Best new folder shell extension

Folder Marker - Changes Folder Icons 1.4

ArcticLine Software

Folder Marker is a handy shell extension that enables you to quickly change folder icons to indicate a priority level or project status (high, low, done, half-done, planned etc.), or you can use it to mark a folder with a special icon or color of your choice. Simply right-click on any folder and select the icon or color to be used from the newly added menu option. Folder Marker supports single and multiple folder selections and is freeware.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 985 K

Released: Dec 03, 2006

Download: http://www.foldermarker.com/FolderMarkerSetup.exe

Keywords: Foldermarker, colorize, colorizer, icon, customize

Folder Marker Home - Changes Folder Icons 2.1

ArcticLine Software

Enables you quickly change folder color or mark folders to indicate priority (high, normal, low), level of project completeness (done, half-done, planned), work status (approved, rejected, pending) and type of information stored in folder. For home.

Folder Marker Home - Changes Folder Icons

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $19.95 US

Size: 1587 K

Released: Sep 03, 2007

Download: http://www.foldermarker.com/FolderMarker_Home.exe

Keywords: Support, 32 bit, 32bit, Windows 9x, 2000

StickyFolders 1.0

Syberian Solutions

With StickyFolders (currently in Beta), you can seamlessly integrate your Internet-based remote sources of data into your desktop's filesystem. Map web-sites, ftp servers and Usenet news-groups into a drive letter or a folder on your hard disk and get an instant access to files residing on them, without a download step, - just like you do it with your regular files under File Explorer.

Platform: Windows

Internet

Type: Shareware

Cost: $65.00 US

Size: 7324 K

Released: Apr 22, 2008

Download: http://www.syberiansolutions.com/StickyFolders/Download/SFSetup.exe

Keywords: News reader client, shell extension, smooth playback, instant remote access, Internet Shell integrator

XP Home Permissions Manager 2.3

Gyrus Solutions

XP Home Permissions Manager is a Windows shell extension for extended control over files and folders permissions. It can work on Windows XP Home and Vista Home systems where file/folder security dialog is missing.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $19.95 US

Size: 509 K

Released: Apr 26, 2008

Download: http://www.xphometools.com/downloads/xphomepm-2.3-release.msi

Keywords: File permissions, folder permissions, permissions, access, file security

Quick Command Prompt 1.0.1

Sergei V. Lepitko

Quick Command Prompt is a small utility, which was implemented as context menu Windows shell extension. You can easy invoke command processor for any folder, logical disk, network folder and their subfolders.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 51 K

Released: Oct 23, 2009

Download: http://www.softexpanse.com/downloads/quickcmd.zip

Keywords: Windows, shell, extension, context menu, command

EZNamespaceExtensions.Net 1.0

Sky Software

EZNamespaceExtensions.Net is a framework for rapid development of shell namespace extensions in .Net. It supports features including sub-folders, custom views, details/column view, contextmenus, drag-drop & integrates smoothly into Windows Explorer.

Platform: Windows

Developer Tools

Type: Shareware

Cost: $295.00 US

Size: 944 K

Released: Apr 21, 2006

Download: http://www.ssware.com/eznamespaceextensions/eznamespaceextensions.exe

Keywords: Explorer, dotnet, net, eznamespaceextensions, overlayicon

Instant ThumbView 1.8.5

ContextMagic.com

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, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick image viewing. To bring it up, open any folder with image files in Windows Explorer, and then hover an image file with your mouse pointer.

Platform: Windows

Design & Photo

Type: Shareware

Cost: $19.95 US

Size: 776 K

Released: Aug 05, 2005

Download: http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/InstantViewSetup.exe

Keywords: Viewer, free, software, context, infotip

Folder Pilot 1.00

BAxBEx Software

Get a handy shortcut menu and find your favorite and recently used folders quickly with an enhanced Address bar in Windows Explorer. Folder Pilot's shortcut menu can be used within the Explorer, the File Selection Dialogues, or even from the desktop.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $19.95 US

Size: 1742 K

Released: Apr 25, 2005

Download: http://www.baxbex.com/files/folderpilot.exe

Keywords: Folder browser, fast access, jump folder, favorite folder, browse folder

FastFolders 3.2.3

DeskSoft

This system extension increases your productivity dramatically by giving you quick and easy access to folder contents and files. Without opening each and every folder, you can browse the directory structure starting at any point by clicking the right mouse button on a file, folder or drive. The program adds a menu item to the context menus of shell objects, which displays the directory structure on demand.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $15.00 US

Size: 213 K

Released: Feb 24, 2005

Download: http://www.desksoft.com/Download/FFSetup.zip

Keywords: Tree, file, folder, browser, directory

Context Magic 1.0.b3

ContextMagic.com

Context Magic is a Windows Explorer context menu extension that greatly extends functionality of the standard Send To menu and allows to manage files and folders with a few mouse clicks.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 155 K

