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    Classic Shell

    Classic Shell

    Start menu and Windows enhancement software

    Classic Shell adds some missing features to Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Vista like a classic start menu, toolbar for Explorer and others. Note: The software available here is not the latest version. Visit the new website www.classicshell.net to download the latest version and to access the new forums and documentation.
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    Downloads: 332 This Week
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    Swish
    Access your remote files over SFTP directly from Windows Explorer and 'My Computer'.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Process Manager for Windows (PMW)

    A easy to use task manager that lets you control your apps

    Process Manager for Windows is smart Task Manager that lets you manage priority , transparency, visibility of your process with few clicks. It lets you kill one process or all process in with just shortcut key and let you gain control of your unresponding windows computer and let you regain all the resources back, of course when killing apps you always have the risk of losing the unsaved data. This tool flourished from 2008 to 2012, was about 200K times, it was hosted not only on sourceforge but over 50+ different software download websits like snapfile,filehippo, majorgeek etc. It was translated into over 10 languages by the fans of this software. However has been decommissioned in 2012 by the sole developer Arif Ali Saiyed This tool also received 100+ reviews from the bloggers of that era Below page contains the list of all software download website where it was available for download and link of blogs http://processpriority.wiki.sourceforge.ne
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Blackbox for Windows is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. It is based stylistically on the Blackbox window manager for the X Window System, however it does not use the same codebase except for the gradient rendering code.
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    A Windows Installer Database To XML Bi-Directional Converter. The command line tool msi2xml converts Windows Installer Databases (.msi) to text based XML files. The complementary tool xml2msi reconstructs the .msi from the XML file.
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    SoupToNuts is a repository of technical articles and example software covering Postfix, OpenSSH, C and C++, Live Linux CD, MySQL, SQLite, Berkeley DB, Bash and System Administration.
    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    A modular framework for implementing a CISCO-like CLI on a *NIX system. Arbitary command menus and actions can be defined using XML files. This software handles the user interaction, and forks the appropriate system commands to perform any actions.
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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Kobo XCSoar Launcher

    a customizable boot menu for your Kobo Mini

    Mainly this project aims at easing startup and use of XCSoar (see xcsoar.org) on Kobo Mini. But the scope of use should not be limited solely to XCSoar. The Launcher should be small in code size, reuse most of the original libraries, provide flexible configuration to any application that might be ported to the Kobo Mini. It supports customizable fonts, toolbox-pages, buttons (also graphical), labels, autostart and sleep timers.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Alternative Windows Console v2

    Alternative Windows Console v2

    Alternative Windows(tm) Console - extended interface to Windows shell

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    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    SBD is a way of leaving ultra-secure minimal access to a computer, which allows you to run a single command based on a one time key. It is good if you don't want to have an ssh server running all the time, but only want to start it when needed.
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    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    fshell is the Symbian equivalent of bash + telnet + a posix-like set of command-line tools. In other words it's a console framework for Symbian OS with support for remote connections and a suite of tools for debugging the device.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    GeoShell is a Windows Shell Replacement. It replaces the standard 'Start Menu', 'Desktop', 'Task Bar' and 'system tray' of windows with a smaller, faster, and more configureable program, with an extensible bar-oriented minimal interface.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    F&S File Find

    F&S File Find

    F&S File Find - An ultra fast, cross platform, file find tool

    F&S File Find (i.e. Fast and Slow File Find) is a cross-platform command-line tool designed for Ultra-Fast Searching for Files on your hard drive. The application uses two main facilities to quickly locate files on your drive: 1. Caching previously visited folders in order to allow Ultra-Fast searches on consequent searches. 2. Multi-Core operation to speed up searches. (Compared to the standard Windows/CLI search tools) The application is designed to favor speed over all other computer resources (mainly memory), As my assumption is that if you want to locate a file on your drive, you want results as fast as possible. Currently tested only on Windows. Linux/Mac releases are still pending.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    this is a very primitive dos multitasking gui i think it will help alot of people with window management it also comes with some example progams
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    mp3ext
    This is Michael Mutschler's famous mp3 shell extension, also available for Windows7 and 64 bit.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    USB Extension

    Software for the placement of removable devices shortcuts.

    Software for the placement of removable devices shortcuts on the desktop in Microsoft Windows. Support cd-rom, usb-drives, flash cards, network drives and etc. Work on Windows XP and later. Written on c++. Now the installer (1.0.2) with required DLL-files.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    This program is a simple shell. chdir, echo, mkdir,rmdir,cat, history, variables, a little help, ... are supported. For more info see the changelog! There's also a script installer/uninstaller. (you can run it using GabySH!!!). Win32 Plateform.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Shell Extension Manager helps you activate / deactivate MS Windows shell extensions in order to improve the stability and speed of your computer. Your actions with this program could fail your Windows Explorer Shell! Use with caution!
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    RemCom is RAT [Remote Administration Tool] that lets you execute processes on remote windows systems, copy files, process there output and stream it back. It allows execution of remote shell commands directly with full interactive console.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Quake II-based 3D shell, currently aimed for Windows (Linux in consideration). The project hopes to create a much more logical user experience for performing common tasks inside a computer, while establishing a three-dimensional online world.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Larsen Commander for OS/2 and eCS

    Larsen Commander for OS/2 and eCS

    Source code is here - https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcmd-git/

    Source code is now developed using GIT. Please use new project page here - https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcmd-git/ Larsen Commander for OS/2 Warp and eCS. Consists of two parts; 1) the underlying C++ G-Lib framework that build directly on top of native 32 bit OS/2 APIs and 2) the Larsen Commander application it self, written in C++ on top of that G-Lib framework.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Mini Bash
    C++ A small school project where I had to mimic the Bash Shell using fork(). I use a VERY clever way to pipe the data in compound commands.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    PE objdump

    PE objdump

    Tool to find symbols in windows Library or Executable

    It reads windows Portable Executable file format. DLL & EXE . Coming up with support for name de-mangling Portable Tested on Linux/ SunOS/ Windows - VS10 / Mac You might also want to check https://sourceforge.net/projects/core-dump-analyzer
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    TclFltk

    Dynamic Extension for TCL/TK

    Implements a Tcl binding for the Fast Light Tool Kit portable GUI development environment.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    This is a collection of small utilities written for use in Windows CMD scripts. However some of the utilities are also useful for use in UNIX shells.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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