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Another tip: Shift-Right-Click a file in Explorer and "Copy as path" will appear in the context menu. Puts the full file path in your clipboard.
by cstuder 6y ago
Another tip: Shift-Right-Click a file in Explorer and "Copy as path" will appear in the context menu.
Puts the full file path in your clipboard.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoDa fck. I recently learned you can add this feature to the right click context menu via adding a registry entry. If I’d’a known shift-right click I wouldn’t make bothered.
- signal11 6y agoFrom memory, this was added in Windows Vista. On XP and 2000, you needed the registry entry. Another popular similar entry was "Command Prompt here".
- ygra 6y agoShift right click has always been the way to get the "advanced" context menu. Well, at least back to Windows 95. Fun fact: since the shortcut for the context menu is Shift+F10, you'll always get the extended menu since you'll always have shift pressed when the menu appears.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI’m one of the ten thousand today: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- pjc50 6y agoDid not know that! I've always used the "menu key" for keyboard access to the context menu instead.
- viewer5 6y agoLooks like shift+menu key does the same thing, too
- toyg 6y agoequivalent on Mac: Alt + Right Click.
- glaberficken 6y agoI only learned last year (when I was still on Windows 7) that you can right-click drag (for example a file on to an email in outlook) and it will throw a pop-up where you can select "Create hyperlink here". It dropped my jaw...after decades using Windows I had never known right click and drag was even a thing!
- vbezhenar 6y agoControl+drag = copy; Shift+drag = move; Control+Shift+drag = link.
- mkl 6y agoYes, but right-click drag means clear visual confirmation of the action, the physical movements are the same for all types of operation, and you can make up your mind what to do after you've indicated where. I only use shift or control if I accidentally left-click drag.
- WorldMaker 6y agoThe Right-Click Drag context menu is also an Explorer Shell Extension Point (going way back) and some apps can add additional behaviors to it beyond Cut/Copy. 7-Zip for instance includes a lot of options in a sub-menu. For instance, Right-Click Drag a set of .zip files in a Downloads folder to a more permanent home folder and you can select 7-Zip > Extract to *\ and 7-Zip will expand all of the .zip files into folders based on the names of the .zip files.
- nobleach 6y agoOh yeah! Microsoft released PowerToys back in the day that had clever things like this.
- shadowfox 6y agoThe new PowerToys [1] are interesting too, though somewhat different in scope from the old ones. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
- dgrin91 6y agoAlso in the Shift-Right-Click is open command prompt in directory. Nice symmetry there.
- thrownaway954 6y agoOMG!!! where have you been my whole life. you just saved me tons of stress when getting a file path in explorer