ShellToys Control Panel
As well as being the most comprehensive collection of shell tools you'll find, ShellToys is user-friendly (and computer-friendly) throughout. You can apply changes in real time without closing the Control Panel window, and any changes you make always take effect immediately – nothing ever requires a restart.
The Control Panel window is divided into 18 sections. Here's a quick overview of each section:
Configure Menu Items
Displays brief descriptions of each of ShellToys' shell extensions and allows you to hide any shell extension you don't use by unchecking the box beside it, 'promote' favorite extensions to the main context menu, adjust the order of shell extensions and add menu separators.
Menu & Tool Options
A collection of simple checkbox options relating to the ShellToys submenu, such as whether to display icons beside shell-extension names and whether to show hotkey combinations on menus.
Manage Presets
Several shell extensions maintain lists of files: for example, Go To Folder keeps a list of your quick-access folders. From this page, you can manage those lists, adding, removing and editing the items they contain. (You can also do this from the ShellToys context menu.)
Program Associations
Here you can use something other than Notepad for the Open In Notepad shell extension, and specify a different command processor for use by the Command Prompt extension.
Hotkeys
This is where you enable or disable hotkey support for ShellToys tools, and specify the hotkeys to use for each extension.
Explorer Control
On this page you can set up hotkeys to control particular Windows Explorer functions from the keyboard.
Window Control
Here you can specify system-wide keyboard shortcuts to minimize windows, toggle maximize/restore, and toggle window transparency.
Extras
Enable or disable some of ShellToys' extra shell tools by checking or unchecking boxes.
Clipboard+
Choose whether or not to use Clipboard+ with a simple checkbox option, and choose the hotkeys used to display the Clipboard+ window and the AutoType menu.
Clock+
Enable or disable Clock+ by ticking a box. From this feature-packed page you can choose the display options for the clock, manage reminders and set alarms. (You can also manage reminders and alarms by right-clicking the clock itself.)
Dialogs+
Here you can enable or disable Dialogs+ using the checkbox, specify the default dialog size and view-style used by all applications, and add custom dialog settings for individual applications.
Custom Menus
This is where you choose whether to use the Custom Menus feature. You can customize the context menus shown in Windows from here, or choose the Customize Menus item shown on any context menu.
Send To Menu
Hide or show items on your Send To menu by checking items.
New Menu
Hide unused templates shown on the New menu, or add new templates to the menu in a couple of clicks.
Compatibility
It shouldn't happen, but if ShellToys causes problems with another application that displays shell context menus, simply add the application's name to this list and ShellToys won't add itself to those menus.
Migrate Settings
This page provides a simple import/export feature for all ShellToys settings, making it easy to apply the same settings to a ShellToys installation on another PC (or for a different user on the same PC).
ShellToys Updates
Click a button to find out whether a newer version of ShellToys is available, or to use the Live Update feature to install updated ShellToys components.
About ShellToys
The traditional version, copyright, licensing and contact information.