Solved Jumping files/folders

rmike1991 · Sep 4, 2014

Hopefully this is the right forum section to post this.

The problem is when I open any folder with files/folders in it the files in the very right column jump to the left if I click (double click) on them. I captured a short video of what's going on. Red star - left click and the blue star - right click.

I've been searching around ever since I started using Windows 7 to find the way to fix it but couldn't find the solution. Didn't have that in XP. Is there any way to fix that? Makes me

every time I want to open something and it just jumps away from me.
Thanks in advance.

Brink · Sep 4, 2014

Hey Mike,

When you have your Folder Options set to "double-click to open an item", then that is the default action to scroll the item into view.

To stop this, you could set to use "single-click to open an item" instead. This way you can just hover to select the file without it scrolling into full view.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10117-single-click-double-click-open-item.html

Hope this helps,

Shawn

rmike1991 · Sep 5, 2014

Shawn,

Thanks a lot for your reply. I knew about "single-click to open an item". I think it was already available in Windows 98 if not in 95. Don't remember. Definitely in XP. I kind of always liked double click option for opening files and folders and of course, got used to it over so many years. Anyway, what you're saying is with Windows 7 it's impossible to have double click without jumping just like it was in XP?

PS How did you make my video look like that? I was trying to use YouTube button but it would just do something weird - link with the whole bunch of *****

Mike

Brink · Sep 5, 2014

There's not a way to stop it that I know of.

You would use the part in red after the equal sign from the URL of the YouTube video in the ?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Berton · Sep 5, 2014

If you mean the display of file names in the List view at the right end of what you have in the video, I think it's just Windows' way of putting the focus on the full file name without the user having to manually scroll. A whole lot of that action depends upon the Display resolution and the size of the window in how much of the List is displayed. The List view is the only time I see the horizontal scroll bar appear. And it works the same with Folders that have longer names.

rmike1991 · Sep 5, 2014

Shawn,

Thanks for the explanation. I didn't know that. Usually I would use the whole link from YouTube on the other forums.

Mike

rmike1991 · Sep 5, 2014

Berton,

Here is exactly what I want to accomplish. I connected my XP hard drive and captured a video of the same situation behavior there.

As you can see there is no jumping at all. Any way to force Win 7 to do the same?

Mike

Berton · Sep 5, 2014

I see what you are saying and the same thing happens in Windows Vista. What happens in Win7 also happens in Win8.1. But it seems to be only in the List View in Windows Explorer.

passmorel · Sep 8, 2014

Another way is to select the file with the right mouse button and that will popup the menu directly. It will still scroll the full filename into view but will also show the menu without having to reselect the file. Maybe that helps you.

rmike1991 · Sep 8, 2014

Thanks passmorel, This is a good idea but I still would like to find a solution to be able to double click on the file/folder just like it was in XP. I know there are a lot of very smart people around the World who can find the way to fix this annoying MS bug.

Berton · Sep 8, 2014

be able to double click on the file/folder

My Win7, Win8. and WinVista by default allow double-clicking a Folder or file in Windows Explorer [renamed to File Explorer on Win8/8.1] but that is changeable in Control Panel, Folder Options to be a single-click.
Change mouse setting to single click in Windows 7 - Microsoft Community

rmike1991 · Sep 8, 2014

Single click was suggested by Brink in earlier post. The point is to force Win 7 to behave like XP with double click. I posted videos of how it is and how I want it to be.

passmorel · Sep 8, 2014

Sadly I suspect it isn't a bug but most likely a 'design feature'. I guess it is an attempt by MS to show the entire filename (or as much as it can) when you click on it. Not sure how that behaved in XP but I agree that it would be nice if, in the code, they waited for the double click period to expire before moving things around. Wouldn't be hard. Anybody in MS code development watch these forums?

rmike1991 · Sep 11, 2014

OK. Just want everyone to know that this annoying issue is fixed. I asked one of my friends to take a look at this thread and see if he knows how to fix this. He suggested to download Ultimate Windows Tweaker and disable full row select.

Look at it now

Brink · Sep 11, 2014

Perfect.

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