The Ctrl key trick is especially handy if you want to select almost all the icons in a window. As you know, you can drag icons from one folder to another, from one drive to another, from a drive to a folder on another drive, and so on. Dragging to another folder on the same disk moves the folder or file.
Dragging from one disk to another copies the folder or file. Pressing the Ctrl key while dragging to another folder on the same disk copies the icon. Pressing Shift while dragging from one disk to another moves the folder or file without leaving a copy behind.
You can move or copy icons by dragging them either into an open window or directly onto a disk or folder icon. Probably not. Fortunately, you never have to. One of the most important tricks you can learn is to use the right mouse button as you drag. When you release the button, the menu shown in Figure appears, so that you can either copy or move the icons. Figure Thanks to this shortcut menu, right-dragging icons is much easier and safer than left-dragging when you want to move or copy something.
See Section 4. For example, to copy an icon into a certain folder, click the Local Disk C: icon to see its list of folders. If the destination is a folder within that folder, expand its parent folder as necessary. In the left pane, click the icon of the disk or folder that contains the icon you want to manipulate. Locate the icon you want to move in the right pane, and drag it to the appropriate folder in the left pane see Figure You actually see your arrow cursor pushing the icons into the new location.
But you also pay a price for this satisfying illusion. The routine goes like this:. This command offers a quick way to copy and move highlighted icons to popular destinations. But the real power of the Send To command is its ability to accommodate your own favorite or frequently used folders. Now i was about to use the windows xp sp3 recovery disk for the first time but when i have taken it out the packet the disk is warped and misshapen and will not read.
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Download Fast Empty Folder Finder. Empty Folder Cleaner by 4dots Software has both installer and portable versions available. The only major difference between the two is the installed version has the option to add a right click context menu entry so you can delete empty folders from the folder you right click on. By default, junk files are desktop. Press either the green or blue buttons to select all empty or junk folders or selectively check the boxes for individual folders. You can also add folders to ignore 5 system folders are already included , folders and files to protect from deletion, and keep backups of the deleted folders for later restoration.
The program will ask for administrative privileges after you press the delete button if administrator protected folders are listed for deletion. Download 4dots Empty Folder Cleaner. Note: Some tools were ineffective in finding the real number of empty folders on our system. You are welcome to try these programs but we found they were nowhere near thorough enough to be considered truly useful. Letting a dedicated program find and delete empty folders is the best choice for users of all skill levels.
Advanced users might also want some extra options like being able to delete empty folders from the command line or batch scripts. Here are a few ways to do that using third party command line and built in Windows utilities.
There is another tool called DelEmpty that has a GUI but this one is made solely for the command line. The main arguments to remove folders and subfolders from a given path are:. The -D argument is required and tells the tool to delete empty folders, the -S will optionally include sub-folders. Two other useful arguments are -Y which requires confirmation to delete each folder and -L lists the folders to be deleted without deleting anything. This is useful if you want to redirect the folder list to a text file.
DelEmpty is also able to delete zero byte files by including -F, run the tool without arguments for a list. Download Intelliadmin DelEmpty. For complete ease of use while deleting empty folders from the command line, this old tool from around the year is about as simple as it gets.
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