Use A Checkbox To Select Multiple Items

[Chappy]

Use a Check Box To Select Multiple Items in Vista

Hello Members & Guests!

I have a very useful tweak for you today. If you're like most people, there are times when you have to select numerous items from a page while leaving others unselected. Most of you probably know by now that selecting an item and using SHIFT+CLICK on another item lower or higher, will select whatever is inbetween the 2 clicked items. Also, using CTRL+Click will select multiple items one at a time while leaving others inbetween unselected.

Well, you'll probably also know that anytime you accidentally click something in a wrong way, or mistakenly hit another key, and all that selecting will disappear and you'll need to start all over again. I know....VERY FRUSTRATING!!! It's happened to me far too many times to count and I always wished there were a better way.

Well, someone at MS must have also had this happen to them too many times, because there's now a NEW & BETTER way to do this that eliminates the accidental unselect of all the items. You can use a "Checkbox" to select multiple items from now on and NEVER AGAIN lose all that work, and here's how to do it!

Open Control Panel (in classic view) and select Folder Options, or from an Explorer page, select Tools from the menu and click Options.

Click the View tab and scroll to the bottom of the box, you'll see one called "Use Check Boxes To Select Items", check that and OK out. Now go to any page and mouse over items, you'll now see a Checkbox appear on every item you cross over. You can now use this checkbox to select any multiple items you wish and never again worry about accidetally losing them...ever!

Enjoy!!

[Besttechie]

Definitely very handy new feature, Dave!

B

[Chappy]

Yah...isn't that cool??

I sure think so, I've been using this for awhile now and I LOVE IT!!

I'm always selecting multiple items, and was constantly losing the focus on them with a missed click....No More!! You can still misclick and lose them with this method but it's allot harder to do that now with the checkbox, it's much more forgiving.