What is PowerMenu?

PowerMenu is a utility that adds powerful commands to your contextual menu if you are running MacOS 8 or better (Your contextual menu is the menu that appears when you Control-click on an item on your desktop). If you are running the older Macintosh System 7, PowerMenu adds a contextual menu to your system so you can still use this innovative feature without upgrading to MacOS 8.

PowerMenu's contextual menu commands let you do all these operations with a single click:

• Open files straight into any application. If the application you want to use isn't running, PowerMenu automatically launches it for you
• Move, copy or make an alias of files straight into target folders of your choosing
• Quickly open commonly used files or launch any application

PowerMenu also provides these handy features:

• "File Copy and Paste", a unique feature that makes manipulating files much easier. With File Copy and Paste, you can "pick up" files and "drop" them into another folder without dragging and dropping. You can even "gather" many files from different locations and copy or move them all to a single target folder with just a few clicks or keystrokes!
• A pop-up menu, accessible from any application, that lets you quickly open or launch your commonly used files and applications with a single click.

PowerMenu gets the job done faster with:

• Fully hierarchical menus to allow you to group items into submenus for even faster access 
• Multithreaded operation; PowerMenu rebuilds your menus in the background while you work, so even very large menus appear instantly 
• Takes full advantage of MacOS 8 features, but is still fully compatible with System 7!

Aiken, Mark. (1999). PowerMenu Readme. Electronic Document.

Download PowerMenu for Mac

Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.1

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II