Comments on: How to Disable Full Row Select in Explorer in Windows 7?

By: Thorsten Albrecht

Thorsten Albrecht — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:59:47 +0000

@Sole42:
>I don’t want to mess with registry, and I found this
>http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800/software/FolderOptions.htm

This solution works on a much deeper level than a simple registry hack. It register itself as a callback which will be called by every explorer event to provide a custom folder look. It uses mechanisms which are documented here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775546(v=vs.85).aspx

Therefore I would rather propose to “mess around with the registry” instead to mess around with the whole system. This does not mean that the callback function won’t work, but it would create another process on my system.

Thorsten

By: Thorsten Albrecht

Thorsten Albrecht — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:56:26 +0000

I can recommend to use the vbs script ClearFullRowSelect.zip instead of the solution proposed in the article (http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1278762.htm#post4715384)

Thorsten

By: Sole42

Sole42 — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:46:28 +0000

I don’t want to mess with registry, and I found this
http://free-sk.t-com.hr/T800/software/FolderOptions.htm

Here are some pictures and description:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic76420.html

By: w7kk

w7kk — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:43:11 +0000

Thank you for having an easy-to-use fix that works in Windows 7 64-bit. So many other “answers” were only for Vista, and thankfully I skipped that nightmare. This fixes 1 of the dozens of things that Win7 does worse than XP.

By: foodi

foodi — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:14:56 +0000

This one doesnt seem to have any side effects:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/7101bb56-c0b7-48af-a493-2fb8c8ea0ead/

By: Edmund Tee

Edmund Tee — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:32:56 +0000

it work great on folder BUT not Library item. Anyway Thanks for the good effort ^^

By: Ken Owens

Ken Owens — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:05:48 +0000

Unfortunately, this fix did not work for me. I installed Windows 7 yesterday on a new HD and I’ve applied the fix above (with all the extra instructions) and nothing changed. In addition the last registry subkey in the folder image above, beginning with {DE2B70EC- does not show up in the Shell folder.

Ah well. Back to Google. Thanks for your work. I’m glad it worked for some of the people here.

By: tycho

tycho — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:48:05 +0000

Thanks a lot, if works perfectly!

By: André

André — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:27:09 +0000

This works great!!! Easy to apply. Nothing wrong until now. Thanks.

By: GeekOLicker

GeekOLicker — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:35:34 +0000

this works if you go into the folder itself NOT the Library view of the folder!