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They managed to make File Explorer itself considerably worse over time as well.

They really pulled out the monkey's paw when I wished for tabs.



Why do people want tabs anyway? It's kind of clunky compared to just having smaller individual file explorer windows. Like you can't _really_ drag and drop files between tabs without the added time overhead of waiting for the tab to change.

I assume most users are just full screen, list view-ing it though instead of the large icon view.


I don't think this is a good reason but tabs give you the ability to keep a bunch of files open and accessible without cluttering your main taskbar since there is only 1 Notes window.


You don't need tabs to do that. You can enable grouping on the taskbar.

I personally don't find tabs useful at all, but I don't really hate them. Well, I wouldn't hate them if more applications would avoid showing the tab bar if there was only one tab showing. I get annoyed by the waste of space that provides to those of us who will never use the tabs.


I usually like having just one window because having to alt-tab 5 times to get to chrome or something is kinda annoying imo

(im not sure if you can do that on windows actually)




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