Released: Nov 04, 2004

Download: http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/ContextMagicFreeSetup.exe

Keywords: Management, sendto, ContextMagic

Archive & Restore 1.1

Gert Heil Software Development

Archive & Restore enables you to put away and save different versions of files and folders. Files are stored separately, either compressed or in their original format. The access will then be preserved by administrable archives with removable disk support, shell extension, search capabilities and links. Saved versions of a file are listed under its properties on an additional page - there you can open or restore a previous version quickly.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $29.00 US

Size: 1977 K

Released: Oct 18, 2004

Download: http://www.archiveandrestore.com/dl/ar/Archive_and_Restore.exe

Keywords: Archiving, backup, save, saving, version

Right click commander 2000 2.2.0

Rocata Software

Upgrade Windows Explorer, Total Commander and Dialog boxes. Enable you to use the right-click menu to access the entire file system. Change the current folder, open folder in external file manager(new), open file, copy and move operations.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $24.50 US

Size: 1250 K

Released: Mar 07, 2004

Download: http://www.rocata.com/data/ru/download/RCC2000Setup.exe

Keywords: Menu, manager, launcher, e-mail, dialog-box

FolderJump 1.45

Leonid Belousov

Favorite Folder Access: Instant and Inplace! Do you use Word or Excel, Photoshop or Illustrator, Visual Studio or Delphi, need to open/save many documents in many directories? Do not waste your precious time browsing and clicking all these directory trees and drop-down lists! There is the way to reach your favorite folders just in 2 mouse clicks. Try FolderJump! Save your time while browse directories!

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Shareware

Cost: $11.00 US

Size: 350 K

Released: Oct 01, 2003

Download: http://mastercluster.com/download/FolderJump.zip

Keywords: Windows Explorer, Open save dialog, change folder, folder access, browse directories

Context Menu Extension DLL 3.1

SoftMajor

Easiest way to add your own Windows Explorer menu with icon near your verb. You can easy use this component with your own application written with any programming language.

Platform: Windows

Developer Tools

Type: Demo

Cost: $69.00 US

Size: 656 K

Released: Sep 06, 2003

Download: http://www.softmajor.com/dm/ctxmnu/ctxmnuext.zip

Keywords: COM

CWShex32 5.6

Carsten Winterfeldt

Shell extension: Print contents of folders / show versioninformation of files

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 341 K

Released: Jan 25, 2003

Download: http://www.winterfeldt.com/download/cwshex32.zip

Keywords: Versioninformation, printdir, getver, print

Eraser 5.3

Sami Tolvanen

Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 750 K

Released: Jan 07, 2002

Download: http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/eraser53.zip

Keywords: Shred, overwrite, destroy, remove, disk

FolderBox 1.00

BAxBEx Software

FolderBox is an free extension for Windows Explorer. It displays additional folders in the lower part of Explorer, which enables you to display the contents of two or more folders at once! Within a FolderBox you can copy and move, open and delete files, just as usual. FolderBox supports the typical drag&drop handling of files. It is fully interoperable with "standard" Explorer or the desktop. You can even use FolderBox inside Internet Explorer!

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 796 K

Released: Apr 29, 2001

Download: http://www.baxbex.com/files/folderbox.exe

Keywords: Explorer extension, internet explorer, plugin, file managment, Web Browser Plug-In

AudioShell 1.1

Softpointer Inc

AudioShell is a freeware MS Windows Explorer shell extension plugin which allows you to view and edit music file tags directly in Windows Explorer. AudioShell supports MP3, WMA, Apple iTunes AAC/M4A/M4P, MP4, MPC, monkey's audio, OGG and FLAC files.

Platform: Windows

Utilities & Drivers

Type: Freeware

Cost: $0.00 US

Size: 1174 K

Released: Nov 07, 2005

Download: http://www.softpointer.com/downloads/AudioShell11.exe

Keywords: Mp3 shell extension, ogg shell extension, wma shell extension, mp4 shell extension, ape shell extension

Shell Reset 1.2.0.161

Shell+ Development Group

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.

Platform: Windows

Developer Tools

Type: Shareware

Cost: $15.00 US

Size: 342 K

Released: Aug 03, 2004

Download: http://shellplus.com/tools/shellreset.zip

Keywords: Restart, shutdown, settings, debug

CDBFinfo 1.11.01

WhiteTown Software

The CDBFinfo Shell extension allows you to view brief information about a DBF file without opening it. The CDBFinfo Shell extension supports dBase III, dBase IV, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro and dBase Level 7 formats.