Tabs in File Explorer were among the new features added in Windows 11. You no longer need to use 3rd-party freeware or create a new window each time you need to open multiple folders in new tabs ...

Now, you can click the “plus” button or hit Ctrl+T to open a new tab in File Explorer. While that part is the same as any modern web browser, that’s where the similarities end.

All I have to do is open File Explorer, ... Plus, I love that I can use browser-like keyboard shortcuts—Ctrl + T to open a new tab, Ctrl + W to close one, and Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs.

Most people use a text editor to edit one file at a time. If more than one file needs to be edited at once, a GUI user can have multiple windows or tabs open with the files, but someone on the ...

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 ...

You cant middle click a file to open in a new tab, for example, nor can you drag a tab to another window. If you're looking to disable tabs in Windows 11, think again. There's no way to do so, not ...

This means that when you open a new File Explorer window, the first tab open will be the home page. From there, you can add on more tabs, and you’ll be able to go to other folders within that tab.

Once you get this feature, you can open multiple tabs in a single window of File Explorer, switch between tabs, scroll tab list, and more. Read: File Explorer Tabs missing in Windows 11.

To open a new tab, simply click the + button to the right of the open tab in the tab bar at the top of the File Explorer window. There is, in theory, no limit to the number of tabs you can have ...