Best Desktop Enhancement Apps

Open Source

TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a Microsoft Windows shell extension.

Free

Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Windows7/8's Symbolic Links.

Shiftit

Open Source

ShiftIt is an application for OSX that allows you to quickly manipulate window position and size using keyboard shortcuts.

Preme for Windows

Free

Preme for Windows speeds up your window switching.

Actual Window Manager

Commercial

Actual Window Manager is many useful tools in one software.

XWidget

Free

XWidget is a Free desktop customization platform. It’s light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very smooth animations.

FCorp Context Menu Manager

Commercial

FCorp Context Menu Manager is a intuitive file associations management and context menu customization utility.

StartIsBack

Commercial

StartIsBack returns Windows 10 and Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7.

Keyboard Maestro

Commercial

Keyboard Maestro is a closed-source commercial macOS-based application that allows automation of routine functions, such as navigating running applications, o…

Screenlets

Open Source

Screenlets is both a Python framework to simplify writing Cairo-drawn desktop widgets, similar to those found in the "Dashboard" feature of OSX, and a collect…

FilerFrog

Open Source

FilerFrog is a new and innovative way of manipulating files in Windows Explorer.

HashCheck Shell Extension

Open Source

HashCheck Shell Extension for Windows with added SHA2, SHA3, and multithreading.

Hashtab

Free Personal

Hashtab can be used to calculate and display hash values from over two dozen popular hashing algorithms like MD5, SHA1, SHA2, RipeMD, HAVAL and Whirlpool.