Among the many new features that Microsoft has added and plans to implement in the new Windows 11, a good part of these are focused on the aesthetic section. But they have not wanted to leave aside everything related to the functionality of the operating system. It seems that now again we are beginning to talk about a feature that many have been waiting for a long time, we are talking about the tabs to be used in File Explorer.
For several versions of Windows, there has been talk of a function called Sets that at first it was thought that it was going to reach Windows but that was discarded. The objective of all this was focused on adding tabs to various applications and sections of the system. One of the elements in which we could get the most out of these tabs would be in the File Explorer that we use on a daily basis.
We tell you all this because from what is being known right now Microsoft finally will add these tabs to Windows 11 Explorer. To give you an idea, this will allow us to open several sessions of this functionality in a single window. In other words, this would be perfectly comparable to what we currently and have been doing in web browsers for a long time. So right now Redmond is experimenting with a new tabbed interface for said File Explorer.
This is something that Insiders are already testing in the latest received version of the new operating system. In fact, at the moment it is a hidden feature that, once activated, you see the tabs at the top of the Explorer window.
How to use tabs in Windows right now
However, and as is logical to think, at the moment no official date is known for the arrival of this function to the whole world. With everything and with them if you want to benefit from this feature from now on, we can use some third party external solutions, as we will see. As a clear example of all this, if we want to use a file explorer that already has tabs as an integrated function, we can opt for the proposal called Double Commander.
This is one open source application which is characterized at the interface level by the double panel that it offers us to move through our folders. At the same time, it has a multitude of additional functions that will be very useful for working with our files in Windows. But what interests us here is the characteristic of tabs that integrates for a long time and that allows open multiple disk locations in a single window. All this will allow us to take advantage of this functionality without the need to wait for Microsoft to integrate it natively in Windows 11.
But it can also be the case that we want to take these tabs that we mentioned to various applications installed on the Windows computer. In that case we can also make use of some proposals from third parties as it happens in the case of TidyTabs. In this case, we find an application that has a free version that is somewhat more limited in the use of these elements. The Professional version, which is paid, offers us additional functions such as rename these tabs, sort them, use multiple monitors, etc. With everything and with it free version of TidyTabs It also allows us to add these elements to a multitude of programs that we use in the system.