To enrich Windows with functions and have more control over windows and to manage files and folders, you can install some very effective programs. In this special article, in addition to recalling the various software reported in the past, we see three of the best and most useful that allow you to customize the windows of programs and folders by adding buttons and controls on files, to move faster and have a greater number of options available.
For example, therefore, it is possible to open several folders in a single window using tabs like those of Chrome or with an additional menu to move files or launch programs and much more.
Among the three, there is one that we can truly consider among the best Windows tools ever, already reported in the past in this blog, but always without giving it the importance it deserves.
1) The tool in question is QTTabBar, one of the best programs for Navigating folders in Windows and Moving files, recently updated with support for Windows 10, really useful to ask how we have been without it so far.
QTTabBar, is a fantastic add-in for Windows Explorer that allows you to customize its appearance and get tabbed browsing of folders.
There are really a lot of options and controls available to modify the behavior of the plugin, with many keyboard shortcuts to perform any kind of operation on the files. To use QTTabBar after installing it, you must disconnect or restart your computer and then open any folder in Windows File Explorer. From the folder, go up to the top of the View menu and click the down arrow under the Folder Options button to activate the display of the additional button bars of the plugin and, above all, to activate the tab view. To access the QTTabBar customization options, you need to press the gear button that appears in the first toolbar added. To open a folder in a new tab, however, you just have to press on the folder using the middle mouse button which also serves to close a tab quickly.
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2) DMex is a different tool, which instead allows you to add a control menu to manage windows, files and folders. After installation, its strawberry icon appears in the notification area next to the clock and just press on it with the left mouse button to find all the quick operations that are available. Among these, the most interesting are certainly the one to open two windows side by side or vertically, the one to synchronize files between two folders, to create new folder and subfolder paths and the one to rename files based on certain criteria. This is certainly a simpler and more limited tool than QTTabBar, but it takes up very little memory and can be useful for those who often have to move files from one folder to another.
3) Extra Buttons is the third free program on this list, not updated for some time, but also works on Windows 10 as well as Windows 7 and 8.1.
This program adds some buttons in the upper bar of the window, near the closing one at the top right, which you can also customize from the XtraButton options. The Extra buttons are added in all Windows windows, not only those of the folders but also of the programs (exceptions can be made in the configuration). Among others, the most useful of these buttons and controls that can be added are to keep the window always on top, to add a folder to favorites, to minimize it on the notification area and to make it become transparent, to reopen it. new and some others.
The buttons
In addition to these three, in other articles I remember having reported other Windows tools that can be very useful depending on your needs:
- Quick Access Popup to open favorite folders and files from the central button
- Custom Explorer Toolbar to add or remove buttons on the toolbar in windows
- Folder Option X to add selection options, filters and file order
For example, therefore, it is possible to open several folders in a single window using tabs like those of Chrome or with an additional menu to move files or launch programs and much more.
Among the three, there is one that we can truly consider among the best Windows tools ever, already reported in the past in this blog, but always without giving it the importance it deserves.
1) The tool in question is QTTabBar, one of the best programs for Navigating folders in Windows and Moving files, recently updated with support for Windows 10, really useful to ask how we have been without it so far.
QTTabBar, is a fantastic add-in for Windows Explorer that allows you to customize its appearance and get tabbed browsing of folders.
There are really a lot of options and controls available to modify the behavior of the plugin, with many keyboard shortcuts to perform any kind of operation on the files. To use QTTabBar after installing it, you must disconnect or restart your computer and then open any folder in Windows File Explorer. From the folder, go up to the top of the View menu and click the down arrow under the Folder Options button to activate the display of the additional button bars of the plugin and, above all, to activate the tab view. To access the QTTabBar customization options, you need to press the gear button that appears in the first toolbar added. To open a folder in a new tab, however, you just have to press on the folder using the middle mouse button which also serves to close a tab quickly.
READ ALSO: Programs to open folders with explore tabbed files on Windows
2) DMex is a different tool, which instead allows you to add a control menu to manage windows, files and folders. After installation, its strawberry icon appears in the notification area next to the clock and just press on it with the left mouse button to find all the quick operations that are available. Among these, the most interesting are certainly the one to open two windows side by side or vertically, the one to synchronize files between two folders, to create new folder and subfolder paths and the one to rename files based on certain criteria. This is certainly a simpler and more limited tool than QTTabBar, but it takes up very little memory and can be useful for those who often have to move files from one folder to another.
3) Extra Buttons is the third free program on this list, not updated for some time, but also works on Windows 10 as well as Windows 7 and 8.1.
This program adds some buttons in the upper bar of the window, near the closing one at the top right, which you can also customize from the XtraButton options. The Extra buttons are added in all Windows windows, not only those of the folders but also of the programs (exceptions can be made in the configuration). Among others, the most useful of these buttons and controls that can be added are to keep the window always on top, to add a folder to favorites, to minimize it on the notification area and to make it become transparent, to reopen it. new and some others.
The buttons
In addition to these three, in other articles I remember having reported other Windows tools that can be very useful depending on your needs:
- Quick Access Popup to open favorite folders and files from the central button
- Custom Explorer Toolbar to add or remove buttons on the toolbar in windows
- Folder Option X to add selection options, filters and file order
