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Add Tabs to
File Explorer
Your web browser has tabs to reduce
window clutter, so why not File Explorer?
We’ve been using QTTabBar (http://
qttabbar.wikidot.com) for the 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.41
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.42
Pop-Up File Previews
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
appears. 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 then
choosing “QTTabBar Options”—look
under “Preview > Windowing.”43
Customize Context
Menus
The right-click menu is a handy place
to stash useful—if not frequently
needed—tools. You can add numerous
entries to this using Winaero Tweaker’s
“Context Menu” section—you can accessA
CHOOSE WHERE TO SEARCH
Download Icons Extractor as a
ZIP file from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/
iconsext.html, then extract its contents,
and double-click “iconsext.exe” to
launch the program. You have the option
of choosing to search a specific file, all
the files inside a folder, or a running
process for icons.B
SEARCH AND BROWSE
Click “Search For Icons” and wait
while the folder is searched—doing
so can take some time, and a counter
indicates how many matches have been
found. You can click “Stop” at any time
to halt the search and view the matches
found so far. Double-click a match to
view the available icons.C
BROWSE AND EXTRACT
If a suitably large (128x128 or
preferably 256x256 pixels) 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
Selected Icons” to save it as an ICO file
for use elsewhere.the new Clipboard History feature, for
example, or restore access to classic
appearance options in Windows 10 (see
“Personalization”). It also contains system
tools that enable you to do things such as
claim ownership of a folder or reset its
permissions to the default.44
Clean Out the
Context Menu
Select “Remove Default Entries” in
Winaero Tweaker to clear out unusedentries added by Windows, such as
BitLocker entries. Most clutter, 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 daunting, but ShellMenuView is
comprehensive, and all its options are
grouped by app, making them easy to
detect and, if necessary, remove in bulk.Tabbed browsing and pop-up previews are just some of QT TabBar ’s many highlight s.maximumpc.com SEP 2019 MAXIMUMPC 39