Comments on: 7Stacks: brings mac-like folder stacks to Windows

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By: pwou

pwou — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:32:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip. A search has also brought up another freeware with similar functionality, Jumplist launcher:
http://en.www.ali.dj/jumplist-launcher/

By: red

red — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:34:13 +0000

Free launch bar or its shareware sibling accomplish the same thing and have for the last decade or so. Very useful and MUCH quicker than any of these stacks programs. Both work fine with Win7

By: bolgwrad

bolgwrad — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:46:17 +0000

Well, I tried it; and apart from the fact that there’s no option but to create the stack on the desktop, it really is slow to kick in. Standalone Stacks is now up to v2 and the lag is pretty tolerable, if only they’d kill the animation. But 7stacks is also graphically corrupted here (with WindowBlinds?), so not a keeper.

By: shenley duffus

shenley duffus — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:44:48 +0000

Thanks for the reply Samer. You’re right, Folder Menu is not the same type of animal as 7Stacks in that it is not ‘just’ a launcher. Having said that, it is my launcher of choice. It being a portable app, i have a shortcut to it in my quick launch toolbar. The program’s ability to access favourite folders, URLs etc. as well as launch programs (from a shortcut, middle-click or keyboard shortcut) are just extra strings to its bow. Guess they could just as easily have called it ‘Program Menu’ is the point i’m trying to make.

Cheers

By: Samer

Samer — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:55:07 +0000

@ Shenley: I am familiar with Folder Menu and in fact wrote a review about it here. I like Folder Menu a lot but 7Stacks is more of a typical launcher and not quite the same type of animal. @Scott: you're quite right about the slowness issue. I read on the 7Stacks site that they've made improvements in this regard, but after using it for a few days I do believe it needs to be more responsive.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:38:51 +0000

I’ve been using 7Stacks for a couple months now, and my wish list for this program is simple: faster response time. When it comes down to it, 7Stacks is a shortcut viewer at heart, and by definition, a short cut is a quicker way of achieving a goal. 7Stacks often takes too long to fully populate a “stack,” and the short cuts therein can’t be used until ALL the icons are displayed.

Standalone Stack isn’t any faster (that’s what I was using before 7Stacks), but I haven’t tried MenuApp; maybe I’ll give that a shot…

Thanks for the article!

By: shenley duffus

shenley duffus — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:52:28 +0000

Folder Menu is another freeware option. Has all the features and more of 7Stacks and MenuApp, but is far more pleasing on the eye. Folder menu is also accessible from Open/Save dialogue boxes with a middle-click. You reviewed it a while back and had a minor issue with it if i remember, where you were unable to access the menu from previously mentioned Open/Save boxes. Never experienced this problem myself. Works like a charm. Tried many of these type of ‘shortcut’ programs and Folder Menu is the best of the lot.

http://www.autohotkey.net/~rexx/FolderMenu/index.en.htm

Regards