problem with explorer

[Paulina]

Hello!
When I copies a number of files from folder A to folder B I get a number of
extra copies of the files in the A folder. When I mark the files I use the
ctrl button and mark the files I what to copy. Then I right click on my
mouse and select copy. Then I mark the other folder and selects paste. The
problem is that windows creates a number of copies of the files in the first
folder to. Can somone please tell me what to do to about this?
thanks
Kalina

 

[Ron Sommer]

Your mouse thinks it is being moved.
This creates the copies.
Use Edit, Copy or
Control + C.

 

[Bob I]

After selecting, just press and hold the right mouse button and drag and
drop the selections on the destination folder then release, and then
select Copy.

 

[Stan Brown]

When I copies a number of files from folder A to folder B I get a number of
extra copies of the files in the A folder. When I mark the files I use the
ctrl button and mark the files I what to copy

From "Select Multiple Files without Copying"
http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/winxptip.htm#FileMultiple --

The solution is a registry edit to make your mouse less sensitive.
Run regedit and navigate to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Control Panel\ Desktop

Then look for the values DragHeight and DragWidth; if they're not
there, create them as REG_SZ type. The default values are 4 pixels;
to reduce the sensitivity of your mouse make the values larger, such
as 20.

Reference: "Using ctrl-click to select multiple files causes files to
be c" [copied], posted 2005-03-22 by David Candy and archived at

http://groups.google.co.uk/[email protected]

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