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It's surely only a matter of time before Microsoft adds tabbed browsing to Windows Explorer as it has with Internet Explorer. Until that time comes, there's CFi Explorer...

CFi Explorer is an alternative to Windows Explorer for users of Windows 7/Vista which has one fundamental difference: it allows you to have numerous folders open at once, each in its own tab. These folders don't just look like Windows Explorer – they are real Explorer windows.

CFi Explorer should be intuitive to use for anyone familiar with Windows Explorer, but here are a few notes about the basics:

Opening new tabs: Initially, CFi Explorer displays just one tab containing the Computer folder. You can open a new tab by pressing Ctrl+T, choosing Tabs > New Tab, or double-clicking the glass area containing the tabs.

Opening a folder in a new tab: There are various ways to open drives or folders in new tabs:

• Right-click a folder and choose Open in new tab
• Hold the Ctrl key when clicking a folder in the tree or double-clicking a folder in the view
• Drag-and-drop a folder onto the glass area containing the tabs. (You can do this with a folder shown in CFi Explorer, Windows Explorer or anywhere else.)
• Hold Ctrl when clicking a folder shown on the breadcrumb bar or a breadcrumb menu.

Copying or moving files between tabs: Drag the selected item up to the tab containing the target folder (using either mouse button) and hover over that tab for a moment: CFi Explorer will switch to that tab, letting you drop the items into it.

Using Favorites: Via the Favorites menu you can save the current folder – or the group of current tabs – as a Favorite. Click an item on the Favorites menu to open it in the current tab, or hold Ctrl when clicking it to open it in a new tab.

Using the breadcrumb bar: Click a folder on the breadcrumb bar (or a folder on one of the breadcrumb menus) to open it in the current tab, or hold Ctrl when clicking it to open it in a new tab.

Using tabset files: You can also save a shortcut to a single folder or the current set of tabs as a tabset file. Double-click a tabset file to open it in a new CFi Explorer window, or drop a tabset file onto the glass area containing the tabs to open it in the current window.

Using Filters: You can apply a custom file filter to the current folder to hide files that don't match the filter (or to hide files that do match it), to show only the files you want to see.

Easy sorting in Windows 7: Although Windows Explorer no longer contains a header bar in Windows 7, other than in Details view, the header bar appears in all icon views in CFi Explorer, making it as easy to sort items as it is in Windows Vista's Explorer.