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.

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Nomad.NET

[Anonymous Coward]

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/

How about fucking FOLDER SIZES microsoft?

[SensitiveMale]

Every other file manager has it.

Re:How about fucking FOLDER SIZES microsoft?

[sexconker]

Every other file manager has it.

Nah, that would just further expose the fact that Windows Explorer is fundamentally broken and isn't even aware enough to handle the various links in NTFS properly.

For example, in Windows Vista and 7, you've got the dreaded WinSxS folder, which stands for "Windows Side by Side". This folder basically stores copies of every version of every library/etc. that's been installed on your system. It grows in size forever. Don't worry, though - MS says it's just REPORTING that large size, but not actually USING it, because while there are many duplicate copies of files in there, they're only hard links.

Of course, since Explorer and the rest of the OS (including dir) are unaware of the hard links, everything reports the hard links as being copies and the effect is your hard drive runs out of usable space even though it's not actually filling up.

Re:How about fucking FOLDER SIZES microsoft?

[Ol Olsoc]

And now we won't have to install one more program just to have it. I don't know what you're thinking, but this is good news for users.

Remember though, each Windows update also destroys functionality from at least one program as well, so its a wash.

Re:How about fucking FOLDER SIZES microsoft?

[The MAZZTer]

Well the problem with folder sizes is that to take the size of the folder you have to take the sizes of all the files in the folder. The more files there are, the more work this takes, and then you're doing a lot of disk I/O just to list a folder listing for folder sizes which you might not even want. It make sense for them to be hidden in the properties dialog where you have to intentionally open it to see the folder size.

One obvious solution is to cache the sizes and update them whenever a file changes, so they are always ready the go. This is great except it just takes one time for an OS which does not support folder sizes (eg pre-Windows 10, or older versions of Windows 10) accessing the drive directly and your caches are not only wrong, but won't fix themselves since noticing the cache is wrong would require Windows to count all the files, which we don't want it to do. At that point you can't trust the folder sizes anyway so they're useless!

Folder sizes would be great but it seems like something that would need to be introduced as a core part of a new filesystem to ensure any OS that uses it doesn't screw up the folder sizes.

Re:How about fucking FOLDER SIZES microsoft?

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows XP file explorer did it on systems with a 32bit single core processor and spinning disk HDDs, but it's just too much work for Windows 10 on a quad core with an SSD. Sure sure.

Welcome

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Welcome to 2005 or thereabouts, we hope you enjoy your stay.

Big whoop

[kmassare]

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.

Re:don't need tabs, tyvm...

[Anonymous Coward]

Then run a Free and Open Source Software operating system. If you haven't learned this by now and are still whining about Microsoft Windows then there's little hope for you.

Re:don't need tabs, tyvm...

[sexconker]

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.

No.

- Satya Nadella

Re:Just a reminder:

[Tony Isaac]

ALL innovation is copying.

Most involves making a new combination of previously existing constructions or works.

Even the iPhone copied features from previous phones and PDAs, it just refined them and made them cool.

You signed up for this

[Tenebrousedge]

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.

Re:Just a reminder:

[paulpach]

Also, web browsers, which are at least theoretically the same thing.

This is not the same thing at all.

If you look at their video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You can see that they can have completely different applications in the tabs. In one tab you can have a word processor, in another a command prompt and in another a web browser, all in the same window.

Sure, it is obviously inspired by browsers, but this improves upon that by having more than just browsers together.

Neither my mac or my linux box can do that. There is innovation here.

Re: Just a reminder:

[Unkl_Shvelven]

You could group multiple applications in a single, tabbed window in KDE4.