More about QTTabbar
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Introduction
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Although this powerful and highly-customizable product does now provide some instructions, many of its features are hidden or poorly explained. If YOU can add anything, please don't hesitate to edit this Article or add Comments. It'll be much appreciated. Installation (a) Go to the QT TabBar site and download the ZIP file. (b) Locate the downloaded file; it's called something like QTTabBar_glb_1.1.0.1.zip. (c) Double-click the ZIP file and extract the contents to a folder named QTTabBar on your desktop. (d) Close the ZIP file and open the folder QTTabBar. Double-click the file QTTabBar.exe to install QTTabBar. When installing, accept the defaults. (e) After installation, log off and then login again or reboot your PC. (f) Open My Documents, click View / Toolbars. If there is a check against Lock Toolbars then click to unlock the toolbars (g) Click View / Toolbars and select QT TabBar to enable that toolbar. If necessary, check QT Standard buttons.
On Vista, press <Alt> to show the menu bar beforehand.
(h) After a few seconds the QT TabBar appears. You can use the handles to drag and drop the TabBar if necessary. (i) Click View / Toolbars to relock. You should also find that QTTabBar has been added to the Windows Task Bar (just to the right of the "Notification Area").
Right-click on the above to access several View and Configuration options.
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If you can't see this, toggle Toolbar Locking.
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Tabs Control and Features
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The most frequently-used Tools are probably:
The left one clones the current Explorer window. The right tool copies the current Explorer window. The tools illustrated below provide full tab-handling capabilities.
You can open new Tabs by:
You can easily navigating between open tabs by clicking the tabs on the tab bar. You can also re-order tabs by dragging and dropping. |
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Options
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QT TabBar makes a huge effort to hide its Options settings (which are really pretty vital), but they can be found !
Then click Options to display:
This product is very customizable, but don't be overwhelmed by this plethora of possibilities. Start with the out-of-the-box default settings, and then gradually customize it to suit you. |
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Folder Handling
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Double-click on an empty part of your Desktop to display:
Click anywhere in the above to display an "Immediate access" list of folders.
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Enhanced Search
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As you can see below, several enhanced search features are available:
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Related Links
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http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows-explorer-addons.htm
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Double-click on an empty part of your Desktop to display:
This does nothing for me. Does Desktop mean the system desktop? Or the background of the window? Neither one does anything. Maybe there's something to adjust or enable.
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It's the ordinary Windows desktop. Have you the QTTabBar added to the Windows Task Bar (just to the right of the "Notification Area") ? (See illustration in the Review.)
I love it!
For serious file management work you either want tabs or dual panes (depending on exactly what you are doing).
I have Xplorer2 [Xplorer squared] for the dual pane work, and now I have tabs just by upgrading an existing product, rather than having to install another one.
Like the reviewer said, it is endlessly customisable, but my favourite tweak (for XP users) has to be one of the simplest: excluding files suffixes when renaming just like in Vista. It makes life a lot easier and is one of the few things I liked about Vista.
QT Breadcrumbs is another "small but perfectly formed" product.
PS Utterly stable.
nifty toolbar but i think ill pass.
what's the point in having a toolbar you dont really need?
i guess you could call it a matter of preference but you could navigate/explore windows a lot easier with a few apps and using built-in shortcuts.
1.mouse gestures for navigation (pure awesomeness! try the strokeit app)
2. the links pane in the explorer window (vista feature)
3. adding a "move to folder" option to the right-click drop down menu (easy regedit)
4. using built-in windows shortcuts (i.e. "shift-enter" to open file/folder in a new window ; "ctrl+n" duplicates the current explorer window; etc.). Hotkets FTW!~
the only really cool features that this toolbar offers are the tabs like in internet browsing and the preview thing.
imho, toolbars arent worth it because the often cause problems/interferes with explorer and can sometimes cause explorer to crash but you can try it yourself.
as a sidenote, ive found that right-clicking and using the drop-down menu is a lot faster than moving the mouse up and down the screen.
we welcome thoughtful comments.
Sure it's about personal choice (& the way you work ... I know people who try to just keyboard).
In some ways our site is a sortof homage to the FREEware Developers ... we advertise and promote (through review) the best of their efforts. I'd always rather review too many, rather than too few. ALthough I insist, we only review the best.
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