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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:

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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

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

 
Published Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:30 AM by daniel.nerenberg

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MCT, MVP, Consultant, Trainer, Speaker, LazyAdmin Daniel has been writing, speaking and consulting on a multitude of IT topics since 2004. He currently manages and writes for the popular community tech blog TheLazyAdmin.com.


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