The "Move to Subfolder" command does not seem to correctly set the focus opening the "Name" dialog.

The focus is not on the text edit, but on the OK button it seems.

To be able to start writing the name immedately it would help if the text edit is directly focused.

(on Windows 10)

Hi, could you explain what Filters.cpp does? Thanks a million!

It appears that when you open the properties box for a .exe file in Windows Explorer for Windows 11 beta, Explorer holds the file open and "in use", which prevents the SKTimeStamp tab from changing any of the time stamps. This is not strictly a SKTimeStamp issue, as one cannot change the time stamps by any means (e.g. PowerShell) while the properties dialog is open. I confirmed via SysInternals Process Explorer that the Explorer process was holding a file handle for the .exe file.

I haven't reproduced this on a system qualified to run Win 11, but see it on a VirtualBox VM with minimal Win32 apps installed, as well as my daily-driver laptop.

This looks more like a Windows bug than an SKTimeStamp issue and I'm happy to report it to MS if that's the consensus here.

I am running into a issue I was hoping you could help give me ideas to narrow down:

I am running Windows 10 1909 and StExBar 1.11.1.1431.

In Windows Explorer if I have the StExBar toolbar enabled, if I do the below:

• double-click on a folder
• then either click the back button in the toolbar, or press Alt-Left on the keyboard to go back to the parent folder
• Windows Explorer will unselect the folder that I previously clicked on

If I hide the StExBar toolbar, then this issue doesn't occur. When I press back, Windows Explorer continues to keep the folder as selected that I previously clicked on.

Is StExBar clearing the selected folder upon clicking back, or is there some other debugging I can do to try to figure out why it's happening?

Thank you for your help.

I tried to hold shift or ctrl before I click on the console toolbar button. But the console is just a regular user. I want to be able to open as administrator with one click.

How do I do this (open CMD as administrator)?

On high DPI display, checkbox for SKTimestamp is pixelated. Can you fix it? :)

I have a general question about Explorer tool band registration. I was wondering why the registration that Stexbar uses does not result in Stexbar being loaded by Internet Explorer. Based on Microsoft's tool band documentation, It seems like the tool band registration process is the same for Internet Explorer and File Explorer. So I'm curious what might be different. Thanks for any info.

Due to eye disabilities, I need to work in high-contrast-mode (e.g. black window background, yellow window text, white frames/borders).

The installer of StExBar uses the system default for the window text color (yellow) but a white background image, too.
Thus the setup/installer window looks like this:

If I do a screenshot and invert the colors, it looks this way:

Could you please try to change your setup/installer to use always a black font or to change the background image to not cover the complete window?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Will you be able to add a new option to do a recursive touch ?
This checkbox-option should be enabled only for folders, of course , and should probably act like:

https://superuser.com/questions/251470/windows-recursive-touch-command -
forfiles /P C:\Path\To\Root /S /C "cmd /c Copy /B @path+,,"

Thanks!

Rafi

Hi there,

Unfortunately, it seems Windows does not honor modified time as the latest time at least according to the Windows Pro 10 system which I am using. I was able to modify the date manually but at times I do need to change the time/date of few miles. If there is a way to automate that process, will be cool.

This is in reference to the tool SKTimeStamp, thank you.

Love the program and just started to add custom commands.
When I leave "Start in" empty the program launches, but if I set it to "%curdir" with or without the apostrophes the program/command doesn't start for me.

Hi I have been using this for some time now and today I found it was no longer in the properties tab I checked for an update to the tool and updated to 64-1.3.6 but it still does not appear.
I wonder if a recent windows update may have caused the problem?
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Brian

Windows 10 Pro
20H2
OS build 19042.906
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0

Hi,

I've tried today to install StExBar64-1.10.2.msi on Windows 10 Pro ver. 1909 (18363.476). After the screen with the button "Install" (with the admin icon) I get a screen with the following message:

"StExBar Setup Wizard ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has been not modified. To install this program at a later time, run Setup Wizard again. Click the Finish button to exit the Setup Wizard."

