You have many options to select items in File Explorer (Win+E). You can choose to select a single item or multiple items at once in any order. Starting with Windows 11 build 26241 (Canary), Microsoft updated File Explorer so it’s a little easier to see when you have files or folders selected, by adding a thin border to the selected area.
4 In all previous versions of windows, multiple files could be selected in Windows Explorer by holding the Control key, using the arrow keys to highlight each file and hitting Space over each file you want to select.
This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off use check boxes to select files, folders, and drives for your user account in Windows 11. You can use check boxes to make selecting multiple items in any order easier in File Explorer and on the desktop in Windows.
As you noticed, the Windows Extract All functionality only supports extracting/handling one zip file at a time. It opens a dialog for the primary selection rather than all selected files. You can use alternative programs to extract multiple selected files at once. For example, 7-zip supports doing so:
Option One Add to Favorites in File Explorer Home for Current User 1 Select one or more files you want to add. (see screenshot below) 2 Right click on the selected file (s). 3 Click/tap on Add to Favorites.
Intended behaviour on Windows 11 After clicking on a desired file type for eg .csv; I press some key combination to select all csv files only in that folder. Folder may have multiple files with mu...
This tutorial will show you how to ZIP files in Windows 11. Zipped (compressed) files take up less storage space and can be transferred to other computers more quickly than uncompressed files. In Windows, you work with zipped files and folders in the same way that you work with uncompressed files and folders.
How to use the right click context menu to send files to new folder? This works but introduces unnecessary steps by displaying a new window and the folder needing to be first created by hand and then selected.
This tutorial will show you how to use advanced search options and filters while searching for files in Windows 11 File Explorer. The Search Box in File Explorer allows you to find and view all your files and folders in one place.
A third-party app or plugin may give it this "feature", but no, in Windows Explorer, CTRL-A does NOT toggle a selection. Pressing it once selects all files, pressing it again while all files are already selected does nothing. Using it to select all and then holding CTRL and unselecting a few entries, and then using CTRL-A again returns the selection to All.
