Program similar to FindRun Robot

[No I'm Spartacus]

Hi,

I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html
I don't consider this program freeware because you have to sign up for
their forums to generate a licence key for it...only you find out when
you sign up that the key expires every 180 days, whereupon you have to
generate another one (as the program stops working). The only way to
get a eternal key is to pay for the program.
So, anyone have any suggestions? What I want to do is to type a folder
name into the program, and have it open that folder in my file
manager.

 

[tf76]

DONATIONCODERS rocks

tf76

 

[Hengist_Ludd]

I think Mouser changed his policy. There was a lot of forum discussion
over just your point. Or join the forum (which is free) and beg and plead
for a better key with Mouser, who is entirely too generous for his own
good. Or, try an alternative that was mentioned in a DonationCoder forum
posting on FARR;
Mayk
http://www.beotel.net/~darkdst/
Freeware

 

[jmatt]

You could make shortcuts of all the programs you want & place them in a
folder on your desktop named > Shortcuts.

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

DONATIONCODERS rocks

tf76

Which totally ignores my question. If you don't have an answer, then
no need to post.
Thank you.

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

You could make shortcuts of all the programs you want & place them in a
folder on your desktop named > Shortcuts.

It's not programs I want. It's folders. And there are thousands of
them - too many for that method.

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

I think Mouser changed his policy. There was a lot of forum discussion
over just your point. Or join the forum (which is free) and beg and plead
for a better key with Mouser, who is entirely too generous for his own
good. Or, try an alternative that was mentioned in a DonationCoder forum
posting on FARR;
Mayk
http://www.beotel.net/~darkdst/
Freeware

Hm, that looked promising. I tried it out, but it doesn't work. There
is no way that I can see to add folders to it (though with the
thousands I have, I wouldn't want to - I would want the program to
automatically just search through them), no way I can see to add a
path (say e:\programs, where I store all my downloaded programs in
spearate folders per program) to get folder searches, and when I type
in an example folder (say 'batch'), nothing happens.

 

[Azzman]

Hi,

I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html

How about this one ?

http://tinyurl.com/dhqq3

 

[David]

You could make shortcuts of all the programs you want & place them in a
folder on your desktop named > Shortcuts.

Then make a toolbar of that folder and single click your favourite
programs.
--
David
Remove "farook" to reply
At the bottom of the application where it says
"sign here". I put "Sagittarius"
E-mail: justdas at iinet dot net dot au

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

Then make a toolbar of that folder and single click your favourite
programs.

Spread out over quite a few subdirectories - I would have to make
folders for all the main root folders. Wouldn't work. I simply want to
be able to more quickly access any folder I want in my file manager.

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

How about this one ?

http://tinyurl.com/dhqq3

Looks promising - but it isn't freeware. It's shareware.

 

[Saxman]

I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html
I don't consider this program freeware because you have to sign up for
their forums to generate a licence key for it...only you find out when
you sign up that the key expires every 180 days, whereupon you have to
generate another one (as the program stops working). The only way to
get a eternal key is to pay for the program.
So, anyone have any suggestions? What I want to do is to type a folder
name into the program, and have it open that folder in my file
manager.

I found the utility very good, but like you couldn't be bothered with it in
the end. It's pop-up message mad as well. Turn your computer clock
forward and up comes another message!

 

[No I'm Spartacus]

On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:37:50 +1100, No I'm Spartacus wrote:


I found the utility very good, but like you couldn't be bothered with it in
the end. It's pop-up message mad as well. Turn your computer clock
forward and up comes another message!

