Create graphics with your favorite painting program, and then convert them into icon files with this program. You can also convert icon files into different images. The program supports BMP, GIF, ICO, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, and RAS. Change the dimensions, the color depth and edit the transparency/alpha (Windows XP icon format) mask. You can also convert images in Windows Explorer with the right mouse button.

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DriveHQ WWWShare is one of the best Internet file-sharing applications. With its simple and wizard-driven interface, users can easily share files with friends on the Internet. It is more convenient and robust than any other sharing methods. You can share files/folders to different users with different permissions; share local or DriveHQ.com files / folders. It integrates with Windows Explorer and other DriveHQ software.

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TouchPro allows you to change any combination of file time attributes through a file's property pages. TouchPro fully integrates into Windows Explorer and gives you the ability to touch selected files and entire folder hierarchies in a single easy operation.

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AEVITA Wipe & Delete is a reliable and ultra-fast shredder that will help you securely erase any file or folder without any chances for its recovery. Designed for the Windows platforms, the application seamlessly integrates into Windows Explorer and can be accessed simply by right-clicking on any file, folder or disk and selecting the AEVITA Wipe & Delete menu option. AEVITA Wipe & Delete - the tool that deletes for real, once and for all!

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FolderMagic makes it easy to change the appearance of your Desktop and Windows Explorer folders to any color or choose from the hundreds of icons included with the program. Easy to use - only 3 steps to change a folder! Choose any color in the color spectrum and get rid of those plain yellow folders! Or, choose from the hundrds of icons we include, download our additional themed icon packs or add your own icons; the possibilties are endless.

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V3pad is launches antivirus DOS program V3+Neo. It has fast scan engine updated one or more times in a week. V3pad is made to use V3+Neo conveniently under Windows. You can select a folder or file to scan and repair from Windows Explorer popup menu by mouse right button click. If you designate a .zip file then V3pad extracts it in a new folder and scans the folder. V3pad updates scan engine automatically from V3+Neo website.

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Explorer Buddy extends the capabilities of the Windows Explorer by adding a context menu to the detail view. The user can select and manipulate files by using wildcard expressions, even recursively into sub-folders. Problems that may arise during lengthy file operations are anticipated and taken care of before operations start. Operations include Select for Drag & Drop, Rename, Move, Copy, Delete and Change File Attributes.

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SmartItems is a software suite for virtual cataloging of different items: videos, books, stamps, photos, CDs, DVDs, culinary recipes and so on. The program utilizes Windows explorer as fully customizable user interface. For PDA (Palm and Pocket PC) platforms full-featured viewers are available.

EFM is a Windows CAD graphics file manager and viewer all rolled in one. EFM completely replaces the Windows Explorer and provides additional features designed to handle CAD and image files.Not only does EFM allow you to view AutoCAD drawings, it can locate, retrieve, archive, convert DWG and PLT files and plot them too. You can attach descriptions to files and directories for easy identification as well as search for drawing files.

FTP Client for Windows and Pocket PC that gives you fast, easy and reliable way to transfer files and directories (upload or download) between your computer and FTP server. Simply drag files and directories from Windows Explorer onto the SoftX FTP Client to upload them to the web server. Downloading files is also as simple as dragging files and directories from SoftX FTP Client onto Windows Explorer.

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.

Glary Undelete is a free and easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems. It will bring back files emptied from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. It will even recover files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes and viruses!

SBS handles Windows Explorer (the OS file manager) from the system tray. Click to open one centered Explorer. Double-click to open a pair of side-by-side Explorers. Use the Menu Builder to create custom Explorer configurations in the context menu. Each session (single or side-by-side) has its own tray icon. Click icon to hide or show session, independent of other windows on screen. Make a side-by-side session out of two singles. Unicode/UTF-8.

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 Start Button. It can let you right-click on an image file in Windows Explorer to preview image and information.Also you can add any file as shortcut to Quick Launch or create new folder to manage. Fast Folder Access runs automatically as part of the Windows Explorer context menu.

