This application contains three methods for obtaining help at any time.
Context Sensitive Help is available for each control within the application. When focused upon a control, press Insert+F1 (or Caps Lock+F1) if using the JAWS laptop layout. An Edit Field is available containing the help information. It will briefly describe the purpose of the focused control together with keystrokes you can use.
Press the Arrow keys to read the help and press Escape to cancel. This will return you back to the control which previously had focus.
Press Control+Shift+C or Insert+H to open Leasey Command Centre.
The dialog contains:
Press the Tab key to move through the controls.
Focus starts in the Command Edit Field. Type part of a command name, shortcut, or related word to filter the list.
If the Command Edit Field is empty, pressing Tab moves to the Matching commands list and shows all available commands. If you have typed text into the Edit Field, the list shows only commands matching the search term.
Use Up and Down Arrow to move through the list. You will hear the command name, followed by the corresponding shortcut key. The list therefore serves two purposes. You can press Enter on a command to carry it out, and you can learn the shortcut key for quicker access next time you need to use it.
Press Control+Shift+I for Where Am I. You will receive a succinct summary of where you are located within the focused application.
Leasey File Manager is a simple file manager designed for people using JAWS. It is intended to make it easy to browse folders, open files, copy files, paste files, delete files, search for files and tag files for later action.
This is not intended to replace every feature of File Explorer. The first purpose is to provide a clean, fast, keyboard-driven list of files and folders which works well with JAWS, with Fast being the operative word. You will not hear through speech any delaying tactics such as, "Working on it", while your file manager decides what to do.
The File Manager uses a standard Windows list view. This is important because JAWS already has good support for list views, including the ability to read columns with the column reading keys, Control+JAWS Key+1 through to 9.
Leasey File Manager is useful when you want to work with files and folders without the delays, clutter or unpredictability that can sometimes occur in File Explorer.
It is designed for common file management tasks: opening folders, finding files, copying, moving, deleting, renaming, tagging several items for action, creating text documents, browsing zip files, and using JAWS-related tools such as Picture Smart or OCR.
It is not intended to replace every advanced feature in File Explorer. Its purpose is to give JAWS users a fast, predictable place to carry out the file tasks they perform most often.
Starting Leasey File Manager can be achieved by pressing the Leasey Key then Windows+F. However, you can also start Leasey File Manager from the Run dialog.
Step 1. Press Windows+R to bring into view the Run dialog.
Step 2. Type lfm and press Enter. That is letters L F M without a space.
Step 3. You can also open a special version of the Run dialog specifically for the File Manager. Press the Leasey Key then Windows+R. Type a folder or file path and press Enter. In that case, you do not need to prefix the text with LFM.
By default, Leasey File Manager opens at the root of drive C.
You can also start it in a specific folder.
Step 1. Press Windows+R.
Step 2. Type lfm followed by a space and the folder path.
For example:
lfm c:\users
If the folder path contains spaces, you can still type it in the usual way.
For example:
lfm c:\program files
Of course you can also use the special Leasey Run dialog described above.
You can open more than one Leasey File Manager window. This is useful if you wish to copy files from one folder and paste them into another folder while keeping both locations available.
The window contains:
Press Tab to move through the controls.
The title of the window reflects the folder you have open.
For example, if you are in Documents, the window title should contain:
Documents - Leasey File Manager
This means that JAWS Key+T should give you a useful indication of where you are. This can be changed in Options so as to display the full path of the file or folder location. In the Options dialog, you can also ensure that the term "Leasey File Manager" is not displayed.
The Location Edit Field contains the current folder path. You can type or paste a new folder path into this field and press Enter.
Press Alt+D to move directly to the Location Edit Field. The current path is selected so you can replace it quickly.
The Files list view is the main area. It contains files and folders in the current folder. Folders appear first, followed by files.
The status bar text gives the number of items in the folder, the number of tagged items, and the current folder path. JAWS Key+Page Down will give you this information.
Move through the Files list with Up and Down Arrow.
