

In Windows, selecting multiple files can be done either with the mouse or by pressing CTRL and then clicking each item individually. To do this for multiple files, users first need to select them.

The file management context menu is mistaken by many users for the standard mouse left click, whose purpose is to just to move files from one location to another with just a drag and drop. However, this apparently simple approach leads to other issues that some users have been experiencing for several Windows releases already. In essence, these options are there to make moving and copying files easier because you just need to drag and drop the items to be transferred from one location to another.

One of them can be invoked by selecting one or multiple files and then drag and drop + mouse right-click in the same folder or to a different location on the system.īasically, this opens a file management context menu with just three different options: copy here, move here, and create shortcut. So in addition to the basic operations that you can do in File Explorer, like copying, deleting, and moving files from one location to another, there are also hotkeys and other shortcuts that you can use to manage your data. Despite File Explorer not being the most advanced file manager out there, Windows was developed from the very beginning to offer effortless file management across the operating system.
