Tabs in your web browser greatly optimize our browsing experience and allow you to easily manage multiple web sessions. But in the resource manager of the Windows system, tagging operations are not supported. However, in future Windows 11 system versions, we will get such an experience.
How’s the tabbing experience in Explorer? Suppose you have a directory open in a file explorer window and you want to easily copy a file from another directory or folder. Then all you need to do is open the second folder in another tab and easily move items between directories or compare the information.
As you can see in the screenshot below, you can simply click the new button with the “plus” icon to open a tab in File Explorer, just like you would open a new one in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome with the same label. You can then launch more explorer windows as tabs in the main window.
An earlier version of Tabbed File Explorer first appeared in Build 22572, a development build for Windows 11 version 22H2, but it was removed in an updated Build 22579. It subsequently reappeared in a small update to Windows 11 (Build 22579.100), but the feature has now been removed from this week’s latest update (Build 22581).
Build 22581 is for Dev channel users, and virtually all of the features included in this build are bundled with Sun Valley 2. Unlike the Dev channel which will soon include builds for version 23H2, the beta channel will have builds from the NI (Nickel) development branch, which is the branch of Sun Valley 2 development, aka 22H2.