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  1. CustomizerGod icon
     6 likes

    It lets you customize almost any part of Windows according to your taste. Like if you want the start button to look different, you can use CustomizerGod to change it from the Windows logo to something fun like a candy or a minion's face.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    14 alternatives
  2. eXtra Buttons icon
     18 likes

    eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Options - Buttons Set
    11 alternatives
  3. QuickSFV icon
     14 likes

    QuickSFV integrates into the Windows Explorer shell and makes it very easy to verify files. Just double-click on the SFV file and QuickSFV does the rest. QuickSFV also understands several other file verification formats including CRC, CSV, and CKZ.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Linux
    File associations
  4. XScreenSaver icon
     4 likes

    XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System. The first version was released in 1992. In 2006, it was ported to macOS 10.4.

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  5. Nimi Visuals icon
     12 likes

    Adds eye-candy effects to windows (and start menu) like deformations (e.g: jelly windows - that makes moved window wiggle like being made from jelly; or fold - which hides windows by folding up horizontally, and unfolds when showing), physics (e.g.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    Nimi Visuals screenshot 1
    27 alternatives
  6. ScrollNavigator helps you to scroll your documents horizontally and vertically. Simply click and hold down the right (or the middle) mouse button anywhere in a window and move the mouse to scroll the window contents.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Windows
    ScrollNavigator screenshot 1
    4 alternatives
  7. Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for...

    Instant ThumbView screenshot 1
    14 alternatives
  8. Dshutdown icon
     11 likes

    A stand-alone program that allows you to easily shutdown and wake up local or remote PCs, with many specific options.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    Dshutdown screenshot 1
  9. NTFS Link icon
     1 like

    NTFS Link is a set of Windows Shell Extensions (i.e. they hook into the Windows Explorer), providing extended functionality for creating and using hard links and junction points on NTFS file systems. As neither hard links nor junctions are available on FAT, it will really only...

    NTFS Link screenshot 1
    3 alternatives
  10. Whisker menu icon
     9 likes

    Written by Graeme Gott, this plugin is a menu for Xfce that provides access to favorites, recently used, and searching installed applications.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    Whisker menu screenshot 1
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    4 alternatives
  11. QuickTile icon
     5 likes

    A lightweight utility for allowing you to quickly snap windows to a tiling grid under your existing Linux window manager. Can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts, the command line, or D-Bus calls.

    47 alternatives
  12. MouseImp icon
     5 likes

    MouseImp PRO is a successor of MouseImp that became popular all over the world. Many users’ wishes were considered in this new version of MouseImp, and many improvements have been implemented, making it even faster and more reliable.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    MouseImp screenshot 1
    7 alternatives
  13. Start Menu 8 can help users who are not willing to change their behaviors and bring back the classic start menu. Users can enjoy a familiar start menu again with just one click while other styles are also available.

    IObit Start Menu 8 screenshot 1
    26 alternatives
  14. Screenlets icon
     14 likes

    Screenlets are small owner-drawn applications (written in Python) that can be described as "the virtual representation of things lying/standing around on your desk". Sticknotes, clocks, rulers, ... the possibilities are endless.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    Screenlets screenshot 1
    19 alternatives
  15.  5 likes

    Skippy-XD is a full-screen task-switcher for X11. You know that thing Mac OS X, Compiz and KWin do where you press a hotkey and suddenly you see miniature versions of all your windows at once? Skippy-XD does just that.

    Skippy-XD screenshot 1
    5 alternatives
  16. gDesklets icon
     3 likes

    gDesklets is an architecture for "desklets", which are tiny applets sitting on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    • BSD
    gDesklets screenshot 1
    16 alternatives
  17. GnoMenu icon
     3 likes

    A consolidated menu for gnome that brings eye candy to the world of the Gnome menus. Fully functional menu, supports themes, for a composited or non composited desktop. It can emulate the look and feel of the most beautiful menus of most modern desktops, and it can also use...

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Linux
    GnoMenu screenshot 1
    4 alternatives