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SCROLLING IN EXPLORER WITH ARROW KEYS

Did you know that you can scroll the Windows Explorer panes without using the mouse? (This tip might be useful to you sometime when your mouse is acting up and has had to be disconnected while you try to get it fixed or replaced.) When you start up Explorer your left pane will be the one that responds to the arrow keys. To activate the right pane, you use the Tab key. (Then, to get back to the left pane, use Shift and Tab.) If you have a folder on the left pane selected (highlighted), and it has subfolders (shown by the fact that there is a plus sign in front of the folder name), then pressing the right arrow expands the list of subfolders. Then, when the list of subfolders is shown in expanded form, pressing the left arrow will close up the expansion. If you use the up and down arrow keys on the left pane, it will scroll it up or down (and likewise on the right pane if you have that activated), but it will also change the selected folder to whatever your up or down arrow last moved to. So that means the right pane will be modified also, because it will show the contents of the new folder selected by the up or down arrow. If, on the other hand, you press the Ctrl key simultaneously with the up or down arrow, then you can scroll whichever pane you have activated without moving the current selection.