Alive iPod Video Converter is a professional ipod video software to convert your regular PC video files (avi, mpeg, divx, etc) into the proper video format that your iPod understands. It can convert AVI, MPEG, DivX, XviD, ASF, WMV, MOV, QickTime, VOB, MOD, MP4 to iPod video, such as AVI to iPod, MPEG to iPod. The free trial version of Alive iPod Video Converter is ready to download here: http://www.alivemedia.net/ipod-video-converter.htm

FILERECOVERY® for Windows® is a safe and affordable do-it-yourself data recovery solution that is designed to recover deleted files from all types of media such as Hard Drives, Floppy Drives, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Sticks, and other types of removable media. Filerecovery for Windows® recovers files whether they have been deleted from the command line, from within an application, Windows Explorer, or removed from the Recycle Bin.

PCSpeedDialer 2005 allows you to configure any special key combination on your keyboard to run or open any frequently used applications or documents, even web pages. The interface is easy to understand and very quick to configure. Different users can configure the application according to their own preferences. The handy On Screen Notification displays information about your hotkeys everytime a hotkey is used.

Control Freak is Windows File Manager that incorporates several other applets into one seamless application. You get an Explorer like file manager, a full-featured email client, an FTP client, a zip file manager, a cab file manager, a powerful file finder, and an expanded control panel. It also has an Address Bar, The Command Line, which starts were Explorer's Address Bar leaves off.

PCSummarizer places critical system information right on your screen where you can clearly see it all the time. Information that is shown is user configurable and you can even hide the display with the click of your mouse. Or you can simply click and drag the display to a different location on your screen. The display can be given various degrees of transparency making it even more unobtrusive.

If you need to convert your audio files to WMA 9 format try to use our All To WMA Converter - it gives you ability to start conversion directly from Explorer. This software supports MP3,OGG and WAV PCM source formats, ID3v2 Tag (copying from source or creation of a new one). You can quickly and easily convert with this tool every audio file you have just found in folders on your computer or have downloaded from Internet into WMA 9 format.

Directory Opus- powerful and configurable File Manager/Explorer Replacement for Windows. The familiar interface means even the novice can use it immediately. Fully multi-threaded, it includes built-in ZIP and FTP, fully configurable toolbars, menus and hot keys, powerful file type extensions, built-in image and text/hex viewer, easy slide shows, visual synchronization, powerful rename functions and much more. Editors Choice PC Magazine US 2005.

Calculate CRC32-Codes for Files, create SFV-Files, based on CRC32-Code (WinSFV-compatible), insert your own comments with leading semicolon, check with the help of SFV-Files CRC-Codes of other files, the SFV-File ist always created as a preview and can then be saved, register the Program for the File-Extension SFV,change the program language, renaming of bad files and view of summary after SFV-file-check, batch-mode,remember window-pos,trayicon

The EF StartUp Manager allows you a simple handling and complete control of applications which starts with Windows. They can insert, temporarly disable or delete with ease new programs. More, the controlled starting mode makes it possible to start the programs in a defined order and optionaly specify a delay between them. Multilingual. Shareware, FREE Updates.

ExplorerXP is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non - commercial use) file manager for Windows 2000/XP. Unlike the regular Windows Explorer, it displays the total size of each folder and allows you to browse multiple folders from a tabbed interface. It also includes an option to split and merge files, and to select or delete files based on wildcards.

Examine32 is a fast and versatile text search utility. It can search both text and binary files using ordinary text, the logical operators OR, AND, NOT and XOR, and GREP-like regular expressions. Files within ZIP archives can be searched. Searches can be across multiple drives over networks or can be restricted to a single folder.

QuickResizer resizes and converts image files in batches. It is a convenient tool to quickly shrink your picture files to a smaller size. It saves you time from having to open each file individually in a graphic software, resize it, and then save it. You can launch QuickResizer from Windows Explorer's context menu by right-clicking on the file, or you can drag and drop your picture files onto QuickResizer.

ReaGIF is our popular image converter, allowing you to both convert and edit images from most commonly used graphic formats to GIF. You can convert you images to GIF either one by one or all at once as a batch job. Built-in image editor provides several popular image manipulation functions, including resize, crop, rotate, mirror, brightness, contrast, border, watermark, red eye correction and a dozen of various artistic effects.

