Simpli Software's Places Utility

Places utility allows users to customize Windows 'Save As' dialog. People that find themselves browsing through directories in 'Save As' dialog to organize their downloaded data or other files will benefit from this simple program (see the usage examples).

Click the button below to download the Places utility.

Notes
  • This utility does not affect Microsoft Office Programs and other programs that do not use standard Windows 'Save As' template. Browsers, Email clients, editors, etc. seem to use the standard 'Save As' template.
  • The 'Places' utility doesn't work under Windows 95,98,Me.
  • A user must have administrator privilege to be able to change the settings. It is safe to try it though, if you are not sure about privileges of your Windows account.

Description

Organizing information you download from the Internet (and other files) can be quite a chore. The standard Save As dialog provides five starting places to save your file: History, My Documents, Desktop, Favorites, and Network.

Users who want to save their files in specific locations find themselves browsing back and forth between their target folders. Or they give up and save almost all files in one folder.

Places allows for customizing the 'places' in the Save As dialog. So, instead of History, My Documents, Desktop, Favorites and Network you can assign specific folders where you actually want to place your download data. These folders can be located anywhere on your system (i.e. drive A:, B:, C:, D:...). An example of customized Save As dialog is shown below.



Usage Examples