How to select all files?

Sometimes you need to delete or move toanother folder at once several files - for example, photos or music tracks. Processing each file separately in this case is not very convenient, especially if their number is calculated in dozens. What to do? Yes, just select all files at once with the mouse or keyboard. We will tell you how to do this in this article.

Selecting files from the keyboard

The easiest way to select all the files in the folder -use the hotkeys. Simply open the desired folder and press [Ctrl] and Latin [A] (it's Russian [F]) on the keyboard. You can also select all the files in the folder using the keyboard and mouse. Select the first file, hold down the [Shift] key, and then highlight the last file. In this case, all files that are between them will be highlighted automatically. By the way, if you hold down the [Ctrl] key instead of [Shift], then you can select not all the files with the mouse, but only some, which sometimes is also useful.

Selecting files in Explorer

You can also select all the files in the folder usingWindows Explorer. In Windows XP, open the "Edit" menu and select "Select All". In Windows Vista and 7, expand the "Arrange" menu and select "Select All." Finally, in Windows 8 and 8.1, click the "Home" button in the top line of the window, and then click the "Select All" button.