To quickly copy the full path of a file to your clipboard, hold down the Shift key, right click a file, and then click Copy as Path. The full path to the file is placed on your clipboard.

This is particularly useful if you need to open a file that requires administrative privileges, for example a log file in the system directory. If you were to double-click the file to open it in Notepad, Notepad would give you a file not found error–because Notepad is running as a standard user (thanks to UAC) and it needs admin privileges to open the file. So, if you wanted to quickly open that protected file in Notepad, click Start, type Notepad Ctrl+V, and then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Then, press Alt+C to approve the UAC prompt. Ctrl+Shift+Enter runs the program from the Start menu using admin privileges.