Windows 7 - Hidden Tool

[pyrohacker]

I dunno if I'm just slow, or if I've discovered a secret gem that the Devs at Microsoft threw in for fun (the first seems more likely), but I just noticed a few days ago that Windows 7 has a nifty tool for viewing folders - I'd call it something like inline filtering.

On the bars above a file list, there are the regular options to enable you to sort the items you're viewing, but up 'till now I didn't notice the arrows on the right.  These bring forth pop-up boxes to enable you to quickly filter the files by the same categories you can sort them by.  

Of course, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Windows 7 - Hidden Tool

Windows 7 - Hidden Tool

Laugh at me, please, if this has been around since Vista.  
If this feature existed during the days of XP, I'll beat myself with a fish.    

[Tuxman]

Hmm, Windows is great, so much undocumented stuff left to discover. 

[Josh]

This feature has existed since Win2k. Not to make you feel bad...

Spoiler

JUST KIDDING! It's new to Vista/7

[Curt]

 

[J-Mac]

OK, what has you so mischievously merry Josh?? 

Jim

[pyrohacker]

I'm gonna be honest here. 

That scared me, josh.  That scared me a lot.  (Though I've barely been around that long myself!)