Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.

Main features:
- Completely Free and Open Source
- Cross platform, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
- Navigation through hard drive contents via dynamic popup menu
- System wide global hotkey for invoking menu right under mouse location (on Windows and Linux only)
- Configurable favourite locations for quick access
- Hide unwanted drives, folders or files by adding them to blacklist
- Plugin system
Requires Java Runtime Environment.
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