Windows 8.x Explorer Rebar Tweaker 0.4.2.3 by DBlake1

Windows 8.x Explorer Rebar Tweaker 0.4.2.3 by DBlake1

Here's another little program I've been working on for the last few days. This time, a program that allows you to tweak the Explorer Navigation Pane (or Rebar as Windows calls it).

DOWNLOAD 0.4.2.3: adf.ly/o7tud

DIRECT: mega.co.nz/#!kJ9m0CQA!zc_IILNb…
ALTERNATE (OneDrive): goo.gl/OZP0lu

This allows you to:
- Hide the Up button
- Hide the Search bar
- Change padding after the search bar
- Change padding before and after the address bar
- Change the padding before the Nav buttons

All settings are configurable in the settings.ini file or with the new configuration GUI.

BE SURE that you extract the settings.ini IN THE SAME FOLDER with the EXE for your OS architecture (normal or x64).

I hate to sound like a beggar, but would you please consider donating a few pennies to me so I can finally purchase Windows Style Builder? I have great theme ideas (as you've probably seen).
www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?…

Thank you for your support! I'm constantly working on this tool, adding little tweaks here and there, so be sure to

this so you don't miss any updates!

FlyingPoring Featured By Owner Aug 13, 2015 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for this! Some of my themes look better after adjusting the padding.

THEMEIT Featured By Owner Apr 4, 2015 Student Interface Designer

all links are dead

jasonarg Featured By Owner Jan 2, 2015

Do you know how to change the background color of the rebar? That would be the only thing I wanted to tweak.

Luksy78 Featured By Owner Dec 13, 2014

Does not work. I use only Ribbon Disabler for Windows 8 by hb860.

Luksy78 Featured By Owner Dec 13, 2014

I'm sry, I was wrong, it works, you only need to put it in the system32 folder which I forgot

Ansus Featured By Owner Oct 28, 2014

How to hide the rebar altogether?

coroners Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2014 Professional Interface Designer

Any chance to hide the "Organize" menu under the rebar? I want it gone! Any help would be appreciated.

coroners Featured By Owner Oct 7, 2014 Professional Interface Designer

Also this program does not work for me anymore. I am on Windows 8.1 and I had luck in the beginning but now the tweaker has no effect and the all the stuff that worked from the start is reset to default. So help with that needed to. Keep up the good work and thanks a lot for sharing! PEACE.

Seahorsepip Featured By Owner May 24, 2014 Professional Interface Designer

Too much traffic to dropbox link...

DBlake1 Featured By Owner May 24, 2014

Added alternate links, thanks for reporting.

Watercoolio Featured By Owner May 22, 2014

works not with Windows x64 8.1 Update 1.

DBlake1 Featured By Owner May 22, 2014

Worked fine for me when I used it. If you use any other utilities that change the rebar it won't work.

subi54 Featured By Owner May 9, 2014 Student Photographer

Hi, thank you for your hard work.
Is there a way to get rid of the help button?

ajdip Featured By Owner Mar 27, 2014 Professional Interface Designer

its great for styling

Danlosant Featured By Owner Jan 8, 2014 Professional Interface Designer

I don´t even use w8, but this is pretty cool!!

neiio Featured By Owner Jan 4, 2014 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Cool app mate!

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2013

Version 0.4.2.3 is out! I improved the code a bit in this release. I also added a new "Run at Startup" option to the tray menu.

savouryspacemonkey Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2013

This was a great tool. Note that download is dead. Is it likely to return?

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2013

Oops, forgot to update it when I organized my Dropbox folders. Updated link is in the OP.

zydrius32 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2013

Removing Up button doesn’t work in other windows: img209.imageshack.us/img209/77…

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 20, 2013

I know. This is something that won't be fixed. It uses far too much memory and CPU power to check each window on the system for existence of the Up button, Search bar and Padding elements.

zydrius32 Featured By Owner Dec 30, 2013

Maybe there’s a way to only check specific window types (like the one in the screenshot)? For example, your program wouldn’t check normal Google Chrome windows, but would check Open / Save dialogs of Chrome.

