why no short cut for new tab in windows explorer ctrl + t

why does windows explorer not react to the command ctrl + t to open new tab in windows explorers in groupy

from Stardock Forums

If you like to open a new tab in most browsers, the short cut key CTRL+T will open you a new tab and CTRL+N will open you a new window.

Why does this not work (yet) in groupy and Windows Explorer ?

Socalled free addons like Clover 3.x do offer this option but lack all of the other cool features that Groupy has to offer.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

What you describe would only work when you had a group of all the same application.  What happens when it's a mixed group?

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Developers say they dont want to mess up with application hotkeys which is reasonable. Some applications already use CTRl+T for something.

To achieve your purpose just use WIN+E (and auto group explorer).

The reason why other software supports CTRL+T is that they only embedded windows explorer while groupy works with all applications. Perhaps developers of groupy will make a "Windows explorer" only group which then supports these hotkeys. I believe that many people are only interested into grouping windows explorer (such as myself).

Another solution would be adding a plus button which launches an additional instance of the current selected tab. I think Microsoft's new UWP group thing does it this way.

In the end there are multiple solutions, none is 100% perfect but any of them is better than it is right now.

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