Automatic file copying in "My Computer"

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When browsing a folder's contents while using "My Computer", if I hold down
the Control key to select more than one file, Windows automatically assumes
that I want to make copies of those selected files. So it goes ahead makes
copies of those files in the same folder.
If I don't want Windows to automatically copy multiple selected files, is
there a way to disable the automatic copying?

 

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Hold your hand steady when selecting files.

When your hand moves, the mouse moves and Windows thinks you want to copy
the files to the new location.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"A.J." <dragonfly874@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> When browsing a folder's contents while using "My Computer", if I hold
down
> the Control key to select more than one file, Windows automatically
assumes
> that I want to make copies of those selected files. So it goes ahead makes
> copies of those files in the same folder.
> If I don't want Windows to automatically copy multiple selected files, is
> there a way to disable the automatic copying?
>
>

 

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Control/drag make a copy. Stop moving the file after you highlight it

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"A.J." <dragonfly874@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O4$7kj6ZFHA.3356@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> When browsing a folder's contents while using "My Computer", if I hold
> down the Control key to select more than one file, Windows automatically
> assumes that I want to make copies of those selected files. So it goes
> ahead makes copies of those files in the same folder.
> If I don't want Windows to automatically copy multiple selected files, is
> there a way to disable the automatic copying?
>