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Windows 7 - How to Disable Hover-to-Select with Single-Click Mode?
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| 04-02-2010 | #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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| 04-02-2010 | #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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| 04-02-2010 | #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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| 04-02-2010 | #4 |
| | I am unable to reproduce the behaviour you described on my machine. IDK if you have moved directly from xp to Windows 7, but try disabling tapping in your touchpad properties. |
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| 04-02-2010 | #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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| 04-02-2010 | #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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| 04-02-2010 | #7 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by Brink  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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| 04-02-2010 | #8 |
| | Finally! I found it. It's in HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Control Panel / Mouse Set MouseHoverWidth and MouseHoverHeight to 0. |
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| 04-02-2010 | #9 |
| | That's great news Msafi. Thank you for posting back with your results and solution.  |
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| 04-03-2010 | #10 |
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