Top 7 C++ shell-extension Projects

Shell

20 2,532 8.5 C++

Powerful context menu manager for Windows File Explorer (by moudey)

Project mention: How can I remove the "modern" right click options on windows 11? | /r/pcmasterrace | 2023-06-12

If you want to keep the look of the new menu, but revert to the old entries you can try Nilesoft Shell

tortoisegit

35 1,372 9.4 C++

Windows Explorer Extension to Operate Git; Mirror of official repository https://tortoisegit.org/sourcecode

Project mention: I don't know why so many devs avoid a GUI for Git | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-11-29

InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
SmartRename

5 566 0.0 C++

A Windows Shell Extension for more advanced bulk renaming using search and replace or regular expressions

Project mention: SmartRename VS PSFilenameCleaner - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/SmartRename | 2023-08-22

rom-properties

1 433 9.9 C++

ROM Properties Page shell extension
DarkThumbs

1 355 1.8 C++

Adds thumbnail preview to Windows Explorer for EPUB, FB2 and Kindle ebooks; CBZ, CBR, RAR and ZIP archives.
fhash

4 308 9.4 C++

fHash - an open source files hash calculator for Windows and macOS

Project mention: For those who've recently switched from Windows to Mac, what's the one app you miss the most? | /r/macapps | 2023-05-28

Or fHash https://github.com/sunjw/fhash (free).

LiteBox

1 7 7.4 C++

Alternative Taskbar |
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).