WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. WinMerge has Unicode support, Flexible syntax coloring editor, and Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering for filenames and lines. Side-by-side line difference and highlights differences inside lines. A file map shows the overall file differences in a location pane. The user interface is translated into several languages.

The ShellBrowser components give a Delphi programmer easy access to the Win32 shell functionality. The TJamShellList, TJamShellTree and TJamShellCombo components look and behave exactly like the corresponding parts of the Explorer The TShellBrowser component provides an easy interface to the Windows shell interface. For any object all components can show the explorer context menu, the properties page, the correct icon, thumbnail and much more.

FineCrypt Archiver is a powerful but easy-to-use file encryption software for protecting files on your computer with strong encryption algorithms. FineCrypt Archiver integrates with Windows shell so that you can encrypt and decrypt files from within Windows Explorer or desktop. You can choose for encryption one of 10 encryption algorithms. Package also contains integrated file wiper for permanent deletion of files from your hard disk.

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.

xplorer? is a file and information manager that adheres to the philosophy efficiency through simplicity. Without reinventing the wheel, it integrates the best features of Windows shell architecture in a small, resource efficient package that's instantly familiar to work with. But look a little closer and you'll discover a whole new world under the surface that offers power, precision and flexibility and will boost your everyday productivity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.

Convert PDF files to Microsoft® Word® (PDF to DOC / PDF to WORD)** Convert PDF files to Rich Text Format (PDF to RTF / PDF to WORD) WITHOUT any third party software. PDF to DOC preserves PDF layout, fonts (when installed on system), sizes, colors, and styles. Preserves image and text layouts as well. Batch convert PDF files with easy to use "Wizard" style interface. Drag and Drop Support as well as ability to add individual files or folders.

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 !

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.

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.

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!

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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.

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 !

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.