To select several files and folders, hold down the Ctrl key when you click the names or icons. Each name or icon stays highlighted when you click the next one. To gather several files or folders sitting next to each other in a list, click the first one. Then hold down the Shift key as you click the last one.

How do you select multiple files at once?

How to select multiple files that are not grouped together: Click on the first file, and then press and hold the Ctrl key. While holding down the Ctrl key, click on each of the other files you want to select. You can also simply select multiple pictures by selecting them with your mouse cursor.

How do you select multiple files without using the keyboard?

Now what you must do is while you need to select multiple files just click the middle Button of your mouse (Scroll Button) and simply select the files (Left click). After pressing the middle button of your mouse ctrl will be held until you press the middle mouse button again.