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Once upon a time this blog was a hive of activity. Now however its pretty lifeless as you can probably tell so if are pining for more of the same you can find me over at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson. I look forward to seeing you there!

'Copy Path' in Vista

A few months ago I wrote a short post about a cool little powertoy that enables you to copy the path of a file into your clipboard:

 

Well as Josh Twist has pointed out this functionality is now built-in as standard to Vista (well it is in Vista Ultimate anyway which is what I am running).

Just don't forget to hold down shift when you right-click. Notice how my old Copy Path powertoy is still installed - so at least that's one thing the upgrade didn't affect. There is a difference in what they copy though. The first bullet below shows what my old powertoy puts on the clipboard, the second shows what Vista puts on the clipboard.

  • C:\Boot.BAK
  • "C:\Boot.BAK"

I don't yet share Josh's enthusiasm for Vista (especially since my colleague Andy recently bought a Macbook and wowed me with OS X) but little tricks like this can make all the difference.

-Jamie

 

 

Published 21 February 2007 03:37 by jamie.thomson

Comments

 

Pierre LaFromboise said:

With a simple registry modification you can make the SHIFT-click hidden context menu items always there by default.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd

Delete the "Extended" REG_SZ.

The menu items should now always be there.

February 21, 2007 16:11
 

Sébastien Gillet said:

Just to let you know this is also included in Vista Business edition.

August 16, 2007 14:53
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