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re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 4:07 am Posted by Jo (2 messages posted) Hi Poppy. One method I use to do something similar is by using the freeware rjhExtensions this puts several options in your right-click menu (any you don't require can easily be de-selected) One of the options is 'duplicate file here' which (as the name suggests) duplicates the selected file in the same folder by modifying the name slightly. Hope this helps. On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 3:27 am, Poppy Raven wrote: >I have a question about Customize >Context Menus: When Explorer was call File Manager there used to be a very >useful 'Save As' option on the context menu for files and folders. You could use >it, for instance, to put a copy of a file in the same folder as the original - very >useful if you are then going to change the original. Since then I have had to copy, >save to another directory, change the name, cut, and save back to the original directory. >Is there a way to put this option back on the context menu? Or is there some way >to do the same thing already available, that I haven't understood? > > Hi Poppy. One method I use to do something similar is by using the freeware rjhExtensions this puts several options in your right-click menu (any you don't require can easily be de-selected) One of the options is 'duplicate file here' which (as the name suggests) duplicates the selected file in the same folder by modifying the name slightly. Hope this helps. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 5:12 am Posted by MartinM (5143 messages posted) Seemed a good idea ! Tried it - it doesn't do anything (no new items in my context menus). Where am I going wrong ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 5:40 am Posted by Poppy Raven (4 messages posted) I'll try that Jo - though MartinM seems to have had problems... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 5:51 am Posted by Poppy Raven (4 messages posted) Thanks Jo - that is much better than my previous method. It doesn't work for folders, and it would be nice to be able to specify the new name - still half a cake is better than none. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 6:03 am Posted by Jo (2 messages posted) He he! - yes it's better than nothing, but it's a handy tool nonetheless. I'm not sure why MartinM had problems. On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 5:51 am, Poppy Raven wrote: >Thanks Jo - that is much better than my previous method. It doesn't work for folders, >and it would be nice to be able to specify the new name - still half a cake is better >than none. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 6:46 am Posted by Bobcat (254 messages posted) If it helps,you can copy and paste a file directly back into the same folder and windows will rename it "Copy of..." for you. On Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 3:27 am, Poppy Raven wrote: >I have a question about Customize >Context Menus: When Explorer was call File Manager there used to be a very >useful 'Save As' option on the context menu for files and folders. You could use >it, for instance, to put a copy of a file in the same folder as the original - very >useful if you are then going to change the original. Since then I have had to copy, >save to another directory, change the name, cut, and save back to the original directory. >Is there a way to put this option back on the context menu? Or is there some way >to do the same thing already available, that I haven't understood? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Customize Context Menus' Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 8:10 am Posted by Poppy Raven (4 messages posted) Good Lord, can you? Why didn't I know something so simple! durr! Works for folders too... Now if I could only rename in one operation, I'd be there! Thanks, Bobcat. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum