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Desktop Tooling builds focused utilities that improve everyday Windows desktop work: managing windows and processes, extending File Explorer, following a theme schedule, bridging hardware, and providing guided assistance.

Projects

  • Home — This portal and catalog for the complete Desktop Tooling documentation set.

  • Activity Map Shell — A Windows activity map for arranging process and window blocks, launching apps, and returning to attached windows.

  • Thumbelina — A multiboot USB manager for live ISOs, thin Btrfs installations, or both on one drive.

  • SVGesus — A Windows shell extension that renders SVG files as File Explorer thumbnails.

  • Explorer Refresh Thumbcache — A File Explorer context-menu command that clears thumbnail caches and restarts Explorer.

  • Windows Theme Autochanger — A Windows background service and tray app that switches light and dark themes on a schedule.

  • Nikon Camera Bridge — A Windows-first bridge toward Nikon USB video, a virtual camera, and HTTP camera controls.

  • Desktop Assistant AI — An experimental Windows assistant for coding and desktop guidance using screenshots, speech, and AI models.

Scope

Desktop Tooling owns OS-level desktop utilities. Interaction-design research belongs to HCI Nerdz, shells and command-line composition belong to OpenShellOrg, and developer-machine tooling belongs to Dev-Centr.

For the detailed boundary, read Division of labor and Principles.