The same problem if I try start the installer as administrator.

Any help? Where can I find logs of the installer?

Regards,
Jacek

Hi ,

Could it be possible to support the news Windows Terminal ? (https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/p/windows-terminal-preview/9n0dx20hk701?activetab=pivot:overviewtab )
You can launch it using wt.exe in the Windows CLI or from cmd
But when you're a trying add a custom command and select that executable from Stex, you're getting an error.
I think the problem is that the wt.exe is only a symbolic link (file size is zero) and i guess it should be manageg in a specific way by StEx

If you filter a window, and then navigate into a different folder from that list (or the side bar) The filter text stays in the box but it is not applied to the new contents.

It seems like it should either be cleared (my preference) or be applied to the new window contents. So there isn't an unused, stale filter value in the field.

名稱: StExBar
發行者: Open Source Developer, Stefan KUENG
類型: 工具列(toolbar)
架構: 64 位元(x64)
版本: 1.9.0.1290
檔案日期: ‎2017‎年‎3‎月‎8‎日, ‏‎下午 09:35
上次存取日期: ‎2019‎年‎12‎月‎21‎日, ‏‎上午 10:33
類別識別碼: {6C7A85A7-27C6-49CE-98B2-A8479B0DD63D}
使用計數: 0(it never load successful)
封鎖計數: 2(been locked times)
檔案: StExBar.dll
資料夾: C:\Program Files\StExBar

since i use zh_TW(traditional) the info show some different
my system now is win10_1909 with ie ver.11.535.18362.0 (update ver.11.0.165(kb4530677))
i've tried which i can try from GitHub issue or original homepage (even delete the hkcu keys)
but it still can't showup on ie toolbar, even not show the name "StExBar"...

Hi,

I did see you did some changes to the utility about a year ago [1.] but somehow those changes were not replicated to the sourceforge site [2.], can you update it there, maybe with version 2020 or whatever you think is appropriate. Thank you for the utility you provided. -

1. https://github.com/stefankueng/tools/tree/main/SKTimeStamp
2. https://sourceforge.net/projects/stefanstools/files/SKTimeStamp/

Beside StExBar I've installed Open-Shell-Menu 4.4.160
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

As you see in the screenshot I can choose to enable Classic Explorer Bar and StExBar.

Problem is that they are reversed. Activating Classic Explorer Bar activates StExBar and vice versa.

Version:

• StExBar 1.11.2.1469
• OS:
  Edition Windows 10 Home
  Version 20H2
  Installiert am ‎22.‎01.‎2021
  Betriebssystembuild 19042.1237
  Leistung Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0

Additional context
I will also create a ticket at the Classic Explorer Bar.
Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu#849

Easy solution is now available within above issue an Open-Shell-Menu.

Version 1.9.1

Just upgraded from v1.8.4 and dialog looks like:

@stefankueng Your name is not shown correctly.

tks a lot

Could you return the command to create the folder?

i get duplicate menu entries when right clicking on folders in the Windows 7 explorer left pane. This does not happen on right pane (the one showing both files and folders). Stex is the only duplicate entry.

I tried to use Nirsoft's ShellExView to find a solution, but the program shows only two entries: "Ie Toolbar" and "Context menu" (this one linked to the following extensions: Directory\Background, LibraryFolder\background, *, Directory, Drive, Folder, LibraryLocation, opensearchfilefolderresult)

Please provide a fix, and an explanation. Thanks.

After update to Windows 10 1903, the background of StExBar in Explorer become black.

Hi!

Support for Windows Terminal in StEx would be really great.
It's the console replacement from Microsoft: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
It can open console / PS session inside it.

I can add it an element that opens Windows Terminal to the StEx menu, but cannot figure out how to "start in current folder".
This is the link I'm using to start it:

• C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p "Command Prompt"
• C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p "PowerShell"

Up one level button. How do I make this and add it to the StEx tool?

