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Displays the details of shell extensions on your computer, and allows you to disable and enable each shell extension.

Shell Extensions are in-process COM objects which extends the abilities of Windows operating system. Most shell extensions are automatically installed by the operating system, but there are also many other applications that install additional shell extension components. For example: If you install WinZip on your computer, you'll see a special WinZip menu when you right-click on a Zip file. This menu is created by adding a shell extension to the system.

The ShellExView utility displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.

ShellExView can be used for solving context-menu problems in Explorer environment.

What's New:

- New columns: File Attributes and File Size.
- New option: Mark Suspicious Shell Extensions - mark in red color shell extensions with unusual file attribues (hidden/read-only) or with unusual file extensions.