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Enhance your Right Click Context Menu with Another 10 Great Utilities

If you’ve been following this site, you might know that we are big fans of the Windows right click context menu, and believe it to be one of the best (yet underrated) interface elements in Windows. We’ve published a series of articles around the theme: interesting

March 26, 2013
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Bypass the UAC prompt for any program, with ‘ElevatedShortcut’ for Windows 7 and Windows 8

UAC security prompts have becoming a mainstay of Windows since Vista, but especially with the introduction of Windows 7, and they remain so with Windows 8. We’ve written about how to go around these on Windows startup by using the task scheduler to bypass the prompts (see

March 11, 2013
Samer Kurdi
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Another ten unique, free utilities to SUPERCHARGE your right-click menu

We recently published an article entitled “Supercharge your right-click menu with these ten UNIQUE utilities”. If you enjoyed that one then we have good news: this article is the sequel, featuring another interesting tools that we hope you will like. Like the first article, what we

September 29, 2012
Samer Kurdi
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Supercharge your right-click menu with these ten UNIQUE utilities

The mouse. A wonder of human-computer interactivity, but is it on the way out? Will touchscreens and flickable interfaces at our fingertips make the mouse obsolete? And by extension, is the Windows’ right click context menu, a marvel of user friendliness, also on the wane? For

September 6, 2012
Samer Kurdi
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Convert the contents of your clipboard to text or image files with PasteAsFile right-click extension

Every wished you could just right click and paste the contents of your clipboard as a text or image file on your desktop? No? Well now that you’ve heard of the concept, you probably do ;) PasteAsFile is a Windows extension that adds an entry to

August 27, 2012
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Useful functions for your right click menu [Part 1: media files]

The right click context menu in Windows, in my opinion, is one of the best interface devices ever conceived. The simple fact that you could have a different set of commands when right clicking a folder, a text file, or an MP3 (as examples) makes it

December 8, 2011
Samer Kurdi
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FileQuery: right click in Windows to search the internet for any filename, movie or music file info, and unknown file types

This program will let you right click any file to quickly search for it in Google or other search engines or services. It can be particularly useful in situations such as looking  up information on movie or music files (e.g. cover artwork or reviews), or for

October 8, 2011
Samer Kurdi
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