Windows 11 File Explorer is about to get a shortcut for duplicating tabs

File Explorer has a new feature and a lengthy list of fixes and improvements in the latest Windows Insider build.

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What you need to know

What you need to know

Windows 11 has a few new features on the way that are now in testing among Windows Insiders in the Release Preview Channel. Windows 11 Builds 22621.3951 and 22631.3951 shipped this week, bringing a small handful of new features and a lengthy list of fixes and improvements.

File Explorer has a new shortcut through the right-click menu that will let you duplicate a tab. At the moment, right-clicking a tab in File Explorer shows options to close that tab, close other tabs, or close tabs the right of the one you right-clicked.

The taskbar also gained a new function, as it can now have apps pinned to it by dragging those apps from the Pinned section of the Start menu. The third new feature is only available in China, and it’s a prompt to turn on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when you enable Windows Share.

Some of the changes are rolling out gradually, so you may not see them yet even if your PC is on the latest Insider build of Windows 11. All three of the new features in this week’s Release Preview builds are part of gradual rollouts.

Microsoft formatted itsblog postfor this build a bit differently than other similar posts. I’ve reformatted the company’s change log below to make it a bit easier to read:

Windows 11 Builds 22621.3951 and 22631.3951: What’s new

Windows 11 Builds 22621.3951 and 22631.3951: What’s new

Notification for Windows Share in China

File Explorer

Start menu

Windows 11 Builds 22621.3951 and 22631.3951: Improvements and fixes

File Explorer

End Task

FrameShutdownDelay

Group Policy Preferences Item Level Targeting (ILT) and Local Users and Groups

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCPIP)

NetAdapterCx module

Universal Print clients

Autopilot

Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC)

Windows Kernel Vulnerable Driver Blocklist file (DriverSiPolicy.p7b)

Bluetooth

Windows Backup

Cache manager

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