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Turn on the checkbox mode described next.

Checkbox Selection

It’s great that you can select icons by holding down a key and clicking—if
you can remember which key must be pressed.

Turns out novices were befuddled by the requirement to Ctrl-click icons

when they wanted to choose more than one. So Microsoft created a
checkbox mode. In this mode, any icon you point to temporarily sprouts a
little checkbox that you can click to select it (Figure 3-7).

To turn this feature on, open any Explorer window, and then turn on “Item
check boxes,” which is on the View tab of the Ribbon.

Now, anytime you point to an icon, an on/off checkbox appears. No secret

keystrokes are necessary for selecting icons; it’s painfully obvious how
you’re supposed to choose only a few icons out of a gaggle.