Problems with selecting files in the paperbin

Hello.
I'm writing from France and using the French Vista Home
Premium, and I'm having a problem I haven't been able to
solve over here up to now.
Here it is: when I want to select two or more files from the
bin (for erasure, most likely), I cannot manage a selection
neither with the maj nor ctrl keys: I have to select and
proceed to erase each file one at a time. This is totally
un-ergonomic.
I would seem that nobody has experienced this in the French
forums, so maybe this has to do with my specific
configuration, and what I came to incriminate is a program
called IE Privacy Keeper. It works fine with XP, but I
installed it under Vista before discovering it was not
compliant with Vista (program has no longer been serviced
for quite a long time, it seems). Now IE Privacy Keeper has
this feature called "Secure Delete" that adds a right-click
menu to any file and allows you to erase it in a special,
reliable way. When I found this feature did not appear under
Vista, I uninstalled the program . . . but maybe that's when
my problems with the bin began.
So I'd be *very* grateful if anyone had an idea about how to
get things back and let me select more than one file at a
time in the bin (I'm even ready to roll up sleeves and dive
into the Register Base if needed!).
Thanks for reading anyway.
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a.

Albédo wrote:

> Hello.
> I'm writing from France and using the French Vista Home
> Premium, and I'm having a problem I haven't been able to
> solve over here up to now.
> Here it is: when I want to select two or more files from the
> bin (for erasure, most likely), I cannot manage a selection
> neither with the maj nor ctrl keys: I have to select and
> proceed to erase each file one at a time. This is totally
> un-ergonomic.
> I would seem that nobody has experienced this in the French
> forums, so maybe this has to do with my specific
> configuration, and what I came to incriminate is a program
> called IE Privacy Keeper. It works fine with XP, but I
> installed it under Vista before discovering it was not
> compliant with Vista (program has no longer been serviced
> for quite a long time, it seems). Now IE Privacy Keeper has
> this feature called "Secure Delete" that adds a right-click
> menu to any file and allows you to erase it in a special,
> reliable way. When I found this feature did not appear under
> Vista, I uninstalled the program . . . but maybe that's when
> my problems with the bin began.
> So I'd be *very* grateful if anyone had an idea about how to
> get things back and let me select more than one file at a
> time in the bin (I'm even ready to roll up sleeves and dive
> into the Register Base if needed!).
> Thanks for reading anyway.

From MVP Keith Miller:

"It's a quirk of Explorer that's been showing up on some people's machines.
No known cause yet, but it gets saved with folder views once it happens.
I've written a script that helps MOST people with the multi-select problem.
It will remove single-select from saved folder views & saved defaults.
Right-click the link below & select 'Save Target As..." -
http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FixSingleSelect.zip

"Then extract the contents of the .zip file & run the script."

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

"Malke" /
| From MVP Keith Miller:
| "It's a quirk of Explorer that's been
| showing up on some people's machines.

And of course it had to be mine (again!).

| No known cause yet (...)

Just Microsoft, maybe?

| (...)
| http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FixSingleSelect.zip
| (...)

Brrrrilliant, Malke! It just worked perfectly fine!
I hope you don't mind I'm forwarding this in the French
forum? Though no-one ever mentionned having this problem but
me, it might help some time.
Thanks a zillion times from France!
:-)
--
a.

Albédo wrote:

> "Malke" /
> | From MVP Keith Miller:
> | "It's a quirk of Explorer that's been
> | showing up on some people's machines.
>
> And of course it had to be mine (again!).
>
> | No known cause yet (...)
>
> Just Microsoft, maybe?
>
> | (...)
> | http://mysite.verizon.net/res18hr7/FixSingleSelect.zip
> | (...)
>
> Brrrrilliant, Malke! It just worked perfectly fine!
> I hope you don't mind I'm forwarding this in the French
> forum? Though no-one ever mentionned having this problem but
> me, it might help some time.
> Thanks a zillion times from France!
> :-)

I'm so glad this solved your issue. Of course you should post this in the
French forum. It isn't my fix (it's Keith's) but we all help each other
out!

Cheers,

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
Don't Panic!

"Malke" :
| I'm so glad this solved your issue.

So am I! >sighs in relief<

| Of course you should post this
| in the French forum. (...)

I have. No reactions yet. I guess they may be somewhat upset
that they couldn't come up with the like of your answer.

| It isn't my fix (it's Keith's) but
| we all help each other out!

Thanks for doing so.
--
a.