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Disabling Full Row Selection in Vista Explorer

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Valeri Hristov | Comments 2
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One of the things that irritates me the most in Vista is the enabled by default Full Row Selection in Explorer. To see what I'm talking about open an Explorer window in Details View and try to select files with dragging a rectangle. I googled a bit and found that there is a solution for the problem:

Under the key:
 [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
 
Create a new REG_DWORD value named FullRowSelect. Leave it's data as 0x0 and you are set.
 
After some more digging, I found several scripts which will automatically set and unset this key for you:

 

I hope this helps.

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2 Comments

  • DS 30 Jul
    that worked well, Thank you. I don't like to use scripts and this was an easy fix.
  • TheMystical 07 Sep
    I hate this behavior, I'd really like to be able to select only the file name portion like used to be in XP

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