re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 5:54 pm Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by stupid (2 messages posted) In April I installed Vista and this very problem was so annoying that I could not as hard as I tried ignore/work around it. I went back to XP the next day. I work on 4 monitors and have several windows opened simultaneously, dragging files between them. Explorer is set to Details view for all windows. The XP way of selecting multiple files was to click anywhere off the Name column and draw a box over the files you wanted. If you hilighted the wrong files, simply start again by clicking blank area and hilight dissappears, just like any select tool in such programs as Photoshop, etc. In Vista the icons in Details view are not objects that I can lasso inside a box. To select them I have to follow a rigid method of pre-mouse/arrow key selection that reminds me of some older DOS programs like PC Tools. I can't believe there hasn't been more people annoyed by this, maybe it's because as the OP said there's no easily formulated phrase to describe it. I had to Google a bit to find "full row selection" + Vista which seems to come closest to a proper description of this issue. Written in response to: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (killme: Friday, May 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm) Responses to this message: re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (Baa: Saturday, June 2, 2007 at 8:56 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (killme: Fri, May 25, 2007, 3:05 pm) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (Baa: Sat, May 26, 2007, 1:42 pm) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (killme: Thu, May 31, 2007, 12:31 am) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (stupid: Sat, Jun 2, 2007, 5:54 pm) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (Baa: Sat, Jun 2, 2007, 8:56 pm) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (stupid: Sat, Jun 2, 2007, 10:33 pm) re: How do I get Explorer to highlight or select only the filename and not the entire cell or row (Baa: Sun, Jun 3, 2007, 7:05 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum