Advanced Usage

Assign a shortcut folder to a mouse button

It is possible to run QuickPopMenu.exe with a command line by specifying a shortcut folder. This is useful when you need to assign a menu to an extended mouse button.  Let’s say you have a five-button-mouse and you can call a menu with the forth or fifth buttons.

The below tutorial uses Microsoft Intellimouse to demonstrates how to assign a menu to the middle button.

Microsoft Intellimouse

    1. First, create a folder for a custom menu. As an example, “AnotherShotcuts” is placed in the same folder where the program resides. It could be anyplace though.
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    1. Place .lnk files in the target folder just created.
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    1. In the Intellimouse Control Panel, go to the button setting that invokes QuickPopMenu.exe
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    1. At the bottom of the drop down list, there is a menu item called, Start…(custom) and choose it.
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    1. In the form field, type QuickPopMenu.exe “path of the shortcut folder”  In this case,  “D:AppsQuick MenuQuickPopMenu.exe” “D:AppsQuick MenuAnotherShortCuts”  The double quotes are necessary.
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    1. That’s it. Now you can call the menu from the folder which you specified by pressing the middle button.
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2 thoughts on “Advanced Usage

  1. allwi

    Hi Michael,

    I only found this beautiful tool last week – however I struggling already with one issue.
    I need to connect to a few servers via remote desktop. So I thought to create a submenu, i.e. a folder, and store there all RDP files.
    But when I start/restart Quickmenu, it does not recognise these files. Is there any way to get QuickMenu working with *.RDP files?

    Reply
    1. allwi

      Answering the question myself – You simply have to add the extension RDP to the extension list:
      Right click Tray icon > Settings > Add File Extensions

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