Author Topic: Double clicking on PC (Read 1866 times)

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 07:38:55 PM

Well, I have now been driven crazy by this. For the last two years I have had to right click and press open due to a preference or something that has been changed from my mouse. When I double click I search for items inside the folder instead of it opening. I have searched and searched and have found no clue on how to revert this. Below is a picture of what it shows up as.

As you can see, I can only search on double click.

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Rughugger · February 16, 2009, 07:43:00 PM

Can usually find mouse options through your control panel interface under hardware.

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 07:44:44 PM

No menu to edit what the button does. I could in 98 but have yet to find anything in XP about this.

Mateo · February 16, 2009, 07:48:39 PM

What? XP had a control panel.

Rughugger · February 16, 2009, 07:50:42 PM

Yeah, xp had one. I used it to modify the cursor to a Vista look. It had click options and everything. Just look for it, or do what I did and download a mouse cursor mod and it will pull the window open for you.

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 07:51:30 PM

I looked in all the tabs and could find nothing.

Drak · February 16, 2009, 07:54:40 PM

Hi Nic.

Meekl · February 16, 2009, 07:57:17 PM

what is shortcut to powder?

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 07:58:39 PM

Blame my cousin.

Powder toy game. 2d cheap ass physics game.

Now GTFO and stop derailing my topic. I seriously would like this to be fixed. Two hours on Google is not going to get it done alone.

Rughugger · February 16, 2009, 07:59:38 PM

*facepalm* and did you try to open it? The control panel? It will either be shown there for mouse options or you have to go further. A mouse is hardware, open the hardware manager in control panel. if I have to clarify further, then you don't deserve to own a PC.

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 08:06:44 PM

No, YOU do not get it. There is nothing in the mouse options in any tab of the mouse options to edit what the buttons do. I am not sure if it is to deal with the mouse or the computer.

Rughugger · February 16, 2009, 08:09:41 PM

Probably the mouse hardware. As I said, try locating a Vista type mod for your mouse cursor. It's what I did and it allowed me extra options.

Bisjac · February 16, 2009, 08:16:16 PM

try control panel - folder options

theres a single double click option to set in there also. and since even the MY PC icon is a folder it could maybe apply.

Miga · February 16, 2009, 08:19:17 PM

So what, when you double click, it searches?
I have a sort of a tacky fix, but it'll at least open up the window. It'll be sort-of like Windows 95 though, each folder will open in a new window.

Open My Computer,

Go to Tools > Folder Options

Go to File Types

Wait for it to load the Registered File Types

find "Folder (has no extension)"

If you already have "open" for "Folder", then just set it as the default. Skip the rest, and just click close.

Click Advanced

Click "New..."

For Action, put "open"; for Application used to perform action, put "explorer.exe"

Click OK, then click "Set Default"

Click OK again

and click close.

Hope this helps.

General Omega · February 16, 2009, 08:25:18 PM

Quote from: Miga on February 16, 2009, 08:19:17 PM

-yaysnip-

This worked but I have two of them. I have a file folder and folder. Folder has been set to open but file folder was set to find. thanks.

EDIT:
Well, it does work but it opens in a new window. Which is somewhat annoying