Fancy vista makeup comes with some loss of simple old features:

Select All (Ctrl + A) items in a folder simply does NOT work anymore!? But why?!

I cannot understand why Microsoft is capable of producing very popular software applications, and is still incapable of keeping usefull features ..or breaking the working parts!?

Apparently, this is a BUG introduced on new edition of Windows you can find the fix in one of M$ community sites:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?..

I always hated fancy and TOTALLY unnecessary effects and makeup M$ has introduced to deceive PC dummies 🙁 Why can I not have my simple Windows Explorer?!