RecentX Help

Working with Recent Items

 


RecentX allows you perform the following operations on an item. In order to perform these operations, you must select one or more items and right click on the items.

Note that if you want to select more than one item, you need to hold the Ctrl key. When right clicking, you must continue to hold the Ctrl key.

Operation

Description

Open

Opens the selected item. If you hold æShiftÆ while opening the item, RecentX window will be hidden automatically once the item is opened.

Open With

Opens the selected item in a non-default application.

Explore Here

Opens the folder containing the selected item in Windows Explorer. You can also configure RecentX to open the folder in some other explorer replacement application. To do this, choose the "Preferences" button and select "Settings" from the menu.

Cut

Marks the item for moving in to a different folder.

Copy

Marks the item for copying in to a different folder.

Paste Here

Pastes the item marked for copying/moving in to the selected folder.

Copy Paths

Copies the address of the selected item to the clipboard.

Command Prompt Here

Launches ôWindows Command Promptö (cmd.exe) with the selected item as the current folder.  You can also configure RecentX to launch another "Command Prompt" replacement application. To do this, choose the "Preferences" button and select "Settings" from the menu.

Delete

Deletes the selected item.

Rename

Renames the selected item.

Properties

Shows properties of the selected item.

In addition to the above operations, you can also drag and drop these items in to any other applications such as Windows Explorer, Microsoft Word, Internet Explorer etc. This feature is extremely time-saving.