



Close, start or restart Windows Explorer the proper way (i.e. not just killing the process) with the press of a key, or from the command line. If restarting the shell is a part of your job, then ShellDispenser is the tool you have been looking for!
Allows you to preview documents, HTML-pages, images and other files within Windows Explorer. You don't need to launch any other application to view files. When you select a file in Windows Explorer you will see its content on the FP band
It is a powerful Windows Explorer replacement designed to replace the rather restricted eatures of the standard Windows Explorer file management program. It is fully featured and offers any advantages to Windows Explorer.
With DiskView add-in to Windows Explorer, you can manage your disk space wisely, and organize your files & folders without stepping out of Windows Explorer. DiskView helps you find big files at a glance, and visually shows how disk space is organized

Fast Folder Access
$19.95 - Eusing Software
Fast Folder Access is a shell enhancement that gives you quick jump to your favorite folders in Common Open/Save dialogs, in Windows Explorer, the desktop and the Start Button.You access the Fast Folder menu by right-clicking anywhere in the File,Directory,directory background (right pane) of Windows Explorer, the "white area" of Common Open/Save -dialogs,on the desktop and the Start button.
In the menu that pops up, there will be a new item called "Fast Folders" with a list of folders that you have added from within Fast Folder Access or from the item "Add to Fast Folder" on the pop-up menu by right-clicking the directory in Windows Explorer. Then you can fast and easy browse these folders.
It's also an add-on for viewing images in Windows Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.
Also you can add any file as shortcut to Quick Launch or create new folder.Having created the new folder, you can add or drag the shortcuts to this new submenu.
Fast Folder Access runs automatically as part of the Windows Explorer context menu, so you will never need to start the program otherwise you want to edit the list of folders.

EZNamespaceExtensions.Net
$295 - Sky Software
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net is a framework for fast, painless and easy development of Windows Explorer namespace extensions in .Net. It eliminates the time-consuming, error-prone and complicated process of developing namespace extensions and enables you to concentrate on writing the functionality of your namespace extension. Shell namespace extensions developed with EZNamespaceExtensions.Net support all kinds of features including folder/non-folder items, sub-folders, sub-folder navigation, custom views, details/column view, contextmenus, background contextmenus, drag-drop, icons, overlay icons, thumbnails, groups/categories, tile-view, property sheets and many other features and enable the shell namespace extension to integrate smoothly and seamlessly into Windows Explorer and other browsers. It supports all Visual Studio and .Net versions including Visual Studio 2005 and .Net 2.0.
EZNamespaceExtensions.Net supports all kinds of Windows Explorer features and functionality :
* Supports all kinds of namespace extensions : namespace extensions can be located under the Desktop, My Computer, Control Panel, Network neighborhood, a remote computer or even a file-system folder
* Namespace extensions look, feel and function exactly as native Windows Explorer folders.
* Folder and non-folder items
* Multi-level Sub-folders
* Automatic sub-folder navigation
* Context menus/ background context menus
* Custom views for folders in the namespace extension
* Ability to integrate menu items to the main Windows Explorer frame menu and add toolbar buttons to the Windows Explorer toolbar
* Details/Report view support with multiple columns
* Thumbnail/ Tile View support
* Group view/category support
* Full drag-drop support from/to/within the namespace extension, including the ability to present items in the namespace extension as files and folders
* Cut-Copy-Paste functionality
* Icons/ Overlay icons support
* Automatic renaming functionality for items

Windows File Explorer
$0 - FreeSoft Labs
Windows File Explorer is a file manager for Windows similar to Windows Explorer. But Windows File Explorer uses a different approach: it features many options that Microsoft's Windows Explorer is missing like image preview and it has two fixed file views side by side (but can be change to a single file view) that is useful when copying many files from folder to folder. You do not want to use another file manager!
Features:
Support Microsoft's Windows Explorer context menu (if you install a program like winrar that adds icons to the context menu: it will be added to Windows File Explorer menus too.
Support Thumbnail views of images.
Supports Drag & Drop with the mouse
ZIP Archives are handled like subdirectories. (if supported by OS)
Built in image file viewer (supports bmp, jpeg, png, gif, tiff, pcx, pbm, pgm, ppm, tga, dib, rle, wmf, emf, icons and cursors
Unzip (if supported by OS)

Magic Basket
$19.95 - Rayslab Inc.
It's the natural assistant for Windows Explorer! Magic Basket is an useful and comfortable assistant for Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. How many times were you need of an additional file panel in Explorer? How many times did you have to run second (and even third!) instance of Explorer to manage files? Forget about it! Now you have got next generation of utilities for Windows. It allows you to run only one instance of Windows explorer and see files in different folders at the same time. It enables you to easy manage files: copying and moving by Drag&Drop. You can set several bookmarks (baskets) with different folders and moving from one folder to another by clicking on a bookmark. Also there is very useful feature for you - you can set several filters for files: by extensions, attributes, file sizes, file dates. Each basket can have own settings. Try it and enjoy!

SOCKShell
$14.95 - SOCK Software
The Windows Explorer's File menu and context menu (the menu displayed when you right click on an item in the Explorer window) display the options that operate on the selected object. These operations include the standard Cut, Copy, Delete and Rename operations if they are appropriate, and will often include other operations which are specific to the type of object that was clicked on.
SOCKShell expands and enhances the Windows Explorer context menu by adding a number of new predefined options and allowing you to add any number of your own options, both to the main context menu and to the SOCKShell submenu.
The predefined options include:
Analyse Pascal source code - Report on the number of lines, classes, functions, procedures etc.
Explore in a new window - Open a new copy of Windows Explorer in the selected folder
Copy the full path - Copy the full path of the selected item(s) to the Windows Clipboard
Edit with Wordpad - Edit the selected file with Windows Wordpad
Edit with Notepad - Edit the selected file with Windows Notepad
Open a Command Prompt - Open a Windows Command prompt in the selected folder
Set file attributes - Set the attributes of the selected file(s) and folder(s)
Set file date and time - Set the date and time of the selected file(s) and folder(s)
Of particular interest to programmers is the 'Analyse Pascal source code' option, which will process a single file or folder, or a whole directory tree, and produce a report of the total number of characters, lines, blank lines, comments, classes, functions, procedures and other information. This information is automatically copied to the Windows clipboard for pasting into other applications.

Internet Neighborhood Pro
$39.95 - KnoWare, Inc.
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, SSH and S/Key password encryption support provide security. A file transfer manager enables you to schedule transfers at the most convenient and efficient time. Multiple download sessions help you to optimize bandwidth, and directory caching allows you to browse FTP sites even when you are not online. Internet Neighborhood automatically resumes broken transfers. A HotCopy feature extracts site profile information from an FTP URL that has been placed in the Windows clipboard, such as username and password, and places the information into the appropriate fields automatically.
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