Shell Alternatives

Shell is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Shell for Windows, Windows Explorer and Web-based. The best Shell alternative is Easy Context Menu, which is free. Other great apps like Shell are FileMenu Tools, ShellExView, ShellMenuView and Right Click Enhancer.

Shell alternatives are mainly Shells but may also be Application Launchers or Shell Extensions. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Shell.

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Shell

Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Windows

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Easy Context Menu
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Explorer
14 Easy Context Menu alternatives
Easy Context Menu enables you to add a variety of useful commands and tweaks for the Desktop, My Computer, drives, file and folder context menus. It helps in accessing most used windows components quickly and easily, it doesn’t get much easier than to check some boxes and set up...
- - Easy Context Menu is the most popular Windows alternative to Shell.
- - Easy Context Menu is the most popular free alternative to Shell.
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Easy Context Menu Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionEasy Context Menu can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Manage system menu options
Add custom command options
Customizable
FileMenu Tools
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Freemium • Proprietary
Shell
Shell Extension
Windows
Windows Explorer
49 FileMenu Tools alternatives
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...
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FileMenu Tools Features
1. PortableFileMenu Tools can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Windows Explorer ExtensionFileMenu Tools can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Context Menu
Customize Windows
Timestamps
Folder Sync
Change File Dates
Multiple languages
Symbolic links
ShellExView
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Free • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
Windows Explorer
11 ShellExView alternatives
Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components.
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ShellExView Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionShellExView can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Context Menu
Performance overview
ShellMenuView
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Free • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
14 ShellMenuView alternatives
ShellMenuView is a small utility that display the list of static menu items that appeared in the context menu when you right-click a file/folder on Windows Explorer
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ShellMenuView Features
1. PortableShellMenuView can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Right Click Enhancer
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Freemium • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
16 Right Click Enhancer alternatives
Right Click Enhancer gives you power to control the right click menu everyone uses. Right Click Enhancer allows yo to edit your right click menu in the way you want. Now with help of this wonderful tool you can add some good stuffs to your right click context menu.
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Right Click Enhancer Features
1. PortableRight Click Enhancer can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
OpenWith Enhanced
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Free • Proprietary
Application Launcher
Windows
35 OpenWith Enhanced alternatives
OpenWith Enhanced is a small freeware application which replaces the standard Windows 'Open With...' window with an improved comprehensive yet intuitive dialog box.
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OpenWith Enhanced Features
Launcher
Winaero Context Menu Tuner
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
13 Winaero Context Menu Tuner alternatives
Context Menu Tuner is an application which allows you to customize Explorer's context menu in Windows 10, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
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Winaero Context Menu Tuner Features
1. PortableWinaero Context Menu Tuner can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
12 Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer alternatives
Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer is a freeware from door2windows that allows you to customize the context menu of many locations with ease in Windows
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Ultimate Windows Context Menu Customizer Features
Manage system menus options
Context Menu
Customize Windows
Configurable
Lammer Context Menu
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Explorer
8 Lammer Context Menu alternatives
Lammer Context Menu is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer with very handy features like:
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Lammer Context Menu Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionLammer Context Menu can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
2. Batch Rename FilesLammer Context Menu supports renaming of different types of files or data in large batches.
Hex Editor
Context Menu
Search and Replace
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.0.3.19, released in July 2015, can be still downloaded from weDev4you.com
MenuMaid
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Free • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
10 MenuMaid alternatives
Are you looking for a fast and easy way to clean up your Window Explorer and Internet Explorer right-click (context) menu? Look no further. MenuMaid makes it simple! Just uncheck the items you don’t want to show up. Restore them at any time.
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MenuMaid Features
Context Menu
Fast Explorer
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Free • Proprietary
Shell
Windows
Windows Explorer
12 Fast Explorer alternatives
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.
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Fast Explorer Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionFast Explorer can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Context Menu extension
Context Menu
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 3.1.11.430, released in August 2008, can be still downloaded from SoftPedia
Open++
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Explorer
5 Open++ alternatives
Open++ is a context menu shell extension that allows you to quickly open the target file or folder with the customized commands. It adds a submenu with customized menu items to the shell context menu when right clicking a file or folder.
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Open++ Features
1. Windows Explorer ExtensionOpen++ can extend Windows Explorer in various ways, for example add context menu options, etc..
Discontinued
Official website unavailable.