TECH NEWS – The new Windows file manager eliminates the need to jump between multiple windows simultaneously.

Windows 11 build 22621.675 (which you can download from the Settings menu) brings several updates. The significant new feature in Windows 11 22H2, the appearance of tabs in Explorer, was already revealed in June in a Windows Insider build. With the KB5019509 update, we’ll get “tabs”, but unfortunately, the functionality is still severely lacking. You can’t click the middle button to open a file in a new tab, and you can’t drag a tab to another window. We’ve almost all done them using Google Chrome, for example… oh, and you can’t turn off tabs!

Suggested Actions scans and selects text in the display window when, for example, a phone number or date pops up, which can be annoying for people who work with large databases. We’re not sure if a predictive approach is logical. After all, it’s not so perfect for mobile text input. However, it can be turned off by using the option under System > Clipboard. Then, there is the ‘Taskbar Overflow and easy access to Task Manager’ feature. Under Windows 10, you could access the task manager anywhere on the taskbar, which became more complicated under Windows 11. Again, it’s just a right-click on the taskbar to access the task manager, but you could always do that by right-clicking on the Start menu or maybe using the good old Ctrl+Alt+Del combination…

Similar to the Airdrop feature you see on Apple devices, multi-device move/switch is improved: “We’ve enhanced the Windows Share experience so that you can simply share files with more discoverable devices nearby directly from your desktop, File Explorer, Photos, Snipping Tool, Xbox and other apps.” At the end of October, you can put photos on OneDrive, your phone and camera in one place in the Photo App, and there will also be a memories function (like on Facebook), and iPhone users can sync to a PC from the cloud. The Amazon Appstore will also be accessible from PC through the Windows-Amazon partnership, thanks to built-in Android support. Windows Terminal is available by default for the CMD wizards.

For more details, see Microsoft’s blog post. And instead of the default file manager, we recommend Total Commander. It has had tabs for years; by default, you can see two file lists in one window. You can easily do a bulk rename or copy directly from one zip to another. Anyone who grew up in the 90s was likely to have used Norton Commander under DOS. Total Commander is its evolution…

Source: PCGamer