QTTabBar
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Windows Explorer
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What is QTTabBar?
QTTabBar is an extension for Windows Explorer that brings tabbed browsing to Microsoft's file browser. It comes with a number of nifty features including a favorites function for launching folders and applications, groupings of folders that can be opened together, tooltip preview functions for a number of file types, and others. It is also highly customizable and hotkey-enabled.
QTTabBar was written by a Japanese developer known as “Quizo” (hence the name QTTabBar) but because of lack of time, he gave the project over to Paul Accisano.
Actually "Quizo" was resumed development.
Open source branch of QTTabBar: http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/
QTTabBar was written by a Japanese developer known as “Quizo” (hence the name QTTabBar) but because of lack of time, he gave the project over to Paul Accisano.
Actually "Quizo" was resumed development.
Open source branch of QTTabBar: http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/
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- Tabs
- Tabbed browsing
- Windows Explorer integration
- File preview
- Subfolder menu
- Windows Explorer extension
- Extensive customisability
Supported Languages
- English
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Platform details
Windows: requires .net
Tags
- Tabbed File Managers
Lists containing QTTabBar
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QTTabBar
Summary
Our users have written 23 comments and reviews about QTTabBar, and it has gotten 151 likes
- Developed by Quizo
- Proprietary and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.7
- 46 alternatives listed
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QTTabBar was added to AlternativeTo by DevilishVicious on Jul 8, 2010 and this page was last updated Apr 8, 2021.
Recent user activities on QTTabBar
- Ola added QTTabBar as alternative(s) to Windows File Manager15 days ago
- bonepyramid liked QTTabBar22 days ago
- 9377181 liked QTTabBar26 days ago
Discontinued, yes - but still the best with the most options by far!
The last update was in 2020 so it definitely isn't Discontinued yet.
Reply written 11 months ago
And actually there is a new 2021 release which supports Win11 preview.
Reply written 10 months ago
In 2018 it is still the best way to get tabs on Windows Explorer. Fully customizable, clean, integrates nicely with Windows 10.
QTTabBar is unlimited... they're some much features and settings, that it would be not for newbies. But if you know a little with files and servers, it's really crazy: create your own menu with icons and link to SMB servers or folders or even, programs (launcher).
A really good software, with dark mode, tabs, preview (do you know if you put your mouse over a MP3 file, it start to play in it internal player, and numpad help to forward, accelerate, etc)
For real geeks
Been using since Clover became malicious. What i need is bookmark bar and tabs, but this adds much more than just that.
Nothing else does what this application does, integrating into Explorer itself and not being some external attachment to the window.
Missing 1 star because it might do "too much", with some things interferring, and complicated to know how to disable.
I wish it consisted of modules, so i could disable all but what i want from it.
I can't live without it, should be added to Win 10 & 11 but Microsoft just won't do it lol
Ok first of all, the 5 stars are purely for QTTB adding the one feature I wanted, which is tabs on Windows Explorer.
It does have some extra features, but the main one I wanted and I use from this, is the tabs (also hiding the toolbar if that counts). I found this as an alternative to ExplorerMax, which I used the trial for a couple days. It added way more features to explorer, but honestly I did not like them. I would say I would have liked ExplorerMax's ability for dual pane view on the same window, but since I use Dark Theme on my Windows, I actually hated that feature, as it turned the background to white.
If you do not want anything but having tabs, I find QTTB the best program to use and unlike ExplorerMax's 40$ pricetag, this one is free.
I sadly did not use Clover at all, seeing it might have Chinese adaware. It might be a great alternative, but sadly, ever since I gave up on Haozip which even now I consider the best multi-compression utility, I avoid Chinese apps, no matter how good they are.
Tabs, yes, of course. But that's just a small part. You can change text color and background color of files and folders (useful so that you'll never delete something by mistake) open cmd, have groups and favorites in explorer, launch programs, close tabs to the right, to the left, all, create shortcuts for doing almost everything you can think of, capture windows, split the screen in two or three "views", change Explorer appearance, customize it to your heart's content, while, at the same time, it still being the Explorer you know and feel comfortable with.
I installed it quite a few years ago and have never felt the need to try anything else. I wouldn't know what to do without it now. First thing I install when reinstalling windows. Sure, to get the most of it you'll have to invest some time, it has so many options, but you probably don't need everything it's able to do. With just a handful of it's options, your experience with explorer will be so much better that, in a short time you won't even remember what Explorer looked like without QTTabBar.