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Last post Author Topic: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016  (Read 30165 times)

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NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« on: December 21, 2015, 08:35 AM »
Application Name QuickJump 2016
Version 2.6
Short Description Fast and easy file/app launcher
Supported OSes Windows xp or higher
Download Link Download
Version History
  • March 29, 2016 - version 2.6 - Added optional SubMenus parameter
  • December 29, 2015 - version 2.5 - Fixed small bug in menu generation
  • December 28, 2015 - version 2.4 Apps/folders/files can be opened by pressing the corresponding underlined letter for that menu item.
  • December 22, 2015 - version 2.1 removed file name extensions from menu
  • December 21, 2015 - First Release; version 2.0

QuickJump 2016 is a FREE, fast, and easy file/program launcher. It can be used 2 ways, put QuickJump2016.exe in any folder and run it. It will list all files and folders in a menu so you can just click and it will open/run. Or you can put QuickJump2016.exe in a folder and create shortcuts to it passing a path to files or shortcuts. It will list all of the files in that path. See QJ Readme.txt for more info.

Example:
Put QuickJump2016.exe in a folder, create a shortcut to it and change the properties adding the path "C:\My Apps". When you double click the shortcut it will list all the files in "C:\My Apps" in a menu.

Screen Shots:
Properties of the shortcut showing how to add the path to open.
Ashampoo_Snap_2015.12.21_09h32m07s_001_.pngNANY 2016: QuickJump 2016

Shot of menu that is created by QuickJump2016.exe using shortcut.
Ashampoo_Snap_2015.12.21_09h32m29s_002_.pngNANY 2016: QuickJump 2016

Download QuickJump2016 - QuickJump 2016 home page
« Last Edit: February 11, 2022, 10:22 AM by c.gingerich »

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2015, 08:42 AM »
Looks pretty cool... a less visual version of 7stacks! :)

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2015, 08:59 AM »
Yes I used 7stacks but it would just run so slow sometimes and take forever to open if I had a lot of apps/files in the folder. I wanted a faster way, so I made this. :-)

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2015, 09:25 AM »
Yes I used 7stacks but it would just run so slow sometimes and take forever to open if I had a lot of apps/files in the folder. I wanted a faster way, so I made this. :-)

My problem with it also, so I'll give this a try!

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2015, 03:27 PM »
Wraith, what about removing the ".lnk" from the display?  We don't really need to see the file extension, and it would be less clutter.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2015, 04:19 PM »
Wraith, what about removing the ".lnk" from the display?  We don't really need to see the file extension, and it would be less clutter.

I'm confused?  :huh:  Or was this for the author?

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2015, 09:28 AM »
I think it may have been meant for me. I think I can do that :-)

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2015, 11:39 AM »
updated to v2.1 removed file extensions.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2015, 04:09 PM »
Chris, FYI download link above says:
CloudApp
Sorry, no drops live here.

Perhaps the link you clicked was broken or the owner of this drop has deleted it.

the link via website works :up:
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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2015, 08:47 AM »
Oops. Updated the DL link. Thanks!

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #10 on: December 23, 2015, 11:30 AM »
Having to figure out a way to download it in Chrome sucks.

Just an FYI- how you get around the malicious warning (even though we haven't checked, we're going to mark it malicious) in Chrome

I had exactly this problem with an exe file that is downloadable from my web site. Whenever I tried to download the file using Chrome it gave the warning.

The solution I found was to sign up to Google Webmaster Tools and add my site. It took several days for Google to crawl my site, and fill in any information, but I went back today and finally found loads of information there.

Now I can download my file, and there is no malicious warning any more.

It seems that once Google has checked out your site and determined that you are not a bad person, the problem goes away.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2015, 12:33 PM »
Cool. Thanks for the info I just added my site to Google.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2015, 01:17 PM »
Is that link above correct?  I used curl to get around chrome, and got a 301?

UPDATE: For anyone trying the same, the link is a redirect, and the location is in the 301, i.e. http://f.cl.ly/items...1G/QuickJump2016.zip

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2015, 01:25 PM »
Yes it is correct. I use https://www.getcloudapp.com/ to host my downloads... Really, not matter what I have used (Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive etc..) the same thing happens... I just stick with CloudApp now.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #14 on: December 27, 2015, 12:01 PM »
For some reason Chrome is blocking me from downloading it.

https://support.goog...d&hl=en&rd=1
https://support.goog...sters/answer/3258249
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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #15 on: December 27, 2015, 03:30 PM »

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #16 on: December 27, 2015, 06:33 PM »
For some reason Chrome is blocking me from downloading it.

https://support.goog...d&hl=en&rd=1
https://support.goog...sters/answer/3258249

That's was what I was referring to above.  You can use curl, wget, or such utilities to directly download it.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2015, 03:19 PM »
QuickJump already written up on ghacks(!):
http://www.ghacks.ne...auncher-for-windows/

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2015, 03:23 PM »
Wow, that's cool! Thanks for letting me know. I'll see what I can do about adding that letter shortcut option. ;-)

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #19 on: December 28, 2015, 07:36 PM »
Update: Added the feature requested in that article. Apps/folders/files can be opened by pressing the corresponding underlined letter for that menu item.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2016, 06:20 AM »
@Baile Thank you! :-) Yep, it works the same, I use it every day.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2016, 06:08 PM »
I use MenuApp. It has been there for a long time and is feature rich. But, I am looking for an alternative since it is buggy. Was excited to see QuickJump, but then it does not create sub menus for folders. :(
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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2016, 09:20 AM »
No QuickJump does not have sub-menus for sub-folders, that is by design. I wanted it to be fast and having to loop through sub-folders and create sub-menus adds a lot of time to creating the menu. I do not think I will ever create sub-menus for folders. What I may do in a future release is make pseudo sub-menus that only show when clicking on the folder menu item. That way they are generated on the fly and will not make it much, if any, slower.

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2016, 10:12 AM »
I actually like that it doesn't create sub-menus, and if you do add it, can you make sure to put the option of not using it?

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Re: NANY 2016: QuickJump 2016
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2016, 10:14 AM »
Yep, it's going to be an optional parameter called SubMenus. Was a quick add and I'll be uploading a new version soon.