Win2008 does not have this "up one folder level" button standard in explorer.

Hello,

it looks like this commit 31eced54f8c793de4fc817d58efeddf34826573b in the grepWin repo breaks the detection of grepWin at

Would you consider an small update to the detection code?

Using StExBar x64 1.10.2.1381, Windows 10 (1903) on notebook 4K display (3840x2160) set at 200% scaling in Windows settings.
Problem: the Options dialog's help window text metrics are not coordinated with the Windows scaling used on a high DPI display, the text is displayed at 100% but should be displayed at 200%, in other words double the size visible in the attached screen shot.

If the help window was displayed by a separate exe program, then the user could use the High DPI compatibility settings in the compatibility options sheet of Windows Explorer for that exe file, but of course that's not possible here.

The main options window pane text metric seems to be displayed correctly:

Verified against StExBar 1.11.0.1394

If a folder name contains [ and/or ] characters, the folder will not be opened and users will get a message saying Set-Location : Cannot find path 'C:\[Path]' because it does not exist..

To reproduce:

• Create a folder (e.g. C:\[Path])
• Attempt to open it.

For the folder to open correctly, the [ and ] characters appear to need escaping with a backtick.

I appreciate this is an obscure corner case (what sane person uses square uses anything other than alphanumeric characters in directory names?!), but thought I'd mention it anyway.

The standard cmd prompt operates as expected.

I scanned the registry for all references to the dll but is there an easier way to uninstall this since it is a complete no-op? Thanks.

how do I temporarily disable STExBar? I may want to test if it affects another program. So how do I "turn off" the toolbar?

I sometimes perform similar or few different search replaces often so it would be nice if the rename dialog could remember the previously used expression combinations which I can recall easily.

Hi,
I'd like to have a new toolbar button that selects all files with the same extension of the already selected file, is it possible with StExBar?
I hope my request is clear

On the most recent preview flight of Windows 11 - StExBar64 is installed, but the option to show the toolbar is no longer in the explorer menu options (that I can see). How do I enable the toolbar ribbon?
I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, I just can't see where...

If you may count on my voice for feature request #15, I'd love to have more available string related actions in the text replace definition (which could definitively justify the remembering of complex expressions).

More precisely, in the same mood as the ${count} feature, it would seem quite natural to get additional transformation functions such as: ${upper(...)}, ${lower(...)}, ${caps(...)} and eventually more things.

When using the regex rename function on a list of search results in the Windows Explorer the search replace is only applied to part of the entries if the replacement causes the search result to be removed due to the rename from the list of search results.

How to reproduce:

• Create 10 Test files in a directory called "(1-10) Test.txt" (see attached Test.zip)
• Search for these in the explorer by CTRL+F "Test"
• Mark all and use Rename function to rename Test to e.g. Best
• Observe that (depending on the speed of the PC) only part of the results get renamed and some entries rename as "*Test"

When looking at the code in Rename.cpp, it seems that the code does not take into account that executing the rename could cause the number of entries to change:

if (SUCCEEDED(pFolderView->ItemCount(SVGIO_ALLVIEW, &nCount)))
{
    for (int i=0; i<nCount; ++i)
    {
        LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
        if (SUCCEEDED(pFolderView->Item(i, &pidl)))
        {
            // ... Rename 

Possible solutions:

• Iterate from nCount-1 to 0
• Check after each rename if ItemCount has become less than nCount.
• Don't perform the rename using pFolderView at all, but pass the path names of all selected items into the Rename Dialog and operate on the paths directly.

And of course: Thank you for the excellent StExBar!

