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Clever Windows 7 Tip: The Power of Shift+Right Click

By Norman Chan

Open command prompt, run programs as a different user, and more send-to options.

Today's We Love Windows tip leverages the almighty power of the right-click menu. Even though you can right-click on Mac OS (or command+click) to perform actions on files, folders, and programs, it's not as essential a feature as it is on Windows PCs. We Windows users cannot live without the context-aware right-click menu, whether it's to copy and paste or open a file with a specific application (because, you know, we can't just drag documents into an app's taskbar icon).The right-click menu is even more powerful if you hold the Shift key down before clicking.