The shortcuts you're referring to are no longer present in Vista. However, there are a couple things you can do:
1.) Instead of right-clicking and then selecting copy or paste, use the keyboard shortcuts ctrl + C and ctrl + P. This is my preferred method, keeping one hand on the mouse and the other on those keys, making for fast manipulation.
2.) Go Organize->Layout->Navigation Pane to turn it on/off. With it on, a tree view of your computer will appear, making it easy to browse to another location while in the current folder and drag files/folders from one spot to another.
3.) Open two windows at a time and tile them. (Right-click the taskbar and select "Show Windows Stacked.") That makes it easier to view two locations at once and then drag-and-drop between the two.
John
Hello,
I'm hoping someone can help me please. In Windows XP, whenever I'd selected a file or multiple files an option opened up on the left side of the window that allow me to select "move" or "copy", then a browse window would open to let me select where I wanted to move or copy the files to. I don't see that option in Vista. I'm assuming it's just some place else. I don't want to have to right click and copy, then paste.
Any info on moving and coping files in Vista would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks for your time,
John

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