DragWheel 1.2.1

Drag a file, tap a key, drop it on the wheel. Offline file converter and toolbox for Windows.

Install: download DragWheel-Setup-1.2.1.exe below and run it (asks for admin, installs to C:\Program Files\DragWheel).
The installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows may warn: if Edge holds the download, choose … → Keep → Show more → Keep anyway; if SmartScreen warns when you run it, choose More info → Run anyway.

Portable: DragWheel-Portable-1.2.1.zip — unzip anywhere and run DragWheel.exe.

Requires Windows 10 (1809+) or 11, 64-bit.

What's new in 1.2.1

Wheel and keys

• Any key or combination for each wheel: click a wheel's key box and press what you like (Shift, Ctrl+Q, F8, the mouse's side buttons…), or hold a key and click (e.g. Ctrl + right click — the click goes to DragWheel instead of opening Explorer's menu); a key can belong to only one wheel
• Trigger on: File drag (recommended), Mouse hover (point at a file in Explorer or on the desktop and tap the key) or File selection (select files and tap the key); this replaces Ctrl + Alt + Space
• File preview has its own key (Space) and opens with a press or only while you hold it; it shows PDFs, e-books, comics, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, text, Markdown, HTML and CSV files, and follows the pointer while you drag
• Mouse Control: Mouse Shake, Scroll Wheel and Loading Spin with on/off switches; choose whether a shake or a scroll opens Convert, Tools, Actions or File preview
• Animations: separate opening and closing styles, six new ones (Zoom, Pop, Drop, Rise, Flip, Swirl) and a speed slider
• Sound styles: Classic, Soft, Glass, Bubble, Mechanical, Retro, Velvet, Crystal and Pulse, with new open and close sounds, a Listen button and the volume shown as a percentage
• The wheel's buttons show their key under the wheel's name

Converting and file tools

• PDF to Word that looks the same: every line stays where it was, in the same font and size, tables become real Word tables, pictures stay in place, and Arabic is proper right-to-left text; PDF to Word (flowing text) keeps the old way
• New formats: MKV H.264 and MKV H.265, JPEG next to JPG, and DOC, XLS and PPT for older Office
• Unblock on the Actions wheel removes Windows' "This file came from another computer" mark from downloads (whole folders too, any size)
• Custom Slices: open files in any app from the Actions wheel — browse for the app and pick which files it's for
• Auto Convert (was Watch folders): save the result as a copy or overwrite the original
• Actions for every file type at once in Customize → Choose slices
• No more freezing on big jobs: Unblock, Move to… and Copy to… run in the background with progress and Cancel

Float

• Saved links are yours to choose: saved only when you add them; rename, reorder, add, remove or clear them in Manage saved links…; the menu shows the last five
• Recently played: the links and files you played, to play again, save or remove
• Playback speed from 0.5× to 2×
• Drag a web page (the icon in the browser's address bar, a link or a tab) onto a float to play it, or paste a copied video or song with Ctrl+V
• Show in taskbar gives each float a taskbar button
• Folders, programs and other files show just their icon and name, without a frame (Hide name hides the name)
• Smoother live streams that switch YouTube player instead of stalling, and expired video links are renewed and continue from the same spot
• Paste link (was Play copied link), also Paste link to Float on the desktop's right-click menu

Settings and setup

• New Settings layout: pages down the side (General, Wheel, Sounds & notifications, Files & jobs, Float, Customize, Advanced, About), each section on its own card, Segoe UI everywhere and on/off switches for every option
• Six new themes: Midnight, Ocean, Forest, Grape, Rose and Sand
• Right-click menu: the context menu, Send To and the Windows 11 menu are separate switches
• Settings Config: Export, Import and Restore defaults (keeps your saved links, presets, chains and slices); Open the log in Help
• The wheel works while Settings is open; changing language or theme fades instead of flashing
• The installer speaks all 14 of DragWheel's languages, and the app starts in the language you pick there
• "Last checked" for updates shows AM/PM

Fixed

• Pressing the wheel key again sometimes reopened the wheel instead of closing it
• Right-clicking many files at once now gathers them into one wheel
• Choosing a saved link could play a different one
• Moving a dragged file quickly over the wheel could freeze DragWheel for a few seconds
• Resizing a float past its smallest or largest size moved it around
• An empty float: Open and double-click now choose a file
• Links reopened after an update or at Windows start weren't added to Saved links
• Right-clicking a float playing a link could fail
• A crash repeating many times a second is written to the log only once