Among the many new features that Microsoft has added and plans to implement in the new Windows 11, many of these focus on the aesthetic section. But they have not wanted to leave aside everything related to the functionality of the operating system. It seems that now we are starting to talk about a feature that many have been waiting for a long time, we are talking about the tabs that will be used in the File Explorer.
For several versions of Windows, there has been talk of a function called Sets that was initially thought to come to Windows but was discarded. The objective of all this was focused on adding tabs to various applications and sections of the system. One of the elements in which we could get the most out of these tabs would be in the File Explorer that we use on a daily basis.
We tell you all this because from what is being known right now, Microsoft will finally add these tabs to Windows 11 Explorer. To give you an idea, this will allow us to open several sessions of this functionality in a single window. In other words, this would be perfectly comparable to what we currently and have been doing in web browsers for a long time. So right now Redmond is experimenting with a new tabbed interface for said File Explorer.
This is something that Insiders are already testing in the latest received version of the new operating system. In fact, at the moment it is a hidden feature that, once activated, you see the tabs at the top of the Explorer window.
How to use tabs in Windows right now
However, and as it is logical to think, at the moment there is no official date for the arrival of this function worldwide. With everything and with them if you want to benefit from this feature from now on, we can use some external third-party solutions, as we will see. As a clear example of all this, if we want to use a file explorer that already has tabs as an integrated function, we can opt for the proposal called Double Commander.
This is an open source application that is characterized at the interface level by the double panel that it offers us to move around our folders. At the same time, it has a multitude of additional functions that will be very useful for working with our files in Windows. But what we’re interested in here is the long-standing tabbed feature that allows you to open multiple disk locations in a single window. All this will allow us to take advantage of this functionality without the need to wait for Microsoft to integrate it natively in Windows 11.
But it can also be the case that we want to take these tabs that we mentioned to various applications installed on the Windows computer. In that case we can also make use of some proposals from third parties as it happens in the case of TidyTabs. In this case, we find an application that has a free version that is somewhat more limited in the use of these elements. The Professional version, which is paid, offers us additional functions such as renaming these tabs, ordering them, using multiple monitors, etc. With everything and with it, the free version of TidyTabs also allows us to add these elements to a multitude of programs that we use in the system.