GIMP Version: 2.8
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: 7
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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i seem to be not getting tabs for stages in my pictures any more. How can I get them back? They can be of use I have found when one pic goes haywire and you don't have to go back to the start, just an earlier version.

Windows → Dockable Dialogs → Undo History
2.7. Undo History Dialog

Thankyou fluffy and Odin. - That is not what I meant though.
I cant give you a screen shot because I don't have them any more.
I am sure I didn't imagine it before. I had tabs 'above' the picture window and each picture that was open stayed there as a tab until it was turned off.
I don't think I have changed my gimp window either it is still only one.

All fixed. Didn't think they were working and they are.

The only tabs I can think you are refering to are the new image tabs, Open gimp and then open a new image, open another new image and you should now have two tabs across the top of your work space one for each new image.
Sometimes when you run a filter on a piece of work it will open the results in a new image rather than destroy your original.

That's why I hadn't been seeing them hearty. I assumed it was layers as well. I hadn't been opening more than one picture at a time