Press Enter on a folder to open it. The folder is automatically selected so it is not necessary to press Space Bar to select. This saves a great deal of time. Press Enter on a file to open it using the default Windows application for that file type.
If a folder is empty, the Files list contains a focused item called Empty folder. This item is only there so JAWS has something clear to announce. It is not a real file or folder, and file actions such as Enter, Copy, Cut, Delete, Rename, Properties, tagging, and size reporting ignore it.
Press Enter on a zip file to browse the contents of the zip file inside Leasey File Manager. The zip contents are shown in the same Files list.
When browsing inside a zip file, press Enter on a folder to open that folder within the archive. Alt+Up moves up one level. Alt+Left Arrow and Backspace move back.
When you return to a previous folder, focus should be placed on the folder where you left off reading.
When focus is in the Files list, you can type letters to find an item.
For example, typing D should move to the next item beginning with D. If you pause and type D again, focus should move to the next item beginning with D.
If you type several letters quickly, Leasey File Manager searches for the first item beginning with that combination. Pressing Space by itself does not start a search. Space can still be used as part of a multi-word search if you are typing quickly, such as WEB P.
The Files list can show details such as:
Right Arrow reads the next column for the focused item. Left Arrow reads the previous column for the focused item.
When you reach the beginning or end of the columns, Leasey File Manager tells you this and repeats the current column.
For example, if you press Right Arrow until there are no more columns, JAWS should announce:
End of columns followed by the current column name and value.
You can also use the JAWS list view column reading commands described above if you prefer.
Press Control+1 to sort by name. Press Control+1 again to switch between ascending and descending.
Press Control+2 to sort by date created. Press Control+2 again to switch between ascending and descending.
Press Control+3 to sort by date modified. Press Control+3 again to switch between ascending and descending.
Press the Applications key or Shift+F10 to open the context menu.
The context menu contains common actions such as:
Leasey File Manager uses the same concept as Leasey Tags in File Explorer described in the previous chapter. Instead of trying to hold down keys to select non-consecutive files, you tag the files you want to work with.
You can also use standard Windows list selection in this version. For example, Control+A selects all items in the folder. If no files are tagged, commands such as Copy, Cut, Delete and Shift+Delete act on the selected list items.
Step 1. Move to a file or folder and press Control+Shift+Space. This tags the item.
Step 2. Move to another file or folder and press Control+Shift+Space again to tag that item as well.
To be clear, you can tag files from multiple folders and carry out a single cut, copy or delete operation.
If you press Control+Shift+Space on an item which is already tagged, the tag is removed.
When an item is tagged, Leasey File Manager follows the Leasey sound preference activated by pressing the Leasey Key then O.
If the setting is speech only, JAWS says:
Tagged
If the setting is sounds enabled, the Leasey Tag sound is played.
If the setting is sounds and speech, JAWS speaks the word Tagged and the Leasey Tag sound is played.
When you move through the list with Up or Down Arrow, if focus lands on a tagged item, you should hear the same Leasey Tag indication.
Press Control+Shift+T to hear the tagged items.
Press Alt+Windows+N to hear how many items are tagged.
Press Control+Shift+S to hear the total size of the items you are about to work with.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Report selected size.
If items are tagged, Leasey File Manager reports the size of the tagged items. If nothing is tagged but several items are selected in the list, it reports the size of the selected items. If there is no tagged or selected group, it reports the size of the focused item.
This is useful before copying folders to a thumb drive or other removable storage.
If the selection includes folders, Leasey File Manager calculates their contents. This may take a short while for large folders.
Press Control+Shift+D to remove the tag from the focused item.
Press Control+Shift+D twice quickly to clear all tags.
Press Escape to clear all tags.
The files themselves are not deleted when tags are cleared. Only the tags are removed.
When browsing inside a zip file, Control+C copies the tagged or focused archive item by extracting it to a temporary Leasey File Manager folder and placing the extracted item on the Windows Clipboard. You can then move to a normal folder and press Control+V to paste it there.
