Select multiple files in Windows Vista quickly using checkboxes

Posted on November 3, 2007 at 8:09 am

Don’t you hate how you have to hold down the CTRL key to select multiple files in Windows Vista? If you happen to accidentally let go of the button for a second, you end up having to start all over again. Well, Vista has a very cool feature whereby you can turn on checkboxes in the Explorer interface so that you can simply select files by checking the box.

Here’s how you can turn on the checkboxes feature in Windows Vista:

1. Open Windows Explorer via My Computer or My Documents

2. Click on the Organize button at the top left of the Explorer interface

3. Select Folder and Search Options from the next menu and choose the View tab.

4. Scroll down and you’ll see the option “Use check boxes to select items“. Check that and click Ok.

You should now see check boxes at the top left of a folder whenever you hover your mouse over it.

Pretty neat! Now it’s super easy to select multiple folders in Windows Vista. As far as I know, this is not an option in Windows XP! However, if you know of a program or a way to do something like this for XP, post a comment! Source: Gilsmethod

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