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StExBar is a lightweight and practical software application that adds new entries to the Windows Explorer right-click menu, giving you more control over files and folders.

It lets you customize the exact options you want to integrate by setting custom commands. Hotkeys are supported.

The installation operation doesn't take long, after which the tool adds a new entry to your file explorer's context menu, whose submenu includes options for viewing system files and extensions, opening a Command Prompt dialog in the current location, copying file names or full paths, renaming items, and moving them to specific subfolders.

As far as configuration settings are concerned, you can hide the button text on the toolbar, ask the utility to copy UNC paths, select the edit box between console, PowerShell, grepWin, filter or automatic, hide it, as well as hide commands in the context menu or add new ones.

New commands can be added to the menu by specifying a display name, icon, command line, starting location, and hotkey. It's possible to add a separator as well as to keep the new command visible when showing system or file system folders, selecting files or directories, or when nothing is selected, depending on your preferences.

The properties of custom commands can be edited anytime, or they can be removed from the menu if you change your mind. Help documentation is available.

We haven't experienced stability issues in our tests, since the utility didn't freeze, crash or prompt errors. Unsurprisingly, it didn't burden the computer's performance, using low CPU and RAM.

On the other hand, you must be familiarized with command lines to be able to easily add custom items in the right-click menu. Sadly, StExBar is not that intuitive for inexperienced users.