What Would You Like To Change In Windows 12?

AddRAM · Feb 26, 2022

Hazel123 said:
How do you mean a tabbed explorer?

Well with W11 the open explorer pages just pile up on top of each other in/on the taskbar, or am I just missing a setting ?
It does not do this in W10 when you set Combine taskbar buttons to Never. Using the Taskview button kind of works, but I`m not liking it, never did.

Edwin · Feb 26, 2022

AddRAM said:
... with W11 the open explorer pages just pile up on top of each other

Forget the Taskbar!
With a Tabbed Explorer, this is your new Taskbar...

AddRAM · Feb 26, 2022

Link ?
Too busy to google

This it ?

QTTabBar - QuizoApps

qttabbar.wikidot.com

Edwin · Feb 26, 2022

AddRAM said:
Link ?
Too busy to google

QTTabBar - QuizoApps

qttabbar.wikidot.com

QTTabBar

I don't use either of the versions there, though..., they don't work well with Windows 11 unless you pull a few stunts!
I use version 1038..., only problem is, I don't know where you can get your hands on it!

Edwin · Feb 26, 2022

AddRAM said:
This it ?

Yup

Edwin · Feb 26, 2022

Take your time with it, it's a pretty convoluted program!
Check this thread, lot of info there...

QTTabBar Updates - Windows 10 Help Forums

A few of us will be tremendously excited by this! The program (amongst many other things) - adds tabs to file explorer - adds ability to colour regions of file explorer (and so other features expressed via file explorer) - adds recent files list - adds cl

www.tenforums.com

AddRAM · Feb 27, 2022

I`m not gonna experiment with it, not with what the other member said it did to his drives and folders and what not.
Maybe I`ll try going back to having Explorer keep opening the same window instead of another window.

Dch48 · Feb 27, 2022

The Files app in the MS Store works great. Try it, you'll like it. No more series of clicking the back button when moving things around. The appearance of Explorer is a little different but still good.

AddRAM · Feb 27, 2022

Well, I changed explorer to only open 1 page at a time, because I know where I`m going and I know what I want there.
@Dch48 Is this what you`re talking about ?
Installed it and seems to work great. But there are 2 down sides I found. You have to click twice on a item once you are in that folder to open it, and it uses the default W11 right click menu. I don`t like that.
I can go much faster in explorer by just using the navigation pane.

Stigg · Feb 28, 2022

I really think it is time for Microsoft to finally implement a tabbed file manager.
I'm a long time Directory Opus user, and I can tell you that once you get used to a tabbed file manager, File Explorer feels severely crippled.

Besides the advantages of tabs, File Explorer is slower than other file managers that I've used.

Edwin · Feb 28, 2022

AddRAM said:
Installed it and seems to work great.

It's a good start, not powerful enough yet.

Dch48 · Feb 28, 2022

AddRAM said:
Well, I changed explorer to only open 1 page at a time, because I know where I`m going and I know what I want there.
@Dch48 Is this what you`re talking about ?
Installed it and seems to work great. But there are 2 down sides I found. You have to click twice on a item once you are in that folder to open it, and it uses the default W11 right click menu. I don`t like that.
I can go much faster in explorer by just using the navigation pane.

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Yep, that's it. I've always had to double click on things so it's no different for me. It does not change the right click menu but isn't supposed to. I find it much better than the default explorer because I do a lot of copying and pasting things from one folder to another. Just switching tabs is faster than clicking the back button several times and then the forward one to get back again.

Winuser · Feb 28, 2022

AddRAM said:
Well, I changed explorer to only open 1 page at a time, because I know where I`m going and I know what I want there.
@Dch48 Is this what you`re talking about ?
Installed it and seems to work great. But there are 2 down sides I found. You have to click twice on a item once you are in that folder to open it, and it uses the default W11 right click menu. I don`t like that.
I can go much faster in explorer by just using the navigation pane.

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The double click can be changed in the Files app settings.

AddRAM · Feb 28, 2022

OK, found it. IDK, just seems a bit redundant to me. I also set it to open a new tab when I click on a item.
I`ll just have to use it to master it

but pretty good so far.

Dch48 · Feb 28, 2022

I knew about that setting but I prefer the double click.

Winuser · Feb 28, 2022

Dch48 said:
I knew about that setting but I prefer the double click.

I prefer the double click option. I did give the single click a try years ago and found it wasn't for me.

AddRAM · Feb 28, 2022

Just the opposite for me, I hate double clicking.

Winuser · Mar 1, 2022

AddRAM said:
Just the opposite for me, I hate double clicking.

I was doing way too many accidental clicks.

Dch48 · Mar 1, 2022

Winuser said:
I was doing way too many accidental clicks.

Same here. My right index finger has a mind of it's own sometimes.

Joan Archer · Mar 2, 2022

I prefer to single click, I've had that setting on my computers for years now and don't want to change.

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