Yeah, I know what you mean Saxman. It is so frustrating to have come
so close to finding a freeware that does this. FindRun as I mentioned
I don't consider freeware because it stops working after 6 months if
you don't pay for an eternal licence. Mayk is free yes - and small
which is nice - but it doesn't seem to do anything. It says on the
webpage that it can be used to quickly access start menu shortcuts and
the like, but I couldn't even get it to do that - let alone access
folders on a hard drive. And ShellSearch is shareware, and as you
said, pop-up mad. The odd thing is, what prompted me to search for an
app like this was I thought I was reading a freeware site the other
day that mentioned an app like this - and there are only a few
freeware sites I have in my favourites (and not all of those I go to -
the list of the sites I visit is below):

List of Lists
Nonags
Pricelessware List
SnapFiles Freeware (WebAttack)
The Portable Freeware Collection

Now I looked on those 5 sites again today, and do you think I could
find that app I thought I read about the other day? Sadly no Maybe I
dreamed that I read about the app - who knows.

 

[Saxman]

Yeah, I know what you mean Saxman. It is so frustrating to have come
so close to finding a freeware that does this. FindRun as I mentioned
I don't consider freeware because it stops working after 6 months if
you don't pay for an eternal licence. Mayk is free yes - and small
which is nice - but it doesn't seem to do anything. It says on the
webpage that it can be used to quickly access start menu shortcuts and
the like, but I couldn't even get it to do that - let alone access
folders on a hard drive. And ShellSearch is shareware, and as you
said, pop-up mad. The odd thing is, what prompted me to search for an
app like this was I thought I was reading a freeware site the other
day that mentioned an app like this - and there are only a few
freeware sites I have in my favourites (and not all of those I go to -
the list of the sites I visit is below):

What I meant to say earlier while replacing the motherboard battery
recently and re-booting, I got another message on the lines of "You have
been using Find and Run Robot for 365 days, please make a donation."

This is not quite the same, but is freeware and popular. It scans the hard
drive first, which takes about 30 seconds for 70000+ files (pretty quick).

You can opt to have it run at start-up (I chose not to), or just execute it
when you need to. One can create hotkeys with it etc........., but it
differs from Find and Run Robot in the respect that the exe files are not
always at the top of a listing.

See what you think?

http://tinyurl.com/93teu

 

[doodad]

It's not programs I want. It's folders. And there are thousands of
them - too many for that method.
--

Regards,

Spartacus

with slickrun ...
http://www.bayden.com/slickrun/
you can have something near what you're looking for.

for exemple, you can param a 'magic word' as following for opening in the
windows explorer a folder in drive D: named 'backup':
filename : %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe
Parameters : /e,/root,d:\ select,D:\backup

Doodad

 

[Azzman]

Looks promising - but it isn't freeware. It's shareware.

My bad, I remember using this a couple of years ago, could have sworn it
was freeware. But still I should have read better.

 

[FirstName LastName]

Hi,

I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html
I don't consider this program freeware because you have to sign up for
their forums to generate a licence key for it...only you find out when
you sign up that the key expires every 180 days, whereupon you have to
generate another one (as the program stops working). The only way to
get a eternal key is to pay for the program.
So, anyone have any suggestions? What I want to do is to type a folder
name into the program, and have it open that folder in my file
manager.
--

Regards,

Spartacus

You could try Ava Find http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind/

It creates a index of all your files and folders. Then you only have to
search for that folder and push enter. If know the name of the folder
its easy and fast.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Hi,

I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html
I don't consider this program freeware because you have to sign up for
their forums to generate a licence key for it...only you find out when
you sign up that the key expires every 180 days, whereupon you have to
generate another one (as the program stops working). The only way to
get a eternal key is to pay for the program.

< snip >

Added to that is one can end up getting spam from them asking for
"donations". I suggest that people stay well clear of these people. A
nasty way of selling shareware IMO.

Regards, John.

 

[jmatt]

This may get rid of the nag screens etc.

Registry Trash Keys Finder
http://www.databack4u.com/snc/rtkf_eng.html

 

[Nunya Bizniss]

Hi,
I'm looking for a freeware program similar to Find&Run Robot.
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/findrun/index.html
etc...

Just a thought, among all the other suggestions made here...
I've used an early build of F&R for ages, v1.05.12.
It doesn't exhibit the behaviour described.
I don't recall having to "register" it at all, just download and use it.
If a copy of that would assist you - you're more than welcome.
I wasn't even aware that it had been developed further, I'm getting old.