selection

Recently, when I put my cursor over items it automatically selects them even though I have not clicked. How do I turn this off so that an item is only selected when I click it.

Hope that title makes sense. I have about 65 photo files on an external drive. I would like to copy them over to my new Dell - the files do not seem to have the little open box next to each one as in win7. That would enable you to select which files to copy or whatever - I do not see such an...

Just wondering, is it possible to create a new folder from a multiple selection of files. That is, select a bunch of files and right click or something. Select Send to new folder.. I just see send to.. compressed(zipped) folder. Of course I can just create a new folder and move the selected...

There is a simple solution to this problem but I do not recall what the solution is. I believe the solution calls for double tapping a specific key. The text is elected to wherever the mouse points the cursor. The text is selected to wherever the arrow keys direct the cursor to go. These...

1 Loading an object Link Removed Figure 1 - 3D Builder Start Screen 3D object can be loaded using 3 different methods. One can either pick a model from the 3D Builder Library, load them from an external file or create a new one from a Kinect v2 Sensor scan (see 3D Scanning). Loading...

I have noticed that the Wallpaper selection for 10 is really glitch. It wont let me choose what wallpapers I want to use. I mean granted I have an unusual amount of them, but I haven't had this problem before. The only thing I can come up with by looking at it is, it is loading the thumbnails...

It would be great if I can select a word and hold the left mouse button and the definition of that word pops up!

Hello, I bought a windows tablet to use as an ereader. I'd like to use text to speech for when my eyes get tired. Is there any way to use text to speech without narrator? When I turn it on it's incredibly annoying and slows down navigation. I just want to be able to select text and/or...

Anyone know how to change the outline of the selected area on the desktop from the dots that are about a pixel apart to a solid color. I went into the advanced color settings, to selected items, and changed that color to what I wanted it to be, but the outline for selecting an area is still the...

I know that I can select fonts one at a time, until I find one that I like, but that is more tedious than I would like. Is there a program available that will scan all of the fonts on my computer, and display samples of all of them at one time?

I find there are lots of driver updater tools available now, but how to select the best one? Yesterday, IObit Driver Booster was released, it said the easiest, one click "update" all outdated drivers. It's free version, but I don't know whether this free software are better. thanks for your advice.

Been having a weird problem recently. Only seems to happen when the computer has been unattended for some time. When I go into any application where you (use the mouse) to select one item, several random items are selected all at the same time. In Thunderbird, for example, selecting one...

When trying to print an email, my print selection screen ALWAYS shows Save as PDF. Printer choiuces are NOT given. I have to use the CHANGE button to bring up my list of available printers. How can I remove the save as PDF as the default in my email printer screen?

When I select anything on the desktop or in folders it is XP style or Grey on the outside. :computer:

I'm trying to select multiple files in a long row of files, to do this I drag a selection box to select all of the files I want. The problem is that I can't scroll with the mouse wheel while either of the mouse buttons is held down, or at least not outside of the library. The 'library'...

Hello. Out of all my years of computing I've never heard of or seen this bug, but whatever it is, it's very frustrating. Whenever I select something go into the properties of something that has a selection, it basically disappears. Another one I discovered was that when I go into Task Manager it...

Friends, I want to change the selection colour from default blue to my choice. When we select any folder or drive by clicking once it gets selected and the background colour is blue. I want to change that colour. So please help me to guide about how to do it? please reply me as soon as...

I'm having a problem with my cursor selecting things at random times. It will select things out of the blue and it makes working on the computer quite difficult. The problem comes and goes and does not seem to be tied with any of the internal windows 7 settings. I'm using a RAT 9 wireless...

For some reason I cannot get my selection of a startup folder for Outlook 2010 to "stick." It reverts to the Inbox, regardless of what I do. Any suggestions?

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