Hands down qttabbar. Adds tabbed browsing to Explorer. Absolutely no idea why this isnt built into Windows, I’ve used it for some years & hate using a Window machine without it.
More well known:
Joplin. Markdown note taking app. Also has a portable version (I use this over the .exe version). Can be set up to sync with your other (multi OS) devices
ShareX. Screenshot clipper. Has a learning curve but the initial pain is worth it. Greenshot is a good portable alternative
TeraCopy. File transfer tool. Much faster & far more reliable than Explorer copy/paste
Everything. File search utility. Use this once & you’ll absolutely hate having to endure using the built in Explorer search. Also has a portable version
I fucking hate Teracopy with a vengeance. It’s such a buggy piece of shit. I have never seen it not fuck up and crash when you ask it to do something remotely challenging.
Robocopy is the only thing I use for serious file copy/move jobs.
Any request to open a new page, from either the pages themselves or from the OS, prefers a new tab. If there are multiple windows in which it could open a new tab, it prefers the latest. If you want to split a tab off into a new window, you can.
With Explorer, any OS request for a folder that isn’t already open creates a new window and there doesn’t appear to be any way to prevent that.
Windows, free, not well known/talked about?
Hands down qttabbar. Adds tabbed browsing to Explorer. Absolutely no idea why this isnt built into Windows, I’ve used it for some years & hate using a Window machine without it.
More well known:
I fucking hate Teracopy with a vengeance. It’s such a buggy piece of shit. I have never seen it not fuck up and crash when you ask it to do something remotely challenging.
Robocopy is the only thing I use for serious file copy/move jobs.
It’s built into windows 11 now.
But in a weirdly shit way. I will never want more than 1 window but still end up with 5.
How do you get more then one window of you don’t want them and have tabs?
The browsers solved this long ago.
Any request to open a new page, from either the pages themselves or from the OS, prefers a new tab. If there are multiple windows in which it could open a new tab, it prefers the latest. If you want to split a tab off into a new window, you can.
With Explorer, any OS request for a folder that isn’t already open creates a new window and there doesn’t appear to be any way to prevent that.
I use ‘Everything’ daily. So teracopy actually has faster speeds with data transfer?
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