I am changing from Windows XP to Windows 7. One thing I cannot stand about Windows 7 is that whenever you mouse over files in Explorer (or other file-browser), it highlights the files with a semi-transparent block.
This is nice, but I want to be able to double-click on the white area background of the directory, and I can't do this with the highlighted selection always there. The hovering-block is always in the way of the background – especially if there are a lot of files in the directory.
(I don't even know what that hovering-block is called; if someone enlightens me, I'll re-title my post)
Is there any way to get the file selector to work like XP?
[edit]
Well, after using Windows 7 now, for several months, I still haven't figured out how to get rid of this!
[later…]
Okay, I still have not found out how to resolve this.
Best Answer
You can shrink the selection box to the name column by disabling Full Row Select. Unfortunately, this has been made difficult in Windows 7: the article at http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-full-row-select-explorer-windows-7/ attempts to shed some light on the issue.