How to Enable Tabs in File Explorer on Your Windows 11 PC? - MiniTool

Detailed explanation of the Windows 11 Explorer tab function and how to enable/disable it

Some Beta and Dev channel devices have introduced new Explorer tab features, but are not yet popular. If this feature is not available on your device, you can refer to the two methods provided in this article to enable it manually.

Windows 11 Explorer Tab Features

The Explorer tab is a new feature in Windows 11, originally discovered by Rafael Rivera in Windows 11 build 22572 and is now officially available in build 25136. Microsoft also introduced this feature in Windows 11 build 22621.160.

The Explorer tab is similar to Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome. There is a " " icon at the top, which you can click on to add a new folder. When you open multiple folders in Explorer, you can easily switch between two tabs. You can click the "X" icon to close a specific folder. All in all, using folders will be easier when you enable this feature.

However, the Explorer tab feature is still being tested and not available to all insiders of the Windows Insider program. If the Explorer tab is not found on your Windows 11 computer, you can enable it manually. This article will introduce two methods.

How to enable the Explorer tab on Windows 11?

To enable the Explorer tab on Windows 11, you need to download a tool and use it to do the job. You can follow the following guide:

Step 1: Visit the ViveTool download page on Github.

Step 2: Click the ViVeTool vX.XXzip file to download this tool to your computer.

Step 3: Go to the download folder, right-click the downloaded tool, and select "Extract All".

Step 4: On the pop-up interface, you will see the path to a folder. Copy the path to continue.

Step 5: Click the search icon on the taskbar to search cmd. Then, click Run as administrator in the search results. (>> See how to run command prompt as administrator on Windows 11).

Step 6: Type the command cd C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Downloads\\ViVeTool-v0.2.1 in the command prompt and press Enter to run this command. You need to replace C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Downloads\\ViVeTool-v0.2.1 with the path you copied.

Step 7: If you are running Windows 11 Build 22621.160 in the Beta channel, you first need to type vivetool addconfig 39145991 2 and press Enter to run the command. If you run in the Dev channel, you can skip to the next step.

Step 8: Type vivetool addconfig 37634385 2 and press Enter . This command is used to enable the Explorer tab on Windows 11.

Step 9: Type vivetool addconfig 36354489 2 and press Enter . This command enables the new navigation pane of Explorer.

Step 10: Restart your computer.

How to disable the Explorer tab on Windows 11?

If you don't want to use this new feature, you can disable it. You need to follow the steps above. But in steps 8 and 9, you need to run these two commands in build 25136 of the Dev channel: vivetool delconfig 34370472 2 and vivetool delconfig 36354489 2 ; run these three commands in the Beta channel: vivetool delconfig 39145991 2 , vivetool delconfig 37634385 2 and vivetool delconfig 36354489 2 . After that, you still need to restart your computer to apply the changes.

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