Create New Folder with Shortcut Key in Windows Explorer
Posted in Quick Tips
If you ask one of your friends to show how he makes a new folder, he is likely to right-click on the empty background of a folder or drive within Windows explorer and then select the “New”, “Folder” respectively from the right-click menu. To make it ready, he has to give it a name. This is the usual procedure that most people know about to create a new folder.
However, there is always a way to make things faster than usual. Creating a new folder can be done faster by utilizing the available shortcut keys within Windows explorer.
To create a new folder faster, simply press Alt+F followed by W, then hit Enter. Type the name of the new folder and hit Enter once again to make it ready for use. That’s all.
Lijit Search
December 12th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Very handy tip indeed. Probably you could compile all the shortcuts into one page for the benefit of your readers. That would make a good linkbait article.
Yan
December 30th, 2009 at 12:19 am
this might be working only on clean new windows installation. once you install other programs your contextual menu changes.
February 27th, 2011 at 5:19 am
It’s actually’
Alt+F
Then W
THEN YOU ALSO NEED F AGAIN TO CREATE THE FOLDER-
THEN YOU YOU CAN COPY/PASTE A FOLDER NAME AND AFTER HIT ENTER TO FINISH.