Quick Access Popup

“A must, a great missing feature in Windows.” – JF from Belgium
Version: 12.4 (2026-10-03)
Adaptive Menus
- in the Favorite dialog box, the favorites of type "Submenu" or "Shared menu" now have an "Adaptive menu" checkbox with a help link
- when adding or editing a favorite inside an Adaptive menu, the "Menu Options" tab now includes an "Adaptive menu conditions" text box; use it to set the conditions under which this favorite is shown in the menu
- in "Adaptive menu conditions", enter the windows where the favorite should be shown, one per line; each line is matched against the title, class or process name of the active window
- you can also target a specific criteria with the "title:", "class:" or "process:" prefixes; for example, to match a Microsoft Word window, use "title:Word", "class:OpusApp" or "process:WINWORD.EXE"
- see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-adaptive-menus/
Window filtering
- the "title:", "class:" and "process:" prefixes can now also be used when selecting active windows in these options:
- "Options, Popup Menu, Mouse trigger Blocked/Approved"
- "Options, Menu Inclusions/Exclusions, Current Window"
- "Options, Launch Advanced Options, Keyboard Shortcuts Blocked/Approved"
- for example, to match a Chrome window, use "title:Google Chrome", "class:Chrome_WidgetWin_1" or "process:chrome.exe"
- see for Main menu mouse trigger: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-block-the-qap-menu-hotkeys-if-they-interfere-with-one-of-my-other-apps/
- see for favorites keyboard shortcuts: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-block-the-qap-keyboard-shortcuts-if-they-interfere-with-one-of-my-apps/
Various additions and bug fixes
- fix Clipboard Commands (using Quick Clipboard Editor) not working correctly when QAP runs in portable mode
see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/qce/#qap-qce
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“If you spend more than an hour a day on a computer, this utility will save you so much time!” – Timology
Version: 12.3 (2026-05-12)
Enabling/Disabling favorites
- new option under "Various Advanded Options" to "Show checkboxes in favorites list to enable or disable favorites" directly from the "Customize" window (no need to edit the favorite)
Alternative Menu Features
- new Alternative Menu feature "Delete a Favorite" (see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/what-are-the-power-menu-features/)
Various
- add QAPmessenger command "OpenFavoriteInCmd" to open the specified folder in an existing or in a new Command-line window (see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-file/)
- fix various small internal bugs

“From one who has worked with usability for over 20 years – QAP is a gem, 5 stars!” – Max on Support page
Version: 12.2.1 (2026-02-17)
- fix a bug when the Ctrl+Ctrl option was enabled and the Ctrl key was held down long enough to trigger a repetition generating multiple presses over a short period

“What a marvelous piece of software. So useful, makes PC life easy, and so easy to use.” – Rashid on YouTube
Giving more power to power users!
Version: 12.2 (2026-02-16)
New features
- add an option under "Options, Popup Hotkeys" to enable double right-click to open the main menu (Note: double right-click is supported on any window except windows excluded in "Options, Popup menu" and the QAP "Customize" window)
- in favorite "Short name for menu", escape double {{ and %% to keep the user variable names or environment variable banes displayed as-is, for example "{{Dropbox}" to display "{Dropbox}" and "%%appdata%" to display "%appdata%
- addition of Japanese language in "Options, General"
Bug fixes
- when multiple applications in a folder have the same root name (for example "this name.exe" and "this other.exe"), make sure QAP launche the correct executable (see: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showthread.php?tid=3139)
- make sure secondary windows like "Options", "Add Favorite", "Select Shortcut", etc. are not hidden by the "Customize" when it is set "always on top" by other means than the "Pin" button in the Customize window's left column
- fix bug when using the QAPmessenger command "LaunchFavorite" to launch a group
- fix encoding issues in some lines of the French language file

“Keep up the great work. Quick Access Popup is an awesome program.” Rick on What’s On My PC
Version: 12.1.1 (2025-12-06)
- fix bug with custom fonts in dark mode for "Customise" and "Quick Launch" windows
- reload QAP after changing the font for text fields
- update Past queries label in Options
Quick Launch

