Top 15 FirmTools ShellExtension Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

FirmTools ShellExtension is a real handy freebie for Windows users.

Install this tool and it will add three new options to your menu when you right click on a picture file: convert, print, and thumbnail preview.

Converting supports most of the formats you will ever need: JPEG, TIFF, PSD, PNG, GIF, BMP, TGA, PCX, and a few others.
The thumbnail option is particularly handy when you are in a file open dialog of the program that lacks the image preview functionality. Clicking on the thumbnail will open the image in the default program.
For printing, there are no options, you get a centered image with the file path at the top of the page. ...

1. FastPreview

FastPreview FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.Features:Fast Viewer - Showing the image incl. different scaling types......

2. SageThumbs

SageThumbs SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).Features Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu) Extended info tips Support 162 image formats (224 extensions)......

3. PicaView

PicaView PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.It also offers full-screen viewing, image printing and converting. It supports 17 popular......

4. Instant ThumbView

Instant ThumbView Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick......

5. ThumbView

ThumbView ThumbView enables image thumbnails and tooltips in Microsoft Windows XP Explorer (does not work on Windows 7) for filetypes that are not natively supported. It started with PCX, TGA, DDS and PNG images, but now ThumbView supports an amazing 19 image types - directly inside any Explorer window: Image types......

6. XnShell

XnShell XnShell is a free File Explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC metadata, uploading to ImageShack, and other functions.......

7. Context Viewer

Context Viewer Context Viewer is an explorer extension in the form of a Control Panel applet that lets you preview image files and text in the right click menu. It can also display customized information about images and set hotkeys to enable or disable the preview along with a few more options.......

8. Icaros

Icaros Icaros is a collection of lightweight, high quality, Windows Shell Extensions, which is capable of providing Windows Explorer thumbnails for essentially any video media filetype. Icaros can provide Windows Explorer thumbnails, for essentially any video media format supported by FFmpeg which includes popular filetypes such as: Mkv, Flv, Avi, Mp4,......

9. GraphicConverter

GraphicConverter GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits Raster graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. GraphicConverter can import about 200 file types and export 80. Images can also be retouched, edited, and transformed using tools, effects and filters. The software supports most Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, including......

10. Pixillion Image Converter

Pixillion Image Converter Pixillion is an easy to use image file converter for Windows and Mac. * Convert images to jpeg, gif, png, bmp, and more * Rotate, resize and compress digital photos * Easily add captions or watermarks to your images......

11. MysticThumbs

MysticThumbs MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images. It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything......

12. One Commander

One Commander One Commander (previously bitCommander) is a Windows file manager (Windows 7, 8 and 10) with improved Miller Columns (OSX Finder's column view) and two-panel support. It simplifies file management with intelligent file representation, relative file dates (shown as days since creation), ToDo notes in any folder, batch file processing without......

13. CBX Shell

CBX Shell CBX Shell provides Windows Explorer thumbnail and infotip extensions for image archives. It enables thumbnail preview for ZIP, CBZ, CBR and RAR image archives. Windows Explorer will display a thumbnail image of the first photo in the archive instead of the generic archive icon.......

14. SVG Explorer Extension

SVG Explorer Extension Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.......

15. PDF-ShellTools

PDF-ShellTools Interact with your PDF documents directly from the Windows Shell! OverviewPDF-ShellTools is a software that extend the Windows Shell and provide access to several tools to work with PDF documents directly from the Shell environment.With it we can perform many common tasks with our PDF documents, and without the need......