Disable full row select [again]

[Hysz]

Hello,

I just want to know if there is a way to disable full row select in RTM? The way I used in series of 'builds' didn't work here [ I mean using registry keys ].

I don't want to argue if full row select is good, or bad, or what other things I can do to make my selections better, I just want to have this short line when I select things.

Thanks in advance.

PS: If someone tells me that this method of selecting is rubbish etc etc, don't exptect me to thank you, or even reply.

[ziddiri]

Hi,

I want to know that, too. I have searched, and I'm still searching how to disable this headache in windows 7. I'm still expecting that someone finds a solution to disable the full row select option.

Regards.

[Zanny]

Full row select is the single most annoying feature of Explorer in Windows 7 - I hope someone finds a solution to this soon. Let's keep this topic alive!

[mrp04]

What is full row select?

[svnO.o]

  mrp04 said:

What is full row select?

Where when you click / mouse over something in explorer, the entire row is selected/highlighted instead of just the area/column that you are hovered/clicked on.

[ziddiri]

Hi again,

I checked explorer.exe with proccess monitor. Explorer reads FullRowSelect value from registry. But it does not act as what should do. I think it is a bug in the Explorer or the programmers in microsoft have decided to remove this feature tottaly. No matters what, there is no solution to this problem except hacking the explorer.exe itself. If I find a windows xp theme for windows 7, I'll prefer to use this theme rather then orginal win7 theme.

[HawkMan]

So let me get this straight, when you're in detail view in explorer, you want the hihgligh to not highlight the whole row, but just the folder/item name? I don't really see the purpose since the whole row is part of the same item. visually I don't see that it would look better either.

so I genuinely don't see a reason for that.

[ziddiri]

  HawkMan said:

So let me get this straight, when you're in detail view in explorer, you want the hihgligh to not highlight the whole row, but just the folder/item name? I don't really see the purpose since the whole row is part of the same item. visually I don't see that it would look better either.

so I genuinely don't see a reason for that.

Hi,

It is not about visuality, it is about functionality.

There a lot of reason. Here is some of them.

If you want to select multiple file or folder with mouse by drawing a rectangle, you must press the left mouse button down in a free space. If the fullrowselect is active, you must enlarge the whole window to see non-column area, then you can click this free space. If the fullrowselect is not active, you don't have to enlarge window, beacuse the columns on the right of the name column behave like non-column area.

If you want to drag a file or folder to an explorer window that is in detail view, you have to drag on a free space. If you drag on a cloumn near the name column, you can move your file or folder in another folder incorrectly. If the fullrowselect feature is disabled, your free space to use dragging is the columns' area near the name column.

[Yogurth]

Indeed FullRowSelect is probably why Explorer is so tragic to use. If someone finds out how to disable it post it! I have aswell tried everything that has been said to work for Vista to disable it, but none of those reg tweaks or scripts do not work in [7].

[MS Bob 11]

Why bother. Stay with XP. Windows 7 Explorer and shell (Control Panel etc) are worse than crap. The rest of the OS is fine but screwing up file management isn't going to help users when then upgrade.

[imaticx]

so, still no solutio for this "problem"? :)

[MS Bob 11]

In Windows Vista, try the QTTabBar addon which has a setting to disable full row selection in details view. It is not fully Windows 7 compatible unfortunately.

[+LogicalApex MVC]

I follow this thread when it pops up, but I'm still very lost on what you guys are all complaining about and need a fix for... Maybe a screenshot or something might help as is confusing me lol

[Jygoro]

  ziddiri said:

If the fullrowselect feature is disabled, your free space to use dragging is the columns' area near the name column.

You can drag the files/folders to the green zones instead near the name column. Now where is the problem?

[MS Bob 11]

In Vista it was possible. In Windows 7, no longer as it uses an as of yet undocumented list view control.

[SyntaxError]

Just use CTRL and Shift keys with left click to select multiple files/folders. Problem solved.

Personally I like full row select and don't have a problem with it.

For all it's quirks, Windows Explorer still can't be beat in my opinion. I've tried nearly every replacement there is and I always go back.

[still1]

  imaticx said:

so, still no solutio for this "problem"? :)

That is not a problem. Its problem with you guys.

I dont see a reason to disable that since it looks good.

To select multiple files click on the first file then click shift+left on the last file.

Its selected. This is better if the list is big.

Edited December 24, 2009 by still1