Global effect functions                                        
 
Application   FileBox   Direct   Speed   QuickFolders   Dialog Box   PS Hot   AutoDialogs   Folder   File-Ex    
Feature  [1] eXtender  [2] Folders  [3] Folder  [4]    [5] Assistant  [6] Folders  [7]    [8] Express  [9]    [10]  
Support setting[11]   Yes   Yes   No   No   Yes   No   No   No   Yes    
per application                                        
  50   6   6   0   0   6   0   0   0   8[12]  
  Copy folder spec   No   Yes[13]   Yes   No   No   No   No   No[14]   Yes    
  to clipboard                                        
  30   0   4   6   0   0   0   0   0   6  
  Special support or   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No   Yes   Yes   Yes   No    
  integrate with win explr   Minor   Minor       Minor       Minor       Minor        
  40   2[15]   2[16]   6   2[17]   0   2[18]   2   2[19]   0  
  Supports 3rd party   No   Yes[20]   No   No   No   No   Yes[21]   No   No    
  or UDF browser                                        
  50   0   6   0   0   0   0   6   0   0  
Backup &[22]   No   No[23]   Yes[24]   No[25]   No[26]   Yes   No   Yes   No    
Restore           Export and import               In user folder       In user foler    
  40   0   0   8   0   0   4[27]   0   6   0  
Xp  theme &   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No    
skin aware                                   Old Win9x style    
  30   6   8[28]   6   6   6   8[29]   6   6   0  
Support multi[30]   Yes   Yes   No   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No    
users (XP)                               Allow UDF folder   Allow UDF folder    
  30   6   6   0   6   4[31]   6   6   8[32]   2  
  Support map[33]   No   No   No   Yes   No   No   No   Yes   No    
  folder to drive                                        
  10   0   0   0   6   0   0   0   6   0  
Marks     740   1220   920   500   600   660   740   800   640  
Previous sheet     3740   4720   3020   3600   2500   3560   3260   4860   3460  
Total     4480   5940   3940   4100   3100   4220   4000   5660   4100  
 
 
Rank                                    
Direc Folders 5940
Folder Express 5660
FileBox eXtender 4480
PS Hot Folders 4220
QuickFolders 4100
File-Ex 4100
AutoDialogs 4000
Speed Folder 3940
Dialog Box Assistant 3100
[1]
Author:
Porgrams are arranged in the discending order of their last release date.
[2]
Author:
This column marks the points assign to each feature, the higher the more important a feature is:

Status                       Points
-------                       -------
Critically/Mandatory     50
Very useful                 40
Useful                        30
Deserve a bonus         10
Not relevant                 0          
[3]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[4]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[5]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[6]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[7]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[8]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[9]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[10]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[11]
Author:
Here is how stars are allocated for each application, in term of how good a function is being provided:

Excellent          10
Good                 8
Exact                 6
Close to             4
Poor                  2
Miss                  0

Exact means it does what is expected in a feature.

The penalty of missing a feature is slightly greater than then gain of doing something excellently.
[12]
Author:
In other words, is the program able to let user customize various settings per application.
[13]
Author:
Even can use a templete to do setting quickly
This program is fundamentally designed with the idea of a per appl  basic
[14]
Author:
Required Info panel to be ON
[15]
Author:
A big miss for this program
[16]
Author:
It can however let user browse a FAV item with Win Explorer
[17]
Author:
Only if info panel is on. Use can jump to a folder.
[18]
Author:
It can however let user browse a FAV item with Win Explorer
[19]
Author:
Provides a shell option to send folder to FAV
[20]
Author:
It can however let user browse a FAV item with Win Explorer
[21]
Author:
For example it supports Total commander. This is uniqure feature not found in other competing programs.
[22]
Author:
It supports Registry editor
[23]
Author:
It is not too hard to backup settings and data if they are stored in files.

However, providing a facility to backup and restore settings and data used by the program is very important because it saves user the trouble of finding out what to backup and it also ensure what need to be backup are fully backup (user if does his/her own study can easily miss something)
[24]
Author:
Settings and data are saved in per user folder.
[25]
Author:
The import and export functions serves the purpose even though they are not named exactly as backup and restore.

The added advantage is the export file is a flat text which might be manipulated for other purposes.
[26]
Author:
Settings and data are stored in registry
[27]
Author:
Settings and data are stored in registry
[28]
Author:
Only save the fav list not the option settings
[29]
Author:
Has default set of skins to choose from
[30]
Author:
Has default set of skins to choose from
[31]
Author:
To qualify for this, a program must be able (or allow user to choose to) install for ALL user accounts. i.e. single instllation for all users and while operating the program, each user keeps his/her own settings.
[32]
Author:
Can't control whether to start with Windows.
[33]
Author:
Not only supports multi-user, but allows each iser to specify store folder
[34]
Author:
It is a bit sarcastic here, if a program of this kind really helps, who want the mapping?

Mapping does take up resources and most importantly a driver letter will be occupied per mapping… :)