“This small app will make your working efficiency on computer get greatly improved.” – AppNee Freeware Group
Version: 12.1 (2025-11-19)
Quick Launch
- new option in "Options, Customize window" to remember the last queries used in the "Quick Launch" dialog box (from 0 to 99 queries, default 10, set to 0 to disable this feature)
- queries are captured when user launches an item from the search result
- past queries are displayed when the search string is empty, starting with the most recent; double-click or press Enter to search entries for a query
- last queries are remembered when relaunching QAP
Font options
- in "Options, Customize window", new option to select the font used in the text fields of the "Add/Edit favorites" and "Options" dialog boxes
- new options to select the font of the "Favorites list" and of the "Quick Launch" search result
- select the fonts from a list of all available fonts on the system
- add menu item "Tools, Restore all default fonts" to revert to default fonts
Clipboard Commands
- new option to never launch QCE Receiver lite with QAP
- fix bug when launching a Clipboard Command from the Quick Launch dialog box
Various
- fix a bug with option "Open menu when clicking on taskbar" not regognizing the task bar on monitors other than the primary monitor
- refactor the code to detect if a folder can be changed (navigate) in the target window or if the folder will be open in a new window (launch)
- fix bug executing QAP commands from Quick Launch
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“I don’t often see such well thought-out programs!” – Alexander L on SuperUser (StackExchange)
3a) Adding Clipboard commands
Supercharge QAP with the free Quick Clipboard Editor
Version: 12.0 (2025-10-05)
New favorite type "Clipboard Command"
see: https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/qce/
- implement "Add Favorite" and "Edit Favorite" for Clipboard Commands using a tree view list of commands from Quick Clipboard Editor (QCE) available in QAP
- built-in Clipboard commands:
- change case (lowercase, UPPERCASE, tOGGLE CASE, Title Case, Sentence case, etc.)
- Encode/Decode commands: encoding and decoding for various programming (PHP, HTML, AHK) and technical needs (URL, XML, Base64, Hexadecimal)
- Integration with Quick Clipboard Editor
- add QCE Saved commands from simple commands like "Find and Replace" to more advanced commands like "Insert string", "Filter lines", and "Script" (groups of Saved commands)
- show help window when QCE is not running, prompting user to install QCE form more commands
- at first QAP launch (or when running this release for the first time), automatically add the "My Clipboard Commands" menu with builtin QCE commands (this menu can be changed, moved or removed in the "Customize" window)
- update language files (all languages) for new favorite type QCE
Quick Access Popup Messaging (background tasks)
- receive from QCE the list of commands available for QAP (using Windows "COPYDATA" command)
- launch "QCE Receiver Lite" if QCE is not running, allowing to add builtin QCE commands
- on QAP exit, quit "QCE Receiver Lite" if it was launched
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“Just middle-click and there you go. Very fast, very handy, very easy to customise.” – SomeGuy on FreewareFiles.com
Version: 11.6.7 (2025-09-28)
- when Directory Opus is the selected file manager, support collections (coll://) when adding and opening a favorite folder and in Current windows, Recent Folders and Reopen a Folder dynamic menus
- before searching for broken favorite links (in "Tools, Special Searches"), add the Cancel button allowing to abort the command
- add an error code to the message received when setting a registry key causes an error

Version: 11.6.6 (2025-07-25)
- in the QAP menu, at the bottom of each submenu, add the menu item "Customize this menu (or group)"; this applies only to user editable menus (not dynamic menus) and excludes the Main menu already containing the "Customize" menu item
- for users not wanting this additional menu item, add an option under "Menu appearance" to set if the new "Customize this menu" item is added or not at the end of editable menus (default true)
- for users wanting this menu item only in some menus or groups, add the QAP feature "Customize this menu (or group)" under the section "QAP Menu Editing"
- fix a bug with the option "Use tabs instead of opening in a new window" in "Options, File Managers" for Windows Explorer settings since the implementation of the group option "Add folders in tabs of a new window" in v11.6.5.1
- fix a bug in the QAP Feature "List Applications" (under "Window Management") when selecting "List All" in the dropdown menu
- fix a bug excluding wrongly some Windows Apps (e.g. MS Teams) from the "Current Windows" dynamic menu
- thanks to translators for German, Korean, Portuguese-Brazil, Portuguese and Italian language files updates

“I love the application that become and indispensable part of my workflow.” – Mark
Version: 11.6.5.2 (2025-06-23)
- release for beta testers of QAP with "Clipboard commands", allowing them to revert to the main branch keeping the Clipboard commands in their menu (not useable in main branch, of course, but available when they will reinstall QAP beta with QCE commands).

“This has become an essential program for me.” – Rob
Version: 11.6.5.1 (2025-06-19)
- fix a bug not showing the checkbox "Add folders in tabs of a new window" in "Group" favorites even if Windows Explorer version supports tabs
- fix a bug opening a group when the option "Add folders in tabs of a new window" is enabled