Explorer new tabs should respect default location

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.
Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

I have logged the request internally.

just for information about my own case: works fine for me (always open in This PC when a new explorer window is opened even if last one was another one (d:\ for example). I use v1.12RC.

Groupy simply does what Ctrl + N does when in an explorer window.

Control over this is left to the operating system.

That is exactly the problem, since a new TAB is 100% opposite of new WINDOW. Imagine the new TAB hotkey opening a new WINDOW in your browser. Which is exactly why this needs to be an option. Please

Any news here? @sdRohan

Nothing new on it, no.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Support Manager

Still would love to see this.

I completely agree with OP, it is very counter-intuitive for [+] button in a tabbed Explorer title bar to duplicate the current window, rather than open a new one (to default location). Users have been trained by experiences such as Google Chrome to expect that [+] opens a new environment in the default configuration that they can then work in.

So definitely +1 from me for getting this fixed in Groupy. At minimum I'd recommend it be an application-specific setting that can be managed from within the Configuration app.

For other users in this thread I partly got around the problem by:

• Right-clicking the tab of the File Explorer window, once it's been launched, and selecting "Automatically group all 'explorer.exe' windows together" from the Groupy context menu. This only needs to be done once as the setting will persist.
• Then only ever using Win + E keyboard shortcut to launch a "new" Explorer instance, when desired. This opens Explorer at the default location specified by the user, as a new tab, in the Groupy container holding the original/first Explorer instance.

The main drawback to this method is that if you undock an Explorer window, thereby creating two or more Groupy containers each containing at least one Explorer instance, you won't have an option to Win + E into the Groupy container of your choice, e.g. the foreground container. In my testing at least it appears to always open new Explorer windows in the original/first Groupy container.

However for me it was not a bad workaround.

Hope this helps.

Cheers, Andrew

I would like to have the [+] button open a new default location, just like how Windows 11 explore tabs do.

That's the correct and intuitive way! Chrome does it, Windows does it, Safari, Finder on Mac etc...

We are looking into this for as a feature in the next major version.

Thanks for the feedback.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager