Loving Windows 7 so far. One thing I miss is right-click 'C' to close a program or group on the Taskbar. In Windows 7 if I right-click and press the letter 'C', it just highlights the Close line. It would be great to have the 'C' shortcut added back so that right-click 'C' is all that it takes to close something.

I agree! I cannot understand why this has been removed, and am really agitated by this.I'm sure having 20-30+ windows open at once is common for a lot of power users, and closing specific windows on the fly using "Right Click" then "C" is a really fast effective way of doing this...now I have to click a window, navigate with my mouse to the close button. I have a few choice words about this... And when I have 5 stacked windows in my taskbar - I have to literally stop working to look at the pretty preview panes of the 5 different emails that are open... guys, I do not work 8 hours a day on an O/S becuase its pretty. The XP\Vista style of stacking windows, with USEFUL and easy to navigate to subject\text is meaningful. What good is 5 small pictures to me when i have a million things to do? think i have time to hover over each one??dare I say it... I could work faster in Vista than in Win7

OWScott, I am running RC and the right-click 'C' still works. You will have to go to the top bar of the opened window, Right-click then press 'C' and release then release Right-click and it will close. Cannot speak yet for the RTM. JB

jjjjbbbb, Try reading the posts before posting useless responses. They are talking about closing the application from the taskbar, not from the open window's title bar. I also find this irritating that we cannot right-click + C to close windows anymore.

Sorry: JB

Hi,If you shift+right-click you get the option to 'Close all windows'. I've just tried it with multiple explorer windows open and it works fine :)NVM, had to re-read the first post, numpty :(Jeff If anyone is helpfull, please click the 'Vote as helpfull' icon. If anyone has answered, please click 'Suggest as answer' at the bottom of the post involved :) Thanks

I agree. I am missing the ability to quickly close windows in Win7, i.e. with a right click on a taskbar item with my right mouse hand and a keyboard 'c' with my left hand quickly repeated for each taskbar item. I would like this restored ASAP. It is nice that the grouping of taskbar items can be turned off so that a vertical taskbar still lends itself to this technique with separate items for each window.

Hey, I'm a little late to the game here, but for what it's worth, Shift+Right-Click then 'C' will do the trick. One extra key, which is annoying, but with a little time I'm pretty much back up to my old window closing speeds. :- )

OH THANK GOD YOU TOLD ME THAT Shift right click saved my life with windows 7. I am currently hating it badly, and the explorer shell's navigation has gone to ____. You can have something selected in the folder view, but the view pane will not be populated with the items from the folder selected on the left. You can no longer get drive space in the status bar, now you have to right click -> properties... for the most part the status bar is useless. alt - arrow navigation does god knows what. You can no longer nav with your arrows effectively. Now you have to move to something and hit enter to select it then the alt back combos start to work. Often times, alt left arrow will just take you to c: Thanks MS... I'm just gonna poke my eyes out.

Well guys, for the last 20 minutes or so Ive been tryin to figure a way to close windows from my #E shell taskbar by just right clicking them (without using AHK :P). And although i havent yet accomplished my goal, I did find a trick that might prove to be quicker than the older method you all were so fond of. Just simply hold c then right click on the task. Hope that helps. Regards, Mike