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best part of a year to do just that: once
installed, tabs appear beneath the
Ribbon – click ‘+’ to browse for a new
tab or press [Ctrl] + [N] to duplicate
the current tab.
Navigate subfolders quickly
There’s another fringe benefit to using
QTTabBar – after installation, roll your
mouse over a folder icon and click the
drop-down arrow that appears over it to
drill down through the folder’s contents
using a series of drop-down menus.
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QTTabBar also enables you to ditch the
preview bar; instead, roll your mouse
over a supported file type and after a
short pause a pop-up preview will
appear. You can configure the size of
the thumbnail (and other QTTabBar
options) by right-clicking an empty
space on its tab bar in File Explorer
and choosing QTTabBar Options –
look under Preview > Windowing.
Customise context menus
The right-click menu is a handy place
to stash useful – if not frequently
needed – tools. You can add numerous
entriestothisusingWinaeroTweaker’s
ContextMenusection– youcanaccess
thenewClipboardHistoryfeature,for
example,orrestoreaccesstoclassic
appearanceoptionsinWindows 10 (see
Personalization).It alsocontainssystem
toolsthatenableyoutodothingslike
claimownershipofa folderorresetits
permissionstothedefault.Cleanoutthecontext menu
Select‘RemoveDefaultEntries’in
WinaeroTweakertoclearoutunused
entriesaddedbyWindows,suchas
BitLockerentries.Mostclutter,however,comes from third-party tools. If you
can’t find options to remove them
within those programs, use a tool such
as ShellMenuView (www.nirsoft.net/
utils/shell_menu_view.html) to review
and remove unwanted entries. Doing
so can be a little daunting, but
ShellMenuView is comprehensive and
all its options are grouped by app,
making them easier to detect and –
if necessary – remove in bulk.1
Choose where
to search
Download Icons Extractor (www.nirsoft.
net/utils/iconsext.html DVD=,3ÀOH
then extract its contents and double-click
iconsext.exe to launch the program. You
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process for icons.
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Search and browse
Click ‘Search For Icons’ and wait
while the folder is searched – doing so
can take some time, and a counter will
indicate how many matches have been
found. You can click Stop at any time
to halt the search to view the matches
found so far. Double-click a match to
view the available icons.3
Browse and extract
If a suitably large (128x128 or
preferably 256x256 pixel) icon exists,
you can either select it and click ‘Copy
Selected Image’ to copy it to the
clipboard, or close the dialog box,
right-click the icon and choose ‘Save
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for use elsewhere.Extract program icons
Take the time to tweak the Navigation pane to
provide shortcuts to the parts of your PC you use.
Tabbed browsing and pop-up previews are
just some of QTTabBar’s many highlights.