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

msafi · Apr 2, 2010

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?

Bill2 · Apr 2, 2010

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.

msafi · Apr 2, 2010

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.

Bill2 · Apr 2, 2010

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.

Brink · Apr 2, 2010

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.

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

msafi · Apr 2, 2010

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...

msafi · Apr 2, 2010

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.

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

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...

msafi · Apr 2, 2010

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

Set MouseHoverWidth and MouseHoverHeight to 0.

Brink · Apr 2, 2010

That's great news Msafi. Thank you for posting back with your results and solution.

Brink · Apr 3, 2010

Ok Msafi. This tutorial is dedicated to you.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/75817-single-click-mode-point-select-enable-disable.html

msafi · Apr 3, 2010

Brink said:
Ok Msafi. This tutorial is dedicated to you.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/75817-single-click-mode-point-select-enable-disable.html

Thanks!!

Brink · Apr 3, 2010

No, thank you.

Jurisrachel · Oct 9, 2014

thank you, thank you, thank you ...

This has been annoying me ever since my new laptop arrived. I've accidentally sent emails early and clicked all sorts of things I didn't mean to.

So thank you, so much.

-Rachel

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