Bought a new PC last week. When I single click on a something if I am using Windows Explorer, it automatically opens up. That bugs me, sometimes I click on something just to highlight it and get it's properties.
How do I enable it so that I have to double click it to open it up? That is one setting I have never had to find.

Thanks,
~Rob

 

Wow, amazing what you can find when you look for it (again and again and again).
I found the answer, and I must have looked at that option screen 10 times before.

With Windows Explorer open, click Tools > Folder Options > General tab, right there at the bottom, is the option to double click something to open it.

EDIT: Is the "Delete Post" option going to come back? Inquiring minds want to know

~Need more Rob

 

When viewing your drives in my computer (or windows explorer) go to the tools menu and choose folder options. There you will see the option for single click or double click to open folders and icons.
mishkaya
I see I was too slow in typing an answer, oh well...

 

Thank you for answering anyway though, that was quick
I hate getting new computers, it takes a week to get them setup the way you want them.

~Rob

 

Right click opens the drop down that shows properties, etc.

 

i hate computers in general. when they work properly [±25% of the time for me] they are great, but when the start failing

 

You can minimize the frustrations by avoiding: emachines, dell, hp, and compaq.

 

Pretty much any "out of the box" computer should be avoided.

Building your own is the only way to go, even if you don't know anything about computers,
you end up learning a lot.
And you do away with all the preloaded crap that comes on the store bought ones.


phox

 

it is pretty amazing what you learn by building your own, through shear volume reading you absorb so much of what is going on and how / why....... and then you build a better one,,,,,, then faster then for others........ overclocking falls in to a lot of work but the gains are crazy,