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Copy a File Path in Windows 10

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Hi! You're watching VisiHow. This is a tutorial on how to copy the file path on Windows 10 computers.

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2 Video: Copy a File Path in Windows 10
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For example, let's open File Explorer
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We double-click "Local Disk (C:)"
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We double-click "Program files (x86)"
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Then, we double-click "UltraISO"
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Now in this folder, we right-click the "UltraISO.exe" file
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We won't see for what we are looking.
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We copy the whole path to the file and not just the file
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To do that, we simply press and hold the "Shift" key on the keyboard and then right-click the file.

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In the menu, we will have an option to "Copy as path"
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This means that the text that is the path of the file plus the file itself (the name of the file) will be copied.
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To check the buffer, we can simply create a new text document and then paste the buffer there
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As we can see, "C:\Program Files (x86)\UltraISO\UltraISO.exe" path has been copied. This is useful for creating shortcuts or making notes in the shortcuts.

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