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Imagine if Windows explorer can create tabbed window inside just as what a browser like Firefox can do? You can open multiple folders in one window, navigating them through tabs, file and folder management becomes easier and faster, and your taskbar doesn't cluttered with several opened Windows explorer anymore.

Luckily, a creative guy has created a free aplication called QTTabBar allowing us to make the imagination above comes true. Yes, it adds the tabbed-browsing functionality to Windows explorer. In fact, it is equipped with many features that optimize the tabbed-browsing efficiency.

What can you do with it other than open multiple folders within one window?

Grouping folders to be opened later simultaneously
If you happen to run a certain project that makes you often open same folders, you can save them as a group. Whenever you run the group later on, all the folders saved within will be opened at once without you have to open them one by one. Of course you can make different groups for different projects.

Control the behaviors and appearance of the tabs
For example, add custom image as tab's background instead of displaying the folder icon, change the color and font.

Automatic preview
A small preview of an image file will be displayed when your mouse is pointing at it. There are also other file type supported for the preview. This preview ability can be disable.

Of course there are still many more you can get from this nifty freeware. I myself simply like that it adds the tab functionality to Windows explorer so I can manage my files more efficient than usual. This is a software I recommend you all to use.

License: Freeware
For: Windows XP/Vista (.NET Framework 2.0 is required for Windows XP)

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