Being a freeware developer, I’m asking for your help to share the expense of renewing the software certificate that makes Quick Access Popup and Quick Clipboard Editor available for free in complete confidence and safety! Buying a certificate for three years costs $625 USD. This is added to other support expenses (email support system, quickaccesspopup.com domain renewal). This is why I’m asking for your support up to $900 USD.

To contribute, click the CONTRIBUTE button and enter the amount you wish to donate. Thanks!

About me and my freeware apps

I’m Jean Lalonde. the developer of Quick Access Popup (QAP), a Windows freeware that speeds up the work of thousands of PC users around the world, and Quick Clipboard Editor (QCE) and Windows Clipboard enhancer.

QAP is making it easier and faster to open folders, documents or websites, to launch applications or scripts, to paste frequent snippets of text… and much more! It makes it so easy to change the folder in Save As dialog boxes. It will help you find back folders you opened recently or some time ago.

QCE is giving an editing window and a memory to your Clipboard. It saves and retrieve your clips in multiple formats (including images) and allows to edit these clips with powerful commands before pasting with ease it to your destination window.

I first developed these tools for myself. After I made it available on my website (originally under the name Folders Popup for QAP), enthusiast users made sounded suggestions that encouraged me to improve the app to make it the versatile and user-friendly productivity tool it became.

Why this fundraising campaign?

Before I acquired a certificate for QAP, six years ago, more and more users were having problems installing my apps because their antivirus software falsely declared them as malicious (or malware). Protection tools use quick but “approximative” methods to detect malicious software. This result in an assumed little risk of producing “false alerts”.

From time to time, one of the fifty some protection software falsely declare QAP as malicious, while all others say it is clean. The problem is that a given user only sees HIS or HER protection software blocking QAP setup. The best solution to protect QAP against these false alerts it to register it with a “software certificate authority”. This certification guarantees that the app comes from a legitimate publisher and is in its clean original form. This stopped malware false alerts almost completely.

But this has an ongoing cost. Being a freeware developer, this is why I’m asking for your contribution. Thanks for helping me making QAP available to YOU in complete confidence and safety!

All videos

• Video – Tutorial Using the Quick Launch box (13 min.)
• Video – Get more done with Directory Opus and Quick Access Popup (29 min.)
• Video – Tutorial Essential options you need to know – Windows 11 preview (16 min.)
• Video – Save thousands of clicks (2 min.)
• Video – Boost your efficiency with Quick Access Popup (1h 29m)
• Video – Tutorial Select a file and use it as a parameter for any command (17 min.)
• Video – Tutorial How QAP knows what you work on and how you can control it (14 min.)
• Video – Tutorial Turn a folder in a dynamic menu with Live Folders (13 min.)
• Video – Tutorial Using Placeholders in your Snippets and Favorites locations (10 min.)
• Video – Tutorial How to Quickly Automate Web Forms (10 min.)
• Video – Tutorial on commands from QAP Features (QAP Features 2/2) (9 min.)
• Video – Tutorial on QAP Dynamic menus (QAP Features 1/2) (6 min.)
• Video – Quick Access Popup Installation Demo (6 min.)
• Video – Beautiful and efficients menu with icons (12 min.)
• Video – Interview What’s new since QAP v10 (60 min.)
• Video – What’s new in QAP v10 (14 min.)
• Video – Multiple-monitor support (15 min.)
• Video – 12 ways to popup your QAP menu (17 min.)
• Video – QAP and Directory Opus 2/2 (15 min.)
• Video – QAP and Directory Opus 1/2 (16 min.)
• Video – Users Variables (11 min.)
• Video – The “In the Works” menu (12 min.)
• Video – Quick Access Popup Webcast Demo (42 min.)
• Video – Reopen Current Folder in Dialog Box (1 min.)
• Video – First steps with Quick Access Popup (9 min.)

This page is for Quick Access Popup v9. For options of QAP v10, see this page.

In the Settings dialog box, click the Options button to open the Options dialog box. This dialog box contains six tabs.

In the General tab:

• To enable folders navigation in file dialog boxes (Open, Save As, etc.), check the Change folders in dialog boxes with the main QAP hotkeys.
• Select your working Language.
• Choose the colors Theme of QAP Settings and other windows.
• Change the location of the Temporary folder created to store small images, language files and working files required at run time.
• Set the location of the Shared Menu Catalogue where Shared menu can easily be added to user’s menu.
• Select Run at Startup option to launch Quick Access Popup automatically when you boot Windows.
• Display Startup Tray tip in the Notification zone.
• Select the Check for updates to be informed when new QAP versions become available.
• Remember Settings and Add/Edit favorite windows.
• Run  Quick Access Popup as an administrator.
• Set Snippets options defaults values.

