How to expand Context Menu in Windows 11/10

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The correct-click carte context menu in Explorer nether Windows eleven/10/8/7 is quite useful and improved. Right-click a file or folder, and a card appears, letting you take a variety of actions, such as opening the file, printing it, deleting it, copying it, creating a shortcut to it, etc. Only there is more than! Belongings downwards the Shift primal while right-clicking in Windows gives you a fuller range of options.

Expand Context carte in Windows xi/10

If yous concur down the Shift key as y'all right-click a file or binder, you'll run into several new bill of fare options.

I tried it with the 'Downloads' folder on my Windows PC, and I got some additional options as well.

Hither are the new options you get and what each one does:

Open Control Window hither

Adds an "Open Command Window Here" context card pick on file system folders, giving a quick style to open a command window

Open up in new process

Every bit the name suggests, the option opens the file in a new process.

Re-create every bit Path

This copies the file name and location to the Windows clipboard, e.g. D:\TWC\2007note.xls. You lot can then paste that path wherever you want.

In Windows 11, y'all may encounter some of these options under Testify more than options.

You may run across different options for files and folders.

Using the Shift cardinal volition also expand the Transport To menu in Windows 11/10/8/7.

Now read: How to Edit, Remove or Add together items to Send To menu.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a x-yr Microsoft MVP (2006-16) & a Windows Insider MVP. Delight read the entire post & the comments first, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & be careful about any 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.