Alphacuts v1.0

Alphacuts v1.0 | 385 KB

Forget the Start menu, Alphacuts is a an extremely quick search/execute tool. It will display and launch everything on your C: drive by means of an alphabetic GUI. After installation, one click on the UPDATE ALL button and everything will be listed. You can launch URLS (in Favorites), EXE, Graphics, Docs etc. If it can be launched Alphacuts will launch it. By right clicking the drag bar you can add folders on other drives which will be included from then on. You just have to try this, it's totally FREE but not normally available. It is also possible to search for items by using full or partial words. It can also be run a a portable application.

Help on AlphaCuts

AlphaCuts swiftly displays in alphabetical listings, your programs on the startmenu, favorites in Internet Explorer and documents in the my documents folder.

When the program is run for the first time: Press the button "UPDATE ALL" to have data fetched from your system. See updating data.

Select either "Programs", "Favorites" or "Documents". Browse the alphabetical panel and have the items beginning with the selected letter displayed in the main window. In the window to the right will be displayed the folders which begin with the selected letter.

The alphabetical panel

Clicking on a letter in the alphabetical panel will fix that letter so that the selected letter does not change when moving over the panel. When entering again with the mouse, the selected letter will automatically change again.

Programs

When "Programs" is selected, clicking on an item in the main window will attempt to launch the program to which the shortcut is connected.

Right-clicking in the window will show a popupmenu with options for programs.

Favorites

When "Favorites" is selected, clicking on an item in the main window will attempt to have the default browser go to the url to which the favorite is connected.

Right-clicking in the window will show a popupmenu with options for favorites:

Update favorites: Updates the favorites only.
Goto random favorite: Randomly chooses one of the favorites and lets the webbrowser navigate to it.
Documents

When "Documents" is selected, clicking on an item in the main window will attempt to launch the program to which the extension of the file is associated.

Right-clicking in the window will show a popupmenu with options for documents.

Search

Type in characters in the edit box marked "Search" to have the main window display those items (for the currently selected category) which contains the characters searched for.

Moving the application window

Click and drag the alpha-sign in the upper right corner, to move the window. Resize the window by dragging the borders of it.

Menu

Right-click the alpha-sign for a popup menu.

Updating the data

The first time you run AlphaCuts, press the button "UPDATE ALL", or select "Update all" from the menu. This must be done in order to fetch the data from your system. Alphacuts saves this to the harddrive and will automatically thereafter read the saved data on startup.

The program will not interact with Internet Explorer or the file system, so to have AlphaCuts display the latest changes, an update must be performed.

It's possible to have the program automatically update at startup, by selecting "Always update at startup" from the menu.

Task bar tray

The application can be placed on the task bar tray by selecting "Place on task bar tray" from the menu. A shortcut will be placed in the users startup folder. If left in this state when exiting the program, AlphaCuts will start on startup the next time Windows is started. Left-clicking on the tray icon will make the application window visible. Right-clicking on the tray icon will display the tray menu.

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