: open a folder from a menu built with the list of folders recently open with Windows.
Clipboard: open a folder, a document, an application or a website from a menu built with the list of file paths or URL currently found in the Clipboard.
Drives: list of all drives on you system with total and free capacity.
Add This Folder: add the current folder to popup menu.
Add This Folder Express: one-click addition of the current folder to the main popup menu.
Hotkeys: open a dialog box listing all favorite shortcuts in your popup menu and giving access to the Change hotkey dialog box.
Settings: direct access to the Setting dialog box.
Options: direct access to the Options dialog box.
Get window Title and Class: copy the clicked window title and class to the clipboard allowing to use this info in the QAP Exclusion list or in other apps.
and other QAP internal functionalities.
Groups of favorites:
Group of folders in Folders Popup has been completely revamped and integrated with the favorites management.
Now, you can create and manage groups as you would do for submenus.
Any type of favorites can be included in a group: folders, applications, documents, etc.
Favorites can be moved in and out of groups and submenus.
If a folder in a group has its own window location properties (in the Window Options tab), the favorite is restored at its location and size.
In the QAP popup menu, group names are followed by the number of items in the group between double-square brackets (for example: Group name [[5]]) making groups easy to recognize in menus.
A delay can be configured in group’s advanced settings to pace the restoration of group windows.
Folders in groups can be launched with Explorer, Directory Opus or Total Commander.
With Directory Opus and Total Commander, user can select for each folder favorite if the folder will be open in a tab in the left or right pane.
Because groups has been completely redesigned, the existing FP groups cannot be imported to QAP by the ImportFPsettings utility.
Navigation in Settings window:
Browsing your favorites in the Settings window has been reviewed.
Double-click the back link (“..”) at the top of the list to return to a parent menu.
Double-click on a menu name in the favorite list to open and edit its content (use the Edit button to edit the menu item itself).
Double-click on a group name in the favorite list to open and edit the favorites to launch as a group (use the Edit button to edit the group item itself).
Create a favorite by copying an existing one:
If you need to create a new favorite with settings similar to an existing one, just select the original favorite in Settings and click the Copy button or hit Control-C. Rename the new favorite or select another submenu using the Menu Options tab.
You can copy favorites of types Folder, Document, Application, Special Folder, Link, FTP and QAP Feature. The Menus and Groups cannot be copied.
Popup menu Hotkeys:
QAP introduces a new logic for popup menu triggers. There are still two types of triggers and each one has a mouse button and a keyboard hotkey. The two triggers types are now named:
QAP menu triggers (mouse default is middle mouse button and keyboard default is Windows+W)
Alternative menu triggers (mouse default is Shift+middle mouse button and keyboard default is Shift+Windows+W).
Alternative menu features:
Folders Popup users suggested different actions to be applied to the favorites in addition to simply launching them. Some suggested to introduce different hotkeys for these actions. In order minimize the number of hotkeys to remember and to gather all these special features under one menu, QAP now offers a Alternative menu with the following features.
Edit a Favorite: modify a favorite directly from the QAP menu (without having to open the Settings window and browse to the favorite submenu).
Copy a Favorite’s Path or URL: copy the file path or the URL of a favorite to your clipboard in order to paste it in any other window.
Open in new window: open the favorite in a new window instead of changing the folder in the target window.
more to be implemented)
After the user selected the Alternative menu action, the regular QAP popup menu is displayed where you can choose on what favorite execute the feature.
Exclusion lists:
There may be some windows where the user does not want the QAP mouse trigger to interfere with the normal use the application. An exclusion list has been added in the Options dialog box (tab Exclusion list). When the target window is in the exclusion list, the QAP mouse hotkey is disabled and is sent to the target windows as if QAP was not running.
Menus:
In Options, General tab you have the option to display favorite’s shortcut reminders in popup menu. The reminder can be displayed as full name (for example, “Windows+W” or “Control+Left Mouse Button”) or as abbreviated name (for example, “#W” or “^LButton”).
Integration with Windows folders icons:
If the folder you add to your favorites already has a custom icon, this icon will automatically be associated to your new favorite and shown in your QAP menu. If the folder has no icon, you can use the Add/Edit favorite dialog box link Set Windows folder icon to change the folder icon to the images selected for your favorite. That way, you QAP menu and your Windows file system will show the same icons for your favorite folders. QAP can also Remove Windows folder icon if you want to revert your changes.
Support for environment variables and PATH folders:
In any file path (folder, document or application), the system environment variables like %appdata%, %public%, %temp% or %userprofile% (etc.) are supported in favorite location (for example: “%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates” will take you to the folder “C:Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates”).
System variables can also be inserted in favorite Advanced settings parameters, Launch with this application and Start in.
You can also enter a location without path. In this case, the file is searched in the PATH environment variable directories or in registry App Path keys. Also, if you enter an application location without a file extension, it is searched for all executable extensions in the PATHEXT variable: .COM; .EXE; .BAT; .CMD; .VBS; etc.
File managers support:
As Folders Popup, Quick Access Popup still supports the file managers Total Commander and Directory Opus (in addition to standard Windows file managers Windows Explorer and Console). Folders Popup also supports other file managers using a third-party addon called FPconnect developed by tpr. In Quick Access Popup, the addon FPconnect is not required anymore since all the information about the 15 file managers collected by tpr is now made available directly in QAP thanks to the new settings file QAPconnect.ini delivered with QAP.
With the help of tpr and other users, this list of file managers will be augmented with new apps or adapted to newer versions. The most up-to-date QAPconnect.ini file will be distributed with QAP.
Language:
At this time, Quick Access Popup is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian and Swedish. It will become available in other languages offered in FP as translators will have time to review the translation files.

