Shell Tools: Add copy URL, copy file name and more to Windows shell

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

Shell Tools: Add copy URL, copy file name and more to Windows shell

by Brad Linder Apr 4th 2008

Tired of right-clicking on a file and selecting properties or rename in order to copy the file name to your clipboard? Shell Tools adds a Copy Filename feature to the Windows right-click context menu, plus several other useful utilities.

You can choose which components to install, and once they're installed, you can choose selectively which ones to enable, so there's no need to clutter your context menu any more than you're comfortable with.

Here are a few of the tools included:

Copy Filename - Does pretty much what you'd expect
Filenote - Adds notes to a file by creating a text file with the same name
Show hidden files - Quickly toggles the Windows show hidden files option
FontLoader - Adds load/unload/install/uninstall options to the context menu for font files
CopyURL - Copies URL information from favorites/internet shortcuts to the clipboard
Fresh Icons - Forces Windows to rebuild icons when for shortcuts and files with the wrong shortcut
Register Server - Adds register/unregister server commands to the context menu for some DLL, OCX, and EXE files

[via Shell Extension City]

Tags: context-menu, copy-filename, filenote, right-click, shell-extension, shell-tools, show-hidden-files

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James said 1:27PM on 4-07-2008

Some of these might be handy, but mostly I fail to see the point. Need the file name? F2 - CTRL+C. And if you leave "hide hidden files" on for more than 5 minutes after a fresh Windows install... WTF are you reading DLS for, newb?

mattjs said 6:55PM on 4-20-2008

There is a partial (and simpler) alternative to this solution iff you dont need all of these options and abilities. "Send To Toys" will aloow you to do much the same things with less intrusive clutter on your menus (and easier both to manage to options you want and to remove them if u dont).

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