Comments on: Shock Bookmark: access favorite files, folders, apps, and websites in Windows’ context menu

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:50:46 +0000

[...] Shock Bookmark: another freeware app that, similar to Folder Guide above installs your favorite folders in your [...]

By: mlueth19

mlueth19 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:41:19 +0000

Thanks for the tips. Right-clicking on my Vista start button does the trick. I’ll give SB another chance…

By: cicom3nd3z

cicom3nd3z — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:41:11 +0000

Oh, wait! Under XP at least, you can right-click the start button to show Shock Bookmarks. So YOU DON’T HAVE TO MINIMIZE Firefox

By: cicom3nd3z

cicom3nd3z — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:41:03 +0000

well, if you only use firefox and have no use of the IE favorites menu, you can use that menu as a fast way to access folders. That menu appears in Windows Explorer, Save dialog (use tweakui to put it there) and start menu.

By: The Windows Fix

The Windows Fix — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:40:43 +0000

This looks like something I could use quite regularly, but as JK said, I wonder about load times when it comes to the right-click context menus.

By: mlueth19

mlueth19 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:40:56 +0000

I really like this program and would use it if only I could access it when my Firefox window is maximized. If I have to minimize Firefox to access SB, it’s not worth it.

By: cicom3nd3z

cicom3nd3z — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:40:24 +0000

Well, it seems safe. Guys at Shock have some nice apps, but I think they really need a forum and beta-testers. Shock Bookmarks works fine.

By: JK

JK — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:40:35 +0000

Of course, this program is convenient in many cases, but, after adding some objects to the context menu, it takes ages to load the menu on my system?

By: arkoudos

arkoudos — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:39:31 +0000

Great piece of software.

I was extremely hookt on Folder Guide, i cannot work without it, and i was pleased to see the idea go a little further.

A hint for its users too: I had a website i needed to open only with explorer. So far i had a shortcut, that worked like this:

“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE” http://www.website.com

That path did not work with Shock Bookmark – but, linking directly to the shortcut, did

Also, a bad news for me: it does not work well with non-latin languages, like Greek

By: Samer

Samer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:40:14 +0000

@ Gent: its not clear to me that DD is so much better than this one. I like the move/copy function in ShockBookmark myself. Plus DD as I remember has a lot of little functions within functions and sometimes less is more (Shock Bookmark is rather straightforward).

When I tested DD I remember being annoyed at the functions that were restricted in the non-paid version, although that was many many months ago and I dont recall specifics.

I will say that DD looks somewhat better on account of the fact that it uses the original icons from the folders/apps. Hope the ShockBookmark guys get around to doing the same.

By: Gent

Gent — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:39:13 +0000

I’ve been using “Direct Folders” for a while.

I think it’s much more powerful and intuitive, compared to this.

By: Samer

Samer — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:39:05 +0000

@cicom3nd3z: the installer is malware free. I just uploaded it to VirusTotal and it was deemed safe by 36/37 scanners (which is a stellar score). See results here

I have reviewed 4 programs by this author, some of which I have used personally for a long time, and have had false positives identified by some malware scanners before and reported by users. I am confident in that this program is 100% clean.

@blogward: the site is down. May be an exceeded bandwidth issue, from the looks of it. I have uploaded the version I reviewed (link below); will remove once the author’s site is back up.

http://www.divshare.com/download/6000242-79d

By: blogward

blogward — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:38:56 +0000

Link is dead in the UK.

By: cicom3nd3z

cicom3nd3z — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:38:44 +0000

I like this app. I think it’s very useful. But SUPERAntispyware (free) detects shockbm.dll as a suspicious file.