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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: 317 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.
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    Downloads: 41 This Week
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    Swish
    Access your remote files over SFTP directly from Windows Explorer and 'My Computer'.
    Downloads: 13 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: 20 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 a smart Task Manager that lets you manage priority, transparency, visibility of your processes with few clicks. It lets you kill one process or all processes 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 2013, and was downloaded over 200K times, However, it was decommissioned in 2013 by the sole developer Arif Ali Saiyed This tool was free with optional donations to milaap.org that raised about $1400 and just that small amount helped 15,372 needy people through microlending and created a new source of income stream for 3401 entrepreneurs. Check out the link below to see the impact you all made by donating. https://milaap.org/users/6877/impact
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    Downloads: 9 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: 34 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: 10 This Week
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    fish

    fish

    The user-friendly command line shell

    Finally, a command line shell for the 90s. fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family. fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0! fish supports 24 bit true color, the state of the art in terminal technology. Behold the monospaced rainbow. fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write esac again. For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page. Other shells support programmable completions, but only fish generates them automatically by parsing your installed man pages. fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work, with nothing new to learn or configure.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    The Technical Library Template Interface is a library capable of providing standardized interfaces in Creative Commons EAL-4 standards to the open source community.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    mp3ext
    This is Michael Mutschler's famous mp3 shell extension, also available for Windows7 and 64 bit.
    Downloads: 13 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: 7 This Week
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    Squirrel Shell is a cross-platform alternative to system shells like bash in Linux and cmd.exe in Microsoft Windows. It is based on scripting language "Squirrel".
    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: 7 This Week
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    Dreamos is an operating system developed on Sega Dreamcast to be ported to an array of embedded devices. The goal of the project is to be able to run non-ported Unix programs on the Sega Dreamcast and other embedded devices with ease and POSIX compliance
    Downloads: 6 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: 6 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.
    Downloads: 6 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: 3 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: 5 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: 4 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: 4 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: 2 This Week
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    RunAsAdmin Explorer Shim is a tool that lets administrators to keep and easily use their administrative rights but still enjoy safety of using least privileged accounts.
    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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    SharpShellScript allows to use C# or VB.NET and the whole .NET Framework to create Windows or Console scripts. The scripts are compiled on-the-fly in IL and then executed. They can be edited, compiled and executed through an Explorer shell extension.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Zenipex Library
    The Zenipex Library is a game development framework, created with the goal of allowing someone with some knowledge of C++ to create 3D games for platforms including Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. OpenGL and Direct3D 9 are both supported.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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