How do you open multiple selected files from Windows Explorer

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Published on 2010-03-19T00:57:41Z Indexed on 2010/03/19 1:01 UTC
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In XP I think I used to be able to do this. In the shell replacement XYplorer I can do this. In the file search utility called Everything (from voidtools) I can do this. So what is the trick in Windows 7 and why do I even need a trick.

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