See ???Control User Account
Control,??? in Chapter 8, for some ways to ease up the restrictions.
Likewise, if you??™re copying files over a network, Windows has to do some
security reconnaissance, and depending on the speed of your network connection,
this can take even longer.
But security checks alone aren??™t responsible for Vista??™s abysmal performance
in this area; there??™s also the matter of thumbnails. As described in
???Green Ribbon of Death??? in Chapter 6, there are a few common problems
that can cause Windows Explorer to hang or even crash, and if one of these
things hobbles the instance of Explorer you??™re using, the progress dialog
(shown previously in Figure 2-11) can just sit there for what seems like an
eternity. Once you??™ve fixed the problems outlined in Chapter 6, the copying,
moving, or deleting should go much faster.
Slicker Ways to Select Files
Why drag 17 files individually when you can select and drag them all at
once? For one, it??™s tremendously aggravating to select the first 16 files, and
then lose the selection with an errant click in the wrong place.
Selecting files is an art form, or at least it would be in a much more boring
world than ours. Here are some slick ways to select multiple files in Windows
Explorer:
Rubber bands
Need to select a cluster of files? Click in an empty area near the first file
and then draw a box around the others to select them all in a single
swoop, as shown in Figure 2-13.
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