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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Advanced Backup is a powerful backup utility that makes your backups quick and reliable. The program sits as an icon in the Windows system tray and unobtrusively copies files in the background. The program features backup of E-mail messages and address book, database of your favorite messenger: ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, Windows registry, Windows shell settings, and anything you wish to protect from hardware failure or accidental erasures.

Professional font viewing tool for Windows 9x/Me/NT4/2000. Hooks into the Windows Explorer interface, view and print installed/uninstalled TrueType fonts, view in any point size, view copyright info inside fonts, print sample sheets, character charts, view kerning pairs, install & print fonts from Explorer context menu, many custom settings, supports drag&drop from Windows, full help, install & uninstall

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 tool is designed for protecting your sensitive files,folder and drives on your local computer. In fact, it protects but does not encrypt the protected files and folders, so it will never have the chance to destroy your data and nobody can access or destroy your private data without password.

Visually manage and graphically organize your disk space - from Windows Explorer! DiskView analyzes your disk space, understands it's structure, assimilates information, and presents it visually so that you can understand and manage your files and folders easily - without stepping out of Windows Explorer. DiskView helps you find big files at a glance, and visually shows how disk space is organized not only on your computer, but also on network shares !

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.

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.

DDS-Lite - is a powerful tool to create Enhanced Entity Relationship Diagram, Data Structure Diagram, Data Definition Language (DDL) Scripts, 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.

Decompress archive of Zip, GZip, Tar, Gzipped Tar, Cab, JAR or RAR format. Create archive in Zip, GZip, Tar format. AnyZip Wizard help beginner user extract, create and update a compressed archive. Features filter support in creating archive. Explorer Integration and full drag-and-drop support in Windows Shell. Built-in SFX creator for creating Self-Extracting Archive.

A powerful backup utility with a lot of options and quite user-friendly. Backup2005 Pro supports unlimited zip file size (Deflate64). Backup2005 Pro can backup any folder to any destination (network lan, any removable media including CD and DVD) .It comes with its own burner driver. You can schedule any job, upload archives to an FTP, FTPS or HTTP server. It offers graphical backup map, catalog, log files and can email you when a job is done.

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.

Rhis compression utility for creation and management of zip-archives. It can also extract files from CAB, RAR, JAR, ACE and 7Z archives. The utility is integrated into Windows Shell. Original, double tree program interface allows to manipulate simultaneously several archives and to minimize the number of operations while working with archives. Work with items of archives is similar to work with files and folders in Windows Explorer.

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.

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.

Advanced Outlook Express Recovery (AOEV) is a powerful tool to recover deleted email from Outlook Express mail folders. It uses advanced technologies to scan the mail folders and retrieve deleted email in them as much as possible. Currently AOEV supports to undelete email from Outlook Express 5/6 dbx files. Moreover, it has integrated with Windows shell, supported drag & drop operations, which will make you recover emails easily and efficiently.

Handy MP3 encoder/decoder working right from the Windows Explorer with one click, fast and powerfull 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.

Eluent Tools is a collection of file and folder tools that enhances the Windows shell, command line, Visual C++, and Visual Studio .NET. The tools include Eluent Replace, a GUI-based, interactive, multi-pattern, multi-file search and replace program that uses Perl regular expressions and supports Perl scripting; Eluent Find, a file contents searcher and viewer that supports a variety of regular expression dialects, including Perl, and much more.

Add Microsoft® Windows® shell functionality to your applications with this component package! Ortus Shell Components is a component package for the Borland® developer community containing 10 outstanding shell components. Full context sensitive component help file is included.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The next generation dual-panel file manager and Explorer replacement, that helps you work with files and folders quickly and efficiently. Includes built-in file splitter, folder synchronizer, image viewer, full-featured text editor and more. Highly customizable and user friendly. http://www.winability.com/

The IDE Helper is utility for searching and replacing an expressions in files of catalog tree. The expressions can be represented as string of characters, series of bytes or escape sequences. Another purpose - to remove temporary files on the disk. The program have integration with Windows shell. For a file browse and editing it uses Windows Notepad as default editor, but can be assigned custom editor.

Search your computer in style with the Award Winning Columbus Software. It is so accurate it will find virtually any file from any drive or folder, including multiple drives, a custom list of folders or any combination there of. Comes with 2 viewers, a quick view for verification and quick copying or double click to view the matching entry in the full file viewer with line count and navigation support. Download your copy and start using it today!

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.

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.

Shredder literally destroys files, free space and your Recycle Bin contents instead of only deleting them. That means your data contents one overwritten and destroyed & can't be recovered. Also includes a schedule. Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Nobody will ever be able to recover the files! Also includes a scheduler & integrates with windows explorer for right click shred.

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!

Mil Shield 6.5 protects your privacy by deleting all tracks from your online or offline computer activities: cookies, cache, history, INDEX.DAT files, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome; and all other tracks. There are some unique features in this program: Selective cleaning (selectively preserves cache, history and/or cookies for chosen by you safe Internet sites), Panic key combination, Automatic cleaning, Support for Windows Vista 32&64 bits.

All-in-one file shredder, privacy eraser, disk cleaner, startup manager, free space wiper. File shredder securely deletes sensitive files (files can not be recovered). Disk cleaner scans for useless temporary junk files and frees space by deleting it. Privacy cleaner erases personal activity history, recent documents, browser cache, cookies, history, typed URLs etc. Startup manager allows reviewing and editing your startup-programs list.

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.

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.