StdFolders

Simple tool to create a standard folder structure in windows

Background

For every project you start you want a simple tool to ad those 10 standard folders. This simple tool installs into the context menu (right click). Right click the root folder and choose standard folder structure.
Done.

StdFolders.exe

Right-Click the root folder, we used Temp in the example above, and choose StdFolders from the context menu
Choose between your predefined structures
Done. (in Temp we now have the below content)

StdFolders.ini

Textfile where you define your structures

##
# Definition file for StdFolders - save in Latin1=Windows1252=ISO-8859-1 !
# Format:
# FolderName=Localized Folder; Info-tip-comment; Icon-Resource; Folder Type
# Icon: -123=user(kontakt) / -162=projmapp / -108=not(play) / -115=star(favorit) / -181=kontaktkort / -186=game / -112=dok / -166=check

[Project-2020.sv]
1_Contract=1-Kontrakt;1: Anbud, kontrakt, avtal, försäkringar;-123
2_Basis=2-Bas;2: Uppdragsplan, organisation, kvalitet, rutiner, myndighetskontakter;-166
3_Docs=3-Proj;3: Projektering, arbetsdokument, uppdrag;-162
4_Comm=4-Komm;4: Kommunikation in/ut, underlag;-112
5_Plan=5-Plan;5: Planering, aktiviteter, tider, resurs och leveransplaner;-186
6_Admin=6-Admin;6: Administration, ekonomi, budget, uppföljning, ändringar och tillägg;-181
9_Lev=7-Lev;9: Leveranser till kund;-115
4_Comm\%yymmdd_Beskrivning=.;En mapp per paket, namnge med fördel med datum_beskrivning
9_Lev\%yymmdd_Beskrivning=.;Namnge med fördel leveranser datum_beskrivning
Quality.url=http://domain/quality.html?i=10

[Project-2020.en]
1_Contract=1-Contract;1: offer, contract, insurance;-123
2_Basis=2-Base;2: project plan, organisation, quality, instructions;-166
3_Docs=3-Proj;3: working project documents;-162
4_Comm=4-Communication;4: Communication in/out;-112
5_Plan=5-Plan;5: activities, time, resource planing;-186
6_Admin=6-Admin;6: administration, ekonomy, budget;-181
9_Lev=7-Lev;9: material for our client;-115
4_Comm\%yymmdd_Description=.;one folder for each package - use date_description
9_Lev\%yymmdd_Beskrivning=.;one foler for each deliverable - use date_description
Templates.url=http://domain/templates.html?i=10
Created.txt=%yymmdd/Project-2020.en/created

In the above example we create the same folder structure but localized in Swedish OR English.
The [Sections] in the ini-file will show up as alternatives for StdFolders Each line in the section will create one folder or file.
The format:
FolderName=Localized Folder; Info-tip-comment; Icon-Resource; Folder Type
where

FolderName
is the folder name below the root to be created, if the root is C:\Temp and FolderName=One\Two\Three the folder C:\Temp\One\Two\Three will be created/updated
if FolderName has extenstion .url it will create a link-url-file instead
if FolderName has extenstion .txt it will create a simple textfile
Localized Folder
Explorer will use this as the shown name
if . is used - no localized name will be created
this will be saved in desktop.ini / [.ShellClassInfo]LocalizedResourceName=
Info-tip-comment
show comment for this folder - choose to show column comments in explorer for the folder
this will be saved in desktop.ini / [.ShellClassInfo]InfoTip=
Icon-Resource
use a different icon for this folder. tip use only the -123 codes noted above from imageres.dll (default) - present in all computers
this will be saved in desktop.ini / [.ShellClassInfo]IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-123
Folder Type
you can tell which type of folder type it is, have not used this that much.. choose between the below alternatives:
Documents | MyDocuments | Pictures | MyPictures | PhotoAlbum | Music | MyMusic | MusicArtist | MusicAlbum | Videos | MyVideos | VideoAlbum | UseLegacyHTT | CommonDocuments |Generic

Download / Install

get StdFolders StdFolders.zip
Extract the StdFolders.exe and StdFolders.ini (2 files) place it in the same folder ..
First start StdFolders.exe tries install into the Context-Menu(right-click) for folders

Version / History

2022-aug-11 (v2208): better support for high res screens