Configure the Way of Opening Multiple Files by using Shortcuts

Shortcuts can be created to open multiple files at once that may make things convenient. Lets check a simple example of opening a file located at the C: drive named dxcore.psd ( C:\dxcore.psd) with the Photoshop program located at C:\Program Files\Photoshop\Photoshop.exe:

“C:\Program Files\Photoshop\Photoshop.exe” “C:\dxcore.psd”

By creating a shortcut containing the above command will open the dxcore.psd file with photoshop. Now, notice that the first quotation contains the program path and then after a single space there is the path of the file to open. So the general formula for this is:
“Complete Path of the Program exe” “Complete path of the file to open”

Now lets apply this idea to open multiple files:
“Complete Path of the Program exe” “Complete path of the no.1 file to open” “Complete path of the no.2 file to open”

For Photoshop on the above example the command for opening core1.psd and core2.psd together is:
“C:\Program Files\Photoshop\Photoshop.exe” “C:\core1.psd” “C:\core2.psd”

Using the similar ways you can open even more files together. And this applies to Firefox as well which can be your first trial for this tip. Create or right click on the Firefox Shortcut on your desktop, then go to properties and make the target line look something like this:
“C:\Program Files\Mozila Firefox\Firefox.exe” http://www.yahoo.com http://www.google.com

It will open both Yahoo.com and Google.com together in two different tabs. Note that the Quotation (” “) is not always necessary. You can use quotations if there is a space in the path like:
“C:\Core Softwares\core.exe”
because there is a space between the word “Core“ and ” Softwares ” so typing just C:\Core Softwares\core.exe wont work.

This trick actually applies to all of the softwares available to open one file but it may not work for opening multiple files. The Command on the start>run:

iexplore.exe google.com will work by opening google.com on Internet Explorer but the command iexplore.exe google.com yahoo.com wont work.

For the mostly used Winamp this trick will add the typed files into the playlist:
“C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe” “D:\Songs\Avril.mp3″ “D:\Songs\BonJovi.mp3″

You can also apply a skin to winamp in this process. Full path of the skin file may not be necessary if the skin directory is selected before.
“C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe” “D:\Winamp Skins\core9.wal”
“C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe” core9.wal

Hope this helps and thank you for reading

TeraCopy is truly the best way of copying files in Windows

Overview:

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user a lot of features.

Features:

* Copy files faster. TeraCopy uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times. Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives.

* Pause and resume file transfers. Pause copy process at any time to free up system resources and continue with a single click.

* Error recovery. In case of copy error, TeraCopy will try several times and in the worse case just skips the file, not terminating the entire transfer.

* Interactive file list. TeraCopy shows failed file transfers and lets you fix the problem and recopy only problem files.

* Shell integration. TeraCopy can completely replace Explorer copy and move functions, allowing you work with files as usual.

* Full Unicode support.

Review:

Copying large files in Windows XP just sucks, a lot. Not only do you get subpar speeds most of the time, the damn remaining time fluctuates so much that you wonder how nobody at Microsoft could come up with something better. Thankfully there is a much more competent alternative in the form of TeraCopy. Not only TeraCopy is faster that the standard explorer copy it can also pause and resume transfers, skip bad files without canceling the whole copying process, add files to the queu in an already started copying process and completely replace the standard Windows explorer copy which is something truly awesome and handy. Teracopy also shows accurate progress reports in the form of percentage of copying so far, time remaining, numbers of files to be copied and did i mention it’s portable? For all this reasons i truly suggest you ditch the old crappy way of copying files in Windows and use TeraCopy. Available for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.

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Recover deleted files with Undelete Plus

Overview:

Undelete Plus is a quick and effective way to restore accidentally deleted files. It can also recover files that have been emptied from the Recycle Bin, permanently deleted files within Windows using the Shift + Delete, and files that have been deleted from within a Command Prompt.

Features:

Undelete Plus allows the following tasks to be performed:

– Recovery of deleted files from NTFS/NTFS5, FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 volumes.

– Restoring deleted files on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2003, Windows Vista.

Review:

File recovery programs are everywhere these days but Undelete Plus stands from the pack with some well though out features. for starters after you have searched for salvageable files you can quickly sort the results by using the left pane tree view that shows the various types of files like text , pictures, word documents ,Etc. you can narrow the search even more by filtering the results by file name, modification date and size. tough the size field can only be filtered in kilobytes not in megabytes or gigabytes which is a shame. while testing Undelete Plus i found that it could indeed recover recently deleted files but you got to keep in mind that if some time has passed the recovery might be impossible or the file will be unusable after it has been recovered.
Undelete Plus comes with multi language support and doesn’t need installation to run so you can carry it with you all the time making this is a very handy tool. Available for all versions of Windows.

Get it at http://undelete-plus.com/

CD Recovery Toolbox Free will recover files from scratched CD/DVDs

Overview:

Recovery Toolbox for CD Free has been developed for recovering data from corrupted media of all types that are most common nowadays: CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, etc. The program allows you to recover files of any types. The tool completely scans disks and saves as much information as possible. During the recovery process, Recovery Toolbox for CD Free uses a lot of different algorithms, which considerably increases the amount and quality of recovered data.

Features:

• Recovering corrupted data from all most common types of media for today
• Working with data that became corrupted both after a physical damage of the media and due to program errors
• Allowing the user to completely control the recovery process
• Giving the user as detailed report about the data recovery process as possible

Review:

CD Recovery Toolbox Free is a file recovery tool made specifically for optical media. Unlike the previously reviewed Copy Cat 2.0 CD Recovery Toolbox Free can select more than one file for recovery making the recovery process for whole CDs a lot less painful than with Copy Cat 2.0. CD Recovery Toolbox Free is easy to use and was able to recover files from a scratched CD that i have making this a good utility for recovering important files that otherwise would be lost forever. Available for all versions of Windows.

Get it at http://www.recoverytoolbox.com/cd.html