Change mouse double click to single click

Anonymous
2011-02-23T20:16:22+00:00

How do I change the mouse click from double to single?

  • Looked in Control Panel under "Mouse"
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Anonymous
2011-02-23T20:24:24+00:00

Ha, not where you think, try this:

Click, Start>>>Control Panel>>>Folder Options>>>General Tab>>>Click items as follows>>>Single click/Double click

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Anonymous
2011-02-24T01:34:50+00:00

If you don't see folder options in the control panel, click on appearance and personalization, then folder options will be listed and change it to single click to open an item and point to select, save.

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Anonymous
2011-02-23T20:22:38+00:00

Do you want to always use a single click to open files, run programs, etc?  If so:

  1. Go to Control Panel > Folder Options .
  2. Under Click items as follows , select one of the Single-click options.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-08-26T09:40:32+00:00

    Thanks very much!

    For win 10, go to control panel and choose "file explorer options", as there is no longer a

    "folder options" choice.

    Then choose the "general" tab, and you will see the option to change to single click.

    Then hit apply and or ok

    I have no idea why this choice is not made available in the mouse settings, since that is where common sense dictates it would be there. I suppose that the minds that helped with the invention of PC's and Windows, are too deep for common thing's, like "sense" though......

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-09-22T00:50:03+00:00

    If you don't see folder options in the control panel, click on appearance and personalization, then folder options will be listed and change it to single click to open an item and point to select, save.

    The best answer for that, 'cause I couldn't find folder option at first.  Thanks.

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