MrGRiM01 Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

I have been experiencing allot of explorer restarts using this tool, I have it set to start with windows but allot of the time when I open the first window explorer will restart, sometimes if you open a window again just after the restart it will restart again, if you leave it a few seconds though the window will open, not sure if it's only x64 related or if it could possibly be the padding settings I am using, I have it set to -3 after search and -6 before the nav buttons.

here is what I have in event viewer.

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.3.9600.16441, time stamp: 0x5265dec8
Faulting module name: Comctl32.dll, version: 6.10.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215fcbd
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000000007f35
Faulting process id: 0xe5c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cefc6865487479
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft.windows.common-controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.9600.16384_none_62475f7becb72503\Comctl32.dll
Report Id: a7a1d3eb-685b-11e3-82ef-000c295ef3e6
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2013

Hmm, I haven't been having any issues at all. I use Windows 8.1 x64 with all latest updates. I might know a solution; though I'm not too sure.

MrGRiM01 Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

It's fine once a window has been opened successfully, every window after that will not have a problem, it just seems to be the first initial window after you log on, like it's trying to load the changes and fails, it's not every time but it does seem to be fairly regular, I'm also running on VMware so maybe that could have something to do with it as well, I did try changing the padding to see if that made a difference, I had them all set to 0 but still had the restarts.

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2013

I started over from scratch and I think I solved the issue. Unfortunately, this means the program needs to be restarted to apply changes, but I added a "Restart program" menu item to counter that.

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2013

It seems that the method I use (shell hooking) needs to wait until explorer is fully loaded before applying tweaks. Unfortunately, I don't know how to counter that in autoit as of now.

hamedsp Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2013 Professional Interface Designer

good tools again , featured: skinpacks.com/windows-8-x-expl…

hb860 Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013

Cool. Great work!

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013

New version is going to be released momentarily. Here's what's added/changed:
- "Navigation buttons width" changed to "Padding before Nav buttons" to reflect what it actually does
-- The Padding setting now starts at 0 instead of 83, making for less confusion
- Reworked Up button and Search bar hide method to be compatible with more themes
- Added setting to change padding before Address bar
- Added donate link in ConfigurationGUI.exe
-- Donate link is as non-intrusive as possible, so no pop-ups or garbage like that
-- Can be hidden by manually editing the INI file
- Cleaned up/optimized code so it runs a bit better/uses a little less memory

MrGRiM01 Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Nice update mate, I did notice the memory usage was a little high for such a small tool.

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 18, 2013

I still have yet to figure out why the x64 version uses so much memory compared to the x86...

DM-moinmoin Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013

It's great, DBlake1.

Featured on www.deskmodder.de/blog/2013/12…

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013

Thanks!

Ratchet-lombris Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Does this require any startup software?

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 17, 2013

Just place a shortcut to the main EXE in your Startup folder (located in "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup").

Ratchet-lombris Featured By Owner Dec 19, 2013 Hobbyist Photographer

Oh, I know how to start it on startup, I was just wondering if it was a temp-fix (like it is) or if it edited the registry/theme dll files haha. Might try it out soon!

MrGRiM01 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Just sent you a $20 cup of coffee as well

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

Wow, thanks so much!

MrGRiM01 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013 Hobbyist Interface Designer

Thanks Blake, this is another great little tool, keep up the awesome work mate.

thepanda-x Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

I've yet to download it, however does it support changing the height of the nav buttons as well as the width?

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

The height of the nav buttons is changed by making the nav buttons taller in the MSStyles.

thepanda-x Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

My mistake, I'm still thinking of Windows Vista/7 days. But the width also updates with the buttons in the msstyles. Unless I'm missing something. i.cubeupload.com/YnwbkC.png

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

That's true, it does. My tool changes the left margin of the buttons. I should rename that function...

thepanda-x Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

Ah, I understand now.

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

Also, you might like this: dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/90…

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

Left-most margin*

DBlake1 Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

Update 0.3.0.2 is out! This update adds a configuration GUI.

Vishal-Gupta Featured By Owner Dec 16, 2013

The program looks great and works great as well. Do you plan to add a UI to this little program? It'll be great if you do as it'll help people in applying the tweaks easily without modifying the INI file manually.