Top 15 Win Library Tool Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

(Later versions of Windows may have added some of this app's functionality, into File Explorer gui so check first).

From the developer:
Windows libraries (introduced in Windows 7) could have been a really useful feature of Windows, however unfortunately they arrived in a slighly cut-down form out of the box. Microsoft decided against exposing some really useful capabilities to users, like adding network locations, pretty much the first thing I tried to do. You get this message:

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