This article will tell you how to select files and folders in the open & save window faster and easier than usual, using RecentX, an innovative file launcher for Windows.

When you have to open a file from an application like notepad or excel or the most commonly used word, you generally have to search for the file in various folders.
You probably won’t remember where the file is located among a large number of folders and subfolders. Also, the file may have different versions at different places if you have the habit of taking backups.

This consumes a lot of your time and effort. This is why you should use RecentX which will open a file quickly for you.

What is RecentX?

RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can quickly pick & paste them again.

Integrating with the Windows File open/save dialog

Here is a short video showing how this works:

All you need to do is:

1. Open the file Open/Save window.
2. Open the RecentX window too.
3. In the RecentX window, search for the file quickly and select it. The file name will be automatically displayed in the File Open/Save window too.
4. Now select “Open” in the Open/Save window and that’s it, your file will open instantly.

Not just files, you can use RecentX to open folders too. You need to follow the same steps again, and the folder will open within a few seconds. This is how it saves a lot of your time and efforts.

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Have a good day!

Hello Friends!

This video will guide you how to instantly launch any program in Windows using RecentX.

What is RecentX?
RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

Check out the various features of RecentX.

One of the features of RecentX is that you can launch any program faster and easier than the Windows start menu & Windows search.

See how you can do this.

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Open the RecentX window and select the “program” icon.

Search for the program in the search bar. You do not have to type the whole name. With just a few letters, the results will quickly display. This is something that the Windows search cannot do

Unlike the Windows search, RecentX lists out all the search results and not just the top three or five.

Also, Windows cannot find programs from all the places in the system say your hard drive. But RecentX can do this for you.

Thus RecentX proves to be more efficient and convenient than Windows.

This is it for the video.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Check out our YouTube channel.

Have a good day.

Thanks :)

Hello Friends!

This video will guide you how to quickly jump to the required folder from within Windows File Open/Save dialog window using RecentX.

What is RecentX?

RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

An image showing one of the features of RecentX

Check out the various features of RecentX.

RecentX has a fantastic feature wherein you don’t have to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document in Windows file Open/Save dialogue box.

Sounds cool right?

Here’s how you can do this.

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• Open any file opening application, say, Notepad.
• Open the File Open/Save window. Normally, you would have to search through a lot of folders and sub-folders. But not anymore since you now have RecentX.
• Open RecentX and select the file from the list that you want to open.
• The file will be automatically selected in the File Open/Save window too.
• Click on “Open” and your file will be automatically opened.
• Not just for opening but RecentX can be used to save files quickly in the required folder too.
• All you need to do is open the Save As window and use RecentX to select the destination folder and it will again be selected automatically.
• Click on “Save” and you will be directed to the folder.
• Name your document and finally “Save” it conveniently.

This is in the above video.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

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Have a good day.

Thanks for reading till the end :)

Hello Friends!

This video will guide you how to tag files, folders, programs, bookmarks, websites and clipboard items in Windows using RecentX.

What is RecentX?
RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

An image showing one of the features of RecentX

Check out the various features of RecentX.

Among the many useful features of RecentX, one is that you can tag items that you frequently use so that you can instantly access them without much search efforts.

See how this can be easily done:

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Open the RecentX window.

Click on the icon for files and view your recent files.

Select the file you want to add tags. Ex: If you want to add a tag to the file, “Insurance claim.txt.”

Right click on the file and see the tag option. Add the tag. You can add multiple tags too.

You can thus save a lot of time in searching for files. Just search for the tag and all files having the particular tag will be listed.

Editing and deleting tags is equally simple. Right-click on the particular tag under the search box to edit or delete it.

If you use the same word repeatedly for your files, you can add smart tags to them. Smart tags are nothing but “saved keywords” so that you don’t have to type the same word each time. Ex: “.PDF” can be a keyword for all your PDF files.

Right click on the “tags” option and add your smart tag. This makes accessing files a lot easier.

Editing and deleting smart tags is in the same manner as for regular tags.

Not just files. You can add tags and smart tags to folders, programs, websites, and clipboards too.

This is it in this video.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

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Have a good day.

Thanks for staying with us :)

Hello Friends!

This video will guide you how to copy, rename and delete files in a really innovative way in Windows using RecentX.

What is RecentX?
RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

An animation showing one of the features of RecentX

Check out the various features of RecentX.

Using RecentX, you can easily perform frequent file operations such as copy, move, delete and rename without launching a file manager such a Windows Explorer.

Here is how you can do this:

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Open the RecentX window and search for the file(s) you want to copy. It will be easier to search if you have added tags to them since you can search faster by tags than file name.

Copy the required files all at once.

Select the destination folder from the folders list.

Right click on the desired folder and select “Paste here.” The files will be instantly copied there which you can verify.