The tagged files are placed on the Windows Clipboard. This means you can open another Leasey File Manager window, move to a different folder, and press Control+V to paste them there.
After copying tagged files, the tags are cleared. This follows the Leasey Tags approach so that old tags are not left around for a long period of time.
JAWS may already say:
Copied
Leasey File Manager therefore only announces the number of items copied, such as:
1 item or: 2 items
There are various ways in which you can cut items:
JAWS should announce the number of items cut.
Cutting is available between separate Leasey File Manager windows. For example, you can cut a tagged file in one Leasey File Manager window, open a different folder in another Leasey File Manager window, and press Control+V to move it there.
Move to the destination folder and press Control+V.
If you copy an item from inside a zipped archive opened in File Explorer, press Control+V in Leasey File Manager to paste it into the current folder. In this situation, Leasey File Manager asks Windows to perform the paste because the item inside the archive is not exposed as a normal file path.
While a paste is running, Leasey File Manager announces progress by percentage.
If an item with the same name already exists in the destination folder, Leasey File Manager asks if you want to replace it.
Choose Yes to replace the existing item by typing the letter Y. Choose No to skip that item by typing the letter N. Choose Cancel to cancel the paste operation by pressing Escape.
JAWS may already say:
Pasted
Leasey File Manager therefore only announces the number of items pasted, such as:
1 item or: 2 items
If possible, focus is placed on the first item pasted. This makes it easy to paste a file and then immediately press F2 to rename it.
This utility allows you to open a file using a specific application.
Step 1. Move to a file.
Step 2. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Type H or choose Open with.
Leasey File Manager asks Windows to show the Open With dialog for that file.
Open With is available for one file at a time.
This utility opens the focused item using File Explorer in the event that you need to perform an action on it which is not provided by Leasey File Manager.
Step 1. Move to a file or folder.
Step 2. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Type E or choose Show in File Explorer.
File Explorer opens at the containing folder with the item selected.
If Dropbox is installed and the selected item is in Dropbox, Leasey File Manager offers a Dropbox submenu on the context menu.
Step 1. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 2. Use the Up and Down Arrow keys until you hear "Dropbox". Then press Enter.
Step 3. The first command is Copy Dropbox link. This copies the standard Dropbox share link. The second command is Copy Dropbox link as download. This copies the Dropbox link and changes it into a download link. In practice, this changes the end of the Dropbox link from 0 to 1.
Press Down arrow to move through the options and press Enter on the desired choice. Leasey File Manager asks Windows for the Dropbox command. If Windows exposes it, the Dropbox link is copied.
If Windows does not expose the command to Leasey File Manager, File Explorer opens with the item selected. You can then open the normal File Explorer context menu and use the Dropbox commands there.
Leasey File Manager can create shortcuts for both folders and files.
The important point is that folders and files need to be handled differently.
A normal Windows shortcut to a folder is opened by Windows in File Explorer. That is not what you want if the purpose of the shortcut is to return to the folder in Leasey File Manager.
For that reason, when you create a shortcut while focused on a folder, Leasey File Manager creates a normal Windows shortcut, but the shortcut is built so that it starts Leasey File Manager and passes the folder path to it. When you later open that shortcut, the folder opens in Leasey File Manager rather than File Explorer.
When you create a shortcut while focused on a file, Leasey File Manager creates a standard Windows shortcut directly to that file. This is the correct behaviour because files already open through Windows file association. For example, a shortcut to an MP3 file should open in the audio player associated with MP3 files, and a shortcut to a Word document should open in Microsoft Word or the application associated with that document type. There is no need to force Leasey File Manager into the process when the target is a file.
To create a shortcut:
Step 1. Move to the file or folder for which you want to create a shortcut.
Step 2. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Type L or choose Create Leasey File Manager shortcut and press Enter.
Step 4. A standard Save dialog opens. By default, the shortcut is offered on the Desktop, with a name based on the file or folder. Change the name or location if required, then press Enter to save it.
