HOBComment
Rating: 4
Version tested: 1.07 beta
HOBComment is a Windows Explorer shell extention that enables you to right-click to add a comment to a folder; it will also allow to do the same to add comments to files on your NTFS partitions.
I’ve been looking for some time for an easy way to add comments to my files and folders at work; with HOBComment I’ve found a way. This tiny app will add a right-click ‘Add Comment’ command within Windows Explorer shell that will allow you to do just that (see screenshot). It will also allow you to right-click to add comments to any file if it resides on an NTFS partition. (Note that if you have a FAT32 partition you can still add comments to files, but you will have to do so normally by right clicking on a file / properties / summary, and entering your comments within the comment box.)
To view your comments in Windows XP, you will need to install HOBCommentXP in addition to HOBComment. HOBCommentXP will add a new “File/Folder Comments” column visible in the Windows Explorer ‘detail’ view where you can see your comments (for Windows 2000, it seems that this is not necessary, although I can’t test this on my machine). You can remove the original ‘comments’ column from your detail view and replace it with this one (this new “File/Folder Comments” column will mirror the contents of the original ‘comments’ column). You can do this so that applies to all of your folders as follows (for Windows XP):
- Once you have HOBCommentXP installed, open a folder and select view / detail
- Right click on a column header and click ‘more’ on the resulting menu.
- Uncheck ‘comments’ and check ‘File and Folder Comments’
- Go to the folder file menu and select Tools / Folder Options
- Click on the view tab then the ‘Apply to all Folders’ button.
I don’t know why you can’t easily add and view comments to files and folders with Windows (is this available in Vista?), but I know that it could add considerable value, especially if you work with and/or create a lot of files like I do.
HOBComment may not be the most elegant setup, but if you want an easy way to add notes it works well enough (for some reason, though, I wasn’t able to add comments to my Excel .XLS files through the context menu, had to do it the ‘normal’ way). Also, the author did not provide uninstallers, but I can provide these here.
Compatibility: Windows 2000, XP.
Go to the HOBComment page, HOBCommentXP page (for Windows XP install them both).
Site is down for a while
Missed to backup the wholockme extension!!
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Looks good!
A possible enhancement would be if I could select several files and add the same comment to all of them in one go.
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Doesn’t XP have an option for a ‘Comments’ column already?
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http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/zipinst.html
Quoting:
“The ZipInstaller utility installs and uninstalls applications and utilities that do not provide an internal installation program. It automatically extracts all files from the Zip file, copies them to the destination folder you select, creates shortcuts in the start menu and in your desktop, and adds an uninstall module to allow you to automatically remove the software in the future.”
“This utility was originally developed to install the utilities in NirSoft Web site, but you can use it for installing utilities and applications from other sources, like the utilities provided in SysInternal Web site, Funduc Software, and many others.
Generally, this utility can install properly almost any software compressed in Zip files that doesn’t provide an install/uninstall module.”
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