DESCRIPTION:

ToggleIT was designed as a system utility/ tweak application. It's main purpose is for the user to create his/her own context menu entries i.e. like right clicking on a folder item or the background inside an open window or the desktop.

This is not a program that will be used on a daily basis. The settings can be applied at the initial run of the program and then left to be...just like a tweaking application.

FEATURES:

Context menu enhancements available in the program so far:

• Toggle Hiddens: A context menu (right click) entry to toggle all hidden files and folders, file extentions and system files and folders on or off. This context menu item can be accessed by either right clicking on a folder or on the desktop or folder background. When the menu item is selected then hidden items will be shown and when it is selected afterwards then hidden items in Explorer will be out of sight again.
• Toggle Thumbs: A context menu entry to toggle thumbnail views in Explorer on or off. This includes AVI and PDF file previews and images. In essence, the little image file previews you see in a window will only show the generic image icon and not the tiny picture. The same applies to AVI and PDF type files. The main purpose here is to allow the system to load items in a just opened folder quicker, without waiting for Explorer to extract all the little thumbnails first. Windows can sometimes take quite a while to load thumbnail previews.
• Custom Folder Icon: Another cool feature with Toggle IT is the option to use a custom 'closed' folder icon to show as the actual folder icons after thumbnails have been toggled off.
• Toggle NavPane: The folder navigation pane can sometimes take up a lot of space especially on the smaller desktops. Here you can show or hide this pane whenever you need to let your open windows look a little bit more classic without the navigation pane. Unlike Toggle Hiddens and Toggle Thumbs, the change from showing or hiding the navigation pane does not take effect emmediately. The user has to at least browse forward and then backwards inside an open window in order to have the navigation pane in a shown or hidden state.

EXECUTING THE PROGRAM VIA COMMANDLINE:

It is possible to execute the program via command line and includes the use of parameters. The 'raw' commandline would be the full path to the program for example: C:\Program Data\ToggleIT.exe. Possible parameters to include are: HID, THMB, NAV, DEF

Sample command line: C:\Program Data\ToggleIT.exe HID

(Note the single space between the path and "HID")

This will execute the function to toggle hidden items on or off. If "HID" is relaced with "THMB" then thumbnails will get toggled and "NAV" will toggle the navigation pane on or off. If the parameter is not correctly specified then the program will just run in window mode. Same as double-clicking on the executable.

Sample batch file for executing the program with parameters:

CD %1

SET EXEPATH=ToggleIT.exe

SET PARAMS=HID

START /IM %EXEPATH% %PARAMS%

In this case it is presumed that the batch command file will be in the same directory as the ToggleIT executable file. Adjust the "EXEPATH" section accordingly if the program executable is going to get called from elsewhere. The "PARAMS" section will contain the function to call inside the program. In this case it will be to execute the "Toggle Hiddens" function.

The "DEF" parameter will reset all settings that were previously changed by the program to the Windows defaults i.e. hidden items will be hidden again, thumbnails will be shown and the navigation pane will also be visible again. NOTE: The "DEF" parameter can also be used as an uninstaller command. Remember to enclose a path with inverted commas if it has spaces in.

OTHER INFORMATION:

This program does not use any system resources whatsoever, only at runtime, meaning that when you select 'Toggle Hiddens' for instance, then only does the action take place.

THE FUTURE:

There are numerous context menu tweaks and enhancements available for development, but the three most effective one's have been included for now. We are currently working on more and will have them included in future releases. This little program have the potential to grow and grow...

INSTALLATION:

The program obviously does not need uninstallation, but and please remember the following:

IMPORTANT: If you decide to discard (delete) the program, make sure to run it once more just to reset all system settings to the defaults. Also refer to the commandline section elsewhere on this page for an option to remove program data, context menu entries created by the program etc...

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