Nilesoft Shell Pro 2.0.2

Nilesoft Shell Pro 2.0.2 is a community fork of Nilesoft Shell by Moudey and Nilesoft: the same context-menu extension and .nss configuration language, with security and stability fixes, a per-user mode that needs no administrator rights, and an app to set it up and configure it. It is not an official Nilesoft release.

Caution

If the original Nilesoft Shell is installed, uninstall it before installing Nilesoft Shell Pro. Pro has its own name and does not replace the original (installed with its own installer, winget, Scoop or Chocolatey, or a portable copy), so both stay registered with Explorer and collide: the context menu can stop appearing or show up twice. Uninstall it from Settings > Apps > Installed apps; for a portable copy run shell -unregister -restart from its folder and delete the folder. Back up your shell.nss and imports folder first if you want to keep your configuration. Updating from an earlier Nilesoft Shell Pro version is fine.

Documentation: https://abdullah-masood-05.github.io/Shell/. About this fork there lists everything this fork changes, and each earlier release lists its own changes.

What's new in 2.0.2

• Sharper look: cards, panels, inputs and buttons use near-square 2 to 3 px corners; toggles, dots and slider thumbs stay round.
• Open with: "Open in VS Code", "Open in Zed" and the other apps you switch on appear as separate items directly under WinRAR (or after Open in new window), instead of in an "Open in" submenu. Switching an app off also hides that app's own menu entries (for example PowerShell 7 or Open Git Bash here); the row lists what it hides.
• Other apps' menu items: entries that other programs added can be hidden one by one, and leftovers from uninstalled programs (whose program no longer exists) are flagged with a one-click Hide.
• Acrylic: choosing Acrylic no longer writes an opacity of 0; an auto opacity shows as Auto, the tint writes background.tintcolor, and the live preview matches the real menu.
• Config Editor: syntax highlighting while editing, and tabs shown as indentation (saved back unchanged).

Install

Download	For	Notes
setup-x64.msi	Windows x64	Per-machine install to C:\Program Files\Nilesoft Shell. Needs administrator rights once. Includes the app.
setup-arm64.msi	Windows on ARM	As above; the app is the x64 build and runs under emulation.
setup-x86.msi	32-bit Windows	No app; the Start menu entry opens shell.exe.
NilesoftShellPro-2.0.2-x64-portable.zip	Windows x64, one user	No administrator rights. Extract to e.g. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\NilesoftShellPro, then run NilesoftShellPro.exe, or shell.exe -register -user -treat and shell.exe -restart. See PORTABLE.txt in the zip.

The MSI upgrades an earlier Nilesoft Shell Pro installation in place (same folder, your shell.nss is kept) and appears as "Nilesoft Shell Pro" in Installed apps. It does not reliably replace the original Nilesoft Shell: uninstall that first (see the warning above).

Verify downloads against SHA256SUMS.txt:

Get-FileHash .\setup-x64.msi -Algorithm SHA256

Unsigned binaries

The MSIs, shell.exe, shell.dll and NilesoftShellPro.exe are not code-signed. Windows SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" when you run the installer or NilesoftShellPro.exe; choose More info, then Run anyway, if you trust this release. Check the SHA-256 hash first.

Report problems at https://github.com/Abdullah-Masood-05/Shell/issues and include the output of shell.exe -status. Questions and ideas are welcome in Discussions.

Credits

Nilesoft Shell is created by Moudey and Nilesoft and released under the MIT License. Many fixes were ported, with credit in each commit, from the opj161, TCNOco, arvaidasre, iMAboud and iGerman00 forks and from pull requests to Nilesoft Shell by YESNLars, haoze-evolluling, xiaobsh, denismattos, v4806, jtabox, loliri and MissinLinkk05551.