dzonder

Dzonder is a small, developer-focused publisher that emerged from the open-source community to solve one of Windows’ long-standing SSH annoyances. Its single public offering, SSHells, is a lightweight system tray utility that automatically intercepts new OpenSSH sessions and presents a concise picker dialog for the desired command interpreter—PowerShell, CMD, Git Bash, WSL, or any custom shell—eliminating the need to remember login-time flags or maintain multiple host aliases. Typical use cases range from administrators who hop between heterogeneous fleets and want consistent interactive shells, to DevOps engineers who launch quick maintenance sessions from VS Code terminals and prefer PowerShell Core over the default cmd.exe, to security auditors who need a bash environment on remote Windows nodes without altering server-side configurations. Written in C# and distributed under the MIT license, the tool respects the existing Windows OpenSSH plumbing, requires no background service, and stores its per-host preferences in a portable JSON file that can be synced across workstations. Dzonder’s minimalist approach keeps the download under a megabyte and the memory footprint near zero until an SSH connection actually appears. SSHells is available for free on get.nero.com, where the latest build is delivered through the winget repository and can be installed standalone or batched alongside other trusted Windows utilities.