Strange feature on Windows Vista?


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So I'm a student aide at my high school and today during B3 (third period on a B day), I was doing a favor for a teacher on her HP tablet. Apparantly only teachers are supposed to have Windows Vista Basic yet I do too. While on her computer uploading some of the finished worked she asked me to do, I noticed that there are checkboxes everywhere in the GUI. I didn't know what they did or what to do with them so I didn't bother experimenting.

Sorry but I don't have a screenshot, hoping you guys could figure it out for me based on my horrible description. The checkboxes are next to files. And I'm assuming you can just click on the check boxes the same you can CTRL+click on certain files.

Thanks for the help. Ohh, and I'm running on Vista HP SP1

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I'm not on one of my Vista machines at the moment, but I do believe that it's under Organize -> Folder and Layout Options. Somewhere in that dialog should be an option to use checkboxes for selection. :)

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Its under Folder and Search Options:

"Use check boxes to select items"

EDIT: Forgot to refresh the page and was beaten to it with a better explanation :)

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Note that the feature is supposedly there for tablet PCs, it makes selecting files easier with a stylus.

Off-topic: What do mean by "only teachers are supposed to have Windows Vista Home Basic?" Are the laptops at your school given to the teachers by the school?

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I have it on my desktop, and its super easy to select multiple files

I used to have it turned on on my desktop and laptop, but later turned it off as it's easier to just hold the Ctrl and/or Shift keys for selecting multiple files.

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