Microsoft Windows XP Top Ten Tips and Tricks – WinTabber

Posted • January 12, 2009 • Comments Off

How do you place your applications into a tabbed user interface with WinTabber?

If you’ve been using a tabbed browser, chances are that you can’t do without having a tabbed user interface. Keeping each site you visit on separate tabs during a heavy surfing session is an efficient use of screen real estate and provides a great experience. (Ever hear of Firefox?)

You’ve probably also found yourself in situations where you’re working with other applications or even certain operating system components and wished that the user interface had tabs.

Suppose that you’re working with multiple copies of Windows Explorer and simultaneously working with files and folders on your hard disk and mapped network drives. Maybe you’re working with multiple text files and have several copies of Notepad open at the same time. Sure the Taskbar is designed for these sort of operations as is the task switcher ([Alt] [Tab]), but having multiple windows in a single tabbed interface sure would be nice.

WinTabber has created a FREE tool that will allow you to easily transform your multiple windows into a single tabbed user interface. Once you have WinTabber up and running, you can open multiple windows, and then with the click of a button, you can add each window to WinTabber. Once in WinTabber, each window becomes a tab (Figure A) and you can begin clicking tabs to switch between the windows.

Late,
Gary Pool

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