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Windows 10 Is Finally Adding Tabs To File Explorer (bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft has released insider preview build 17618 that includes tabs in File Explorer as part of its Sets feature. Bleeping Computer reports: Windows 10 Sets is an upcoming feature where you can group documents and apps into one tabbed window that are related to the particular task at hand. This feature was released for testing to a small controlled group of insiders in Insider Preview Build 17063 and was subsequently removed after the test. With build 17618, Sets are back and with it come tabs in File Explorer. You can now open different folders in the same File Explorer window with each one having their own tabs. This way one File Explorer window can have a tab for the pictures folder, a tab for the documents folder, and a tab for your documents, which you can easily switch between. If you look closely, though, the Sets feature does more than just allow you to have different tabs for different folders, but also allows you to add applications as a tab in File Explorer. According to Microsoft, in addition to File Explorer, Notepad, Command Prompt, and Powershell are also getting tabbed support.
Not me! I always run out before that ever happens!
Nomad.NET is a way better file manager.
Also, it doesn't spy on you, steal your bandwidth or serve you ads like Microsoft's garbage does.
http://www.nomad-net.info/
Microsoft doesn't innovate, they copy.
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Every other file manager has it.
what we need is control of OUR computer back. updates when WE WANT THEM, not when you insist upon slowing down our internet, consuming our precious quotas, and rebooting whenever the fuck you want.
fuck, just today, we had a pc launch the "upgrade assistant' which went and started downloading fcu while windows update was also already downloading it... attempts to remove the "assistant" were met with it magically reappearing over and over, even after reboots, and, yes, downloading the 4 fucking gigabytes itself over a metered connection again with windows update's own download of the same damn thing. we had to disconnect the pc from the internet, manually download the installer to a usb drive on a different pc, and run the 'upgrade' from that removable drive instead.
we also want absolute and full transparency (i hate that term, but it applies here) on exactly what data you're gathering on us, and allowing us absolute and full control to turn that spying shit off.
Forget MS and just go linux already. I did, my wife did, my parents did, my last 2 employers did. It is easy, it does not spy on you, it will not reboot on you, it will not erase your data or hold you hostage for unwanted updates, it will not try to sell you things, it will not steal your information to sell to others, it is not in league with shady dictatorships, it is free and open and it is the future, embrace it and join the side of freedom join the side of liberty join the side of thinking and productivity and learning.
Why are the tabs at the TOP of the window in the title bar? That's a HORRIBLE design.
Try to be original Microsoft. Directory Opus has been able to do this and give file, folder sizes and a WHOLE lot more than your lame worthless POS of a File Explorer. I've been using Directory Opus since the days of the Commodore Amiga.
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So can File Explorer now, finally, in 2018 after DECADES of this bug, FINALLY HANDLE FILE PATHS IT CREATES ITSELF ?!
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Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
It's going to take more than tabs to make it useful. I don't know if it's the Windows 10 file structure or the file manager but it has become very difficult to find anything on my drive since "upgrading" to Windows 10. Stuff seems to get randomly stashed in any of numerous Documents Folders.
Had this on WinXP in 2006, and it looks better than Sets so far.
I remember Sets being touted as grouping distinct windows together, like browser + web editor, or browser + research notes, or maybe some other configurations, like old MDI interfaces in the modern age.
Nope. Another Longhorn and micro-kernel.
Microsoft couldn't pay me to use Windows 10.
Why do major software vendors have to sound like hustlers these days?
Meanwhile, Microshit pretends to be greatful and then continues to make proprietary software from open source and stab Linux in the back with patent attacks.
Wow. I feel like notepad.exe's functionality has been the same for 20+ years.
Does it..... maintain state for that task across reboots which occur one second after you've gone afk or does that still require seventeen hours of manual recreation? :|
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Midnight Commander in Linux is my favorite Go To file manager for doing all my heavy lifting, moving and unpacking source code, editing and viewing files, (has excellent syntax highlighting) i love mc.
when a good double pane file manager with an excellent built in text editor comes to windows post an article on slashdot, because windows explorer is so 1990's
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It's not necessary to have such large updates, or to reboot during updates. Microsoft explicitly and deliberately forced that upon the world, and have consequently been responsible for more wasted man-hours than really bear contemplation. This happened some decades ago, however, and it's generally widely known. So if you are choosing to run this software, you are signing up for the upgrade hassle, and various viruses, and (in the modern era) some degree of surveillance. If you are regretting that decision, you might seek alternatives. You're probably not going to get much sympathy for your problems, however.
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About the last thing we need is tabs in Windows Explorer. How about Microsoft pay ZTree one beeeelion dollars for a non-exclusive license to ZTree (XTree(tm) implemented for Windows) and include that with their OSs
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My earliest memory of tabs is from Opera back in the 90's.. I "think" they invented the concept and then other browsers copied it..
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
This is will be soo cool!!!!!!!!!
"I've been using Directory Opus since the days of the Commodore Amiga."
Yep DOpus has been around since the days of Workbench 1.3
30 years ago
I have never nor have I witnessed anyone who has had a driver issue with linux.
Then you are fortunate not to have been handed an ASUS Transformer Book T100TA. As of 2018, many things are still broken, including suspend, screen backlight control, Bluetooth, and the internal camera. Audio and networking require proprietary firmware packages that Debian cannot include in the install image, and good luck downloading said packages without networking.
So much for Microsoft's original excuse of getting rid of the two paned one... It's not "object oriented" enough. You should open up (instantiate) a new explorer window for each directory you want to move things from/to. This tabbed explorer doesn't fit the "object" model, either.
Probably not.
Courage bro.
Probably not the same thing and I'm not going to google it you can embed document in other documents and edit them.
So that, you know, when Windows suddenly reboots for an update, your unsaved Notepads don't get lost forever.
That pretty much every other OS has and that gave it a new name. Bless their hearts and lack of brains.
How about instead of useless crap, my be get rid of that ribbon garbage. That would be much more useful. Seriously, who thinks searching trough a bunch of tabs is easier that just clicking on a drop down menu. Having a few often used items in a toolbar is nice, but having EVERYTHTING in a tool bar is just idiotic. They even have things hidden in drop down menus from the toolbar icons in some of their apps. Pure idiocy!
Explorer.exe will be my shell, my virtual desktop, my application, and my window tabber. There'll be Explorers all the way down.
I've been using QTTabBar for this, it uses the native Windows Explorer and adds Tabs + a search panel that won't disappear every time you browse to a file location.
I like how Slashdot truncated the post title.
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Is this something people were clamoring for for years?
I don't think I've ever thought "I wish explorer had tabs".
And let's call it the Desktop.
I've been saying this needs to be a thing since at least 2002. It's about fucking time they finally decided to add it.
This ain't a technical problem.
It's the lack of will.
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Nothing to see there. Windows has had it for years. Though the 'tabs' you click on are down (or up, or over) in the taskbar. Big whoop.
XYplorer is a very good file manager.
https://www.xyplorer.com/