Ok, so I'm a slow learner...

For years I've been gritching about the pains of moving files between directories in Windoze.

Highlight the files, drag them to the right folder on the explorer bar and hope that the bar's display doesn't shift and cause you to drop them in the wrong folder. Or that Windoze doesn't decide to open that folder and cause you to drop them in a sub-folder.Or any of a number of other annoyances.

so I was thinking the other day "There ought to be a different way. Select the files, tell windows you are done selecting click on the destination and tell windows to move/copy the files there."

This was the first time I'd actually put that much thought into *how* a "better way might work.... and doing so made something click in my head. "It couldn't be that easy, could it?"

Well, it was. For other "slow learners out there...

Select files.
Right click and select "cut" (for moving them) or "copy" (for copying them)
right click on destination folder and select paste

Then go beat your head on a wall for having missed this for so long