Control Left Click

[expat]

When using Control Left Click to select pictures or files either on my desktop or in a folder XP will suddenly make a copy of everything that is highlighted whilst I am in the middle of selecting. Very annoying if I have already got 50 pictures selected and then end up with 50 copies. It becomes a never ending chase. Highlight the copies to delete and no matter how careful I am when selecting, I end up with 50 copies of copies. Is this an XP problem, me or something else. It drives me mad. Anyone got any ideas........please

Matt

[ozzy72]

Matt when did you last clean your mouse?

[a1]

Matt when did you last clean your mouse?

Ya where? It sounds like a great tool. But it might be the settings for the mouse that is messed up.

[expat]

Matt when did you last clean your mouse?

It is an IR mouse, I thought that it was maintenance free.

Matt when did you last clean your mouse?

Ya where? It sounds like a great tool. But it might be the settings for the mouse that is messed up.

What setting could that be?

Matt

[J.]

mine does that as well, really annoying! when im trying to move say 20 FSX shots to a directory and i end up with the highlighted ones twice!

[Ashar]

That usually happens when you double click by accident on an already selected picture...My strategy was to go bunch by bunch...10-15 at a time seemed to work

[Bob70]

When using Control Left Click to select pictures or files either on my desktop or in a folder XP will suddenly make a copy of everything that is highlighted whilst I am in the middle of selecting. Very annoying if I have already got 50 pictures selected and then end up with 50 copies. It becomes a never ending chase. Highlight the copies to delete and no matter how careful I am when selecting, I end up with 50 copies of copies. Is this an XP problem, me or something else. It drives me mad. Anyone got any ideas........please

Matt

When you are selecting multiple files after you left click the first file you have to hold down the Ctrl key, left click the next file, release the Ctrl key and so on for all the files you want to high-lite. That's just the way it is in XP.

[Bob70]

When using Control Left Click to select pictures or files either on my desktop or in a folder XP will suddenly make a copy of everything that is highlighted whilst I am in the middle of selecting. Very annoying if I have already got 50 pictures selected and then end up with 50 copies. It becomes a never ending chase. Highlight the copies to delete and no matter how careful I am when selecting, I end up with 50 copies of copies. Is this an XP problem, me or something else. It drives me mad. Anyone got any ideas........please

Matt

When you are selecting multiple files after you left click the first file you have to hold down the Ctrl key, left click the next file, release the Ctrl key and so on for all the files you want to high-lite. That's just the way it is in XP.

[Tomcatboy48237]

Selecting with Ctrl isn't the issue.  If you hold it down and only click on the files, it will select them.  The files get copied when you move the mouse while selecting one, even if the move is tiny.  The computer interprets this as dragging the files into the folder they're already in and so starts making copies.  If you're careful to keep the mouse steady on the file whilst clicking, you shouldn't have any problems with copying.

Ryan