The Most Useful App I've Made So Far 😤 (You'll Want To See This)

[@ThioJoe]

And this one only took me about a weekend instead of weeks 💀 Also if you encountered the bug in v1.0.0 where the navigation wouldn't work with custom prefixes, that has been fixed in the new v1.1.0

[@_SJ]

Great ❤

[@dracula0]

The king has returned!!

[@ahmad01371]

Practice makes a man perfect

[@mahdoosh1907]

That should have been more of "Phoof" instead of "Skull"

[@shantanusapru]

Humblebragger...🤣🤣Just kidding! It's great, Joe!!

[@advanceringnewholder]

From fake tech video to creating your own useful windows tool. This channel really evolved

[@johnsmith8981]

I miss the fake videos even though I like the new content too 🤣

[@ako_0256]

@@johnsmith8981 There is a playlist with all of the fake videos on his channel btw

[@faheeta5036]

@@johnsmith8981 Me too. My hair is starting to grow back from the toaster fire.

[@aviator_2401]

This comment deserves a ❤

[@evanstedman7405]

Not the first useful tool he's made. The best tool he has made, in my honest opinion, is Scammer Purge...

[@AbdoXms]

This tool idea deserves to be added to Microsoft PowerToys

[@SankalpSaxena99]

I agree

[@Nethuja_GunawardaneSL]

Or just the OS itself

[@ThioJoe]

Hmm maybe I'll look into making a C# version at some point 🤔

[@joe_acee]

true

[@robinfumo]

Holy shit this is one of the best cases of minor annoyance that no one finds dire enough to actually think about making a fix for but then somebody actually does, and it's a must download Thanks, this is absolutely amazing!

[@andysingh5390]

Thanks to joe also for keeping it open so not that somebody can do it better but at least if a dev like me would check with him first incorporate a snipet into compiled open code like a function thanks joe i would not steal i would chk first then snipet take care brother joe❤❤

[@osamaomer2073]

Others: waiting thousand years for Microsoft to add convenient features Thiojoe: create magic

[@sterbebett]

Dude, the amount of times I've asked out loud in an empty room to microsoft _Why would I save that file in C:\windows\system, microsoft!?_ A Linux version of this would be a life savior for a lot of people new to it as well. Great work!

[@mtarek2005]

same, I need one for dolphin

[@crjakob]

Average windows experience saving the file somewhere you will never find it again

[@igorthelight]

Save it again, then run any duplicate file finder. Not very convenient, I know xD

[@pu239]

sorry that you feel that way, but program files and appdata are well known locations - almost every program installs here and saves config/other stuff here, to not disturb the user's folders

[@igorthelight]

@@pu239 I think he was talking about another thing: you save a Word document, for example. And quickly press Save, thinking that it would save where you saved previous file. But instead it saves to another folder instead. It happens when you save too quickly and didn't pay attention ;-)

[@pu239]

@@igorthelight oh lol, I've moved away from word so i don't know about that

[@igorthelight]

@@pu239 Word was more like an example - that could happen with almost any program ;-)

[@ScrakSFMs]

Imagine having a right-click context to go into the last folder of the folder you right clicked, I'd love that!

[@aaryan45]

@@ScrakSFMs Direct Folders from Teracopy devs does the same!

[@SpinDlsc]

As someone who uses a lot of modding tools, this tool will be such a time saver! Thanks, Joe! Also, one suggestion I would make would be to add profiles to the program, and in each profile, you can have a list of 10 or so saved paths.

[@ThioJoe]

I've thought about adding a favorites list of some kind, haven't gotten around to it yet

[@itouchapplemaster]

This is awesome, a suggestion that would really make me love this would be to have the ability to have “favorite paths” of frequently used paths. Rarely do I keep explorer open with multiple tabs.

[@DeathCubeKX]

Yes! This is a great idea

[@mtarek2005]

yeah

[@Blue694]

ThioJoe is going to fix how windows are suppose to be before gta 6

[@JorgeLopez-qj8pu]

"fix windows" 😵 wo wo let's not go that far, he's only an Eldritch-God not an Outer-God. 😅

[@BadvisionStudios]

This is awesome! Thanks! Would love a setting where i could add a specific path(s) as "presets" for common locations I might use often, and they would show up in a new section in the pop-up menu.

