My Templates! for Windows

My Templates! for Windows. Finally a free, easy and intuitive way of managing your templates regardless of application!

Download

Yes, it really doesn't have to be that complicated... Just click and answer the prompts :-)

• My Templates! (Works all versions of Windows, including Windows 7)
• Or from Download.com a trusted source
• My Templates! for Windows 10 (64 bit only), requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x64)

How to

How do I use this tool?
Once installed try the following:

• Right click in any folder (including the desktop) but not on an icon - i.e. the background of a folder or the desktop.
• Now select "New From Template" and then select "Open My Templates". This will open the special templates folder where you can copy files or folders into. Try it!
• Once you have copied a file or folder into this special folder it will appear on the "New From Template" menu - Handy?!?
• From now on you can just right click in any folder or on your desktop and the file(s) or folder(s) (objects for short) added to the special "My Templates" folder will appear in the submenu. If you from the menu select one of your added objects, it will be copied into the folder where you right-clicked in the first place.
• That is it! Now enjoy or uninstall!

Why bother? I got the "New" functionality already in Windows

My Templates! offers the following in addition to the built in New functionality:

• You can have multiple templates for the same filetype - e.g. you can have more than one Word Document template directly from the menu
• You can template folders as well as files!

Support and Feedback

If you have any questions or feedback regarding My Templates! please contact Christian Gaarden.

History

• Initial release, Jan 16 2004, Download version 1 (works great on Windows Vista too)

Credits

• You for trying this free product!
• IBM/OS/2 Workplace Shell
• Microsoft/MSDN
• www.codeguru.com
• www.codeproject.com
• Torsten Balle Koefoed and others at subetha for testing the alpha version
• Jim Barry (some guy who helped me trough microsoft.public.platformsdk.shell - sorry about the poor description!)
• Henk Devos (guy who helped me trough microsoft.public.platformsdk.shell - Whirling Dervishes)
• Christian Gaarden Gaardmark (me) idea, design and implementation

What is missing?

Quite a lot! However please skip the list below as it is merely for my tracking purposes more than anything else.

• By default files/folders dragged into your My Templates folder should always be copied, whether on the same drive or not. The same should go for objects dragged from the folder.
• On first time install, create some "good" templates (optional)
• Should shortcuts be resolved so that the shortcut is not copied but rather the object (file/folder) it is pointing to?
• Create special "My Templates" shell folder in My Computer?
• Removal of the existing New menu (once I implement support for the "mechanisms" that New support)
• Move configuration/settings to an XML file
• Allow you to do on the fly downloads of templates