General • Re: QuickSwitch

QuickSwitch 1.9
This update is aimed at improving performance and quality of life. Various annoyances and critical bugs have been fixed.

I really need your feedback! If something is not working for you, please let me know. If you think that some features can be improved, write to me.

Changelog
Total Commander - increased the speed of:

• receiving and analyzing tabs;
• creating the user-defined command required for QuickSwitch (in usercmd.ini).

Increased the speed of:

• determining the type of file dialog;
• switching the selected path in the Menu and the speed of AutoSwitch;
• menu display.

New AutoSwitch features

• You can choose which path "AutoSwitch" option should open: pinned, favorite, ... (see details about the special paths here). Open
  Settings > Menu
  tab and select the target in the drop-down list.
• You can select the index of the path that will be opened. Index starts with
  1
  relative to current menu section (pinned, favorites, ...).
• Select "MenuStack" target, then index will be relative to all visible paths in the Menu.

Tip
You can enable

Always AutoSwitch

option and select "PinnedPaths" or "MenuStack" as the target. Then AutoSwitch will always activate the pinned path according to the selected index (1st, 2nd, ...).

Warning!
You need to enable specific target:

Settings > Theme > Show sections ...

. For example, if you have selected the "PinnedPaths" target, select the

Pinned Paths

check box.

Scaling options

• Added the option to change the settings UI font and its size. The option also changes the size of all settings items. Now the UI adapt to the selected font and screen DPI: the larger the font (e.g. monospaced) or its size, the larger the UI elements will look.

Tip
Increase the DPI and font size to singificantly increase the size of the UI elements.

• Added the option to change Menu font and its size. I prefer [c]Nunito[/c] for menus and [c]ImWritingQuat[/c] for settings and file managers UI.

Caution!
This option changes the font and its size for all menus in the system including:

• context menu
• status-bar menu at the top
• tray menu
• some tooltips
• some message boxes and popups

To roll back changes, open the settings, set the

Menu font

field empty and set the size to 0.

Other features

• After enabling
  ShortPath > Show short path...
  option, 1st letter in the will be underlined. Press this letter on your keyboard to activate this path in the menu (see more about keys here). For example: S̲ystem32\Resources – press
  S
  to activate this path.

TIP
The path shortening settings on the

ShortPath

‬ tab allows you to completely change a path structure. It also allows you to change which key will activate the path.

• Open "Menu settings" and press
  Debug
  button to see all controls of the active window. Press
  Export
  to save this data to the readable file.

Fixed annoyances
These issues have been coming and going since v1.5. With each update, I slowly fixed them. Now they are fully eliminated.

• After enabling "AutoSwitch" option, the file dialog may have closed (#77), the "Save As" dialog button did not work properly and focus was lost from the file name input field.
• The Menu might not close and stay above all windows after pressing
  Esc
  or clicking anywhere (#88, #94).
• The menu didn't disappear after immediately pressing
  Alt
  /
  Esc
  when opening a file dialog; Copilot web page could open.
• The Menu sometimes didn't appear when the file dialog was opened.

Fixed issues with paths

• Some paths from Total Commander containing Cyrillic and other characters did not work (#138).
• Some localized paths (depending on the system language) from Explorer did not work (e.g. C:\Benutzer, C:\Användare, ...) (#98).
• The Menu displayed system and special directories (e.g. Recycle Bin) that did not work.
• The active Explorer tab was not the first in the Menu on Windows 11.
• The Menu displayed incorrect paths from Xyplorer after disabling the
  (show) locked tabs
  option on
  Settings > Theme
  tab.
• The active Total Commander tab was displayed incorrectly after disabling the option
  Theme > File manager paths > (Show) locked tabs
  .

note
If the currently active tab is locked and this option is disabled, the next unlocked tab starting from the active pane (from left to right) will be shown first in the menu.

If all tabs are locked, nothing will appear in the Menu.

Fixed issues with menu

• The menu appeared twice. After turning on
  AutoSwitch
  /
  always AutoSwitch
  .
• The Menu no longer appears in non-file dialogs. (false-positives).
• The issue with path unpin (see pinned paths).

Fixed visual issues

• Wrong OS name in the
  Errors.log
  on Win11 (#98).

• Fixed the display of drop-down lists for selecting mouse buttons and special keys on the
  Settings > App
  tab after changing the screen DPI (#135).
• The
  Debug
  button no longer overlaps the settings tabs after changing the font to monospaced or when changing the screen DPI (#135).

Statistics: Posted by Rafaello — Sun Dec 07, 2025 9:15 pm

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