Advanced Word Repair (AWR) is a powerful Word recovery tool. It can scan the corrupt or damaged Word doc files and recover your data in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently AWR supports to recover Microsoft Word 6,95,97,2000,XP, 2003 documents. Moreover, it is integrated with Windows Explorer, supports drag & drop operations, which will make you repair doc files easily and quickly.

Allows systems administrators to gather information from all computers with Microsoft Windows NT-based operating systems on a local area network, without installing any client-side applications or services. It can monitor installed service packs and hot fixes, services, devices, processes, installed applications, disks, shared resources, users, local groups and global groups, printers and other.

Finally! An intuitive interface for ZIP files! (Works with Tar/Tgz also!) Compress 2000 is a well-behaved Zip/Tar reader and writer. It only saves when you tell it (unlike all other archivers) and it sports a Microsoft Office(tm) like interface with customizable tool bars and menus. Fully drag/drop and copy/paste compliant. Feels like Windows Explorer(tm), so you can easily add folders to your archive. It runs fast and saves small!

Advanced RAR Repair(ARAR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupt RAR and SFX archives. It scans the corrupt or damaged archives and recover your files in them as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently ARAR supports to recover all versions of RAR and SFX archives.

Back2Life is a handy undelete and recovery tool for Windows. It was designed to be both easy in use and efficient in data recovery. Looking similar to Windows Explorer, it provides access to lost files and folders that got beyond the reach of the Recycle Bin because of accidental erasure, virus attack, disk corruption of reformat. Supported file systems FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS. Works with MS Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2K/XP.

A fast, reliable and easy to use ftp client integrated in the Windows Shell. Explorer like user interface. Typical folder and files operations. Selective and recursive upload/download. Virtual FTP file system on your PC.

Slim Browser is a multiple-site browser based on tab-page interface. It incorporates a large collection of wonderful features like recoverable popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering, URL Alias. It brings you convenient and comfortable browsing.

Alive File Encryption is a strong file encryption program that encrypt your files and folders. It is integrated with Windows Explorer, you can secure any files with a simple right click. Just right click the files or folders you would like to encrypt or decrypt, and then enter a password to encrypt or decrypt them. You can also encrypt the file into an executable file (EXE-file), which can be decrypted without Alive File Encryption.

Print File List Pro provides missing functionality for Windows Explorer: the ability to print the file list or directory tree for any window. Easy to install and configure, Print File List Pro allows you to: Print file list of directory Window Print directory tree of any Window Print directory Window or save as HTML Modifiy appearance of output

Lame Front-End is a graphical interface for the popular and very fast MP3 encoder and decoder - LAME. It offers easy access to all LAME parameters without the need for command line usage. The program offers a simple mode (for beginners), which was designed according to the LAME authors guidelines (http://lame.sourceforge.net/lame_ui_example.php), and an advanced mode which reveals additional expert options.

ChiliBurner is the most complete burning solution to create, copy and backup DVDs, CDs, VCDs and SVCDs. Create CDs and DVDs with data, video or audio content. Create DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs in all popular video formats: AVI, MPEG, MOV, WMV, and more. Burn audio CDs from MP3, WMA and WAV originals. Preview and edit videos before burning. Create Hollywood-style animated DVD-menus. Copy, back up and save files from CD or DVD to your computer's hard disk.

SuperCopy is an Easy-To-Use software. It can backup a selected disk folder and filter out all the unnecessary files in this folder like *.bak or *.tmp. SuperCopy provides several filter setting templates. Users can use these predefined templates or define their own filter setting templates.

Secure your computer by Password protecting, or locking, your Windows programs and EXE files for Free. Plus encryption for your files, folders and drives - direct from Windows Explorer. Extra features allow you to disable Task Keys, Software Installation, Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Downloading Files, Zip and Self Extracting Files and the Boot Keys (F8).

RS FTP is an FTP Client for Windows, designed with ease of use in mind. With it's Explorer like interface, files may be transferred by drag and drop, cut and paste or double click operations. RS FTP has been designed to inter-operate with a wide range of server types. It automatically detects the server type so that the user doesn't have to know this in advance. RS FTP features an excellent Address Book in which to store those favorite sites