Add Tabbed Browsing to Explorer in Windows 7

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Are you tired of shuffling between windows when browsing or copying files between different folders?

Heres how it’s possible for you to make Explorer more usable with integrated tab navigation.

Otherwise, youll have to reboot your box before you dive in using it.

Youll still need to activate the tab bar itself.

Now, launch the View menu, select Toolbars, and click QT TabBar to activate the tabs.

Right-select a tabs to close, clone, copy the folder address, and more.

you could switch between open tabs with the familiar Ctrl+Tab shortcut.

This opens a nice preview that shows you what folder youre selecting.

Youll also notice a new down-arrow when you hover over a folder or library.

Click it to browse the files in the folder quickly from a popup-menu.

This is a handy time-saving feature.

QTTabBar has many additional parameters you could tweak from the Options pane.

To do this, right-click an empty part of the tab bar, and select Options.

Here you might change keyboard shortcuts for tabs, window behavior, and more.