Suppose you have a folder called:
C:\Users\John\Music\Radio Shows
You may want a shortcut on the Desktop which always opens that folder in Leasey File Manager.
Step 1. Move to the Radio Shows folder.
Step 2. open the context menu by pressing the Applications Key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Use the Up and Down Arrow keys to choose Create Leasey File Manager shortcut.
Step 4. save the shortcut on the Desktop.
When you open that shortcut later, Leasey File Manager starts directly in the Radio Shows folder.
Suppose instead you are focused on a file called:
Programme Notes.txt
If you create a shortcut for that file, the shortcut opens Programme Notes.txt in the application Windows normally uses for text files. Hopefully, that is Leasey Word! That is intentional. The shortcut is for the file itself, not for browsing the folder.
Leasey File Manager does not try to reproduce the full File Explorer context menu. However, it does include a Send to submenu.
Step 1. Move to a file or folder, or tag several items.
Step 2. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Press Down Arrow until you hear "Send To", then press Enter.
Step 4. The submenu contains items from the Windows SendTo folder.
If the Send To target is a folder, Leasey File Manager copies the selected or tagged item there.
If the Send To target is a shortcut or special SendTo item, Leasey File Manager asks Windows to open that SendTo item with the selected or tagged files.
This means some SendTo items may work better than others, depending on how Windows or the target application handles them.
To rename an item:
Step 1. Move to a file or folder and press F2.
Step 2. A Rename dialog opens. Type the new name and press Enter.
When renaming a file, you can type just the file name without the extension. If you do not type an extension, Leasey File Manager keeps the existing file type.
If you change your mind, press Escape.
If an item with the new name already exists, Leasey File Manager tells you this and the rename is not carried out.
If the rename is completed, JAWS should announce:
Renamed to followed by the new name.
To create a new folder:
Step 1. Press Control+Shift+N.
Step 2. A New Folder dialog opens. Type the folder name and press Enter.
If you change your mind, press Escape.
If an item with the same name already exists, Leasey File Manager tells you this and the folder is not created.
If the folder is created, focus is placed on the new folder.
JAWS should announce:
Folder created followed by the folder name.
To create a zipped archive:
Step 1. Tag the files or folders you want to zip. If nothing is tagged, select the files or folders in the list, or move to a single item.
Step 2. Press Control+4. A Save dialog opens. Type the name and location for the zip archive and press Enter.
Leasey File Manager creates the zip archive and announces progress.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Create zip archive.
Delete moves the item or items to the Recycle Bin.
You will be asked to confirm that the item or items should be moved to the Recycle Bin. The default Button is Yes. Press Enter or type the letter Y.
Shift+Delete permanently deletes the item or items. This does not send them to the Recycle Bin. You will be asked to confirm permanent deletion. The default Button is Yes. Press Enter or type the letter Y.
If you choose No by typing letter N, JAWS should announce:
Delete cancelled
If the delete is completed, JAWS should announce the number of items deleted.
If you delete several items and one of them is being used by Windows or another program, Leasey File Manager deletes the items it can and reports how many could not be deleted.
To examine the properties of an item in a completely accessible way:
Step 1. Move to a file or folder and press Alt+Enter.
Step 2. A very accessible Properties dialog opens.
The main area is a read-only Edit Field containing details such as:
Press Down Arrow to move through the items. Using the JAWS Cursor or an alternative reading method is not required due to it being completely accessible.
Press Escape or activate Close to return to the Files list.
To copy the full path of an item:
Step 1. Move to a file or folder.
Step 2. Press Control+Shift+P.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Copy full path.
The full path is placed on the Windows Clipboard.
The context menu contains:
If you choose Show file name only, that view is used when you move to other folders and when you open Leasey File Manager again. If you choose Show details, the details view is used everywhere in the same way.
Show File Name is a good option for moving through items quickly.
When Leasey File Manager opens, it detects the drives on the computer.
The Drive control is a standard combo box. It appears before the Location Edit Field in the Tab order.
