Windows 11 has quietly added a new feature in the last couple of months: a tabbed File Explorer interface. It makes moving and copying files so much simpler.

If you use the mouse wheel while hovering over the tab bar you can quickly switch between all the folders you currently have open.

Our recent tab management poll revealed that many readers don’t fully understand pinned tabs and thus aren’t taking advantage ...

Fastener folders are available with dividers inside, complete with tabs that you can affix file folder labels to for each section.

Learn to always open desktop folders and external folder links in new tab of File Explorer in Windows 11/10 using Folder Options and Regedit.

Use ShadowExplorer to Recover Files and Folders from Shadow Volume Copies To restore files and folders from Shadow Volume Copies you can also use a program called ShadowExplorer.

To temporarily stop syncing specific folders, open OneDrive settings, go to the Account tab in the left-hand menu, and click Choose folders. Uncheck the folders you don’t want to sync.

Greg Shultz takes a look at the features that appear on the Search Contextual tab in Windows 10.

Once you’ve got multiple tabs open, you can move files from one tab to another by dragging and dropping them on a tab. The process behaves just like dropping files on a folder.

There is nothing you need to do to activate the tabs in File Explorer, as long as you've installed the Windows 11 2022 Update and its subsequent updates released by Microsoft up to November 2022.

1. Launching File Explorer (Image credit: TechRadar) There are various ways to launch File Explorer, starting off by clicking the shortcut in the taskbar – it's the yellow folder icon.

Tips & Tricks to use Tabs in File Explorer in Windows 11. You can add new tabs, re-arrange tabs, scroll the tab list in File Explorer, and more.