If you’ve loved the new tabs in Windows 11’s File Explorer and wish to go even additional, think about investing seven bucks within the successor to Stardock’s fantastic Groupy app, the aptly named Groupy 2.

Stardock’s newest software program doesn’t differ that a lot from the superior authentic Groupy, which debuted in beta way back in 2017. At the time, Microsoft was talking about Sets, a prototype UI that may manage apps in a lot the identical manner that browsers manage completely different webpages. It featured a tabbed interface that saved a number of home windows organized collectively in a unified method.

Microsoft quietly killed Sets, although, earlier than that imaginative and prescient got here to be. Today, Microsoft applies the tabbed interface to Edge, in addition to a number of cases of File Explorer and a tabbed Notepad UI. If you’d prefer to hold Word alongside PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook in a single window, nevertheless, Windows doesn’t enable it. Groupy does.

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What’s completely different in Groupy 2 is that Stardock has allowed you to avoid wasting tabbed apps as a, effectively, group, after which launch them as a single click on. We’ve seen this mechanism elsewhere, most often in numerous browsers, the place teams of tabs might be saved wholesale after which launched collectively when it’s time to shift consideration to this new process.

Groupy additionally lets you mouse over the app tab to view the open file, and group cases of the identical app collectively.

Groupy 2 helps further customization choices, together with the power to put tabs in a brand new tab row, color-code them, and extra. While Groupy was designed to work with each Windows 10 and 11, the tab expertise extra carefully matches Windows 11. (Microsoft has mentioned that Windows 10 won’t be getting any additional feature updates, although it will end support in 2025.)

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Stardock will cost $6.99 for Groupy 2 through the beta interval, and enhance the worth to $9.99 after it ends. The worth is for a perpetual license. Stardock mentioned that there are a couple of further options that the corporate plans so as to add through the beta interval.