Arguably, tabbed Internet browser was the greatest innovation introduced by FireFox and ‘borrowed’ by Internet Explorer. Tabbed browsing saves us from juggling multiple browser windows around the desktop. So, why do we still need to juggle around non-Internet browser windows all day in Vista (OS X is not much better in this area)?
Most Vista users probably waste many minutes every day doing this, at least I do… Won’t tabbed browsing firefox-style in Vista be a cool thing? I was thinking about writing a tabbed-browsing add-on to Vista to solve this problem but I found an adequate free implementation that gets the job done.
The free software is called QTTabBar and as far as I can tell it is safe to use. After installing and restarting Windows Explorer, enable the CTRL+N shortcut to start a new tab. You can move between tabs by clicking CTRL+TAB. hitting Windows key+E will not start a new explorer window but will rather open ‘my computer’ as a new tab! Let’s hope MS adds tabbed browsing to Vista in SP 2 but for those of us who need to start saving time now and must use Vista, QTTabBar is a must-have Vista software. If you like QTTabBar please donate to its author. I’m not affiliated with QTTabBar in anyway.
Aviv Eyal Blog 
yes. i believe your underestimating “just minutes” lost per day. they are are stepping backwards in the wrong direction. thanks for this tip-it WILL save alot of time.
It is funny to see how Linux has been ahead in this respect for years: Konqueror, KDE’s file and internet browser, has had this feature since 2002…
Amazing that Micro$oft still haven’t implemented this feature which, once you have worked with it for only a few weeks, you soon don’t want to live without.