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QwikTulz is a suite of Windows Explorer context ("right-click") menu utilities that can be activated or deactivated using the QwikTulz control panel. Once activated, an option for the utility shows up in the Windows Explorer context menu when you right-click on a file, folder, or drive. Two of the QwikTulz utilities, QwikHash and QwikISO, may be run as standalone utilities and do not necessarily have to be run from the Explorer context menu (although running them from the Explorer context menu allows you to convieniently open them in the directory that was right-clicked on). However, QwikTulz must be installed for these programs to run.

ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension. Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extend the abilities of the Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.

This is a utility that shows a list of how many files and bytes there are in each subdirectory. You can hook this tool to your right mouse button menu, when browsing in explorer. It can also sort directories by size or number of files.

Mp3ListShellEx is Windows Explorer shell extension. It allows you to easily build many types of playlists (wpl, b4s, m3u, pls) and mp3 lists (htm, xml, xls, csv). To create a list just select, in your favorite file manager, drive(s) or folder(s) with mp3 files and choose desired list type from context (right-click) menu.

This program is an editor for shell objects, you can create new shell objects and delete them when you don't need or want them any longer. You can create shell folders (which act like hard links to directories, think of the "my documents" folder) and shell objects (which act like hard links to programs, think of the "internet explorer" icon on your desktop) - both can be created in "my computer", on the desktop, in the control panel or the network neighbourhood. Very easy wizard interface.

Context Magic is a Windows Explorer context menu shell extension that greatly extends functionality of the standard 'Send To' menu and allows you to manage files and folders with a few mouse clicks. You can easily copy or move files to your favorite folders, open them with your favorite programs, send by email and lot more. To invoke it, just right-click a file or folder in the Windows Explorer, and point to Context Magic in the pop-up menu.

Decode Shell Extension allows you to decode Internet email attachments simply by right-clicking on a saved message file from Explorer and selecting Decode from the menu. Supports multiple attachments; multi-part files (already concatenated); Base64(MIME), yEnc, BinHex (Mac format), quoted-printable, plain text, XXENCODED, and User (table) encoded files.

ID3Tag InfoTip is a Windows Explorer infotip shell extension that provides pop-up text containing ID3 tags information including the title, artist, album, duration and more, when the mouse pointer is hovered over an MP3 file.

PEEK is a Shell contextmenu extension which allows you to extract only the text portion of files, such as Exe files, DLL's, and just about any other file.