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Summary: A shortcut menu, also called a context menu, is the menu that pops up when an object is right-clicked, and it often includes options to rename, delete, move or send a file. Discover the convenience of shortcut menus with information from an experienced software developer in this free video on computers.
Dave Andrews is a software developer with a business and Web site selling programs and other computer services in Franklin, Tenn. Having worked in the IT industry for more than 8...read more
"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to talk to you about shortcut menus in your operating system. Now shortcut menu is basically a menu that you receive when you right click on an object in your monitor. I call them context menus because basically when you're right clicking on an object, you're getting a menu that has to do with that object which is in the context of that object. So another common name for a short cut menu is a context menu. I'm going to show you how to use them. And the most common shortcut menu that you're going to run into is when you right click on a file. Like I have here a folder called desktop. If I right click on it, I know have a menu of shortcuts that I can do with that object. I can rename it and it will allow me to call it something else. Going to rename it back to desktop. Or I can delete it. And it will confirm that it wants to delete that file. I can also send it. I can zip it up. I can move it to my documents. I can email to somebody. I can scan it for viruses. I can turn on file sharing. There's lots of things you can do with the shortcut menu. And if you noticed, one of the reasons for calling them a context menu, is the options that I get for this particular folder are in context to this folder. If I right click on recycle bin, it has a different context because there's different things that you'll want to do with it. So you refer to that being as a menu that's in context with that object. And you can see, that one has a lot more options then my recycle bin does. So that's how you use a shortcut menu on Windows. My name is Dave Andrews and I just talked to you a little bit about short cut menus."
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