Advanced Usage

Assign a shortcut folder to a mouse button

It is possible to run QuickPopMenu.exe with a command line by specifying a shortcut folder to read .link files. This is useful when you like to assign custom menus to extended mouse buttons.  For example, there is a mouse with 5 buttons and you can call menus with the forth and fifth buttons.

The below tutorial is a Microsoft Intellimouse case. Unfortunately, I only have a normal mouse so I explain how to assign a menu to the middle button. Of course, there are so many different mice but it should be enough explanatory to apply to the other cases.

For Microsoft Intellimouse

1. First, create a folder for a custom menu. As an example, “AnotherShotcuts” is placed in the same location to the program. It could be anyplace though.

2. Place .lnk files in there.

3. In the Intellimouse Control Panel, go to the button setting which you like to call QuickPopMenu.exe

4. At the bottom of the drop down list, there is a menu item called, Start…(custom) and choose it.

5. In the form field, you need to type QuickPopMenu.exe “path of the shortcut folder”  In this case,  “D:\Apps\Quick Menu\QuickPopMenu.exe” “D:\Apps\Quick Menu\AnotherShortCuts”  The double quotes are little tricky so pay attention to them; otherwise, you get an error message.

6. That’s all. Now you can call the menu from the folder which you specified by pressing the middle button.

The middle button is used here to explain as an example. However, it would be more useful if it is applied to an extended button.