ExplorerGenie (formerly CopyPathMenu)

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ExplorerGenie (formerly CopyPathMenu)

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ExplorerGenie rel. 1.1.0.0 released at December 13, 2020
ExplorerGenie is an open source extension to the context menu of the Windows Explorer, which allows to copy the path of a file to the clipboard, or to open tools like the Command Line.
The menu is configurable, so that you get those functions you really need.

Features:

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• Copies the path to the clipboard in several formats, e.g. as link to insert in e-mails (Outlook/Thunderbird and others).
  You can also copy the path as an HTML path, as a C/C++ syntax entry, or as URI (uniform resource identifier).
• Opens tools like the Command Line or Power Shell, if required they can be opened as admin.
  Open in Command Prompt
  Open in Command Prompt as admin
  Open in Power Shell
  Open in Power Shell as admin
  Open in Explorer
  Open in Explorer as admin
• Calculates file hashes, e.g. to verify downloaded files from the internet: 
   algorithms MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and RIPEMD-160
• Supports filenames containing UNICODE characters.
Links and other:
• Martin Stoecki home page: https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/explorerg ... genie.html
• direct download installer 'explorergenie.msi': https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/explorerg ... rgenie.msi
• installer size: 4.1 MB
• GitHub program page (only sources): https://github.com/martinstoeckli/ExplorerGenie
• program is written in C# (Microsoft) and Pascal (Delphi)
• Softpedia https://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-E ... Menu.shtml

Copy from everywhere:
Since the shell extension is written for 32bit and 64bit, the context menu will not only be available in the Windows explorer, it can also be used inside file dialogs.
Minimal Explorer impact:

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Because context menus run inside the explorer process itself (shell-extension), and therefore can potentially interfere with this process, we took special care about the stability of this extension.
• The code of the shell extension is kept to a minimum, it only starts the real application, which does the work and is running in its own separate process.
• The shell extension is written in Delphi, which compiles to native applications. This way we can avoid loading of a (DotNet) runtime and possible version conflicts, and do not impact performance of 
  explorer and file-open dialogs.
Installation:
The installation is very straightforward, start the setup and confirm the installation. If you are installing over an earlier version, maybe you have to restart the computer before the new version will take action. To uninstall the application, go to the control panel and open the software dialog, there you can desinstall the application.
Screenshots:
Copy as path
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Copy file path
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Go to tool
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Calculate file hashes
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook.

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