[@FlexNiko]

if you know a little coding, you can easily use the AHK version and insert the needed paths into the code. if you know a little better about coding, you can easily extend it to load in a seperate file with paths that should be loaded. if you dont know how to do any of this, i may be able to assist if i got time.

[@null-0x]

Or, add a feature suggestion in his github

[@user-cz9bl6jp8b]

Search for a program called "Quick Pop Menu" *It's old but still works The following is not a pop-menu but it may be close. On(Windows 10) *not sure on Windows 11 1. create a folder in your desktop (Call it something like Main) 2. Make shortcuts of the main folders or programs you want to use and copy the shortcuts to this folder. 3. On the taskbar, right click and move your mouse over Toolbars and choose New toolbar... It will open a window that asks you to choose the folder you want to add. Choose your shortcuts folder Now the folder will be pinned to the taskbar, and you can easily choose any of the shortcuts you put in that folder. You can even add subfolders of shortcuts

[@jesuslovesyoujohn314-21]

Wow, this is my life nearly everyday it seems like where I am hunting for a specific folder. I am going to download this tool. Amazing job!

[@FardinMirza]

i love the evolution of this dude. I'm definitely going to use it thanks for making these quality of life programs! ❤️

[@devinodonnell]

Your "path bar" that you think is missing is there, it's just pulling double duty and hiding in the "filename" box, because if you paste the path you want to go to into the filename box and press enter/return -- it will jump to that location.

[@mtarek2005]

so like the way he said it works

[@ani_mesh]

Considering what this channel used to be, I never thought I'd say this here, but the title of the video is 100% accurate.

[@Gigaheart]

What do you mean what this channel used to be? It's a tech channel since I started watching it. I've seen him doing nothing but tips and tricks.

[@ani_mesh]

@Gigaheart If you actually don't know then go to the playlist section of his channel, scroll down to the end and you'll find a playlist named "Joke Tech Videos" with 116 videos. That should tell you all you need to know.

[@safetyzone2962]

@@Gigaheart All his videos were fake up until August 2016. He used to do stuff like "How to Upgrade from PS3 to PS4 for free" and "How to Double Your Internet Speed for Free".

[@TheGershon]

THANK YOU this will be a GODSEND from now on. For sure gonna keep this with the stuff I move onto every new computer from now on.

[@demerion]

Sounds great, but why do I have to have the folder open in the background? :D Why can't we save paths that we always want to show up? That would make it infinitely more useful.

[@SankalpSaxena99]

Thanks man! This tool is a lifesaver. Whenever we need to upload anything windows is always so frustrating. It sometimes remembers the last location, othertimes it defaults to Documents

[@Ponkotsu67]

This tool is such a quality of life upgrade.

[@TechTeamAspect]

You are the only person I know who creates useful apps! Good job!

[@-DeScruff]

Okay... You know that Vince Mcmahon Meme? Where he gets more progressively into something he sees? That was literally me as you were showing the kinda menus it works on.

[@PedroCoelho98]

That is really, really what I was looking for! I was always using the copy and paste with clipboard history enabled...

[@kio2gamer]

bro, this is most useful thing ever, smth that is actually worth my time searching through all of my files and folders

[@UonBoat]

Listary already has a similar feature. When Open/Save as window pops up, just switch to an opened folder you want to locate and switch back and it will automatically jump to the path you just headed to.

[@hostar2]

Listary even has sync with current Total Commander path

[@ccchas2]

Much like the Mac's Default Folder app. Very good idea.

[@sayan1122]

Wow this is so amazing! I literally have this problem so much as i have to work with so many documents for college...amazing!

[@Tony.Zed.]

This is brilliant. Some of the best software I've ever used is freeware with a simple idea that just makes life easier. The kind that makes you think "why did no one think to do this sooner???"

[@pinoktor]

Just one word: Thank You so much for this!

[@MrGaryscott1983]

OMG as someone who uses the file explorer A Lot and Photoshop this is a common theme so this tool will get great use from me Thank you Theo Amazing content as always...

[@kyoudaiken]

This is super cool! Would it be possible to add support to add other file browsers like doublecmd?

