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  1. Fast Explorer icon
     11 likes

    Fast Explorer is a handy Windows shell context menu editor that allows you to add new menu items, cascaded menus, customize menu bitmaps and hint text, and even clean up context menu items and remove shell extensions of files and folders.

    Russian and French Language
    13 alternatives
  2. AudioShell icon
     11 likes

    AudioShell is a freeware MS Windows Explorer shell extension plug-in which allows you to view and edit ID3 metadata tags directly in Windows Explorer. It supports all files and tags standards supported by Tag&Rename - mp3 tag editor.

    Edit
    Explore
    View
    32 alternatives
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Folder Menu icon
     12 likes

    Folder Menu - a tiny, portable folder switching tool and file launcher. You can quickly jump to your favorite folders in explorer, open/save dialog or command prompt...and more. You can also launch your favorite folders, files or urls.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Folder Menu screenshot 1
    Folder Menu screenshot 2
    13 alternatives
  6. PicaView icon
     6 likes

    PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.

    PicaView screenshot 1
    10 alternatives
  7. Chameleon Window Manager will allow you to control the windows of your programs using customizable buttons added to the title bars of the windows (Always on Top, Minimize to Tray, Minimize to Caption, Specify Transparency, Position window at left/right of screen).

    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Chameleon Window Manager - Buttons
    93 alternatives
  8. ThumbView icon
     5 likes

    ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any...

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    ThumbView screenshot 1
    14 alternatives
  9. We tabbified your current Windows File Explorer by wrapping BrightExplorer around it, and added other advanced functionality for example a brand new favourite panel!

    • Discontinued
    • File Manager
    • FreemiumProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    BrightExplorer screenshot 1
    16 alternatives
  10. OpenWith.org icon
     4 likes

    Do you have files on your computer that you don't know how to open? If so, you need the OpenWith.org Desktop Tool!

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Online
    • Windows Explorer
    Open PPS File
    6 alternatives
  11. liquidFOLDERS icon
     4 likes

    liquidFOLDERS stores all files in a separate area of your computer we call "store". A store does not have a fixed directory tree (let alone one that you'll have to manage yourself), but is one big thing.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Files sorted by their location
    54 alternatives
  12. Free software for rotating JPEG images without quality losses. A very handy tool for keeping your digital photos in correct orientation. Right-click a JPEG picture to rotate it clockwise or anticlockwise without losing any quality, unlike the rotation option in Windows Photo...

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Right-click menu
  13. An attorney who deals with a lot of PDFs set himself with the task of finding a way to preview the PDFs in Windows Explorer (much like Cover Flow view already does in Mac OS X) without actually opening them.

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    PDF Previewer for Windows 8 screenshot 1
    53 alternatives
  14. Interact with your PDF documents directly from the Windows Shell!

    Overview

    PDF-ShellTools is a software that extend the Windows Shell and provide access to several tools to work with PDF documents directly from the Shell environment.

    With it we can perform many common tasks w.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    PDF-ShellTools screenshot 1
    3 alternatives
  15. The ContextConsole Shell Extension adds an "Open Command Prompt" menu item to the context menus (right-click menus) in Windows Explorer so that you can open a command prompt in the selected directory (or directories) or in the current directory that you are viewing.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Context Menu
  16. The Windows File Explorer Plugin allows you to preview thumbnail images of your SVG Documents diretcly within the File Explorer.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Renesis Player screenshot 1
    19 alternatives
  17. WhoLockMe icon
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    Have you ever bored by this Windows message : "Error Deleting File or Folder, ... There has been a sharing violation. The source or destination file may be in use.", when you try to delete, move or rename a file?

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    WhoLockMe screenshot 1
    17 alternatives
  18. Ninotech Path Copy is an english shell extension that enables you to copy the path of a file or directory to the Clipboard from inside the Windows Explorer. All you have to do is to open the Windows Explorer, right-click the item(s) of interest and choose "Copy Path"...

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Ninotech Path Copy screenshot 1
    Ninotech Path Copy screenshot 2
    6 alternatives
  19. Tiny tool, which allows passing command-line parameters to any application from the Explorer context-menu. Comes with a database of parameters available in popular software. Remember previously used parameters in a pop-down history.

    • Discontinued
    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    RunWithParameters screenshot 1
  20. Instant Elevator Music is a simple application designed to automatically play elevator music while you wait for programs to open, files to copy, and downloads to finish.

    • FreeProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Instant Elevator Music screenshot 1
  21. MysticThumbs icon
     5 likes

    MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images.

    • PaidProprietary
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    MysticThumbs Control Panel v4.3.2
    13 alternatives
  22.  2 likes

    VDesk is a Windows 10 software that provides options for launching programs on virtual desktops.

    • FreeOpen Source
    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    VDesk screenshot 1