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|  | | | "Not what it says on the tin!"
by: JohnnieJordaan
FileMenu Tools 5.8.1
Pros: Non existant Cons: To many to mention Other Thoughts: Finally, a program to help me sort out my context menu issues in Windows Vista. I got even more enthusiastic when reading some of the raving reviews and I could see my fruitless searching had finally come to an end. FileMenu Tools lead me to believe it would grant me control over the context menu.
Wrong!
The major issue I had was the order of some of the items on the context menu. They weren't in the order I wanted them.
FileMenu did not resolve that problem at all. All it did was give me ANOTHER item in the menu and another item over which I had no control where it went.
Sure, within the FileMenu Tools option I had (some) control, but I didn't want an extra item, I wanted to change the order of the existing menu and I still couldn't do that.
I had a look at the other features, anyway. It is fair to say there were a few options I thought that could be handy, however I soon found out not all of the options I had ticked were available in my context menu (note 1), this struck me as odd, but I could live with that, they weren't the ones I cared about.
However, this is where my second disappointment occurred. An option 'Copy Name' is for me useful, however no 'Paste Name'. So I could copy the name for a selected file, but in order to paste it I had to do it 'old style' (note 2).
Adding items to the menu is available, however not for this type of action (note 3). Meaning, doing it old style is actually quicker for me, so no benefit there either.
Which brings me to my last and final point, which to me is a vital point for any application and usually forgotten or poorly done. Unfortunately FileMenu Tools is not an exception. The online help is non existent, consisting out of a few screen shots not explaining anything.
The application help isn't much better, it seems to assume pre knowledge on how the tool works or it assumes the user knows the inner workings of their Operation System (in my case Vista), which I don't have.
Conclusion:
If you're not too bothered about having control over your context menu but want to play around a little, then maybe this is it for you. On the other hand if you, like me would like to have full control over your context menu, this tool will not give it to you.
PS.
If I am wrong in my assertions, please let me know.
PPS.
If you find a tool which actually does customize the context menu, let me (or us) know as well.
note 1:
Whether this was because of Vista or I just didn't have the applications that were associated with those options, I don't know. But after my initial disappointments I didn't really bother to investigate it further.
note 2:
The usual F2 and CRTL+V (with the occasional CTRL+A if I erred).
note 3:
I tried to see what the instructions were for the 'Copy Name' within FileMenu Tools, however those weren't shown and the options to program the new menu item didn't seem to allow me to program it to 'Paste Name' it. Was this review helpful?   16 out of 37 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2010-12-16 | | | | "Nice :D"
by: coldbluefire
FileMenu Tools 5.8.1
Other Thoughts: Very helpful aplication. Greetings and thx to author.Was this review helpful? 42 out of 81 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2010-09-22 | | | | "Great Application"
by: alekjakob
Other Thoughts: I've been using for several months. It gives you good tools and an easy to use setup and admin panel.Was this review helpful? 73 out of 132 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2009-07-28 | | | | "It works."
by: mailstan
Other Thoughts: Alternate to searching through the menus' for basic file tasks.Was this review helpful? 56 out of 105 users found this review helpful.
| | 2009-07-25 | | | | "Oo-gah!!!"
by: Tchananeemer
Other Thoughts: Very good program. It brings us very, very useful features. In this 5.7 version the shell extension caused me some troubles. I discovered that it was the reason of System freeze every time I was trying to move any file in Desktop to any folder, immediately after the system startup, and only in this moment. I disabled the extension with Shell Extension Viewer from NirSoft, made a reboot, tested again, and the problem was gone. Then, I uninstalled and reinstalled the program and seems that the problem isn't haunting me anymore. Well, the program is good, but the languages translations for the shell extension doesn't work if they aren't into the files named "english" or "spanish". The program interface is translated perfectly. If your language isn't english or spanish, it will not to appear in the righ-click menu if you don't rename the file of your language in the languages folder to english_dll or spanish_dll. Well, that's it. Cheers.Was this review helpful? 54 out of 114 users found this review helpful.
| | 2009-07-07 | | | | "Well Done"
by: RanMan
Other Thoughts: I too have been using a previous version for quite a long time. The software author has done a fine job with this program and maintaining the program as freeware is SUPER! I recommend the program to everyone.
Thanks and keep up the great work! Was this review helpful? 52 out of 113 users found this review helpful.
| | 2009-04-13 | | | | "Great Program"
by: RanMan
Other Thoughts: I have been using v5.4 for a long time and love it. This version has additional features that I am looking forward to using. Thanks to the author that continues to make this program Free !Was this review helpful? 54 out of 109 users found this review helpful.
| | 2009-01-08 | | | | "smart"
by: thenmustputut
Other Thoughts: may be this tools can use to repair file that infected by virus (indonesian viruas) always hidden file then can be chek on unhiden. with this tools it can do.Was this review helpful? 52 out of 108 users found this review helpful.
|  | 2007-04-25 | | | | "nice features"
by: humpty
Other Thoughts: really good!Was this review helpful? 55 out of 108 users found this review helpful.
| | 2007-04-17 | | | | "Excellent"
by: Baloney
Other Thoughts: Really worth. Very handy, very well done. Quickly appears to be an everyday session companion.Was this review helpful? 56 out of 107 users found this review helpful.
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