In the Menu tab:

• Display the popup menu near the mouse pointer, in the active window or at a fix position.
• Display hotkey reminders in menu in short or long format.
• Set the number of items in the Recent folders and Recent Files.
• Set the number of items in the Repeat actions menu.
• Automatically add favorites in Main menu at Top of menu or Bottom of menu when added with Add this Folder or Link, Add this Folder or Link Express and Add favorite from Explorer context menus.
• Display the Drives, Recent Folders and Recent Files menus attached or detached from the popup menu.
• Select the option to use Display Numeric Menu Shortcuts to launch favorites with your keyboard.
• Open the menu when hitting the QAP menu trigger on the Windows taskbar.
• Add Close to menus created by QAP allowing to dismiss them if clicking elsewhere does not dismiss the menu.
• Display or hide menu icons, and choose menu icons size (available on Windows workstations only).
• Enable automatic Shared menus and Live folders Menu refresh and set refresh frequency.
• Enable or disable QAP Explorer Context menus.

In the Hotkeys tab:

• Change the mouse triggers to open the QAP popup menu (by default, middle mouse button and Shift+MMB).
• Choose the keyboard triggers to open the QAP Alternative menu (by default, Windows+W and Shift+Windows+W).
• Set the Hotstrings default options.

In the Alternative Hotkeys tab:

• Set mouse or keyboard shortcuts for Alternative menu features.
• Enable the double-press of Left or Right Control key to open the QAP popup menu.

In the Exclusions tab:

• Manage the exclusion list of applications where the QAP mouse menu trigger is blocked.
• Use the Get window info button to identify the window to exclude.

In the File managers tab:

• Enable support for Directory Opus, Total Commander or Universal file manager support.
• When opening the QAP menu outside of Windows Explorer, set if you it to open the folders in a new Explorer window (default) or in the current (or last used) Explorer window.

_{(this page is for QAP v9 – see the page about the new v10 Customize window here)}

Welcome aboard 🙂

1. Select the Main menu or the submenu displayed in the Settings window. You can also use the little arrows on the left of the drop down list to move up or back in the submenus.
2. Filter favorites from any submenu by keyword in favorite name or in more metadata if you check Extended Search.
3. This is the list of favorites in the current submenu or filtered by keyword. Double-click a favorite to edit it or double-click a sub menu to navigate to this menu.
4. Use the Add, Edit, Remove, Move or Copy buttons to manage the favorites in the current submenu.
5. Change Quick Access Popup global parameters in the Options window.
6. Move the selected favorite(s) up or down in the current submenu.
7. Add horizontal separator, column break or text separator in your menu.
8. Sort the selected favorites in the current submenu. With the pin icon above, make the window Always on top to make drag and drop easier.
9. Click the Help or About buttons to read more info about QAP.
10. After you’ve made changes to your menu, click Save & Close to save your changes and close the Settings window, Save & Reload to save changes but stay in the Settings window or Cancel to forget your changes.
11. Click the keyboard icon or the Shortcuts label to get a global view of your shortcuts and edit them, click on the Hotstrings label to edit hotstrings globally, or click Icons to manage your menu icons.
12. Finally, click the text links Favorites Shortcuts Help (on the left) for tips on editing the menu using Settings window hotkeys, or Drag & Drop Help (on the right) for help on adding favorites from Windows Explorer using the drag-and-drop mouse technique.

See: Can I insert values in favorites location or parameters using placeholders?

Wrong icons imported from Windows 7 to Windows 10

NOTE: The following info is for users who installed QAP under Windows 7 and upgraded to Windows 10.

Quick Access Popup is using icons from Windows files “shell32.dll” and “imageres.dll” found in the “System32” Windows folder. Microsoft has the bad practice of slightly changing the order of the icons in these files at every major release (and even, sometimes, in service packs).

This has for consequence that, after a Windows update, some QAP favorite icons in QAP suddenly show to the wrong icons in the popup menu. For example, if you just upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10, you will see the submenu icon changed to a surprising blue rounded arrow. To fix this issue, you have to following options (from the quickest to the safest):

1) Download and run the little utility QAPupdateIconsWin10. It will scan your settings file and update every icons number that changed from Windows 7 to Windows 10. It is better to do this just after you upgraded to Windows 10. If you added icons using Windows 10 since you upgraded, there is a slight risk that the app would replace icons numbers that would not need it.

Icons fixed with QAPupdateIconsWin10 utility.

2) Use te QAP Settings window to edit manually the changed icons. I agree, this can be tedious.

3) Use a text editor and open the QuickAccessPopup.ini file. The replace the following strings in the settings file:

Replace from “imageres.dll,203” to “imageres.dll,204” (Special Folders icon)
Replace from “imageres.dll,208” to “imageres.dll,209” (Donate icon)
Replace from “imageres.dll,217” to “imageres.dll,201” (Add This Folder icon)
Replace from “shell32.dll,297” to “shell32.dll,299” (Group Save icon)
Replace from “shell32.dll,298” to “shell32.dll,300” (Submenu icon)
Replace from “shell32.dll,301” to “shell32.dll,319” (Options icon)
Replace from “shell32.dll,304” to “shell32.dll,324” (Application icon)
Replace from “shell32.dll,305” to “shell32.dll,325” (Switch icon)

This answer has been moved here:

What are the advanced options for favorite folders?