Right Clicking things
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One of the nice additions to the Window
interface with the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems are the pop up
menus that appear when you right click different areas within your programs or
the desktop. These are called context sensitive menus and
lead you to functions which are within the context of the area you clicked.
As an example, when you right click the Desktop, you get
a menu which allows you to do things to the desktop like arrange it's icons,
change the background picture, change the screen saver, etc... |
Here is one not so obvious place where a context menu
exists, in the file save dialog! As you can see from the image, there are
quite a few things you can do to files listed in a file save dialog. No
need to open My Computer or Windows Explorer anymore to make a quick change
while you're in your favorite program, as long as it uses the standard
file save dialogs.
If you're trying to have a look at what's
on your cd rom in the drive, and My Computer insists on running the setup
program in it's root folder when you click the drive, right click the drive
name instead, and select "Open" or "Explore". Now you will be looking at the files
on the CD, not that annoying installation program.
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C Ray Parrish, Cottage Grove, Oregon
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