// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Alax.Info utilities extending Windows shell
Per user request, here goes 64-bit version of NTFS Links utility, which provides shell UI for NTFS Junction Points. As 64-bit version of Windows operating systems provide two versions of shell explorer, and support both Win32 and x64 platform applications, it is typical to install both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the utility to cover/extend…
While NTFS junction points are powerful to relink files without duplicating data and/or moving between disks, they are treated as regular directories by most of software and it may unexpectedly result in conversion of a junction point into a regular directory with implied duplication of data and disk space waste. This is a quick fix…
I decided yo update NTFS Links to fix an annoying issue several people complained about. If you copy a directory and decide to, yes, copy and not create soft link, you will be still prompted with the same question for every subdirectory inside. Windows gove no option to learn this is actually a subdirectory and…
Another interesting feature of NTFS file system is alternate data streams, which basically means that a file may be attached extra data such as for example “slave files”. The tricky peculiarity is that data streams are almost invisible to Windows shell, though Windows uses stream to attach version information (Summary property page in file properties)…
Alax.Info ScreenShot Shell Extensions extend windows shell to provide a helpful command to work with screenshots. A new command “Paste Image as PNG File…” is added to directory context menus when clipboard contains an image. User will be prompted to enter file name for the saved image. Should Control key be pressed at the moment…
Quite amusing, this blog shares first two positions with elsdoerfer.info on query for “soft link ntfs” and is 4th on MSN search, 3rd is elsdoerfer.info again. Yahoo search lists elsdoerfer.info but this blog is somewhere far away. This is probably because “soft links” are better known as “symbolic links”. The mentioned elsdoerfer.info is a very…
Multilanguage support added and Russian translation is also put into this update. No features added. Russian locale is detected automatically but you can also overrdide through registry: Key Name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alax.Info\NTFS Links\Locale Value Name: Default Value Type: DWORD Value: 1049 (decimal) for Russian Translation is implemented as a satellite DLL, so more languages are possible if…