pMenu (Under development)

pMenu is a free, open source, portable, modern and customizable start menu alternative.

Features

• Supported types:
  • classical Win32 applications.
  • modern UWP apps.
  • shell objects (like control panel).
  • web links (you can set up your portable favorites).
  • usual files.
• Relative path support, useful for links to portable apps.
• Categories of unlimited hierarchy depth.
• Internal links: same item can exisit in multiple places.
• Individual Grouping and sorting for each category\view.
• Full drag and drop support, custom ordering.
• Custom icons to any item, custom avatar, loading icons from libraries.
• Search, recent apps, most used, favorite apps.
• Broken items are detected, and can be hidden instead of deleting them, so they will be available again when you reinstall/de-archive, or change PC.
• Auto run pMenu, and auto run apps of custom time delay after menu start.
• Configure to run apps as administrator, without the need to indicate the admin password every time.
• Animations, icon reflections, and shadows for your eye please.
• Ability to hide/show some parts of Menu Ui for your likings.

Participating

Currently the app is under development, meanwhile, any comments and suggestions are welcomed on the issue page 😊.

Credits

The application is a WPF project built using C# and .Net Core v3.1 framework.

And it exists thanks to the following great libraries:

• Windows-API-Code-Pack (stripped out)

  v3.3 (07.17.2021)

  https://github.com/pierresprim/Windows-API-Code-Pack

• FluentWPF

  v0.10.0 (11.08.2021)

  https://github.com/sourcechord/FluentWPF

• Hardcodet NotifyIcon for WPF (Modified)

  v1.1.0

  https://github.com/hardcodet/wpf-notifyicon

• GongSolutions WPF DragDrop

  v 2.3.2 (29.10.2020)

  https://github.com/punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop

• Material Design In Xaml Toolkit

  v 4.1.0

  https://github.com/MaterialDesignInXAML/MaterialDesignInXamlToolkit

• Enum Radio Buttons

  (27.02.2010)

  https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/61725/WPF-radio-buttons-and-enumeration-values

• SimpleLog

  (03.02.2021)

  https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/585796/Simple-Log

• Turn WPF binding errors into exceptions

  v1.1.0 (02.10.2019)

  https://github.com/bblanchon/WpfBindingErrors

• Extracting Icons from EXE/DLL and Icon Manipulation

  v1.0 (17 Jan 2009)

  https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/32617/Extracting-Icons-from-EXE-DLL-and-Icon-Manipulatio

• pMenu internal Icons

  https://www.freepik.com/

(the modified source code of those libraries is included in the source code of this repository, to have more flexibility, and keep single targeting framework)