[@William-nw4sk]

Man, that intro with all the folders was how I feel every time I save something. I use my Data drive (D:) for storage nowadays, as my C: has acquired so many programs, it's down to 50GB left, and I want to save that for cache, programs, and what not. My Data drive isn't very well organized. (yet)

[@Niosai]

Oh my god I never knew how much I needed this

[@Valer_100]

Great script! It would be interesting if you could add support for more 3rd party apps, like VS Code, Explorer++, and other IDEs that support opening folders/projects in them and file managers.

[@StrikeFreedom1920]

Where has this been all my life!! 😭 Thanks man 👍🏻

[@VVarun97]

You're theMicrosoft's MVP of this decade 😂😂😂

[@SatanicJamnic]

So cool. Already added to Autostart folder. Thank you so much. It will make menaging ROM library so much easier.

[@icycat9433]

the folders names at the beginning deserve some atenttion

[@Wolterhon]

THIS IS SO COOL I HAVE NEVER FELT SO MUCH EMOTION FOR A PIECE OF SOFTWARE

[@christop_bader]

This is a marvelous tool great work Joe

[@DeathCubeKX]

What a game changer! Could have used this so much literally a day ago when doing a tedious workflow exporting files where the program would switch back to ITS working directory, not where I just exported to. Also introduced me to Directory Opus - looks awesome, going to be trying that out for a while.

[@BenRitter]

This is already saving me minutes of time.

[@g4z-kb7ct]

Wow that's really nice. A great addition would be to have (in 'settings') some known fixed pre-set paths, maybe 5 listed in a non-expanded icon that shows in the list as 'Presets' and a single click will expand it and another click to select the known path. This makes it possible to have a selection for paths where windows are not open or a path to a sdcard or thumb drive that is plugged in or users home dir or whatever. My home dir is on the desktop in a folder called MyStuff hehe! But a lot of people just throw stuff on the desktop which isn't easy to open since the actual 'Desktop' folder is buried deep so having that as a pre-set will allow just saving to desktop easily, especially with those earlier dialogs that don't show the quick-access folders. Please please please add my suggestion. I'm watching for the next version with this feature added :-)

[@RealTagComputing]

Unironically one of the most useful tools for any windows install, definitely sure to keep this one on me

[@lonergothonline]

I could have used this back in the xp days. I got used to navigating all the different ways of open/save dialog boxes. I was going to leave a comment about how I used to just type out or copy paste in the file directory, but you included that in the video so I don't need to. Thanks for making windows that much better. now hopefully the linux guys watch this video and include the functionality in the various myriad file browsers they have.

[@trappedcat3615]

I was going to skip but you said I want to see this. You delivered the goods!

[@BadarThanu]

Yup. Pasting the path into the filename field has been a thing for a decade or two.

[@eamonnsullivan4572]

This is pretty cool. I made something vaguely similar a few years back for filing video files, where I could right-click selected .mkv/.mp4/.avi etc. files and get an expanding context menu of my movie and tv episode folders, to move new downloads to where they should go. Really helpful when you download a few hundred TV episodes from different shows and seasons and don't have to navigate around the computer to organise them all.

[@HJHawley7677]

This is actually so nice and it’s kinda bewildering that this isn’t already a feature in windows.

[@bgtubber]

This is amazing! Does it work with Directory Opus tabs or just with Windows Explorer?

[@Computer_Freak_2004]

2:10 You can actually just paste the path in the file name box and press enter to navigate to it. But it seems really useful and I will try to use this in the future!

[@zigafide]

omg this is actually incredible

[@olstar]

literally needed this earlier

[@KryzysX]

You're a real one, Thio!

[@Noctumbrae]

i was literally needing this today lol

[@Asdosie]

Holy shit, this is REALLY good. Downloading immediately. Edit: wont open, says "COULD NOT CLOSE THE RPEVIOUS INSTANCE OF THIS SCRIPT. KEEP WAIITNG?" and nothing else.

[@ThioJoe]

Hm are you using the exe or .ahk version? I've had Autohotkey act up sometimes, not sure if it happens on the exe version too, which is really the same thing except the interpreter is built into the file.

[@mantrad0r]

@@ThioJoe i have the same issue using the exe Edit: nvm it was simply already installed. I expected to get a notif or something for it to tell me, that it was installed.