To rename a file, right-click on the particular file among the list and select “Rename” or press “F2”. It will be instantly renamed wherever it is located.

If you want to delete a file, right-click on it and select “Remove.” The file will be deleted automatically from the place it is located.

One more thing you can do is access the Windows Explorer menu right from the RecentX menu.

Right click and select “Windows Explorer menu” and it will be displayed immediately.

Thus RecentX proves to be more efficient and convenient than Windows.

This is it for the video.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Check out our YouTube channel.

Have a good day.

Thanks for your time :)

Hello Friends!

This video will tell you how to re-use(Copy or paste) items copied to a clipboard using the new Clipboard History Manager of RecentX.

What is RecentX?
RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

An image showing one of the features of RecentX

Check out the various features of RecentX.

RecentX has a clipboard history manager that remembers all the text and images that you copy to clipboard on Windows. You can thus paste them whenever needed. Unlike the normal copy and paste, the older item is not lost.

See how this is possible:

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Open the Clipboard window of RecentX. All the text or images you previously copied will be listed.

For Ex. If you copy a file from any place in your system, RecentX will immediately note what you copied and keep a record in the Clipboard window.

The same applies to images copied too.

If you want to paste the file you copied a long time (say, a month) ago, you can directly go to the clipboard window and Copy it from there. You don’t have to search for the file in your system anymore.

If there are files you frequently copy and paste, add tags to them to locate them easily.

Now paste it in the required place.

You can even drag and drop the file if you don’t want to do the above.

This is how RecentX can save a lot of time and efforts in the File Copy/Paste process.

That’s it in this video.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Check out our YouTube channel.

Have a good day.

Thanks :)

Hello Friends!

This video will explain how to use standard replies and attach files quickly to emails using RecentX.

What is RecentX?

RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

An image showing one of the features of RecentX

Check out the various features of RecentX.

RecentX can be used to reply to standard emails and quickly attach any file to email without browsing any folder.

Learn how to do this:

Transcription

Open the Clipboard window of RecentX. Your frequently used text snippets will be listed there.

Drag and drop the text from the list into the body of the mail, and it will be instantly copied there.

To attach files to the mail, go to the files window and select it from the list. Finding the file is easier if you have added a tag to it.

Drop the file, and it will be attached to the mail.

That’s it. You can now send the email.

This is how RecentX saves a lot of your time.

For more tutorial videos, check out this page.

Check out our YouTube channel.

Have a good day.

Thanks :)

With RecentX, you can quickly find files contained inside specific folders in Windows. This is otherwise quite difficult using the Windows Search. We will show you how to do this using RecentX.

What is RecentX?

RecentX is a smart launcher for Windows designed to make your computing life joyful. Here are some of the many cool things you can do with RecentX:

1. Effortlessly access any file, folder or program on Windows in less than 5 seconds!
2. Assign tags to frequently used files/folders. Makes things even more faster.
3. Integrates with Windows File open/save window so that you don’t have to navigate any folder when opening or saving a document.
4. It has a clipboard manager too that remembers all the text & pictures copied to a clipboard so that you can pick & paste them again.

Check out the various features of RecentX.

Finding files inside particular folder

If you have some documents inside your “Backup” folder you can search using the following format:

Example:

.docx \backup

The above terms will search for all ‘.docx’ files inside “Backup” folder. It will list files inside all the folders starting with name “Backup” on your computer.

This way you can save a lot of time and efforts.

Download and install the free trial version of RecentX from our website https://www.conceptworld.com/RecentX

Check out our YouTube channel for tutorial videos.

Have a good day!

Thanks :)

RecentX automatically tracks files & folders opened using Windows Start Menu, Windows Explorer and most other programs. However, it is unable to track files opened using Total Commander.

Thanks to our customer @Lutz who directed us to an online forum post that shows how to make Total Commander work with RecentX. In the past we already posted how to make RecentX work with Directory Open (Dopus).

Basically, you would need to set an AutoHotkey script to run in Total Commander whenever a file/folder is opened from it.

RecentX monitors all items added to the Windows Recent Documents list. This is nothing but the “\Microsoft\Windows\Recent” folder under AppData. If you open %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent from Windows start menu, you will get to the exact folder.

The following AutoHotkey script achieves this:

Target = %1%
EnvGet, APPDATA, APPDATA
LinkFile := APPDATA . "\Microsoft\Windows\Recent" . SubStr(Target, InStr(Target, "\", 0, 0)) . ".lnk"
FileCreateShortcut, %1%, %LinkFile%
Run, %1%

To make any file type (e.g. “*.pdf”) that you want TC to create shortcuts for in the Windows ‘Recent’ folder run this script, use menu: “Files|Internal Associations” and add the file type. In the input box next to “Open”, put:

"[PathAndFullNameOfAHKScript]" "%1"

Thanks to @9kvD38n6, who posted this in the forum.