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# ExplorerGenie
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![Icon](screenshots/explorergenie.png)
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https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/explorergenie
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ExplorerGenie is an extended context menu for the Windows explorer. It will consist of several
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tools to improve working with the Windows explorer, like path copying, opening of the command
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line or verification of a file hash.
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![Icon](screenshots/explorergenie_options_copy.png)
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In a first step, ExplorerGenie will replace the tool [CopyPathMenu](https://www.martinstoeckli.ch/copypathmenu)
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and make it open source.
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ExplorerGenie is an open source extension to the context menu of the Windows explorer, which allows to copy the path of a file to the clipboard, or to open tools like the Command Line. The menu is configurable, so that you get those functions you really need.
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## Security
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## Copy file path
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Because all context menus of the explorer run inside the explorer process (shell-extension), and
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therefore can potentially interfere with this process, we took special care about the security and
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stability of this extension.
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This extension adds a context menu, which can copy the paths of the selected files or directories to the clipboard.
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* The shell extension runs isolated from the rest of the application, and its code it kept to a minimum.
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* The shell extension is written in Delphi, which compiles to native code. This way we can avoid loading of the DotNet runtime, do not impact performance of explorer and file-open dialogs, and cannot run into problems with incompatible versions.
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![ContextMenuCopy](screenshots/explorergenie_menu_copy.png)
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## Go to tool
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This extension makes it easy to open tools like the Command Line or Power Shell.
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![ContextMenuGoto](screenshots/explorergenie_menu_goto.png)
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## Calculate file hashes
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ExplorerGenie can calculate some well-known hashes for the selected files, the list includes the algorithms MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160.
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![OptionsHash](screenshots/explorergenie_options_hash.png)
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## Minimal Explorer impact
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Because context menus run inside the explorer process itself (shell-extension), and therefore can potentially interfere with this process, we took special care about the stability of this extension.
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- The code of the shell extension is kept to a minimum, it only starts the real application, which does the work and is running in a separate process.
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- The shell extension is written in Delphi, which compiles to native applications. This way we can avoid loading of a (DotNet) runtime and possible version conflicts, and do not impact performance of explorer and file-open dialogs.
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## Credits
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