Shift Right Click to access additional explorer file and folder options

Windows 7 has been RTMd for a few weeks now, and the general availability is quickly approaching. I wanted to share a few cool new features that have yet to be widely talked about, (at least I haven’t seen them blogged anywhere yet.)

The first feature is actually hidden away, and I discovered while right clicking on a folder at the same time as I held down SHIFT. Normally if you just right click you get the following menu:

If you SHIFT right click here is the menu you’ll see: notice you now have several new and very useful commands:

Open in new process

Open in new window

and my favourite Open command windows here

Hope this helps you be that much more productive while using Windows 7!

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