Top 15 StExBar Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

The StExBar provides many useful commands for your everyday use of Windows explorer. And you can add as many custom commands on your own as you like.
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The commands are not just available from the toolbar, but also via hotkeys and via a context menu!

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.

1. CBX Shell

CBX Shell CBX Shell provides Windows Explorer thumbnail and infotip extensions for image archives. It enables thumbnail preview for ZIP, CBZ, CBR and RAR image archives. Windows Explorer will display a thumbnail image of the first photo in the archive instead of the generic archive icon.......

2. eXtra Buttons

eXtra Buttons eXtra Buttons lets you add up to 10 additional buttons to the title bar of each window, which allow you to minimize the window to the tray, keep it on-top, send it to the background, adjust the window's transparency and more. There are three options for minimizing windows, you can......

3. FSL Launcher

FSL Launcher Tired of dozens of icons on your desktop?Try this simple, yet powerful & intuitive launcher to organize your shortcuts.Some features:Shortcuts management for applications, documents, url links, folder paths and more...Categorical organization (multi-tab launcher) with fast selection menu:......

4. Wincmder Shellex

Wincmder Shellex Wincmder Shellex is a Windows shell extension, which can display your desktop icons in right click context menu once they are organized into folders.......

5. XnShell

XnShell XnShell is a free File Explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC metadata, uploading to ImageShack, and other functions.......

6. Instant ThumbView

Instant ThumbView Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick......

7. Ninotech Date Edit

Ninotech Date Edit Ninotech Date Edit is a shell extension that enables you to change the date and time of your files from inside Windows Explorer.......

8. Link Shell Extension

Link Shell Extension Link Shell Extension (LSE) provides for the creation of Hardlinks , Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Vistas Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) and a Folder Cloning process that utilizes Hardlinks or Symbolic Links. LSE, as its name implies is implemented as a Shell extension and is......

9. AudioShell

AudioShell AudioShell is a freeware MS Windows Explorer shell extension plug-in which allows you to view and edit ID3 metadata tags directly in Windows Explorer. It supports all files and tags standards supported by Tag&Rename - mp3 tag editor. AudioShell adds ID3 tag editor and viewer tabs to the music files......

10. liquidFOLDERS

liquidFOLDERS liquidFOLDERS stores all files in a separate area of your computer we call "store". A store does not have a fixed directory tree (let alone one that you'll have to manage yourself), but is one big thing. Just like with an industry grade database, you can slice and dice that......

11. Better Explorer

Better Explorer This is a replacement for the standard Windows Explorer with more features for more convenience.Features:Archive Support: 7zip, xz, bzi2, zip, gzip, tarFolder/ Drive Size Chart:Easily FInd big filesRibbon: As known from windows 8 and microsoft office - now also for the Windows 7 Explorer!......

12. PicaView

PicaView PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.It also offers full-screen viewing, image printing and converting. It supports 17 popular......

13. Video Paper

Video Paper Set a video as your wallpaper.......

14. VDesktop

VDesktop VDesktop is a program that allows users to have animated wallpaper on their Windows desktop. VDesktop supports Windows 7, 8, 10.How to use: Use WMV files with vDesktop to apply animated video wallpapers to your desktop.Note: WMV files with WMV3 codec.Premium Features+ Low CPU usage: It is designed for continuous......

15. ThumbWin

ThumbWin ThumbWin can minimize the window on your desktop as thumbnails.......