winexpext

A collection of Microsoft Windows Explorer file and folder context-menu extensions.

• Requires .NET 5 installed to build the binaries.
• Designed using Visual Studio Code.

branch	Currently
master
release
develop

To install the extensions in Windows Explorer:

Build the binaries needed

• Download the code, one of the two following ways.

  • Clone this repo to a local folder: git clone https://github.com/rambotech/winexpext.git
  • Download the code as a zip from here, and extract it to a local folder: https://github.com/rambotech/winexpext/archive/master.zip

• Change the current directory to the local folder used above.

• Execute this command line to put the binaries into a new folder.

  • dotnet publish -c release -o c:\apps\winexpext -r win10-x64

Add the extensions to Windows Explorer

• Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the local folder.
• Double-click the file add_winexpext.reg, and import it into the Windows Registry.

Optional cleanup

If you don't plan to add any new functions or tweak the code for your needs:

• Remove the folder from the zip file or the git clone action,

To use it

• Open windows explorer and select a file (not a folder), and right click on a file. There will be new items in the context menu for the following:

  • Timestamped Copy: create a copy of a file, and suffixes the root name with a formated timestamp of the file's last modification timestamp. This is useful for a snapshot in time of the file's content, also known as generational clones. Multiple files can be selected.
  • Timestamped Rename: same as Timestamped Copy above, but does a rename instead. Multiple files can also be selected.

Revision History

2024-07-15 -- v1.2.0

• Add hashing for MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512

2021-06-23 -- v1.1.0

• Better exception handling and expandability.
• Added Travis CI build stuff.

2021-10-14 -- v 1.0.0

• Original version