How to Disable Hover-to-Select with Single-Click Mode?

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  1. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #1

    How to Disable Hover-to-Select with Single-Click Mode?


    I use my laptop in single-click mode, and I don't like the hover-to-select feature that's enabled with it. When I wanna select a folder or a file, I just press Ctrl before I click it or I highlight it by dragging the selection rectangle over it.

    I turned it off this feature in Vista, but now I don't remember how I did it.

    I think I set some pixel to 0 or set some delay time to 0...I don't remember where and how...

    Can you help me?
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  2. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #2

    You can disable "hovering over" by going to "Control Panel - Ease of Access Center - Make the mouse easier to use & unchecking the "Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse" checkbox.
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  3. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    No, that's different. It doesn't disable the behavior I described. Set your PC to single-click, hover over items in Windows Explorer and you'll see what I mean.
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  4. Posts : 5,056
    Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
       #4

    I am unable to reproduce the behaviour you described on my machine.
    IDK if you have moved directly from xp to win7, but try disabling tapping in your touchpad properties.
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  5. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #5

    Hello Msafi,

    Sorry, but that is a feature built-in to the single click option. If you do not want to hover to select, then you must use the double click option instead.

    Single-Click or Double-Click to Open an Item
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  6. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    I just bought this brand new ThinkPad laptop with Windows 7 and the new Intel processors...

    So, you went to "Folder and search options" and selected "single click" instead of the default "Double click" and you didn't get hover-to-select behavior in Windows Explorer? Hmmm...

    Maybe I should go ask in the ThinkPads forums then. Maybe it's specific to ThinkPad...
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  7. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #7

    Brink said:
    Hello Msafi,

    Sorry, but that is a feature built-in to the single click option. If you do not want to hover to select, then you must use the double click option instead.

    Single-Click or Double-Click to Open an Item
    I disabled it in Vista. I still have the PC on which this feature is disabled. It was a registry key, I think -- a registry key where I set a number of pixels to zero...
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  8. Posts : 15
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Finally! I found it. It's in HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Mouse

    Set MouseHoverWidth and MouseHoverHeight to 0.
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  9. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #9

    That's great news Msafi. Thank you for posting back with your results and solution. :)
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  10. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #10

    Ok Msafi. This tutorial is dedicated to you. :)

    Single-Click Mode Point to Select - Enable or Disable
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