[@DragunnitumGaming]

Wow! Why isn't this built-in by default?! It's so useful! 😮

[@skemsen]

Awesome! But first thought: Would be a cool added feature if you could pin some often used file paths to that UI

[@Shakura8]

Imagine entire Microsoft couldn't make this simple and so useful tool!

[@EarthrealmWarrior]

It's simple but really useful. I'll definitely download it. Thanks

[@thedigitallens]

Really useful. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@mahmoudiamir]

Photoshop still uses the method that wont let you copy paste the path and its really painfull to navigate files to save single thing😢. This is amazing, thank you, its really helpful

[@CnCDune]

2:05 actually, there is. That bottom-section where you input the file-name? You can copy-paste the path into that and hit Enter - you'll warp there. 4:52 you should be able to run it - AHK will kill the older instance in my experience.

[@Alita-8606]

You are an actual hero ❤

[@cr-pol]

ok Thio, that it works with the non-tree file location window is worth getting me to Subscribe.

[@agar322]

YOU'RE A GOD I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THIS

[@aarush_tiwari27]

Hey man I don't if you remember this but a few years ago I wrote how you inspired me to pursue a career in tech. Well I am currently in the 2nd year of computer science engineering. I currently know Java, Python and C/C++. I want to create these apps like you. How do I go about this?

[@ThioJoe]

Basically I just teach myself. If I see some inconvenience I try to see how it might be solved. The more you learn the bigger problems you can tackle.

[@LeandroMartinezLFM]

That's awesome! How do you compile the AHK to an EXE?

[@RuskyDev]

this will be VERY useful for me thanks!

[@Alexifeu]

Microsoft Hire this man. I bet you could alos fix the design inconsistencies like not everything having dark mode. Love this but i hate apps running in my taskbar, this should just be a feature in windows.

[@TheFireRed]

This is amazing! May I suggest to add this in the winget repository?

[@ThioJoe]

Eh I don't really want to have to maintain the listing

[@_SJ]

Thanks, ThioJoe 😉

[@TheSonicFan4]

This is great! Sadly it requires AHK V2.0, so I'm unable to use it. Can you please make a V1.1 version?

[@jim8432]

Im going to give this a try,Thanks. Good luck stay safe stay well

[@williamoron]

legend... tthis is exactly what i need

[@StreetSurfersAlex]

Oh god. THIS IS ACTUALLY USEFUL!

[@cjchico]

What launcher/start menu/dock thing is that at 4:18 ?

[@DGFig]

Really useful! Thank you very much!

[@GeekFurious]

My computer won't go to sleep while this is running.

[@The_Tinkering_Geek]

well done, this is awesome

[@philuribe7863]

Excellent! Thank you.

[@slashernoob4505]

This is AWESOME

[@BravoPhantom]

I love the fact that you made an app; well a "useful" app. But I won't require it anytime soon 😅

[@Kramer7969]

This is awesome and super simple!

[@aaronwise1089]

that actually sounds cool

[@aXimo]

Cool! But can you use it while going 100 on 35 mph kids zone?

[@ksrele]

Cool application. I will try to make my fork of it by adding support for Total Commander that I use.

[@BlackCowOppa]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@anand_bhasme]

Great Work!

[@GogoTheSomeone]

That mouse skin makes the fact that the tail isnt centered pop out more

[@mannytabletje4678]

Wow ..... this is so great !!!

[@LanceRomance411]

Very cool! I love it

[@Nicols0Mart]

Nice tool. Would love to see a dark mode for the location list dialog. Cheers!

[@MurTadaAlThawab]

you can put the path in the file name box

[@lutello3012]

I used to use a shortcut file in the default folder for that.

[@AathifMohammed]

I love you, man ❤️

[@terryschima4964]

I know this is off subject, but I heard (I think through Chris Titus) that you said installing the International edition of Windows is at least somewhat less privacy invasive. I wonder if you could do a video on comparing the US and international editions. I have one cpu with the international and one with the US edition. I notice the updates are different.

[@eggss2]

Thanks dude!

[@SarimAshrafi]

This is an amazing tool!

[@SurfingTheSkies]

very very usefull thx Thio