The Old New Thing

October 8, 2003 - The Old New Thing

In Explorer, you can right-click the icon in the caption

October 8, 2003 Oct 8, 2003 10/8/03
Raymond Chen
In Explorer, you can right-click the icon in the caption to get the context menu for the folder you are viewing. (Very handy for "Search" or "Command Prompt Here".) Apparently not enough people realize this. In Windows 95, we tried to make it so most icons on the screen did something interesting when you right-clicked them...

I'm doing this instead of writing a book

October 8, 2003 Oct 8, 2003 10/8/03
Raymond Chen
Some commenters mentioned that I should write a book. It turns out that writing a book is hard. A few years ago, MS Press actually approached me about writing a book for them. But I declined because the fashion for technical books is to take maybe fifty pages of information and pad it to a 700-page book, and I can't write that way. None of ...