Windows 10
Customise Windows
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- click ‘+’ to browse for a new tab, or press
Ctrl-N to duplicate the current tab.
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Navigate subfolders
more 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 Àle previews
QTTabBar also enables you to ditch
the preview bar; instead, roll your mouse
over a supported file type, and after a shortpause 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
Customise 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 access the new Clipboard
History feature, for example, or restore access
to classic appearance options in Windows
- 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 unused entries 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.45 Extract program icons
A Choose where
to search
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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
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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
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for use elsewhere.Tabbed browsing and pop-up previews are
just some of QTTabBar’s many highlights.