I have forgotten how to do this thing on my computer?

Question

Duh! I seem to have blanked out how to put a whole bunch of pictures in a folder in one go. It's that clicky draggy thing but definitely not the way i'm doing it. HelP!
Thanks very much.
P.S My mouse has stopped working properly too as the ball wont stay down and you really have to press to make it work and it' making my wrist ache. Iv'e taken it apart and put it back together but with no sucess?

Yes, cleaned the little sucker.

Answer 1

Ah, but have you cleaned the ball and socket when you had it apart?

I can't tell you how many people have mentioned to me that they bought a new mouse because the old one died. Some people even buy multiple mice at a time, since their mouse fails on a regular basis. In my experience, mice almost never break, they just get dirty. If your mouse only moves in one direction (on one axis) on the screen, it means a roller is dirty. If it stutters and is hard to control, it means the rollers are wrapped in lint. It takes two minutes to clean a mouse and get it back into perfect working condition, and the first step is to remove the plate that retains the ball. Just twist it in the direction of the arrow.

The first thing you'll see when you remove the mouse ball retainer is the tracking ball. If you're holding the mouse on an angle, the first thing you may see is the tracking ball rolling under the desk, but it's pretty bulletproof. Here's the whole key to mouse repair. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WASH THE BALL. I remember somebody telling me they cleaned their mouse a half dozen times and it didn't help a bit. It turned out that somebody was washing the ball! The purpose of the ball, which is heavy, is to mantain contact with the desktop and mouse pad and transfer the motion to the rollers. The rollers are the key.

With the mouse ball removed, you can just see both rollers at the same time, the black shapes at 10:00 and 1:00 in the picture to the right, with the lint wrapped around them. The enemy of the mouse is lint, or dust, which eventually spins itself into fairly solid strings that eventually gum up the mouse motion. Some mice use more spring loading ticks than others to keep the rollers in contact with the ball, so keep an eye on springs popping out, but in most cases, mice are built pretty rugged and there's nothing to hurt during a cleaning. The cup shape in the center is just to help position the ball in the mouse.

you should see pretty clearly the double rope of lint wrapped around the roller to the top of the picture. The other roller was just as bad, it usually works out that way. The rollers are pretty sturdy, I've never had one break on me when cleaning a mouse. The ideal tool for the job is tweezers, but like most people, I don't have a clue where any of the tweezers I've bought over the years are and when it comes to cleaning mice (or removing splinters) I invairably end up using a needle, or a knife.

Don't have a contest to see how high above the mouse you can drop the ball from and have it go into the hole. I get the ball as close to the mouse as I can and sort of roll it into place off the wall that doesn't have a roller, but in any case, I've never broken one. If it looks to you like the ball is sitting too low in the socket once you drop it in, it's because the mouse is upside down. Once you reinstall the ball retainer and flip the mouse upside up, the ball with be regulated to the proper height by the tapered round hole in the retainer plate.The ball retainer is locked into place by turning it the opposite of the direction you turned it to open the mouse. Wallah! The mouse cleaning operation is finished, and if your mouse still doesn't work properly, at least you know that it's not because the rollers are dirty:-)

Answer 2

I'm assuming you are using Windows XP. (Other windows varieties would work similarly.) If you are using Mac or Linux or some other OS.

First question was how to move a group of pictures into a folder. You didn't say where the pictures are now. So I'm going to give you a couple answers.

If the pictures are already on your computer somewhere, there are several ways to move them. Let's use the windows explorer method.

Right click on the start button and click "Explore".

On the left is a list of folders on your computer. On the right is a list of items in any folder you select in the left pane.

Let's assume your pictures are on your desktop.

At the very top of the left pane should be the word "Desktop".

Click on "Desktop" and you will get a list of the items on your desktop in the right pane.

Click on your first picture in the right pane.

Hold down the ctrl key on the keyboard and click on each of your other pictures.

Once you have them all selected, release the ctrl key.

Right click on one of the pictures.

A menu will appear.

If you want to move the pictures from your desktop and put them in your folder leaving only the one copy in the folder, select "cut" from the menu.

If you want to put a copy of the pictures in the folder, leaving a copy on the desktop, select "copy" from the menu.

In the left pane scroll until the folder into which you want to puty your pictures is visible.

Note that folders that contain folders will have a small + beside them. If you click on that plus you will see the folders inside the folders. So for example, if your pictures folder is in your "My Pictures" folder and is named "July 2007", you would have to expand the "My documents" folder to see "my pictures" and then you would have to expand the "My pictures" folder to see the folder "July 2007."

Click on the folder into which you want to place your pictures (in the left pane).

The contents of that folder will be displayed in the right pane.

Right click in the left pane on the folder into which you want to put the pictures.

A menu will appear. Select "paste".

As I said, there are several other ways to do this. But this one works. If you want others, ask.

Now, let's assume you have your pictures on a camera and want to put them on your computer.

This one could be easy or confusing, depending on what software you have on your computer.

Step 1 is to turn the camera off, plug in the cable that came with your camera to your camera and to the USB port on your computer. Turn your camera on.

One of several things could happen (or even a series of them).

If you have not loaded software onto your computer which will try to move your pictures to it's favorite places (many cameras come with such software), windows will ask you what you want to do with the pictures.

One of the selections will be "copy to a folder on my computer." Obviously that's what you want to do.

If you have some software that tries to do it's own thing, I can't help you unless you let us know what software you have.

As for the mouse... Simple. A mouse can be had for $10. Go to your local Wal-Mart, Circuit City, Best Buy, CompUSA (if there are any left), and buy a new one.

About the only trick is to determine if you have a USB mouse or an older serial mouse. Simply unplug the mouse from the computer. It the plug that goes into the computer is round, you have the old style mouse. If it's rectangular, you have a USB mouse. Get the same type when you go to the store to keep from confusing your computer. You can take the dead mouse with you and ask someone at the store to help you select a replacement.

If you have a USB mouse you should consider getting an optical mouse which has no ball and no moving parts. You will not have the broken ball problem with one of those.

Good luck!

Answer 3

You can press the Shift key as you click on items to select a large group or you can use the Ctrl key and select as many individual items as you'd like. Then just drag them to whereever you want them.

As far as the mouse I would highly recommend going out and picking up an optical mouse. Ball mice are very prone to dust and dirt and need to be cleaned out regularly otherwise they really just stop working. You can pick up an optical mouse from any place that sells electronics and could probably find them nowadays for $10 or less.

Answer 4

I'd suggest buying a new $10 mouse.

As for the other question, if you individual photos while holding the "Ctrl", they will appear highlighted together. Simply drag one of the highlighted photos on top of the desired folder, and all of them will enter the folder.

Answer 5

get the page that has the pictures on it, then go to view and change the way they are dispayed to "list" then to "edit" and select all, from there you can put them where you want in one big heap by just left click and hold and dragging or you can go to "file" and chose send to...if the mouse is acting weird.
good luck!

Answer 6

if you do a Ctrl-A (or from the edit menu, select "select All") you can then click and hold the grabbed images and move them wherever.

The easiest way to do this is to do a ctrl-a, then a ctrl-x, and go to the folder you want to move it to and select ctrl-v.

As for your mouse balls, I would definately clean and/or get a new mouse.

Answer 7

Not quite sure what you mean about the pictures but if your mouse has dirty balls you can take it out & clean it with metho.

Answer 8

shoot the mouse get a new one