New in Quick Access Popup 5.2.2 (Nov 30, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.2.1 (Nov 16, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.1.2 (Aug 29, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.1.1 (Jul 22, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.1 (May 7, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.0.1 (Apr 15, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 5.0 (Apr 6, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.3 (Feb 23, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.2.4 (Feb 9, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.2.2 (Feb 2, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.2.1 (Jan 19, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.2 (Jan 16, 2015)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.1 (Dec 22, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.0.4 (Dec 15, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.0.3 (Dec 13, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.0.2 (Dec 13, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.0.1 (Dec 10, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 4.0 (Dec 8, 2014)

New standard installation tool:
New setup procedure with standard Install / Uninstall procedures using Inno Setup.
For previous Folders Popup users, the new setup tool will be able to retrieve your previous configuration if the Run at Startup option has been selected before the upgrade.
Folders Popup will continue to be also distributed in a zip file for portable installation.
Groups of folders:
The Switch menu from v3 is replaced by two menus : Current Folders and Group of Folders.
The Current Folders menu allows to open one of the folders already open in an Explorer window.
Folders open in Windows Explorer and Directory Opus are detected (Total Command support will be possible as soon as the TC developer will have implement a new command making this integration possible).
The Groups of Folders menu allows to save and restore groups of folders.
Groups are restored re-creating each Explorer window at its pre-defined size and location.
Use the Save Current Folders as Group submenu to create a new group.
Custom favorite icons:
Select your custom icons for favorite folders, URLs, documents and submenus.
Add/edit favorite icons in a new dialog box where you can pick icons in any .EXE, .DLL or .ICO file.
Various additions or improvements:
The default Folders Popup hotkeys are changed to Windows-A and Shift-Windows-A (previous shortcut Windows-K is a reserved shortcut in Windows 8.1). Actual users configuration is not changed (you can keep or change your current hotkeys as you wish).
You can now add column breaks in popup menu offering another way to group your menu items (very cool!).
For tech support, sysadmin and other power users, the system environment variables like %appdata%, %public%, %temp% or %userprofile% are now supported in favorite location (for example: “%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates” will take you to the folder C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates).
The Downloads folder has been added to the Special Folders menu (not available under Windows XP).
Menu item added to the right-click Tray menu to open the FoldersPopup.ini file.
Option Open menu on taksbar added to determine if you want to open the popup menu over the taskbar (for compatibility with other utilities like 7+ Taskbar Tweaker).
Folders Popup now accepts space hotkey – this allows combinations with spacebar like Alt-Space.
Add an option to disable check for update at startup.
The 48 pixels has been added to the choice of icon sizes.
For Directory Opus users:
Add the option Use tabs to choose to open new folders in new tab (new default) or in a new lister.
Folders open in new tab are open in the pane under the mouse click position.
Bug fixes:
Fix a bug with labels when changing the hotkey for Recent folders menu and Settings windows.
Make the vertical bar (or pipe “|”) a reserved character in submenu or favorite name.
Fix a bug occurring in some situation when a favorite location contains a comma (also recently fixed in v3.3.1).

New in Quick Access Popup 3.3.2 (Dec 2, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.3.1 (Nov 18, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.3 (Oct 25, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.2.2 (Oct 3, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.2.1 (Sep 22, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.1.3 (Sep 8, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.1.2 (Sep 4, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.1.1 (Sep 4, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 3.1 (Sep 4, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.2.1 (Jul 13, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.2 (Jul 7, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.1.1 (Jun 26, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.1 (Jun 18, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.0.3 (Jun 6, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.0.2 (Jun 4, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.0.1 (Jun 2, 2014)

New in Quick Access Popup 2.0.0 (May 30, 2014)

Submenus:
By popular demand, Folders Popup now offers folders submenus.
To add a submenu, in the Settings window, click the Add button and, in the new dialog box, select the radio button Add: submenu. Submenus can be nested under submenus at will.
Select the menu to edit in the Menu to edit: dropdown list.
Click the Up arrow to edit the parent menu or the Left arrow to edit a previously displayed menus.
To move a folder from one menu to another, click the Edit button or double-click the folder name in the Settings window and select the new menu in the Folder parent menu dropdown list.
The Add this folder menu puts the new folder in the main menu where you can edit it to move it to another menu.
Version 1 folders saved in your .ini file are preserved and automatically placed in the main menu.
Switch to another Explorer:
The Switch to Explorer menu takes you instantly to any opened instance of the Windows file Explorer.
The Switch in dialog box moves the active dialog box to any folder currently opened in another file Explorer.
Recent folders:
The Recent folders menu lists the recent folders memorized by Windows (on slow systems, this may slow down popup menu display because it needs to be refreshed at each display of the popup menu; if you don’t use it, you can turn it OFF in the options).
The variable RecentFolders in .ini file ([Global] section) determines the number of displayed recent folders in the menu (default is 5 - keep it low to preserve a snappy popup menu).
Language support:
Select your working language in the Settings window (supported languages: English, French and German).
Thanks to Edgar “Fast Edi” Hoffmann for the German translation.
Help appreciated for more languages (and for English proof checking as well).
New Settings dialog box:
Icons to Add, Edit or Remove folders and submenus.
Double-click a folder or a submenu name to edit it.
Icons to move folders and submenus Up or Down in the popup menu.
Icons to add a Separator in the popup menu.
Icons to Sort folders in a menu.
Icons to Add, Edit or Remove supported dialog boxes.
Double-click in a dialog box name to edit a supported dialog box.
Icons to open the Help, About and Settings windows.
Other improvements:
An easy to access Support freeware! menu with various support options.