WinShortcutter 2.1 review

Do you work in a Windows dominant environment? Are your network drives packed with Windows Shortcuts that point to directories and documents? If you want to follow these shortcuts - here is the answer: WinShortcutter! WinShortcutter can follow Windows Shortcuts and open the corresponding document.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 750K Developer: Lobotomo Software Price: $0.00 Updated: 16 Mar 2006

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Do you work in a Windows dominant environment? Are your network drives packed with Windows Shortcuts that point to directories and documents?
If you want to follow these shortcuts - here is the answer: WinShortcutter!

WinShortcutter can follow Windows Shortcuts and open the corresponding document. If the Shortcut points to another network drive, WinShortcutter will also mount the drive before accessing the link. And if you want to do other Apple users a favor, you can also leave a proper Apple Alias aside of the Shortcut. WinShortcutter works right out of the box. Just doubleclick a link and the corresponding document will open.
If you want to create an alias in addition to following the shortcut, simply activate the option in the system preferences. If your office network also allows AFP mounts, you can change the mount setting as well. Simply access the System Preferences for WinShortcutter.

Here are some key features of "WinShortcutter":
Clicking on a windows style shortcut (.lnk files) will follow the link. If the shortcut points to a folder, a new finder window will be opened, if the shortcut points to a file, the file will be loaded with the default application for the file. If the shortcut points to a file on the network, the corresponding drive will automatically be mounted, if needed.
WinShortcutter Service: You can open a textual link sent to you by a windows user by using the service menu.
Context menu in Finder: The finder context menu has a new menu item to copy filename paths into the clipboard. You can then paste the text into an email.
Windows Domain Passwords can be changed using the WinShortcutter System Preferences.
NEW: Path Copy now also produces Paths with backslashes () for windows! This behaviour is configurable in the System Preferences
NEW: Mapping Feature for Drive letters. If links with windows drive letters are emailed to you, they are no longer a problem for you. Simply configure the mapping of the drive letter to the mount point in the System Preferences pane and WinShortcutter will take care of the rest.
NEW: Support for CIFS drives.

What's New:
WinShortcutter is a Universal Binary now!
Fixed a bug in the Service: when the selected string points to the root of a disk, then the disk is now properly mounted and displayed
Added Backward Slash feature
Added Drive mapping feature
Added Support for CIFS drives.