Deleting Files

Submitted by HOST GFS Hope@aol.com
From AOL/Computer Basics SIG

 

If you want/need to delete a lot of files from your PFC or a directory on your hard drive, you can delete several at a time by doing the following:

1)
Highlight the first file you want to delete
2)
With that file highlighted, hold down the shift key
3)
Scroll down to the last file you want to delete and click on it
4)
Now all the files from the first to the last should be highlighted and if you click on delete they will all be deleted at one time.

OR--if you don't want to delete ALL of them

1)
Highlight the first file you want to delete
2)
With that file highlighted, hold down the Ctrl key
3)
Now with the Ctrl key held down, click on each of the files you want to delete
4)
When all of the files you want to delete are highlighted, click on the delete key and those highlighted files will be deleted.

By doing it this way you can select the files and leave skip over some that you might not want to delete.
If anyone has any suggestions for something they would like explained in this spot, please let me know and if I have the answer to your query I'll be more than happy to address it. These monthly tips are taken from our AOL/COMPUTER BASICS SIG held each Monday and Tuesday evening in the Golden Gates Chat Room.

 

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