Windows Integration

The options on this page affect how Opus integrates with certain aspects of Windows or Explorer.

• Add File Collections icon to the Desktop: If this option is enabled Opus will place an icon on your desktop that represents the main File Collections folder; double-clicking it will open a Lister showing your File Collections.
• Add File Collections list to the Send To menu: This option causes Opus to add links for your File Collections to the Send To menu (the menu that is displayed when you right-click a file and select Send to from its context menu). In Windows XP the File Collections will be displayed in a sub-menu and all sub-collections are also displayed, but technical changes in Vista and Windows 7 means that File Collections can only be displayed at the top-level of the Send to menu.
• Add layout and other items to Desktop context menu: If this option is on then Opus will add several commands to your desktop context menu (the menu that is displayed if you right-click on an empty area of the desktop), including a list of all your configured Lister Layouts. This can provide a very quick way of opening a new Lister or a saved layout if you don't currently have any Listers open. You can configure the order your layouts are displayed in, break up the list with separators, and optionally hide some from the display using the Lister Layouts page.
  • Display layouts in a sub-menu: If the above option is on then this option causes the list of layouts to be displayed in a sub-menu rather than on the desktop context menu itself.
• Add icon to the Taskbar Status Area: This option causes Opus to add an icon () to the taskbar notification area (also called the "tray", "system tray" or "systray"). This icon lets you access Opus quickly by double-clicking it (the behavior of which can be modified on the Launching Opus from the Taskbar Icon page) or by right-clicking the icon to display its context menu (which can be configured from Customize / Context Menus).
  
  In Windows 7 the icon will be hidden by Windows and moved to the icon overflow area by default, so if you want the icon to always be visible (which makes it much more useful) you will need to tell Windows to show it all the time. Windows 7 users may prefer to use the Jump List rather than the tray icon as it offers far more flexibility.
• Add 'Open in Directory Opus' item to folder context menus: If this item is enabled, Opus will add an Open in Directory Opus command to the context menu for folders, letting you open them in an Opus Lister via the context menu. This option is only useful when Explorer Replacement mode is turned off - when Explorer Replacement is on, this command is added anyway and can't be disabled.
• Add Preferences and Customize icons to the system Control Panel: If you enable this option Opus will add icons to the Windows Control Panel that let you access the Preferences and Customize dialogs even if Opus isn't running.
• Hide Windows items on file context menus (shift overrides): If this option is on then any context menu items that come from the system (i.e. most of them) will be hidden by default when you right-click on a file or folder in Opus. The only items that will be displayed are those defined through Opus itself (e.g. Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Rename, Properties). This option is useful if you want to tidy up your context menus (as most context menus are generally quite messy once you have a lot of third-party software installed). Using Opus it's possible to hide all Windows items by default and then selectively add them back wherever you want (including on a sub-menu). Please see the tip on the Resource Centre for more information about doing that. If this option is on, you can force the display of the full context menu by holding the Shift key down when right-clicking the item.
• Make Directory Opus the default handler for FTP sites: Turning on this option will make Opus the default handler for FTP sites; when you click on an FTP link in a web browser, or a shortcut to an FTP site, it should open in an Opus Lister automatically.