Change Icon provides a quick way to customize the icon of any folder in Windows Explorer. A great feature for pre-XP systems.

Even though this capability exist in XP/Vista, Change Icon provides a much more elegant approach presenting the option from the context menu, history of past use and immediate results.

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs.

Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available.

Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

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A file/folder renaming utility, which can use Wildcard or Regular-Expression and Tag-information (MP3, EXIF). Many options.

Features include:

* Explorer like user interface.
* Can use Wildcard or Regular-Expression(Perl Compatible) for substitution of file name.
* Multiple file-filter.
* Real-time preview.
* Undo
* Designed for process large quantity of files.
* Can recursively process sub-directories.
* Can Copy & Rename to another folder.
* Can distribute into the folder by using relative path.
* Can consecutive numbers to every classified groups (folder, date, tag).

Batch file renamer with many options. Batch rename hundreds of files and directories in single click! 11 powerful automation tools. Especially useful for handling large archives, such as music and image collections.

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CubicExplorer is a file manager/browser software application. It's designed to be easy to use, yet powerful enough to handle multiple directories at the same time. It features tabbed browsing, and has a built-in text editor which has highlighters for many different file types.

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Open all kinds of archives. Allows you to work with 22 encode and encryption formats and 44 archive extensions. Including the popular 7z format.

Run automated backups and other operations using the powerful aks and akp scripts. Advanced file list support, including the highlighting of files that match the user defined filter. Thumbnail support to display all pictures in the archive.

Drag and drop files and directories from file list to explorer to extract or add. Context menu support to provide operations directly from the menu, without having to start the main program.

Allows you to add archive bookmarks which perform like your browser bookmarks. You can organize your bookmarks into folders. Many other tools!

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ZipGenius is the absolutely free software for Windows® that lets you compress files to almost any kind of archive. ZipGenius supports more than 20 compressed archive formats, including CD/DVD-ROM image files in ISO9660 standard.

This is the file compression suite you were searching for: it is free and easy to use, plus it supports more than 20 formats of compressed archives, including RAR, ARJ, ACE, CAB, SQX, OpenOffice.org documents and the excellent 7-zip.

ZipGenius now can precompress executable files going to be added to a ZIP archive through the UPX compressor.

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Right-click integration with Windows Explorer makes AxCrypt the easiest way to encrypt individual files in Windows.

Double-click integration makes it as easy to open, edit and save encrypted files as it is to work with unencrypted files.

Many additional features, but no configuration required, just install it and use it.

AxCrypt encrypts files that are safely and easily sent to other users via e-mail or any other means. Self-decrypting files are also supported, removing the need to install AxCrypt to decrypt.

AxCrypt is translated into English, Danish, Swedish, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Spanish, French, Italian and Norwegian so chances are it speaks your preferred language.

Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux.# Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

# Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.

# Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.

# Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:

Folder View is a free (freeware) add-on for Windows that drastically enhances the way you browse the folders on your system.

Files are often scattered around many different folders on the hard disk and locations on the network. Every time you want to copy, move, open or save a file, this situation leads you to a quest through levels of folders.

Folder View enhances the Windows file Explorer by making all folders you need available in a single click. It integrates with other applications, speeding up opening and saving of files and also lets you copy and move files very quickly.

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Handy utility to print or save a list of files located in any folder. Right-click any folder in Windows Explorer and select "PrintFolder" in the popup menu.

Folder Guide is a free handy utility that provides fast access to your frequently used and favorite folders. It can operate as the part of your context menu in Windows Explorer.

After install it will appear in the context menus of Windows Explorer and Open/Save dialogs as "Folder Guide" item. With Folder Guide, you no longer need dozens of mouse clicks to navigate to your desired folder. Now reach your favorite folders in just 2 mouse clicks. Select from right click menu "Folder Guide" then click on your desired folder. Folder Guide 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.

Easily create new folder with R-button click. By clicking the right mouse-button at the desired folder and choosing 'New Folder', you instantly create the new named folder!

OpenExpert enables you to specify any number of suitable applications for each file type. In this way, when you open a file, instead of being restricted to using a single pre-determined application, you can easily choose among a list of suitable applications.

Easily open your graphic files in your favorite paint programs or view your HTML files in either Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer, just with a few mouse clicks.

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Use a hotkey to create a folder within Windows Explorer!

bxNewFolder adds a "New Folder" button to the toolbar of Windows Explorer. It also provides a hotkey (F12) to create a new folder within the Explorer quickly.

Enhanced defrag for NT4/2000. Microsoft Management Console snap-in. Can replace the standard Windows defragmentation software. Partitions can be analyzed and manually defragmented with SPACE defragmentation. Various GUI customizations can be performed.

FolderBox displays additional folders in the lower part of Explorer, which enables you to display the contents of two folders at once.

CDS brings the power of a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use search engine right to your PC and allows you instantly to search files, e-mails, and email attachments stored anywhere on your PC hard drive. It executes sub-second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, and all popular music, picture and video formats. CDS also searches your browser history, favorites, and contacts.

Ultra Explorer is the ultimate File Manager for Microsoft Windows. Say goodbye forever to Windows Explorer! Some of the key features of UltraExplorer are: Tabbed Folders. Drop Stack Window - Drop blocks of files into the drop stack for quick access later. Favorites Window and Bookmark bar - Build a favorites tree with any object you like from the shell. Filter Window. File viewer. Too many features to list so visit the site.

IZArc is the most complete archive utility available today. IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools like drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.