While tabs have been a core part of web browsers for more than a decade (including Internet Explorer), Microsoft is finally in the process of introducing a tabbed interface to the Windows File ...

The context menu is a great time-saving feature. Most modern operating systems, such as Windows, use context menus as a way of conveniently offering various options to a user without requiring them to ...

Windows only: While Windows Explorer can sort files by type, by default it doesn't display or sort files by extension in a separate column—but the Extension Column add-on does just that. Install this ...

File Explorer is something that every Windows user interacts with almost daily. And ever since the release of Windows 11, Microsoft has quietly added features that make managing files faster, more ...

Is it necessary? No. Are heated car seats necessary? No. But once you start using File Explorer tabs, you’ll be loath to give them up. They’re dead simple. Tabs within File Explorer are just like tabs ...

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