StExBar
In case you haven't noticed it yet, there's a new link on the top right, leading to a page with tools/utilities I wrote. For some time, there were only three tools available:
FavIconizer, which forces the Internet Explorer to keep the favicons of the websites listed in your favorites, SRBar, which helps selecting and renaming files/folders in the current Windows Explorer view and DemoHelper which is a really nice tool to be used when you need to explain something on your computer to another person or to a whole audience.
But now, I've added the StExBar to the tools page too. The StExBar is maybe the best add-on for the Windows Explorer out there. Let me describe what this tool can do for you:
Have you ever needed to open a console window while you were using the explorer? And to have that console already set to the directory you're showing in explorer right now? Well, StExBar provides that with one simple mouseclick. There's also a hotkey defined for this: simply press Ctrl-M to open the console.
A 'lightweight' console is also available. Simply enter the command you like to execute into the edit box on the right of the StExBar and hit enter. The command will be executed in the system console.
Have you ever needed to have the name or full path of one or more files in another application? Ctrl-C doesn't work here, that won't copy the file path but the file itself. StExBar comes to the rescue. It provides two commands, one to copy all selected file/foldernames to the clipboard, the other copies the whole paths of all selected items. To make it even more easier to use this, a hotkey is defined Ctrl-Shift-C which copies the selected paths.
Another use of this feature is when you want to send your coworker a link to a file on a network share of your fileserver. Usually, you have mapped the network shares you need to a drive letter, but of course you have no idea if your coworkers have the same share mapped to the same drive. So just copy-paste the local path won't work, you need the UNC path pointing directly to the network share. The "copy selected file/foldernames" feature automatically converts such paths to UNC paths before copying them to the clipboard.
Creating new folders is a common task in explorer. But to actually do that, you have to right-click on a folder background, choose "New" from the context menu, wait until the submenu finally appears, then choose "Folder" from that submenu. Not anymore! StExBar provides you the same with one easy click. Or even faster with the assigned hotkey: just press Ctrl-Shift-N and you have a new folder created in the current directory.
StExBar can also help you renaming multiple files at once. It uses Regular Expression strings to do so.
You can add your own commands to the StExBar and define hotkeys for them. Just follow the detailed instructions and examples in the config file.
the options dialog
For example, the two commands I always add first:
[00Notepad]
name = Editor
commandline = %windir%\system32\notepad.exe %selpaths
hotkey = 0x45
hotkey_alt = 0
hotkey_shift = 1
hotkey_control = 1
[01VS80COMNTOOLS]
name = VS2005 Console
commandline = %COMSPEC% /k "%VS80COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"
hotkey = 0x4d
hotkey_alt = 0
hotkey_shift = 1
hotkey_control = 1
The first command opens Notepad for the selected file. The second command opens the console window and automatically sets the environment variables to use the VS2005 compiler tools. As you can see, I've also set hotkeys for both of these custom commands: Ctrl-Shift-E to open notepad, Ctrl-Shift-M to get the VS2005 console.
A small warning: once you've installed this tool and got used to it, you won't want to ever live without it!
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