Windows Shell Software

No more "Kill task" via Task Manager to kill Explorer (which is the improper way); no more fidling around in the "Turn off computer" screen. ShellDispenser allows you to restart the shell with the press of a key! If restarting the shell is a part of your job, then ShellDispenser is the tool you have been looking for. * Close and (re)start the shell with the press of a key * Closes the shell the proper way * Complete command line support.

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To keep track of many tray icons you may hide those that you don't need all the time. You can still access such hidden tray icons in the context menu of 12-Tray. It will also restore tray icons after a 'crash' or restart of the taskbar. Usually the taskbar comes up after a crash without any tray icons. You had to stop and restart all related programs to restore the tray icons. Now, 12-Tray will restore tray icons automatically.

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PDF-ShellTools are Windows shell extensions to interact with pdf files directly from the Windows shell. This way we can do some interesting things to our pdf documents without the need to open them in Acrobat or another desktop pdf application.Right now, group these tools: PDF-InfoTip, PDF-InfoEdit,PDF-Anonymizer,PDF-Split and PDF-Merge.

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Manage file and folder permissions in Windows XP Home like Windows XP Professional users! This program allows you edit advanced permissions, change owner of the files, view effective permissions. Interface of the program is like XP Pro Access Control editor. The program includes even more useful feature - Security Wizard. Get the power of Win XP Pro. And... Make your Windows XP Home like windows XP Professional Now - Get File Security Manager!

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DzSoft Slide Show allows you to view your photographs comfortably and in the most aesthetic way. All you need is just select your photos in Windows Explorer, right-click on them and choose "Instant Slide Show!". You can assign a caption to each photo to be shown in the slide show. And also, DzSoft Slide Show allows you to easily create a distributable self-running slide show.

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CryptoMite enables you to encrypt, decrypt, and wipe files and folders of any type. It supports various encryption engines, along with zip compression. Functions to build self-extracting encrypted zip files and email capabilities are also included. Encrypt your files and folders from within the Windows shell. CryptoMite adds a context menu entry to all files, folders, and drives. This lets you encode/decode/wipe them with right-click ease.

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Batch processing well known graphic formats: BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, ICO, TGA, PCX, JDC, PGX, PNM, WBMP, JP2, WMF, EMF. Converting images from folder to specified format. Possibility to set resizing options for all images. Possibility to create negatives and inversions for images. Tool can normalize contrast for all pictures. Possibility to rename output files. It is possible to change color depth. Integrated with windows shell.

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Abacre File Encryptor encrypts any files or folders by using 39 advanced encryption algorithms (CAST, Blowfish, Twofish, Rijndael and others). Files maybe encrypted into a single file or individually and compressed during encryption. Secure Password Generator suggests reliable passwords. Use Text Pad to encrypt any text and Wipe Files command to permanently remove files from computer. Rich set of command line parameters and shell integration.

Advanced Shell is the Windows shell for UPX version 3.01 - the best executable file compressor. This shell allows to easy control UPX without any knowledge about UPX commands and options. It makes your work more effective and comfortable.

"BatchRename" is for you to rename files in same or different path with all kinds of rules you defined as many as you like. FileList: Add any file in any path in your computer to the FileList, use filter to select the exact files you want, and you can also pick up the files by hand. RuleList: By select or typing in the combobox you can make up a rename rule, then add it to the RuleList one by one, finally apply them all together to rename.

InfoTag Magic is a Windows shell infotip extension that displays the title, artist, album, year, bit rate, duration and other information stored in the tag fields of MP3, WMA, APE and Ogg Vorbis files in a tooltip window when mouse pointer is hovered over a file in Windows Explorer. Also it provides quick preview for plain text files, such as TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, QUE, Windows shortcut properties and executable files version information.

Advanced TAR Repair(ATR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupt TAR files. It can scan the TAR archives and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently ATR supports to fix standard Unix TAR files. Moreover, it has integrated with Windows shell, supported drag & drop operations and command line parameters, which will make you repair files easily and quickly.

Modular, extensible and easy-to-use security suite, smoothly integrated into Windows Explorer, the desktop, Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, that helps users protect their files and e-mail messages. It can also create self-extracting encrypted archives, send encrypted fles by e-mail directly form Windows Explorer, organize files in security sets and more.

LaunchIt NOW! allows you to have a small, desktop-like window with full-size icons to launch your favorite programs, files, folders, documents or URLs. It runs in the system tray and is always just one click away. Also, it can be called via a user-defined hotkey. LaunchIt NOW! is fully configurable and customizable on a per-user basis and it offers full Windows Shell integration.

