Windows Vista Be Careful How You Delete!

I learned a BIG lesson this morning about Vista. If you highlight a folder in the left window then go to the right side and click and DRAG to highlight several items in the right side and then use the keyboard commands to delete, then the highlighted folder in the left side will be deleted.
I couldn't believe it so I went and created the same conditions and when you click and drag it still leaves the item in the left highlighted.
Is that stupid or what?

 

The reason is, is where you stop highlighting.

 

I just went to my desktop a dual boot with premium and tried to reproduce this and with the mouse set to single click it would not do it. it would automatically light up the file it was over. I thought it might be cause my laptop only had basic but I can do it on premium too.

 

Let me correct my above statement. It depends on where you start lighting. If you start in the middle of a file dragging dont click first. The items will only be greyed out.
In reality the highlight needs to be brighter or darker so this doesn't happen again. I haven't been able to figure out how to change this yet in vista. May not be able to.

 

I've experienced and reported this problem since vista beta2, though I never worked out how to reliably reproduce it.

I was VERY annoyed and disappointed when I accidentally discovered it still happened in the RTM version, and this was only a few weeks back on a fully patched system.

I often shift-delete items and so this was a big problem for me.

I just hope it's fixed in SP1.

 

What are we talking about here?

Yup. If you are using a file in it. If you just highlight a folder, and it is open in the right pane, it can be deleted. I tried it just now. I don't know why I tried it. I must be monumentally bored. lol...

 

Right. LOL...Oh man, I could be accused of post-whoring with stating the obvious. lol...

 

Like to read old posts to see what I've missed. To me, DRAG means hold a mouse button down while moving the file somewhere, and I have never seen that highlight other files. I don't understand what the poster means by

 

Sparrow, open Windows Explorer and open a folder. Click on a blank spot in the right pane and drag the cursor. It will draw a box and when you release the mouse button, everything in the box will be highlighted. Then they can all be deleted, dragged or whatever , all at once. It's kind of hard to explain. Try it and you'll see what I mean.

 

Gotcha! Thanks.