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Old 05-06-2008, 10:09 PM
hellsdragoon615
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Can't click and drag

Hi,

I've been having an issue with this for a bit now and I've exhausted my
knowledge of troubleshooting. I'm hoping this isn't some stupid fix or
something that is the precursor to something really bad, so here goes.

I was trying to enqueue some of my music collection a while back and found
that I could not click and drag to highlight multiple files. Okay, thought it
was something wrong with my mouse, so I tried a shift+click.. nothing. Just
selected the file I clicked on and nothing else. Ctrl+click does the same
thing, just one file. This only seems to happen when I'm in my music folder
or a data cd. Pictures, documents, other files are no problem. Just my music
and data cds. My music was copied from a storage hard drive, but I don't
think that should make a difference as so were my pictures and other files.

Oh, background.. I'm using Vista Home Premium. And not that I think it
matters, but I have 2 gb of ram a 250gb harddrive, and a 2.6ghz dual-core AMD
processor.

Now, while it's not a huge concern, it just annoys me to no end. Any help is
greatly appreciated.
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Old 05-07-2008, 09:30 AM
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Re: Can't click and drag

hellsdragoon615 wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I've been having an issue with this for a bit now and I've exhausted my
> knowledge of troubleshooting. I'm hoping this isn't some stupid fix or
> something that is the precursor to something really bad, so here goes.
>
> I was trying to enqueue some of my music collection a while back and found
> that I could not click and drag to highlight multiple files. Okay, thought
> it was something wrong with my mouse, so I tried a shift+click.. nothing.
> Just selected the file I clicked on and nothing else. Ctrl+click does the
> same thing, just one file. This only seems to happen when I'm in my music
> folder or a data cd. Pictures, documents, other files are no problem. Just
> my music and data cds. My music was copied from a storage hard drive, but
> I don't think that should make a difference as so were my pictures and
> other files.
>
> Oh, background.. I'm using Vista Home Premium. And not that I think it
> matters, but I have 2 gb of ram a 250gb harddrive, and a 2.6ghz dual-core
> AMD processor.[/color]

From MVP Keith Miller:

"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..." -
[url]http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FixSingleSelect.zip[/url]

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

Malke
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Elephant Boy Computers
[url]www.elephantboycomputers.com[/url]
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