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Path Copy Copy, developed by Charles Lechasseur, is a lightweight Windows Explorer shell extension whose sole purpose is to let users copy file and folder paths directly from the right-click context menu without manually navigating to the address bar or properties dialog. Once installed, the utility overlays a cascading “Path Copy Copy” submenu onto every file-system object, offering preset formats such as long path, short DOS 8.3 path, UNC network path, Unix-style forward-slashes, quoted path, or name only, and allows custom format strings for developers who need to paste paths into source code, documentation, batch scripts, or CI pipelines. Typical use cases include quickly grabbing a deep network share path for an e-mail attachment reference, inserting quoted file names into Visual Studio or VS Code, generating Markdown or LaTeX links, collecting multiple folder locations for backup logs, or preparing command-line arguments where exact casing and slash direction matter. The add-on is especially helpful for technical writers, system administrators, software engineers, and QA testers who routinely exchange path information across heterogeneous environments. The current release, version 20.0, succeeds an earlier 2.x lineage, reflecting more than a decade of incremental enhancements while remaining compatible with every Windows desktop edition from Windows 7 through Windows 11. Because the program operates purely within Explorer’s context menu, it consumes no background memory and integrates seamlessly with both light and dark Explorer themes. Path Copy Copy is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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