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Posted by Ali Qayyum Tuesday, January 19, 2010

10 Most Essential Windows Explorer Add-ons

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Window Xp, There are some funcations lacking as compare to new edition of window 7 and vista. So, These collection will enchance the window explorer add-ons.

10 Most Essential Windows Explorer Add-ons

1) TeraCopy

TeraCopy is a compact program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed, providing the user like copy files faster, pause and resume file transfers, error recovery, interactive file, shell intregration etc. It is very popular app , you can install it on windows xp, vista and 7.

2. QT Breadcrumb Address bar

QT Breadcrumb is tiny tool that added the feature inside the window xp. This feature are already in window 7 and vista. By enhanceing the features of window xp.

3) Desktop Restore

This app really done the easiest of restoring the setting of desktop. This tiny application operates as a Shell extension. It records the layout and positions of icons and programs on the Windows Desktop, and permits restoration of the layout. This program works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.


QTTabBar is an Add-In that gives Tab Browsing Feature to your Explorer. Folder grouping, histories, etc

5) InfoTag Magic

This is magic tiny app designed for metadata of various file types. these metadata appeared on the mouse pointer over the file. This text snippet is meant to provide details about the content of that particular file. It works with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

6)Folder Size

This is small app that show you the size of particular folder. It is very help ful to view of any folder size in window explorer. It installed and display the column like below. This app works only in window XP.

7) FolderBox


FolderBox displays additional folders in the lower part of Explorer, which enables your to display the contents of two folders at once. You can set-up and configure up to five FolderBoxes over the tab sheets of the FolderBox extension. Additional drives and folders are now just a mouse click away. You can even use FolderBox inside Internet Explorer!

8) FileMenu Tools


FileMenu Tools allows you to customise the context menu of Windows Explorer. And it lets you:

  • Add some built-in utilities that perform operations on files and folders.
  • Add customised commands which run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
  • Configure the "Send to..." submenu.
  • Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.
Drive Icon


Drive Icon is another app that changes the drive icons shown in Windows "My Computer", to a nearly Vista drive icon, showing the drive's free space with a smooth colored horizontal bar. This app works on window xp.

9) Direct Folders

Direct Folders is freeware tool for quick and direct access to your favorite and recent folders. Jump to any deeply nested folder in a single mouse click. Direct Folders automatically resizes every standard file dialog, so you can see a larger number of files. Find what you looking for with less scrolling.

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