Here are a couple of little PC utilities that I cannot live without. They both add extra menu items to the context menu that popups when you right-mouse click on a file in Windows Explorer.

The first utility is rjhExtensions, which adds the following menu items…

• Path to clipboard:Copies the path of the selected folder or file to the clipboard.
• Shred File(s): Overwrites and then deletes the selected file or files.
• Rename Files: The Rename Files extension allows you to quickly and easily rename multiple files in multiple folders.
• Encrypt File: The Encrypt/Decrypt extension allows you to easily encrypt and then decrypt any file using a modified version of the powerful Blowfish encryption algorithm.
• Duplicate File(s): Creates a copy of the selected file or files in the same directory. The duplicate files will maintain the properties of the original.
• Copy directory list to file: Creates a file named “dir.txt” in the selected directory which contains a list of all files, their dates and sizes, in the selected directory.
• Print directory list: Sends a list of all files, their dates and sizes, in the selected directory to the default printer

The second utility is CopyURL. This is a shell extension that helps you to copy different information from your Internet Shortcut files (entries in the Favorites folder or *.url files) to the clipboard. Then you can simply paste it from clipboard to your e-mails, HTML editor or other documents. It adds commands Copy URL, Copy Link and Copy Name to the shell context menu of Internet Shortcut files.

Each command puts different text to the clipboard:

• Copy URL copies “http://www.moonsoftware.com”
• Copy Link copies “Moon Software”
• Copy Name copies “Moon Software: http://www.moonsoftware.com”

If you have selected multiple links then CopyURL will make a list of the information. That is actually what makes it useful.

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