Windows 7: Single-Click Mode Point to Select - Enable or Disable

msafi · 04 Apr 2010

A possibly undesirable side-effect to this is that taskbar thumbnail preview would be disabled as well.

Personally, I wish the effect didn't spill over to the taskbar thumbnail previews, but I'll continue to use this tweak.

Brink · 04 Apr 2010

Hello Msafi,

It is a unfortunate side effect, but I found a workaround for this is to right click and then left click twice on the taskbar icon that has the open window. You will then have a thumbnail preview of the opened window for the taskbar icon.

msafi · 04 Apr 2010

That's cool.

For me, I can live without the taskbar thumbnails, but the point-to-select feature was too annoying to tolerate.

In case I really needed to see the thumbnails, I can use this mouse clicks workaround or press Win+T and use the arrow keys to move through the icons and see their thumbnails!

I usually just use Alt+Tab. It provides window previews.

Brink · 04 Apr 2010

LOL, I forgot about the shortcut keys. Added. Thank you.

TomMolyn · 22 Nov 2010

If you are sceptical or just dont want to mess with the registry you can do this through the graphical interface.

Single-Click or Double-Click to Open an Item

Step 1
Navigate to the Control panel usualy located under START>CONTROL PANEL

Step 2
Once in the control panel change the drop down menu in the top right corner to "Small Options"

Step 3
Now find the icon that is named "Folder Options" and point and click

Step 4
Once in the folder options window under the General tab find the box that is labeled Click Items as Follows. In this box is an option that says Double Click to Open an Item (single click to select) To the left of this is a circle be sure to click this circle and choose Apply then OK

Brink · 22 Nov 2010

Hello Tom, and welcome to Seven Forums.

That it fine, but you misunderstood what the tutorial is for. This tutorial is to show people how to enable or disable selecting a item by hovering the mouse pointer over it (point to select) when they have Single-click to Open an Item option selected in Folder Options instead.

tweakradje · 07 Nov 2012

One little problem with this method. If you apply these settings I noticed that hovering over taskbar running app icons you only get the balloon (if switched on) and not the toasters. Like winamp not toasting the play controls, explorer not showing the active explorer windows toast, etc.

Has anyone fixed this? (desktop window manager service enabled/disabled made no difference)

EDIT: OK, just found out that IF you have single click select on and leave default mousehover values, you can get explorer to not select the files when hovering over them. BUT you need to use "Use check boxes to select files" or in the registry "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\AutoCheckSelect dword 0x1"

Cheers

Brink · 07 Nov 2012

Hello Tweakradje,

Does using any of the options in the red warning box at the top of the tutorial as well help?

tweakradje · 08 Nov 2012

Thx. It is big and red and I missed it.

But those tricks are not very usefull in everyday use. I choose to use single click, and then I have to click 3 times to see the toasters? Pehaps some day one will find another workarround. I stick to the check boxes.

Cheers

edit: just wanted to say what a great place you have here. A lot of knowhow and very nice presented.

Windows 7: Single-Click Mode Point to Select - Enable or Disable

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