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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Russian and French Language
    New Item Added for WinDirStat
    Context Menu Items Management
    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Edit
    Explore
    View
    33 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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    NTFS Link screenshot 1
    NTFS Link screenshot 1
    NTFS Link screenshot 2
    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Folder Menu screenshot 1
    Folder Menu screenshot 1
    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    PicaView screenshot 1
    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).

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Chameleon Window Manager - Buttons
    Chameleon Window Manager screenshot 1
    Chameleon Window Manager screenshot 2
    +4
    Chameleon Window Manager screenshot 3
    92 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    ThumbView screenshot 1
    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!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    BrightExplorer screenshot 1
    BrightExplorer screenshot 1
    BrightExplorer screenshot 2
    +1
    BrightExplorer screenshot 3
    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!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Files sorted by their location
    Files sorted by their type
    Just drop files onto the FileDrop window to import them
    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Renesis Player screenshot 1
    19 alternatives
  17. WhoLockMe icon
     2 likes

    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?

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    WhoLockMe screenshot 1
    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"...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Ninotech Path Copy screenshot 1
    Ninotech Path Copy screenshot 1
    6 alternatives
  19. Right Click Context Menu Adder it’s a free and portable utility which allows you to add your favorite program shortcut, website link, file or folder shortcut in Windows 7 and Windows 8 Desktop context menu quickly and easily.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Right Click Context Menu Adder screenshot 1
    Right Click Context Menu Adder screenshot 1
    6 alternatives
  20. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    RunWithParameters screenshot 1
  21. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Instant Elevator Music screenshot 1
  22. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    MysticThumbs Control Panel v4.3.2
    Original Control Panel
    Example
    13 alternatives
  23.  2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    VDesk screenshot 1