Create containers (aka Portals) on your desktop which show the contents of a specified folder. Divide your desktop into folders then use Portals to display the contents of the folders in an organized fashion - you can even hide the folders away somewhere else.
- Desktop Customization Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Enable dynamic, animated wallpapers on Windows desktop with 3D, videos, and apps support. Share creations via Steam Workshop and stay ad-free.
- Wallpapers Hub
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- Steam
+1File-integrity verification with CRC-32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 and SHA-3, integrated into Windows file-properties dialog box.
- Shell Extension
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
+1Shell is a context menu extender that lets you handpick the items to integrate into Windows File Explorer context menu, create custom commands to access all your favorite web pages, files, and folders, and launch any application directly from the context menu.
- Context Menu Manager
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
+7Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links.
- Shell Extension
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
- File Explorer
- Chocolatey
FileMenu Tools lets you customize the context (right-click) menu of Windows Explorer. The application adds built-in utilities to perform operations on files and folders and adds customized commands that let users run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or...
- Context Menu Manager
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
+22OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties.
- Shell Extension
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Bartender lets you organize your Menu Bar Apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to the Bartenders Bar. You can display the full menu bar, set options to have Menu Bar Apps show in the menu bar when they are updating, or have them always visible in the Bartenders...
- System Tweaker
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
+2Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.
- Shell Extension
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
StartIsBack returns Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7. StartIsBack radically improves desktop usability and makes new Start screen clutter-free.
- Shell Extension
- Paid • Proprietary
- Windows
+1ScreenPlay is an Open Source cross-platform app for displaying Video Wallpaper & Widgets. It is written in modern C++20/Qt6/QML. It currently supports Windows and macOS (x64 and arm).
- Wallpapers Hub
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Steam
- Linux
XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. The Android page is found here: http://android.xwidget.com/
- Desktop Customization Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Steam
Organizes desktop into customizable containers - showing folders (e.g.: local folders, network locations) contents, displayed as icons/thumbnails on scrollable surface. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but...
- Application Launcher
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Windows
SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before.
- Application Launcher
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
This is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine.
- Task Automation App
- Free • Open Source
- Mac