Debugging of Shell extensions is a simple process, but some things still made developers "unhappy": * DLL's are locked by applications (for caching purposes) and you are unable to recompile your project * You need to use Registry Editor to modify hidden Windows Shell setting * Sometimes you don't have access to some Explorer features while debugging your Shell Extension ShellReset utility solves these problems.

Lomsel Backup helps you to protect all important data on your computer. Easy usage of this program means that even beginners can backup. Lomsel Backup works with Windows scheduler with a built-in scheduler module. This allows you to automate backup processes. Just use the backup wizard to create your backup job and Lomsel Backup will take care of the rest.

Advanced Zip Repair (AZR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupted Zip and self-extracting(SFX) files. It can scan the Zip archives and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently AZR can fix all sub-types of Zip files and all kinds of self-extracting files, also it will provide a tiny exe stub when repairing SFX files.

We all have faced a situation when we need to keep dozens of windows open -documents, e-mail client, several web browser windows - all mess up the Taskbar resulting in poor computing experience and frustration. SwitchWindow is a freeware tool that provides two important functions from virtually any spot you can right-click: it allows switching to the desired window using menu as well as closing unwanted windows with CTRL+Right Click combination!

DDS-Pro is a powerful tool for reverse engineering, creation Enhanced Entity Relationship Diagrams, Data Structure Diagrams, Data Definition Language (DDL) Scripts. It supports all major databases, cross DBMS target compatibility, Project Manager, Integrated Tools, Java Source Code, Template Language, SQL Editors, User Defined Types, Unlimited Email Support.

A fast, reliable and easy to use ftp client integrated in the Windows Shell. Explorer like user interface. Typical folder and files operations. Selective and recursive upload/download. Virtual FTP file system on your PC.

It has never been easier to view your photos, whether they come from the internet, digital cameras, picture galleries or scanners. Run slideshow presentations, browse folders, build dynamic playlists, skim thumbnails, organize files, change wallpaper, convert, rotate, resize, zoom and print images. With support for over 20 graphic file types, PictureViewer .EXE is your solution for anything from professional presentations to idle image browsing.

Powerful Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000 security configuration and administration tool. TweakSEC can protect your system from incautious and malicious users as well as from anybody who could accidentally make harmful or irritating system configuration changes. TweakSEC can also protect your system from intruders by setting various network security options which are not enabled by Windows defaults. It can protect Wallpaper, Screensaver etc. settings.

Click on an image with the right mouse button, and you'll get a list of available actions. It would be nice to see image previews in the pop-up menu. Shellviewer does just that. It integrates into the Windows shell. It can be executed with a right mouse click from a normal explorer window, Desktop or File Save/Open dialogs. Shellviewer can also extract and show textual information from photographic files.

Zipghost is a powerful time-saving and easy-to-use 'Batch compression' and 'Batch decompression' utility. Key features: ZIP and UNZIP. Easy to use and powerful Batch Procession. Zip each file to be one archive in a batch. Zip each folder to be one archive in a batch. Zip all files include its subfolders to be one zip. Unzip any selected zip files in a batch. Auto search an appointed path recursively and unzip all.

Take Command/LE offers a new approach to working in Windows, bringing users the power of the command line and the ease of use of the Windows interface. Take Command/LE supports existing CMD.EXE commands and batch files, and adds thousands of new features, giving you more power and flexibility than you ever imagined. And CMD and PowerShell users will love Take Command/LE's tabbed console windows and Windows shell integration.

Wonder why Explorer, Total Commander or "Open" and "Save" dialogs always start from a wrong folder? Then you are ready for a brilliant solution called Meta Commander. Meta Commander is a smart pop-up menu containing all your disks, folders and files. It can be called from anywhere you need it. Extremely easy-to-use, very customizable, Meta Commander greatly boosts the speed of your file browsing and offers many additional useful features.

EZShellExtensionsMFC enables fast and painless development in MFC, ATL and C++ of any kind of Windows shell extensions including context menu extensions, property sheet extensions, infotip extensions, thumbnail extensions, "Send To" extensions, icon extensions, overlay icon extensions, drag-drop extensions, disk cleanup extensions, background menu extensions, drop extensions, Active Directory extensions, Taskbar bands and IE toolbands.

WallChanger is a desktop wallpaper management utility that automatically changes your wallpaper. It can draw a highly customizable calendar, custom text, or another image over the wallpaper. WallChanger has the ability to perfectly stretch any image, including jpeg, bitmap and gif's. You can arrange your images into theme collections, instantly turning on or off a theme with a simple right click. WallChanger can create transparent desktop icons.