How can i create new folders, also how can i create in internal web path ? (\othercomputer\new folder)

I would like to recommend the ability to open the Console or PowerShell windows As Administrator by the user holding down Ctrl+Shift when they click on the toolbar icon. This is the natural Windows behavior when launching either from the Start Menu, or any application or file in Windows Explorer for that matter. Ctrl+Shift = Administrator

Unfortunately, when adding any 3rd user custom command (in addition to the standard ones) in Options, only 2 user custom commands remain after saving (the newest one and one of two existing).

i couldn't build this project .how to run file .build?

Hi, I had a general question about Explorer toolbars and was wondering if you could help. Do you know if it's possible to hide/minimize/resize a toolbar dynamically?

I've been experimenting and can't figure out if it's possible. Simply hiding the toolbar's hwnd does not work. In that case, the toolbar will be hidden, but the host window will still be there, so there will be just a blank rectangle.

So I tried IOleCommandTarget::Exec with DBID_BANDINFOCHANGED, and I was able to successfully trigger a new call to GetBandInfo. But it appears that providing new values won't change the host position. It seems that the ones provided on startup always govern, though maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Do you know the trick to get something like this to work? Thanks for any help.

I just installed the StExBar 1.9.0 because I wanted to easily change the dates modified for some drone video files, but after installing and rebooting I don't see the new dates tab in explorer properties. However, ExBar is there and can be shown.

I'm on windows 10 build 1903.

Device is asus fx505du laptop.

Hi, could you explain what Filter.cpp does? Thank you very much!

hi
please add quick search or filter for search file name in current folder
just fast search

Thanks for an immensely useful tool!

For file syncing, it would be great if there could be a way to set date and time for all three fields Created, Last Modified and Last Accessed at once.

Maybe a fourth date/time field below Last Accessed and a button next to it: "Apply to all the above".

Again many thanks for the effort on these tools.

What MS did to the naviation pane is terrible, I really hate the Quick Access section and everything grouped under This PC. I prefer to have it the old way: drives and folders and separately my favourites or bookmarks.

So I cleared all Quick Access items to minimise that, but it would be wonderful if I could add bookmarks to the StEx toolbar. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!

Hi there,
i found your StExBar and it seems very usefull! :)

But it would be nice to change the Colors to properly integrate in the Windows 10 Dark Mode.

Because of now the "Black" Background looks a little ugly with a greyish Explorer ^^
It also seems the "Seperators" are Broken in Windows 10 Dark Mode and the Bar Name "StEx" Background is still white in Dark Mode.

Tested in Windows 10 Version 1809 (Build 17763.503)

Screenshot of the Bar in Dark Mode:

Possibly you can add a Custom Color feature for the whole Bar and Font?

Maybe you also can add the Option to individually Show/Hide the Button Text for each Button (especially Options Button) and also Move/Show/Hide the StEx Text?

I know all this is just Style and not priority but if no one ask it maybe never will be added ;)

--

Anyway...
Great Project and please keep go on with it! :)

Instead of just running commands in the console bar, maybe you can add search capabilities using the everything search engine
and if you put > then it would run a console command.

Over time I have created a lot of custom menus and i see most of them get hidden on the right. It would be nice if I could group some of the commands into a submenu or multi-level dropdown menus like the browser bookmarks.

Wonderful application! I use it continuously.
Could the STExBar be placed next to the Quick Access Taskbar?
In the same line.

When you have multiple windows, it is important to reserve space for files.

Thank you

I apologize in advance, this is probably a stupid question.
I am more used to sourceforge than github.

Github directs to https://tools.stefankueng.com/SKTimeStamp.html to download.
The download link there goes to sourceforge:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/stefanstools/files/SKTimeStamp/
Most recent version on sourceforge is
SKTimeStamp64-1.3.5.msi 2016-11-19

And the top page on Sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/stefanstools/
indicates the project has moved to Github
https://github.com/stefankueng/tools

Documentation here on Github suggests that there should be a newer version of SKTimeStamp, at minimum, with an updated Readme showing a 2020 copyright date.

Is 1.3.5 the current release? Or am I missing something?

Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for any light you can shed.

Dan