What is "QT Tab Bar" ? (click here)
Installation and use of QTTabBar under Windows XP
The installation of QTTabBar is very simple, but under Windows XP, you must install beforehand
.Net Framework 2.0
Step 1 : Installation of .Net Framework 2.0First, download .Net Framework 2.0 via this wayOnce downloaded it, launch the application clicking on this icon : 1.jpg
Little advice : Avoid to uncompress the file on your desktop, but prefer to uncompress it in Program Files, where all your programs are installed.After, open the folder QTTabBar and launch the application via this icon :
To avoid restart your computer, simply go to the
Start menu, select
Close session :
Once your session closed, you just click your avatar to start a new !
23.jpg Step 3 : Activation and use of QTTabBarFirst, open your Windows Explorer. On your menu bar, click the right button of your mouse and select QTTabBar (to show the tab bar) and QTTabb Standard Buttons (to show the navigation bar)
As you can see, now we have many toolbars. We are going to disable those of Windows XP.To disable it, go to it and click the right button of your mouse.
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For example, you want QTTabBar in French :
Save
this file, in the folder of QTTabBar (placed in our repertory
Program Files, if you followed my advices).
Then, place you on your QTTabBar Button and click on the right button of your mouse. Go on
Options Open the file previously downloaded
. Your toolbar is now in french.
Well, you have just to check the options that you want and browse quietly in the explorer without having a multitude of open windows on your desktop !You can add buttons on your toolbar, but also customize it :
Ok, the icons are not very beautiful, and attention, you cannot download them one by one !
You should download this :
quizo_btn_Default.png or another, but having the same base !
So, do not hesitate to create your own skins for QTTabBar and share them with us. After all, are we not on a site of customization? It is perhaps also an opportunity to test
Axialis IconWorkshop which is also the only icons editor which permits creation and edition of Image Strips for toolbars.
For more information about creating skin for QTTabBar is here.Then, to apply the icons, click the right mouse button on the toolbar, and select Customize.
A Window opens :
Here are a few :In your toolbar, there is an area Search, which does not exist under Windows XP.
This function is very practice because when you need to search a file or an application in a repertory, you have just to write the name or only few letters of it, and hup QTTabBar removes the folder which do not these letters.
This is an example :
I go in my repertory Windows placed on C:, and I want to search my Media file.
Grrrr, 
there are so many files that I do not know where it is !
I write "me" in Search. Oh ! Great ! All files do not contain the word "me" disappear as by magic ! And me, I have found my file Media.
Come on, a second tip : When you want to rename a file, often it is the complete word that is highlighted and we are obliged to rewrite the extension :
33.jpgWell, thanks to QTTabBar, only the file name is highlighted !
34.jpgYou will see, there are still others tips, but I leave you the pleasure to discover them !
It is here that ends this little tuto about QTTabBar, to you now to enrich it ! 
By the way, that file renaming function is also available in Windows Vista by default. 
