![]() ![]() Note that the Explorer menu bar becomes disabled while the tabs bar is enabled. You may need to close and reopen Explorer again to see the tabs bar. Go to View > Toolbars and select QTTabBar to enable the tabs. Make sure all Explorer windows are closed and install, open Explorer and hold the Alt key to show the menu bar. If the QTTabBar view option does not appear, close all Explorer windows and try again. Click on the lower half of the Options button (far right) and select the QTTabBar entry. Tabs are not enabled automatically by QTTabBar and you have to turn the tab toolbar on manually from within Explorer.Īfter installing QTTabBar, open an Explorer window and go to the View tab on the ribbon. Luckily, there is a reset to default button on each page if you get lost. The options window has literally hundreds of settings to play with. Other features available in QTTabBar include button command toolbars, extra folder views (similar to a dual pane file manager), text and media file preview tooltips, application launcher, event triggers, scripting and even free enhancement plugins (available from the website). ![]() The right click menu on the tab bar includes some other useful additions like an advanced rename dialog and a keyboard shortcut finder. Tabs can be rearranged and grouped together, you can also simply drag a folder onto the tab bar to open a new tab. Once tabs are enabled they will appear below the Explorer ribbon in Windows 8/10 or above the Window Vista/7 toolbar. QTTabBar is a multi purpose utility with a number of other useful features besides tabbing Explorer windows. The main branch version is currently 1038 from 2015, the other branch (v1.5.0.0b2) is several years older and abandoned. QTTabBar has been around for over a decade, it is also slightly confusing because there are two separate branches of the program with the same name. All tools were tested on Windows 7 and 10 64-bit. Here we list six free tools that give you the ability to integrate multiple Explorer windows into a single window with the help of tabs. The only current option of using Windows Explorer with tabs is with the help of a third party utility. Microsoft has so far resisted adding tabs to Explorer, although this may change in future with the Windows 10 Sets feature. The built in Windows file manager, Explorer, still uses one single window per folder view. Tabs are also a common feature found in third party file managers like Free Commander or Directory Opus. Tabbed windows are also found in other types of software, like text editors with Notepad++. Being able to quickly switch between tabbed websites is a big time saver It also reduces the clutter on your desktop by having everything contained inside a single window instead of multiple open windows. “We know Alt + Tab is sacred, so you can choose whether to show all, some, or none of your tabs by going to Settings > System > Multitasking in Windows.For many years now, most web browsers have included the ability to open websites inside separate browser tabs. The good news is that Microsoft allows users to customize this multitasking behavior, so you will be able to do this from the Settings screen in Windows 10. ![]() This means that you can switch to a specific site much faster, without having to first go to the app and then manually to the website that you want to visit. More specifically, when you press Alt + Tab, instead of one generic thumbnail that allows you to switch to Microsoft Edge, you actually get thumbnails for the websites that are loaded in the browser. It’s the updated Alt + Tab experience in the operating system which now includes browser tabs as well, as long as Microsoft Edge is used for browsing. ![]()
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