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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Options - Buttons Set
    Options - Window Menu
    Themes
    11 alternatives
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    File associations
    Windows Explorer integration
    Verification
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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    11 alternatives
  4. Partitions icon
     3 likes

    Organize and declutter your desktop by creating containers of icons and shortcuts or add multiple explorer windows right on your desktop.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    With the main window, change the appearance of partitions
    Customize the color and size of partition contents
    Use to organize and replace desktop shortcuts
    17 alternatives
  5.  2 likes

    Adds thumbnail preview to Windows Explorer for EPUB, FB2 and Kindle ebooks; CBZ, CBR, RAR and ZIP archives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    DarkThumbs screenshot 1
    1 alternatives
  6. BGINFO4X icon
     5 likes

    BGINFO for X, also called BGINFO4X, is a clone of the popular program BGINFO for Windows created by Sysinternals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    BGINFO4X screenshot 1
    13 alternatives
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    ScrollNavigator screenshot 1
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    +1
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    4 alternatives
  8. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Instant ThumbView screenshot 1
    14 alternatives
  9. Gorgeous wallpapers on your desktop in just one click or auto-delivered at chosen time intervals. It's absolutely free!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    WallpapersEveryday screenshot 1
    WallpapersEveryday screenshot 1
    9 alternatives
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Dshutdown screenshot 1
  11. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    NTFS Link screenshot 1
    NTFS Link screenshot 1
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    3 alternatives
  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Whisker menu screenshot 1
    Whisker menu screenshot 1
    Whisker menu screenshot 2
    4 alternatives
  13. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • X11
    46 alternatives
  14. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    MouseImp screenshot 1
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    +3
    MouseImp screenshot 3
    7 alternatives
  15. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Bundleware

    Platforms

    • Windows
    IObit Start Menu 8 screenshot 1
    26 alternatives
  16. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Screenlets screenshot 1
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    Screenlets screenshot 2
    +1
    Screenlets screenshot 3
    19 alternatives
  17.  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
    Skippy-XD screenshot 1
    Skippy-XD screenshot 1
    5 alternatives
  18. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    gDesklets screenshot 1
    gDesklets screenshot 1
    20 alternatives
  19. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    GnoMenu screenshot 1
    4 alternatives