Use the Drive combo box to move quickly to another drive, such as C: or a USB drive. Press Up or Down Arrow to move through the choices. Arrow through the list of drives and press Enter to open the selected drive.
If you insert a card or USB drive while Leasey File Manager is already open, tab to the Drive combo box or press F5 to refresh the drive list.
The normal Tab order near the top of the window is:
When you open a folder by typing a path, pressing Alt+Left Arrow, or opening a folder from the list, the Drive combo box is updated to match the drive you are currently browsing.
Press Control+J to open the current Downloads folder.
If Microsoft Edge or Brave has a custom download folder, Leasey File Manager uses the most recently updated browser profile first.
If no browser download folder is available, it uses the Windows Downloads folder setting. This should still work if Windows Downloads has been moved to another drive or location.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Downloads.
Open This PC.
Some portable devices, including some talking book players and Android or MTP devices, do not appear as normal Windows drive letters.
If a device does not appear in the Drive list, open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Open This PC.
This opens File Explorer at This PC. You can then choose the portable device there and paste files using File Explorer.
If you copy files from one Leasey File Manager window, you can close that source window and still paste the files into another Leasey File Manager window.
For quick copy, move, paste and zip operations, Leasey File Manager does not announce percentage progress.
If the operation takes more than about 10 seconds, percentage progress is announced.
The final completion message is still spoken.
To search for a file or folder:
Step 1. Press Control+F to search under the folder you are currently viewing. For example, if you wanted to search your music folder and artists in sub-folders, start at the Music folder and press Control+F.
Step 2. A Find dialog opens. Type part or all of the file or folder name.
Step 3. The next control is Restrict search. Press Tab to move to it.
This is a combo box. Use it to choose what kind of item you want to find. Press Down Arrow to move through the choices.
The choices are:
All searches files and folders of every type. Audio restricts the results to common audio files such as MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and WMA. Document restricts the results to common document files such as TXT, DOCX, PDF, RTF, CSV, XLSX and PPTX. Folder restricts the results to folders. Image restricts the results to common image files such as JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and WEBP. Video restricts the results to common video files such as MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI and WMV. Archive restricts the results to common archive files such as ZIP, RAR and 7Z.
The restriction controls what appears in the results. For example, choosing Audio means Leasey File Manager still looks through the folders beneath the current folder, but it only lists matching audio files.
Step 4. After choosing the search text and restriction, press Tab to reach the OK Button and press Enter or Space.
If you type the search text without quotation marks, Leasey File Manager performs a partial name search.
If you put the search text in quotation marks, Leasey File Manager performs an exact name search.
You can also use quotation marks without typing the file extension.
The search looks at file and folder names only. It does not search inside documents or music file tags.
Search runs in the background so the File Manager should remain usable while the search is taking place.
JAWS should announce:
Searching
As results are found, Leasey File Manager may announce the number of matches.
If a search takes a few seconds, Leasey File Manager may say:
Still searching
When the search is finished, JAWS should announce:
Search complete followed by the number of items found.
If nothing is found, JAWS should announce:
No matches
The search results list contains:
Press Enter on a folder result to open that folder. Press Enter on a file result to open that file.
To move from a search result to the folder which contains it, open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Show in folder.
To cancel a running search, press Escape or open the context menu and choose Cancel search.
Press Alt+Left Arrow or Backspace from the search results to return to the folder where the search began.
Leasey File Manager includes a Send to Leasey command.
Press Control+Shift+L to open it.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose Send to Leasey.
Send to Leasey works on one focused file. It does not work on a folder or on several tagged files at the same time, because the choices depend on the kind of file you are focused on.
For documents, including text files, Word documents, PDF files, CUE files, INI files, JSON files and JAWS keymap files, Send to Leasey offers:
Open in Leasey Word
For audio files, Send to Leasey can offer:
The exact choices depend on the file type. For example, MP3, M4A, MP4 and FLAC files can be sent to the tag editor. Common audio files such as MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and WMA can be sent to Leasey Media Centre.
