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(www.snipca.com/41611)Tabs coming to File Explorer,
but only in Windows 11
dragging and
dropping, and have
the option to open a
tab or window when
you right-click.
Tabs are part of
a wider redesign
that sees a new
homepage for File
Explorer. It includes
a new ‘Favourites’
option for saving
files you open often.
Right-clicking a
file will add it to
Favourites, pinning it to the
homepage.
The overall aim of tabs
and pinning is to bring the
functionality of a web browser
to File Explorer. Panos Panay,
Microsoft’s Chief Product
Officer, said the features will
cut “what used to take six
clicks to get to an important
file to one” (www.snipca.
com/41623).added to Windows 11 is folders
in the Start menu.
These were part of Windows
8 and 10, but weren’t included
in 11 at launch, annoying
many users. Turn to page 46
for instructions.
However, one feature that
isn’t coming back to Windows
is the ability to move the
taskbar which, unlike in
previous versions, is locked
to the bottom of the screen.
In a Q&A on YouTube
(www.snipca.com/41625),
developer Tali Roth said
there’s “a number of
challenges” with making the
taskbar moveable.
She also said that judging by
feedback, the amount of users
asking for the change is “really
small compared to the set of
other folks that are asking for
other features”.
“So at the moment we are
continuing to focus on things
that I hear more pain around,”
Roth added.- Add tabs to File Explorer in
Windows 10 – Issue 631,
out Weds 11 May.
W
indows 11’s File
Explorer will soon
get tabs, after
Microsoft announced that the
much anticipated feature will
be added to the operating
system.
Tabs were part of a preview
build of the operating system
released in March, available to
users signed up to the Insider
Program. They now look set to
be added to the full version in
order to make Windows 11
more “inclusive, accessible
and intelligent”.
The tabs appear along the
top of File Explorer, letting
you have multiple folders
open in one window. In our
screenshot you can see the
Downloads^1 and This PC^2
folders open as tabs. You’ll be
able to reposition them byTabs in File Explorer will
please users disappointed that
Microsoft dropped the similar
Sets feature in Windows 10.
It experimented with Sets in
preview versions of the
operating system, before
removing it in July 2018.Start menu folders
Microsoft didn’t say when
File Explorer would get tabs,
but one tool that has been
Since Windows 11 launched, a
valid reason for not upgrading
has been that it’s too similar
to Windows 10. Many users
wondered – apart from
some rounded corners
and transparent effects- what’s the difference?
The release of tabs for File
Explorer would eliminate that
argument. Along with the
other features announced, it
should make Windows 11 feel
far superior to Windows 10.
Our guess is that the changes
will arrive in the first Feature
update for the system, due
this autumn.
Microsoft’s
PowerToys
tool may soon
be getting an
equivalent of
Apple’s ‘Quick
Look’ feature,
which lets Mac
users see a preview of a file
at full or near-full size without
having to open it.
Writing on Reddit (www.
snipca.com/41617), a Microsoft
developer said they’ve built
a similar tool for PowerToyscalled Peek. They
posted a video
of how it works,
showing images
appearing when
you hover over a
file (pictured).
A ‘Quick Look’
tool is likely to prove popular
with many Windows users,
but Microsoft hasn’t confirmed
whether it’ll be added to
PowerToys.- Master PowerToys Run –
page 62
WILL WINDOWS GET ‘QUICK LOOK’?
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