The point of double-clicking is to prevent you from accidentally opening
a program or folder when you??™re just trying to select, delete, move,
copy, or rename the file. If you don??™t like double-clicking, but aren??™t
comfortable with the single-click interface Explorer provides, most
pointing devices (mice, styli, trackballs) with more than two buttons
allow you to program the additional buttons to handle double-click
duty.
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The View tab (Figure 2-3) contains settings that affect how much information
Explorer shows you, arranged in alphabetical order.
Unfortunately, the defaults are set in favor of a ???simpler??? (read dumbeddown)
interface, which has the unfortunate and ironic side effect of making
many everyday tasks like organizing files, sharing folders over a network, or
even opening certain folders, more difficult. But probably the most annoying
thing is that Vista provides no help whatsoever for these settings, so
they??™re explained in detail here.
Figure 2-3. The most useful Explorer settings are in the View tab
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Some of these options may not be available in all editions of
Windows. Also, the use of some of these options can be very
confusing, in that enabling them ends up turning something
off in the interface, or vice-versa. But that??™s the nature of the
beast....
Always show icons, never thumbnails. This is a setting Windows has been
lacking for years.
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