Hidden right-click options in the Windows Vista Shell
Serdar Yegulalp, Contributor
08.28.2007
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Some of the new options in Microsoft Windows Vista don't pop out at a systems administrator right away, such as the changes to the Vista Shell and the Vista interface. In fact, sometimes the only way for an administrator to discover these changes is to coax them out or else stumble across them.
After reading a post about hidden Vista Shell options at Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog, I decided to check these changes to the Vista Shell out myself.
In Windows Vista, if you hold down the Shift key and right-click on an item in Explorer, the right-click context menu changes slightly. As Chen explains, the rationale for this is to conceal certain advanced options from users, so they don't
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blunder into them by accident. (Whether you agree with the wisdom of this is another matter.)
Here's a list of some of these hidden Vista Shell options. (Note: The list is not exhaustive, as it's entirely possible for a program to register its own advanced options with a given file type.)
About the author: Serdar Yegulalp is editor of Windows Insight (formerly the Windows Power Users Newsletter), a blog site devoted to hints, tips, tricks and news for users and administrators of Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Vista. He has more than 12 years of experience working with Windows, and contributes regularly to SearchWinComputing.com and other TechTarget sites.
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