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  1. 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.

    Best alternatives are Fences iconFencesandSparkle AI iconSparkle AI12 alternatives
  2. Enable dynamic, animated wallpapers on Windows desktop with 3D, videos, and apps support. Share creations via Steam Workshop and stay ad-free.

    Wallpaper Engine screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Lively Wallpaper iconLively Wallpaper43 alternatives
  3. File-integrity verification with CRC-32, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2 and SHA-3, integrated into Windows file-properties dialog box.

    HashCheck Shell Extension screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are OpenHashTab iconOpenHashTabandGtkHash iconGtkHash64 alternatives
  4. Shell icon
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    Shell 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.

    Shell screenshot 1
    Best alternatives are Easy Context Menu iconEasy Context Menu20 alternatives
  5. Link 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.

    Best alternatives are FileMenu Tools iconFileMenu ToolsandSymlinker iconSymlinker5 alternatives
  6. FileMenu Tools icon
     82 likes

    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...

    Main Screen Tips for beginners
    Best alternatives are Easy Context Menu iconEasy Context MenuandShell iconShell49 alternatives
  7. OpenHashTab icon
     33 likes

    OpenHashTab is a shell extension for conveniently calculating and checking file hashes from file properties.

  8. Bartender icon
     60 likes

    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...

    Quick Reveal
    Best alternatives are Dozer iconDozerandHidden Bar iconHidden Bar10 alternatives
  9. Icaros icon
     40 likes

    Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype.

    Best alternatives are SageThumbs iconSageThumbsand
    DarkThumbs
    6 alternatives
  10. StartIsBack icon
     32 likes

    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.

    Boot to Desktop
    Best alternatives are Open Shell iconOpen ShellandClassic Shell iconClassic Shell27 alternatives
  11. ScreenPlay icon
     31 likes

    ScreenPlay 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).

    Best alternatives are Wallpaper Engine iconWallpaper Engine37 alternatives
  12. XWidget icon
     38 likes

    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/

    Best alternatives are Rainmeter iconRainmeterandSeelen UI iconSeelen UI30 alternatives
  13. Nimi Places icon
     53 likes

    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...

  14. Sideslide icon
     16 likes

    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.

  15. Hammerspoon icon
     27 likes

    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.

    Best alternatives are AutoHotkey iconAutoHotkeyandAutoIt iconAutoIt87 alternatives