Folder Guide: Another Great Freeware Utility

I suffer from a form of what my brother calls “old timers disease”. While that sounds like a mangling of alzheimer’s disease, in this case it refers to my tendency to think things were better in the old days. My daughters even bought me a shirt that has “The older I get, the better I was” for my penchant to remember the old days of DOS, and utilities like X-Tree that made navigating even our huge 20MB disks easy.

Alas, today with our huge disks, network drives and deeply nested folders, it gets harder and harder to get to a folder. Windows-E opens up an Explorer window, but then I’m several clicks and scrolls from a shared folder on the shared drive at work. You can always make a shortcut on your desktop to a particular folder, and that does help. But Folder Guide, a great little freeware utility, puts your favorite folders right on the right-click context menu. Click the right mouse button, select the folder, and you’re there!

I’ve seen similar utilities for up to $30 each, but Folder Guide is free.

You can get it from a great freeware site, Freeware 365, that has hundreds of gems like this. For this utility, go to Folder Guide.

I actually did fiind a free version of an X-tree type program, but you know what? It isn’t as good as I remember it. When I had those 20MB drives, it was a simple thing to wait a few seconds while it logged every file on disk. Even with faster systems and drives, and partial logging, the sheer number of files we have now makes that type of navigating obsolete. So maybe it wasn’t really better back then. At least little utilities like Folder Guide help prevent me from sounding like an old guy all the time.