LSENext (Link Shell Extension Next)

LSENext is a modern Windows 11 Explorer shell extension — a Link Shell Extension successor — focused on fast right-click context menu creation of:

• Symbolic links (symlink)
• Directory junctions (junction)
• Hard links (hardlink)

Keywords: Link Shell Extension, Link Shell Extension Next, LSE, Windows 11 context menu, Explorer shell extension, symlink, junction, hardlink.

Demo

v0.2.3 Scope

• Pick one or more link sources from Explorer.
• Drop file/directory symbolic links into a target directory.
• Drop file hard links for file sources.
• Drop directory junctions for directory sources.
• Register LSENext as a Windows 11 native Explorer context menu through package identity when setup finishes in the signed-in user's session.
• Unregister the per-user package identity when uninstall finishes in the signed-in user's session.
• Preserve picked state per user at %LOCALAPPDATA%\LSENext\state.json.
• Build x64 and arm64 Windows artifacts from GitHub Actions.

Build

cargo test --workspace

Packaging is done in GitHub Actions:

• .github/workflows/alpha.yml for alpha pre-releases
• .github/workflows/release.yml for manual pre-releases

Artifacts are published from the workflow run and written to artifacts\ during the job.