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.