Shell and Xten Software for Windows

ShellBrowser Components Delphi Edition
$69.95 - JAM Software

The ShellBrowser component set gives 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 invisible TShellBrowser component provides an easy interface to the Windows shell interface. All componments support the properties page, correct icons, OLE Drag&Drop, the Explorer context menu and allow shuffling it with your Delphi popup menus. A thumbnail component displays the Explorer thumbnail images and the TJamShellNotifier informs you about numerous shell events. All components have full Unicode support. Interesting sample projects and help file with a lot of sample code are included. The registered version of the ShellBrowser Components includes the source code and is royalty free.

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ShellDispenser: restart Windows Explorer
$14.65 - TwoLogs

When you often need to restart the Windows shell (Windows Explorer), you know what a hassle it can be to do it the "official" way. And so do we. That is why we have created ShellDispenser; a small utility that will make restarting the Windows shell that much easier.

In the old days, you needed to use Task Manager to kill off Windows Explorer the hard way (which is the improper way by the way). An alternative was to use the "Turn off computer" screen, but that is even more cumbersome. ShellDispenser on the other hand allows you to restart your shell with the press of a key!

If restarting the shell is a part of your job, then ShellDispenser is the tool you have been looking for!

Some characteristics of ShellDispenser are:
* Close, start and restart the shell with the press of a key
* Which keys to use is fully customizable
* Good on-line help support
* Closes the shell the proper way (i.e. not by brutely terminating the process)
* All shell operations can be performed from the command line for easy integration in scripts
* Can be hidden in the notification area to make some room on your screen
* Very small application size

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AudioShell
$0 - 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 (all ID3v2 tag versions), WMA, ASF, WMV, Apple iTunes AAC (M4A and M4P), MP4, OGG, FLAC (vorbis comment tags), MPC, MP+, monkey's audio, WAV pack, optim frog (APE and APEv2 tags). AudioShell adds tag editor and viewer tabs to the music files properties menu (you can edit tags file by file or by groups), detailed music files hints with tag and file information, and additional columns in the Explorer files list. Full Unicode support.

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EZShellExtensionsMFC
$95 - Sky Software

EZShellExtensionsMFC is a library for fast, painless and easy development in MFC, ATL or plain C++ of Windows shell extensions. It features Visual Studio Project and Item Wizards which generate a ready to build-and-view extensions with all the basic functionality in just a couple of minutes. EZShellExtensions eliminates the time-consuming, error-prone and complicated process of developing shell extensions using an innovative yet simple and easy-to-use object model. EZShellExtensions can be used to develop any kind of 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, Taskbar bands and IE toolbands and explorer bars.

EZShellExtensionsMFC supports fast development of the following shell extensions:

Contextmenu extensions including owner drawn menu items
-Icon extensions
-Overlay icon extensions
-Property sheet extensions
-Column extensions
-Infotip extensions
-Thumbnail extensions
-Dragdrop context menu extensions
-Directory background context menu extensions
-Drop extensions
-SendTo extensions
-Disk Cleanup extensions
-Copy hook extensions
-Taskbar bands
-Internet Explorer toolbands
-Internet Explorer vertical and horizontal bands.

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ShellViewer
$24.95 - SannySoft

Working with images, you often need to quickly preview them before performing certain actions.
Normal image viewers are not very helpful. You need to start a viewer, wait while it loads, and
then close it. The Windows Explorer Thumbnail View mode does show small image previews for all
images in a folder. But, it significantly slows down browsing and you see fewer files in a window.

Normally, you use a pop-up menu to perform most of these actions. 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 right there in the pop-up menu in addition to action items.

Shellviewer offers a new look at an old problem. The program inserts image previews into pop-up
menus. Just right click an image to perform operations on the image you are working with.
Shellviewer smoothly integrates into the Windows shell. It can be executed from anywhere with a
right mouse click, whether it's a normal Explorer window, Desktop or File Save/Open dialogs.

Shellviewer supports more than 30 image file formats. In addition to the image previews,
Shellviewer extracts additional textual information from graphic files. Most of the modern digital
cameras include information about camera characteristics, optical conditions and other parameters
into every image. Shellviewer allows you to select parameters to show in pop-up menus.

Shellviwer also includes a fast and easy-to-use image viewer that can be invoked in cases where
you need to see a larger image and to play with the zoom.

An innovative approach, true ease-of-use and a low price: all this makes Shellviewer a must-have
utility for anyone who works with image files.

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ShellBrowser Components ActiveX Edition
$124.95 - JAM Software

The ShellBrowser component set gives a programmer easy access to the Win32 shell functionality. The JamShellList, JamShellTree and JamShellCombo components look and behave exactly like the corresponding parts of the Explorer. All componments support the properties page, correct icons, OLE Drag&Drop, the Explorer context menu and Unicode. A thumbnail component displays the Explorer thumbnail images. Interesting sample projects and help file with a lot of sample code are included. The registered version of the ShellBrowser Components is royalty free.

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