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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Wiperaser 2004 is a secure data deletion tool. Its primary goal is to wipe files, folders and registry entries in such a way that nobody can recover them. It works on FAT, FAT32, NTFS and NTFS5 volumes and supports three data wiping methods: the well known Gutmann method,the US Department of Defense (DOD) 5220.22-M method, and the Random Blocks method. It seamlessly integrates into your Windows Shell through a handy context menu item.

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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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OkPress is a shell enhancements utility for automatic message boxes or application dialog boxes closing. Just click a mouse button anywhere and the active dialog box will be closed. In addition you can Minimize all windows at once, Quickly shutdown or reboot the system with no additional confirmation, Quickly logoff - Allows you to restart Windows Shell without a total system reboot.

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The Hyper Hasher Suite will fulfill all your file hashing needs. Hyper Hasher allows you to calculate 26 different hash/checksum and HMAC values for any file on your system, while the HashFile utility adds support for MD5 & SFV file creation and verification. These tools feature advanced options including a unique customizable interface, configuration saving, optional windows shell integration, Pentium 4 optimizations for speed, and much more!

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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.

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A windows shell extension which installs a new tab with file hash information. Includes MD5, SHA1 and CRC032. Also allows for easy hash comparison. Great for verifying downloads without requiring any external tools.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Professional encryption tool with the following features: highly secure encryption with a single mouse click; secure communication with other users by email; task manager; key manager; file manager; encryption of files, folders and whole directory trees; creation of encrypted archives; creation of self-decrypting executables;

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/

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.

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.

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.

WinRK is a new high performance, multi-format file archiver. It supports many comman archive formats, including ZIP, RAR, ACE, BZIP2, TAR, RK and ISO. The new WinRK format combines industry leading compression, encryption and analysis with almost unlimited archive size. The modern interface provides a new intuitive way to manage archives, including full integration with the Windows Shell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advanced CAB Repair(ACR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupt CAB files. It can scan the damaged CAB archives and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently ACR can fix all versions of Microsoft cabinet 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.

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!

Easy to use visual archive utility with support for 15+ popular formats (ZIP, CAB, ARJ, RAR, LHA, TAR, GZ, ACE, JAR, UUE, ...) Featuring: archive explorer (arborescence), option to browse archives displaying a preview of graphics files (30+ formats), archive converter, batch processing, search engine, self-extracting archive creation, installation of the content of an archive, password encryption, support for antivirus programs and more !

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.