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Understand the right-click

Understand the right-click - Windows Tutorial

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Understand the right-click

- [Instructor] An essential part in learning to become proficient when it comes to using a computer is to learn the right click. The term right click refers to the button found on the right side of a mouse with two or more buttons. Generally, if you're right-handed, you'll click the left button of the mouse the majority of the time with your right index finger. This is the mouse's main button that allows you to select items, double-click things, or even fire lasers at enemies in video games. But both the Windows operating system and most of the applications you'll use have special shortcuts and menus that will appear when you click the items with the right mouse button. For example, in the previous movie, we saw that you can empty the recycle bin by opening it up, clicking Recycle Bin Tools, and choosing Empty Recycle Bin. But that takes several steps. Another and faster way to do it is to simply right-click on the recycle…

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