If there is no suitable Leasey action for the focused file, the menu will say that no Leasey actions are available.
Press Control+Shift+J to open the JAWS tools menu for the focused file.
You can also open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10 and choose JAWS.
The JAWS menu contains:
Picture Smart with JAWS describes an image.
Convenient OCR to Word with JAWS uses OCR to scan a file which could contain text, such as a PDF, and render it to Word.
Convenient OCR with JAWS uses OCR to scan a file which could contain text, such as a PDF, and render it to the JAWS virtual buffer.
These commands use the same Windows shell entries JAWS adds to File Explorer. If Windows does not expose a JAWS command for the focused file, Leasey File Manager opens File Explorer with the file selected so you can use the native context menu.
Press Control+N to create a new document in the folder you are currently viewing.
A dialog asks for the document name. If you do not type an extension, Leasey File Manager adds.txt.
The document is created in the current folder and opened in Leasey Word.
Use a text-based document extension such as:
Step 1. Start Leasey File Manager and open your Music folder.
Step 2. Move through the list and press Control+Shift+Space on each album, folder or track you want to copy.
Step 3. Press Control+Shift+S to check the total size of the tagged items. This helps you confirm that the files will fit on the USB drive or SD card.
Step 4. Open another Leasey File Manager window. Move to the destination drive using the Drive combo box, or type the folder path into the Location Edit Field.
Step 5. Return to the first Leasey File Manager window and press Control+C.
Step 6. Move to the destination Leasey File Manager window and press Control+V.
If the operation takes more than a few seconds, Leasey File Manager may announce progress. When the paste is complete, focus is placed on the first pasted item where possible.
Step 1. Press Control+J to open the Downloads folder.
Step 2. Move to the file you want to move. If there are several files, tag them with Control+Shift+Space.
Step 3. Press Control+X to cut the file or tagged files.
Step 4. Open another Leasey File Manager window or use the Location Edit Field to move to the destination folder.
Step 5. Press Control+V to move the file or files there.
This can be faster than working through File Explorer because you can keep both locations open and use consistent Leasey Keystrokes.
Step 1. Move to the folder where the search should begin. For example, move to your Music folder if you want to search all music sub-folders.
Step 2. Press Control+F.
Step 3. Type part of the name.
For example:
sunburnt
Step 4. Tab to Restrict search and choose Audio if you only want audio files.
Step 5. Press Enter on the OK Button.
If you want an exact name search, put the search text in quotation marks.
For example:
"sunburnt"
When the results appear, press Enter on a file to open it. To go to the folder containing the result, open the context menu and choose Show in folder.
Step 1. Move to the folder containing the items you want to compress.
Step 2. Tag each item with Control+Shift+Space.
Step 3. Press Control+4.
Step 4. In the Save dialog, type the name and location for the zip archive and press Enter.
Leasey File Manager creates the zip archive. This is useful when you need to send several files as one attachment or store a group of files together.
Leasey File Manager is designed for the most common file tasks, but there may be times when you need a full File Explorer context menu.
Step 1. Move to the file or folder.
Step 2. Open the context menu with the Applications key or Shift+F10.
Step 3. Choose Show in File Explorer.
File Explorer opens with the item selected. You can then use any specialist File Explorer command which Leasey File Manager does not provide directly.
Press Control+Comma to open Options.
The Options dialog contains:
Press the Tab key to move through the controls.
Show full path in title bar If this is checked, the title bar shows the full folder path. If it is not checked, the title bar shows only the current folder name.
If Remove Leasey File Manager from title bar is checked, the title bar contains only the folder or archive location. This can reduce speech from JAWS when moving between folders.
If Do not provide confirmation dialog when deleting a file is checked, Leasey File Manager will not ask for confirmation when using Delete or Shift+Delete. Delete will move the selected item or items to the Recycle Bin immediately. Shift+Delete will permanently delete the selected item or items immediately.
Start folder This is the folder File Manager opens when launched normally.
