Comments on: Filebox Entender: Enhances Windows with favorite folders, recent folders, and windows management functions

By: Forty-Three Must DIY Windows Enhancements | Being PC | Windows and iPhone How To's

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:48:22 +0000

[...] 3- Filebox Extender: this one adds new buttons on the title bar next to the minimize, maximize, and close buttons that provide favorite folders and recent folders access anywhere (including file open/save dialogs). Other functions: a “stay on top” pushpin button, and a window roll-up button that hides all but the title bar of a window. [...]

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:31:02 +0000

I’ve been using FileBox eXtender for ~years~ ! Too bad the developer no longer supports it.
A great little applet that I’ve found to be stable and useful. Runs terrific on 64-bit Vista.

The Computer Rodent

By: http://www.freewaregenius.com/2009/06/23/forty-three-of-the-best-free-windows-enhancements-that-you-should-know-about/ « Mrq on the web today

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:41:48 +0000

[...] Filebox Extender: this one adds new buttons on the title bar next to the minimize, maximize, and close buttons that [...]

By: Daniel U. Thibault

Daniel U. Thibault — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:37:07 +0000

Well, never mind, the install succeeded when I tried it again after a reboot. Must have had something messed up.

By: Daniel U. Thibault

Daniel U. Thibault — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:53:44 +0000

Version 2.00.04 from the Hyperionics web site refuses to install in either 32 or 64 bit versions under my Windows 7 (Home Premium 64 bit, French) system. I would appreciate any help in fixing this, as this utility is my top-rated one for Win XP…

I get an error 2363, which is very unhelpful.

By: Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About « Qwerty98311’s Weblog

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:48:40 +0000

[...] Filebox Extender: this one adds new buttons on the title bar next to the minimize, maximize, and close buttons that [...]

By: The DataRat

The DataRat — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:31:55 +0000

Been using it since XP. It works flawlessly on both my Vista 64-bit and 32-bit machines. Although I recently switched to Actual Title Buttons (shareware) on my Vista 64 box.

http://www.actualtools.com/titlebuttons/

But, FileBox eXtender is the best FREEWARE applet in the category !

By: Filebox Extender dodaje nove produktivne ikone u liniju naslova Windows prozora | saša prudkov - saveti, vesti i trikovi

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:55:02 +0000

[...] Adresa: Filebox Extender [...]

By: Forty-Three of the best free Windows enhancements that you should know about | freewaregenius.com

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:37 +0000

[...] Filebox Extender: this one adds new buttons on the title bar next to the minimize, maximize, and close buttons that [...]

By: Capt Om

Capt Om — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:31:13 +0000

I’ve been trying both Filebox eXtender and FlashFolder, but so far, I find DirectFolders from Codesector.com to be a much more polished execution. It doesn’t do the “roll-up” thing, but it uses much less memory than FileBox and has a function for creating a custom Places Bar. As for GuesttWatt’s concern about Test.exe being a trojan, I’ve scanned it with Eset NOD32 and Spyware Termintator, neither of which reported any issue.

By: GuesttWatt

GuesttWatt — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:43:22 +0000

Codesector.com has just released a new version of DirectFolders, free for personal use. But caution: its Test.exe module is reported to be a trojan by one of my antivirus. If you’re brave enough and have the means to find out for sure whether that’s really the case or not, this would be much appreciated.

By: zippodemos

zippodemos — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:29:27 +0000

Will try it, thanks CT!

By: CT

CT — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:34:33 +0000

TO: “zippodemos”

[quoting FileBox eXtender Help]

How to Change FbX Button Images

In the folder where you installed FileBox eXtender, there’s a sub-folder named ICONS. Inside that are several standard format Windows icon files. (These have the extension .ICO.)

v Copy a pair of these files into the main program folder, and then rename them to FAVORITE.ICO and RECENT.ICO.

v Now exit and restart FileBox eXtender. (In some cases you will have to reboot your machine—exiting and restarting the program may not be enough to effect the change.)

v The new icons will then appear.

You can edit these ICO files if you want, to make them look how you’d like. You’ll need an icon editing program for that.

By: Samer

Samer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:23:23 +0000

There’s a review of Flashfolder on your favorite freeware reviews site:
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2007/07/07/flashfolder/

Published 7/7/2007. This was also linked to in the review text above, btw.

By: Barry Cleave

Barry Cleave — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:38:28 +0000

I have been using both Flashfolder and FileBox eXtender together for some time. I use FBEX to automatically display the details view in date order descending and for the “Always on Top” and “Roll Up” buttons. For a FlashFolder review see: http://proreviewer.com/2008/02/15/flashfolder-windows-explorer-extension-utility/

Barry

By: Alek Davis

Alek Davis — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:40:44 +0000

GuesttWatt: The FlashFolder thing looks interesting. Gonna try it out. Thanks for the tip.

By: CT

CT — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:18:19 +0000

Well, I’ve been using it for 24 hours, and I Love it!
Notes: The Program now has a few sets of Icons, and the ability to ‘Add your Own’; which helps – I’m an XP-Classic kind of user, and some were just ‘Too Much’! :-O

Oddly, when I ‘Roll-Up’ Windows Explorer (File Manager), I get “seven question marks, square box, six question marks” (the ‘Reply’ box messes up special characters, so I used descriptive words) – All others seem fine; It might be other TSR’s I’m running, though — Does anyone call them “TSR’s” anymore?

Added with ‘Resizer’, I’m a happy keyboarding geek!

By: GuesttWatt

GuesttWatt — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:35:20 +0000

Unfortunately, this one seems to be buggy. Try FlashFolder instead (freeware): http://zett42.de/flashfolder/?cat=3

By: zippodemos

zippodemos — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:54:36 +0000

PROS:
The push-pin and roll-up buttons blend seamlessly to WinXP title bar at least in the default skin. Recent and Favorite buttons add functionality to Windows Explorer and File Dialogs.

CONS:
Unstable when configuring the favorites, when I click on the “Switch Config”
the whole program crashes. Got to kill that bug ASAP.

WISHLIST:
- General switch on/off option in the tray icon.
- Transparency and “Minimize to tray” buttons.
- Option to change the Push-pin and Roll-up icons.
- Option to change the position of the buttons (like push-pin at the left, then roll-up, then recent, etc.)
- Option to display each particular folder’s icons in the Recent and Favorite buttons.
- Option to resize the buttons.
- Ability to work in unconventional title bars like Window Media Player’s.
- (I may be asking too much!) Simmilar integration with another file managers like Total Commander, Directory Opus or ACDSee.

HELP!:
- I can’t find the option to change the default icons for the Recent and Favorite
buttons, i found the folder with the icons but I don’t know how to change them.
- Will these buttons blend well with different WinXP themes?

CONCLUSION:
Very good app, with a lot of room for improvement yet with some stability issues.
Highly recommendable freebie. Def. a keeper.

By: Canuckster

Canuckster — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:01:38 +0000

I have used Filebox Extender for 6 years (I paid for it back when it used to be shareware) and it is the singlemost useful utility on my system (and being a computer geek, I have lots of utilities!). It has probably saved me 2 minutes per day for 6 years, honestly.

To me, the ability to make all your open/save/browse dialog boxes bigger than the unfathomably small size Windows makes them is worth the price of admission. And I can’t live without the easy access it gives me to my favourite folders. If there’s a program it won’t work with then that sucks, but I think I’d still get more out of using it and putting up with that glitch than not having it at all.