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
    2012-07-02T20:35:27+00:00

    Thank you Thank you thank you. This has been driving me crazy for the last several months. Not sure how it got set that way, but your suggestion helped.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-11-13T10:41:08+00:00

    Thanks, Dissed. I gave it a try, but resetting to defaults still left the setting grayed out. It is a problem with both a wired and a wireless mouse. Rebooting didn't change anything either. However, I did find the answer. The problem was a registry setting. The offending setting was in the ClassicShell settings under:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

    Apparently, if the ClassicShell dWord setting is 1, the setting itself needs to be deleted. After deleting this setting, everything works fine now.

    Attention Microsoft! Please add this info to you FAQs and knowledge base.

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