As you probably have read, I have upgraded my computer to Vista Home Premium and so far so good. Vista has a lot of new features, some of them are very handy and some of them need to be shutdown. While I was checking and playing with the explorer setting I found a very cool feature which is unfortunately disabled by default and which needs to be enabled in my opinion.

In the “past” if you wanted to select multiple files in Windows you had to hold down the “ctrl” key in order to select file by file but what if this can be done with only one hand?? I mean, whenever you’re using the ctrl key to select multiple files you need one hand to hold the ctrl key and you need the other hand to hold the mouse, right?

The new explorer has check boxes next to the file to enable multiple selections. However this feature is disabled by default and needs to be enabled manually. To enable this option, follow the steps below:

1. Select Organize
2. Select Folder and Search options
3. You’ll get a screen, go to View and enable the Use check boxes to select items by checking the box.



4. Press Apply and OK to exit the screen.
5. You’re done! You can now select multiple files just by checking the boxes near the files as shows as below! It’s much easier than to hold the ctrl key.