recycle bin" restore all" function

[bobster]

I have recently made the leap from my 10 year old Win98SE dog to a new XP
based computer. After the transfer of all my files from my old hard drive
to my new one, I mistakenly thought that I had many duplicate files so I
sent the dupes to the recycle bin. To my horror I have discovered that they
are not dupes so I have several hundred files and folders that I need to
restore to the hard drive. It's is a massive chore to do it one-at-a-time
so I have been trying to find a way to do it with something like a "restore
all" function for the recycle bin. I haven't been able to find such a
function.

Any ideas on how to accomplish my task without going through the whole list
manually?

 

[Bruce Hagen]

Open the Recycle Bin. Highlight one file and then Ctrl+A will Highlight them
all. Right click and Restore.

If you need to be selective, hold the Ctrl key and click on each file you
want restored to highlight them.

 

[Big Al]

In XP as probably has been in most other versions of windows, Ctrl-a =
select all, Ctrl-v = Paste, Ctrl-c = Copy. Holding the shift key
allows selecting a range. Holding ctrl+shift allows you to select a
2nd range of files, thus allowing two non-consecutive ranges. Holding
the ctrl key allows selecting one at a time.

This feature works in most programs with lists, explorer, Word etc.
It's more prevalent in XP, and especially with well behaved/written
programs.