InfoTag Magic
InfoTag Magic is a Windows shell infotip extension that displays the title, artist, album, year, bit rate, duration and other information stored in the tag fields of MP3, WMA, Monkey's Audio and Ogg Vorbis files in a tooltip window when mouse pointer is hovered over a file in Windows Explorer. ... If you manipulate media files extensively, then this shell extension can be really helpful for you. ... Also it provides quick preview for plain text files, such as TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK and QUE.
http://www.contextmagic.com/ftp/InfoTagFreeSetup.exe - 136Kb - Download - Screenshot

Belkasoft RemovEx
Belkasoft RemovEx allows you to disable Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer plugins (so-called shell extensions). The product shows you all types of extension modules existing in your system. You can select any one you would like to disable and later enable it back. ... You Windows Explorer popup menu become a huge pile of garbage? ... Belkasoft RemovEx will help you to remove extra Windows Explorer menu items and property pages, IE buttons and toolbars, desk bands, tool bands and custom explorer bars.
http://belkasoft.com/download/bre101.zip - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

ShellPlus Components
ShellPlus Components are for Delphi and C++ Builder developers who would like to implement shell/namespace extensions without having to invest large amounts of valuable time investigating the practices and pitfalls of Windows Shell development. This intuitive and easy-to-use component package... The results are powerful applications that provide a high degree of integration with the Windows Shell while leveraging operating system features that their customers make use of every day.
http://www.shellplus.com/files/shellpls.zip - 615Kb - Download - Screenshot

HashTab
A windows shell extension which installs a new tab with file hash information. Includes MD5, SHA1 and CRC032. Also allows for easy hash comparison. Great for verifying downloads without requiring any external tools.
http://www.beeblebrox.org/hashtab/hashtab_setup.exe - 0b - Download - Screenshot

Ortus Shell Components
Add Microsoft® Windows® shell functionality to your applications with this component package! Ortus Shell Components is a component package for the Borland® developer community containing 10 outstanding shell components. Full context sensitive component help file is included. ... - Use TOrtusShellChangeNotifier and get informed about folder and global changes in the shell, including notifications about new media being added or removed. ... - Use TOrtusShellFileAssociation to associate a file extension with your application.
http://www.ortus-software.com/downloads.htm - 488Kb - Download

MaxCrypt Security Suite Standard
MaxCrypt Security Suite is the premiere solution for computer security. It has been specifically designed to help you secure your sensitive information. MaxCrypt Security Suite contains three applications to help you secure your data: MaxCrypt, MaxConceal, and MaxDelete. ... MaxDelete is an easy to use secure deletion system that is integrated into the Windows shell. ... from the shell menu. ... This method will hide and protect all files with this extension across all drives on the computer system.
http://www.kinocode.com/download/MSS_v2_Setup.exe - 4Mb - Download - Screenshot

MP3 Hint
MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain informations extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You'll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genre and track number. ... I'm sure you will appreciate advantages of this extension when you will be renaming your music files, copying choosen compositions for someone, or browsing someone's music collection in the local network - you don't need to download whole file anymore to see what song it is, just hover your mouse cursor over its icon.
http://www.republika.pl/programyaionela/mp3hint.zip - 186Kb - Download - Screenshot

MultiStart
MultiStart is a shell extension for Windows 95/98. The program fits to the trayicon bar and serves to summarize to groups and to start simultaneously various applications. Arbitrarily many program groups can be created and arbitrarily many files may be assigned to them. ... The software builds a popup menu of all created groups and with that a simple mouse click suffices to execute all files which are part of a selected group.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MichaelBrick/multi100.exe - 441Kb - Download - Screenshot

TIFFProp
The TIFFProp property sheet shell extension for Microsoft Windows (tm) is a utility for inspecting the contents of TIFF image files. TIFFProp allows the rapid and detailed inspection of many varieties of TIFF files' contents. It integrates intuitively with the shell allowing a few clicks from... 21, TIFF/EP, and most other known tag specifications. ... Lots of TIFF workflow issues are rapidly resolved using this software, designed specifically to be a power tool in the design and development of software to handle many varieties of TIFF image files, and it can save hours of precious time.
http://www.apexintsoft.com/TIFFPropSoftware/tiffprop_setup.exe - 420Kb - Download - Screenshot

MacInfoTip
MacInfoTip shell extension for Windows 2000 or Windows XP allows you to display Macintosh files information in Windows Explorer tooltips (the yellow balloons that pop up over a file).
http://peccatte.karefil.com/software/MacInfoTip/MacInfoTip.zip - 221Kb - Download - Screenshot