October 27, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Featured Freeware: Folder Guide

by Seth Rosenblatt
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Place your favorite folder shortcuts on the right-click menu with this handy freeware utility. Folder Guide's compact button and results window interface won't take more than a minute to understand. Even the single-page Help file is superfluous.

Operating this utility is a piece of cake. Simply click Add to create an alias and insert the folder path. A built-in browse function makes it easy to navigate to the folder. The alias is immediately available under the Folder Guide option on the right-click menu. With a click you can sort the aliases alphabetically, or reorder them using simple Up and Down buttons. Keeping different sets of aliases is easy with Export and Import functions. The program uses few resources, and the quick access to favorite folders saved them time and trouble.

If you need to visit the same two or three folders regularly, this is an interesting and effective way to jump around quickly.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by brobar October 27, 2008 4:03 AM PDT
Looks like an interesting utility. But I have to wonder how this would be different from the Quick Launch folder. Everything I need access to on a regular basis (programs, folders, files) is on my QL folder, some of which sits on the task bar and the others accessible from the QL menu. Works like a charm.
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by shadowfax123 October 27, 2008 7:08 AM PDT
This is a brilliant application. Now I don't have to go through combination of several pages and mouse clicks to open a particular folder which I use often. FOLDER GUIDE will guide me do this at once!
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by BrianZachary October 28, 2008 12:50 AM PDT
I have to agree with you, brobar. I also have shortcuts to all my most used folders and programs either in the QuickLaunch or on my desktop. I thought I'd check this program out, though, to see if it would be at all useful to me.

That being said, I doubt it will be very useful to me. I am so used to using the Quicklaunch, I forget Folder Guide is even available. I will give it a few days and then most likely uninstall just due to lack of usefulness to me.
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