[Win10] Ctrl+select opens selected folder instead of selecting both folders BUT.......

[Technique]

So my Win10 install is pretty fresh. Maybe I've changed something I shouldn't have but if so then not intentional I'm sure.

 

I'm trying to run through a load of folders as there's many that need deleting. I open them all up on the left to inspect what is in what folder. So now I have a bunch that need deleting right, but they're not all in consecutive order.

 

So I hit ctrl & start to select but every time I select the second folder (and this applies to any two I try), it opens that second folder.

 

Here's the thing though....

 

So I'm sorting through one folder which has many sub folders. If I open that main folder & select the sub folders on the RIGHT viewer (I'm sure these left and rights probably have specific actual names so I'll just attach a screenshot at the end to remove any possibility of getting crossed wires) then ctrl+select with the mouse works.

 

But that is annoying & also not the most efficient way for me to sort through these folders. Never had this issue in Windows 7. I could ctrl+select on the left pane perfectly fine in Windows 7.

 

So how do I fix this?

 

[+BudMan MVC]

I don't recall ever being able to cntrl selection folders in the folders pane, but if you click into the parent folder so the folders are in the right pane..  You can then cntrl select folders there for delete or copy or cut or whatever..

 

Looks like all those folders are under the found.000 folder so if you select that on the left all those folders will be listed in the right pane, and you would be able to cntrl select them

[Technique]

On 21/07/2022 at 18:59, BudMan said:

I don't recall ever being able to cntrl selection folders in the folders pane, but if you click into the parent folder so the folders are in the right pane..  You can then cntrl select folders there for delete or copy or cut or whatever..

 

Looks like all those folders are under the found.000 folder so if you select that on the left all those folders will be listed in the right pane, and you would be able to cntrl select them

Sorry, I'm a little delayed here.

 

This is correct.

 

However you wouldn't then be able to see the content of those folders. You'd have to open each one up on the right, check what's in it, see whether the folder needs deleting or not, go back out of the folder, delete it, move on.

 

Vs what I was wanting to do - click the folder on the left ... ok it's garbage. Click the next one, the next one, so on & so on.

Ok now I have say 15 garbage folders in a row before the 16th one is good. I'd then select those 15 on the left & delete.

 

If it can't be done then it can't be done. I can work around it. It's just easier if it could be done.