Disable Hover Feature

Anonymous
2010-06-24T19:04:58+00:00

Does anyone know how to disable not delay the hover feature for Window 7.  There are a lot anwsers but no resolution.   I've tried them all...  Did windows drop the ball, again.  This is actually my second time writing this questions within the last 5 minutes.  The hover feature closed my previous window which had more details.  Please help.  Windows, this feature was a bad idea, especially when you don't give the option to disable it.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-09-22T07:59:54+00:00

    I had the same problem and now no more, try this

    Click start

    Click control panel

    click ease of access centre

    Click change how your mouse works

    scroll down to make it easier to manage windows

    this is the important bit...actually activate the tick box for "activate a window by hovering over it with a mouse. This is actually opposite to what you think you should do but it worked for me. Good Luck everyone.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-05-24T13:34:17+00:00

    this seems to have worked for me  in terms of opening by hovering and highlighting everything even though I had unchecked the auto select in mouse settings., Sometimes I get the little swirly thing with the mouse pointer that i have not seen before.  Does not seem to be a big deal though.  I also unchecked all three that had the word animate or animation; will check back to see if 2aggravated has decided if all 3 need to be unchecked.  Still have issues when typing and the place I am typing moves to a diffferent location in the text.  hate that...any solutions?.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-04-12T04:01:07+00:00

    try this...  This just fixed it for me...  This is a folder option that needs to be changed. I have windows 7, picked any folder and tapped <alt> to display the folder options.  Chose tools, and then folder options.The second option is for "Click item as follows"... choose double click to open, and that should fix it.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-07-06T19:04:39+00:00

    I agree, seems the most likely answer though, I have searched W7 and have not found any other references to hover, with that said, I wait for a reply.

    WT

    WT

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  5. Anonymous
    2010-06-24T22:09:43+00:00

    Ignorant - what "hover feature" are you referring to?

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