Disk Checker is a full-featured disk diagnostics and repairs tool with backup ability. It includes two separate methods of disk checking. Disk Checker can read and write disk images compatible with files produced by other disk copy utilities (Diskcopy, WinImage, DiskDupe, etc), including burning CD-ROM image .ISO files. Command line, logging and dedicated item in Windows shell context menu are supported.

Shell MegaPack Activex recreates the entire Windows Explorer shell browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds with its FolderView, FileView and ShComboBox controls. It supports contextmenus,dragdrop,icons,virtual items,renaming,infotips and Thumbnail/Details/Group Views similar to Explorer but it is miles ahead with features like filtering, checkboxes and customization of context menus, displaynames and columns.

Handy MP3 encoder/decoder working right from the Windows Explorer with one click, fast and powerful CD ripper, MP3 recorder with automatic silence cut off, MP3 Studio to perform batch compressions with different bitrates and quali ty and much more - all in a one nifty tool ! Spanish language support.

CSTelnet is a fast 32-bit telnet client that also supports SSH, TAPI Dialup and direct COM port connections. Rock solid VT100 gives CSTelnet the edge, along with SOCKS Proxy, session logging, Passthru printing, Color/Font settings, and a host of terminal options round out a feature set that is sure to satisfy the most demanding user.

iBrowser is free but powerful image and thumbnail viewer and browser allowing to preview folders with a large number of images. You can change look and feel of the program and save your interface layout. 14 language localizations and power features make iBrowser the best choice for every day use. All popular graphic formats are supported - jpeg/jpg/jpeg-2000/exif, tiff/tif, gif, pic, dxf, tga, pcx, icon and more.

Zipbit provide powerful tools for comfortable work with major popular archives (ZIP, RAR, LZH, ARJ, CAB and ACE) and have user-friendly interface with skin support. Includes Magic Crystal (small floating panel) for instant access to compression functions. Fully integrates in Windows Shell. Supports compression-decompression data using drag-drop. Create Self-Extracting ZIP files.

This font manager lets you preview and manage both installed and uninstalled typefaces, plus examine your system for font errors. You can display the list of installed font faces, customizable font samples and advanced font properties. Key features: view and preview fonts, search for fonts, manage fonts, organize fonts, print fonts, view advanced font properties, examine your system for font errors, Windows Shell extensions.

Advanced DBF Repair (ADR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupt DBF files. It can scan the corrupt DBF files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently ADR supports to fix dBASE, FoxBase, FoxPro and Visual FoxPro database. Moreover, it has integrated with Windows shell, supported drag & drop operations and command line parameters, which will make you repair DBF files easily and quickly.

PropertyEditor extends your standard Windows "Properties" dialog that appears when you select "Properties" from a pop-up menu on a file, folder or other shell object. The program adds many useful functions including file and folder customizations, calculating the size of all files and folders within a certain folder, editing of the pop-up menu and creating file system links. You can even convert a folder into a drive with just a few clicks.

Convert between image formats from the Windows shell. Supports JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, WBMP, ICON, TGA, and several other file formats. Also has ability to rotate and resize images. Right click on a file or a group of files in Windows, and select Convert to. As simple as that. You can use the utility to compress large files, create icons, convert images to Wireless BMPs, convert batch files and use the program through the command line.

Internet Neighborhood lets you access FTP servers within Windows Explorer. A Windows shell extension that lets you browse remote FTP sites, upload and download entire directory structures and manage files as if they were on your local hard drive. You don't need to run a separate FTP client to work with remote files. Simply launch Windows Explorer, then drag and drop to transfer files and directories. SSL and SSH support provide security.

Change file / folder date, time (timestamp) and attributes. Expands Windows "property" tabs to display additional file properties. View file and folder content (copy file list to clipboard). View file and directory description. Easy to use. It has an ability to manage Creation date, Modified date and Last Accessed date. Supports Archive, Hidden, System, Temporary, Offline, Not content indexed, Encrypted, Compressed, Reparse point and Sparse file.

4Neuron Eraser allows you to delete files from your computer the way, it won't be possible to recover them using any file recovering software or even by giving your hard-drive to the professional company that specialize in data recovering. 4Neurons Eraser will permanently erase these files from your hard-drive, by overwriting their content with random data, sector by sector. You can use it to destroy the content of any file on your hard drive.