PowerOrganizer's ability to auto-classify most applications makes it uniquely powerful and easy to use. Although PowerOrganizer has a knowledge-base of tens of thousands of applications that it can auto-classify, it doesn't know about every application that exists. There are also new apps being created all the time. Therefore, PowerOrganizer may find some applications that it doesn't know how to classify.

PowerOrganizer as a tool to organize access to apps and data that allows manual classification as well as auto-classifying thousands of apps. Other organization tools require you to manually classify all of your applications. Since that's a long and boring process, we included auto-classification into PowerOrganizer. If PowerOrganizer puts 80-90% of your apps in appropriate categories, then there is very little left for you to manually classify.   

Any apps that remain unclassified will be left on your "Items to Classify" list in PowerOrganizer. For unclassified apps, you have the option to classify them manually, remove them so they don't need to be classified or you can send us the information file shortcuts.txt so that we can add those applications to PowerOrganizer's knowledge base. To classify items manually, select an item on the "Items to Classify" list, then select a folder or subfolder from the "Desktop" list and use the >> button to move the item into the specified folder. To remove an item instead of classifying it, select it in the "Items to Classify" list and click the Remove button. 

Any time PowerOrganizer finds new applications that it doesn't know how to classify, you will be prompted to send us the shortcuts.txt information file, stored in the Power Drawers folder (C:\Program Files\Powerdrawers by default). When users send us such information, we use it to increase PowerOrganizer's knowledge base so it can auto-classify more apps. Then we post an update to PowerOrganizer with the new information. 

PowerOrganizer is frequently updated with information sent by users. To get an updated PowerOrganizer, right click on the Power Drawers taskbar icon, open Power Drawers on the web and select Check for Updates menu item. Install any new updates and then run Organizer again ("Desktop PowerOrganizer" item on taskbar icon's menu). Click the Auto>> button to auto-classify. You can also set Power Drawers to automatically get and install updates as well as automatically run Organizer at set intervals. See Using the Updater for details.

See PowerOrganizer in the Online Manual for more details on automatically classifying items.