Cannot select more than one file or folder at a time

[Corneel Heij]

Hello,

I have the following problem, and is't nasty:

In Explorer I cannot select more than one file or folder at a time, not
using the mouse drag options, nor using the control or shift keys.
In other programs, like Total Commander and Adobe Bridge etc, it does work
how it's supposed to... so it must be a Vista issue...
How can I solve this problem? Is it just some setting, perhaps? Whatever it
is, I need to solve it. Can't work with Vista without this working
properly...

Hope you can help me,

Regards,

Corneel Heij

 

[Richard Urban]

You are already experienced with Total Commander. Why not just use it on
Vista also? I do. It makes life so much easier.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

It's a quirk of Explorer that's been showing up on some people's machines.
No known cause yet, but it gets saved with folder views once it happens.

I've written a script that helps MOST people with the multi-select problem.
It will remove single-select from saved folder views & saved defaults.
Right-click the link below & select 'Save Target As..."

http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FixSingleSelect.zip

Then extract the contents of the .zip file & run the script.

Any details you can remember about how this happened would be greatly
appreciated.

Are you seeing the behavior on all folders or just certain folders?

If just certain folders, can you recall anything you did with these (opened
in a particular app, etc) that might have triggered the behavior?