Edit Buddy is a small fully configurable program that adds drop-down lists to regular edit fields in virtually any program installed in your computer.  These lists can remember history of input and also can be pre-configured to contain certain data.  All you need to do is to tell Edit Buddy to attach itself to certain edit field and the field becomes the combo-box. (See Fig. 1 and 2 below.)

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Fig. 1:  Regular edit field.

Fig. 2:  Field with Edit Buddy.

When you click on the Edit Buddy button with the mouse, it expands into the drop-down list that contains log of previous entries (Fig. 3).  Select a line from the list and it gets into the edit field, just like selecting from regular combo-box.

Fig. 3:  Edit Buddy shows drop-down list.

Edit Buddy program takes minimum space in memory and shows itself in the system tray as a small icon .  When you right-click on this icon, the configuration menu is displayed (Fig. 4).

Fig. 4:  Edit Buddy tray icon with the menu.

You can control what is stored in the list with the comprehensive configuration tool (Fig. 5).

Fig. 5:  Edit Buddy configuration dialog box.

Edit Buddy can also attach itself to the other combo boxes.  In this case it creates an extra button on the right side of the existing combo-box with its own additional drop-down list.  It is similar to the regular list that combo box provides anyway, but with the very big difference -- you fully control the content of the additional list.  One of the most useful examples for such placement is the standard Windows "Open" dialog box that is shown on Figure 6 below.  This dialog is used by almost every Windows program and it usually lacks the list of most recently used folders.  Edit Buddy provides such list.

Fig. 6:  "Open" dialog box with Edit Buddy. It remembers most recently used folders.

Edit Buddy works on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP. It respects new themes of Windows XP and makes its button look and feel appropriate (Fig. 7).  Buttons do change dynamically when you switch between XP themes.

Fig. 7:  Windows XP new look  is supported.

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