Select Files using Check Boxes in Windows Vista

Like many other features, Windows Vista also provides you to select your files using check boxes. This feature is not very difficult to enable. If you have spent a time on your Windows Vista based machine you would already know how to enable this feature.

If you have to select many files and files are not arranged in order in the same directory, you have to press ctrl key and press all the files you want to select. This is very difficult process and this is not enabled by default, as it should be, because it is very easy to select random files using these check boxes. But if you have to select many files, like hundreds, you have to click every file manually using check boxes, you can also select those files by mouse (keep pressing left mouse button and hover over the files you want to select).

You can enable this feature by opening My Computer, there you would see a button with caption “Organize”, at the left top corner of My Computer’s window. Click that button and a drop-down menu would appear, in that drop-down menu, you would see a option “Folder and search option” (below Layouts), click that button, a dialog box would appear with three tabs General, View and Search. In the view tab you would see many options in Advanced settings sub-windows. Browse for “Use check boxes to select items”. You would see this button at the bottom of that sub-window. Now check that button and press ok. Now you are good to go. You can select items by only clicking and the box before it would be checked. If you want to select all files, you can follow this combination of keys:
Ctrl + a