OpenWide, enhancement for Open/Save Dialogs

[Demetris]

NAME: OpenWide
VERSION: 1.2b, 2005-07-12
OS: Tested on Win 2000 and Win XP
SITE: http://lingo.atspace.com/
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 75kB
FOLDER SIZE: 82kB
LICENCE: Freeware
INSTALL: Yes
REGISTRY: Yes (settings key, uninstall info)
AUTHOR: Luke Hudson

OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION

About

OpenWide was written to avoid a few [more] minor annoyances with
Windows. This program allows you to specify the position and size of
Windows' Open and Save dialog boxes, and also to specify where the
initial focus should be and which view will be the default.

Good luck with it and enjoy.

This is a test release. Limited testing has shown it to work on a
release of Win2000 Professional and a release of WinXP Home.

Features

* Set position and size of Open & Save dialogs
* Set initial keyboard focus
* Set initial view style
* Drag & drop folders onto the title bar of an Open/Save dialog box, and
the view will change to that folder

COMMENTS

I use it for a couple of months in XP Pro SP2 English (I have it in
Startup) and it works fine. On one or two programs (can't remember now
which ones), it makes the Open/Save dialog flicker for a moment or two.
You can also exclude programs, so that their Open/Save dialogs will not
be altered.

MS Word (2000 Pro) Open/Save dialogs are not altered. No conflicts with
DirKey, the other Open/Save enhancement I have in Startup.

Greetings,
Demetris

 

[Frank D]

Demetris,

Thank you. Very nice program. It works very well.

Frank D

Demetris wrote:
| NAME: OpenWide
| VERSION: 1.2b, 2005-07-12
| OS: Tested on Win 2000 and Win XP
| SITE: http://lingo.atspace.com/
| DOWNLOAD SIZE: 75kB
| FOLDER SIZE: 82kB
| LICENCE: Freeware
| INSTALL: Yes
| REGISTRY: Yes (settings key, uninstall info)
| AUTHOR: Luke Hudson
|
| OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION
|
| About
|
| OpenWide was written to avoid a few [more] minor annoyances with
| Windows. This program allows you to specify the position and size of
| Windows' Open and Save dialog boxes, and also to specify where the
| initial focus should be and which view will be the default.
|
| Good luck with it and enjoy.
|
| This is a test release. Limited testing has shown it to work on a
| release of Win2000 Professional and a release of WinXP Home.
|
| Features
|
| * Set position and size of Open & Save dialogs
| * Set initial keyboard focus
| * Set initial view style
| * Drag & drop folders onto the title bar of an Open/Save dialog box, and
| the view will change to that folder
|
| COMMENTS
|
| I use it for a couple of months in XP Pro SP2 English (I have it in
| Startup) and it works fine. On one or two programs (can't remember now
| which ones), it makes the Open/Save dialog flicker for a moment or two.
| You can also exclude programs, so that their Open/Save dialogs will not
| be altered.
|
| MS Word (2000 Pro) Open/Save dialogs are not altered. No conflicts with
| DirKey, the other Open/Save enhancement I have in Startup.
|
| Greetings,
| Demetris

 

[Demetris]

Demetris,

Thank you. Very nice program. It works very well.

YW, Frank!

I had stopped using Open/Save dialogs for opening files because of these
"minor annoyances", and only used a file manager to browse and open
files, but now I use Open/Save a lot more thanks to OpenWide. It makes
working with files a lot easier.

Greetings,
Demetris