You can type a folder path or use the Browse Button. If you leave Start folder empty, File Manager starts at C:. If you launch File Manager with a folder path from the Run dialog or another shortcut, that path overrides the Options setting for that launch.
Tab to the Save Button and press enter to save your changes.
Insert+F1 opens Context Sensitive Help for the focused control.
Caps Lock+F1 also opens Context Sensitive Help if you are using the JAWS laptop keyboard layout.
Control+Shift+I reports succinct location information through the Where Am I utility.
Control+Shift+C or Insert+H opens Leasey Command Centre for reviewing commands.
Escape closes most Leasey windows or cancels the current dialog.
Tab moves to the next control.
Shift+Tab moves to the previous control.
Applications key or Shift+F10 opens the context menu.
Alt+D moves to the Location Edit Field and selects the current path.
Enter in the Location Edit Field opens the typed folder path.
F5 refreshes the current folder or drive list.
Control+J opens the Downloads folder.
Alt+Up moves to the parent folder.
Alt+Left Arrow or Backspace goes back to the previous folder or previous search location.
Up Arrow and Down Arrow move through the available drives.
Enter opens the selected drive.
F5 refreshes the drive list.
Up Arrow and Down Arrow move through files and folders.
Home moves to the first item.
End moves to the last item.
Page Up and Page Down move by pages.
Typing letters moves to the first item beginning with those letters.
Enter opens the focused file or folder.
Enter on a zip file browses the zip file inside Leasey File Manager.
Right Arrow reads the next column.
Left Arrow reads the previous column.
Control+1 sorts by name, and pressing it again switches ascending or descending.
Control+2 sorts by date created, and pressing it again switches ascending or descending.
Control+3 sorts by date modified, and pressing it again switches ascending or descending.
Control+C copies the focused, selected or tagged item or items.
Control+X cuts the focused, selected or tagged item or items.
Control+V pastes into the current folder.
Control+A selects all items in the Files list.
Control+Shift+Space tags or removes the tag from the focused item.
Control+Shift+D removes the tag from the focused item.
Control+Shift+D pressed twice quickly clears all tags.
Escape clears all tags when focus is in the Files list and tags exist.
Control+Shift+T reports tagged items.
Alt+Windows+N reports the number of tagged items.
Slash reports tagged items.
Control+Shift+S reports the size of tagged items, selected items or the focused item.
F2 renames the focused file or folder.
Alt+Enter opens Properties.
Delete moves the focused, selected or tagged item or items to the Recycle Bin.
Shift+Delete permanently deletes the focused, selected or tagged item or items.
Control+N creates a new document.
Control+Shift+N creates a new folder.
Control+4 creates a zip archive from tagged, selected or focused items.
Control+Shift+P copies the full path of tagged items, selected items or the focused item.
Control+F opens Find.
Enter on the Find dialog OK Button starts the search.
Escape cancels the Find dialog or cancels a running search.
Enter on a search result opens the result.
Alt+Left Arrow or Backspace returns from search results to the folder where the search began.
The context menu command Show in folder opens the containing folder for a search result and focuses the result.
Enter on a folder inside a zip file opens that folder inside the archive.
Control+C copies tagged or focused zip items by extracting them to a temporary folder and placing them on the Windows Clipboard.
Alt+Up moves up one level inside the archive.
Alt+Left Arrow or Backspace moves back.
Control+Shift+L opens Send to Leasey for the focused file.
Control+Shift+J opens the JAWS tools menu for the focused file.
The JAWS tools menu can include Picture Smart with JAWS, Convenient OCR to Word with JAWS and Convenient OCR with JAWS.
Control+Comma opens Options.
Show file name only is available from the context menu.
Show details is available from the context menu.
Open With is available from the context menu.
Show in File Explorer is available from the context menu.
Open This PC is available from the context menu.
Send To is available from the context menu.
Dropbox commands are available from the context menu when Dropbox exposes them.
Create Leasey File Manager shortcut is available from the context menu.
Show in folder is available from the context menu when viewing search results.