windows explorer rename question

[Gerry]

Night Owl

You have missed the point. What appears in the left pane is different
here to what you are seeing. Here it is a list of Folders in a Tree with
Desktop at the top. In your case you are seeing a Pane beginning with
File and Folder Tasks. It does not matter how you click because we are
clicking on different items. You cannot display File and Folder Tasks if
Folders is selected in View, Explorer Bar. If you click on the Folders
icon in your set up you will get a Folder List, which I am seeing, to
replace the pane headed File and Folder Tasks.

With Simple Folder View enabled and the cursor placed on an item in the
right pane a single click on File and Folder Tasks displays a drop down
list of tasks such as Rename, which respond to a single click. If you
work a lot with Windows Explorer I suspect it's a less efficient way of
working with folders and files because it's harder to get a clear view
of the folder tree and the right click drop menu offers more options,
which are more easily accessed

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Regards.

Gerry
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[Nightowl]

You have missed the point.

No, I haven't. You have either not read or not understood what I have
written.

What appears in the left pane is different
here to what you are seeing.

No, it isn't. Gerry, please accept that I know better what I am seeing
than you do

I already explained: I use Classic Folders. I do not use the Common
Tasks pane. I enabled Common Tasks briefly (for about 2 minutes) because
in one of your posts you suggested that view settings might have
something to do with this. As you say and I then posted, enabling this
doesn't make any difference to Explorer with Folders selected, which is
what I have. We have the same view settings, OK?

Here it is a list of Folders in a Tree with
Desktop at the top.

Exactly what I see.

In your case you are seeing a Pane beginning with
File and Folder Tasks.

No, I'm not. And it is extremely irritating to be told patronisingly
that I am.

It does not matter how you click because we are
clicking on different items. You cannot display File and Folder Tasks if
Folders is selected in View, Explorer Bar. If you click on the Folders
icon in your set up you will get a Folder List, which I am seeing, to
replace the pane headed File and Folder Tasks.

See above.

The two-single-clicks rename Jim and I use is standard for Windows. It
works for desktop icons and for files and folders. For example:

Rename Using A S - L - O - W Double Click

What's a slow double click? Click the file to be renamed once -- wait
about two seconds - then click it one more time. The editing box will
appear surrounding the filename. Complete the edit and hit Enter.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/HT1_006.htm

You apparently can't use it in either pane. Perhaps you are either
clicking too fast or have your double-click rate set too slow and your
single clicks are being interpreted as a double-click.

E.g. (particularly note second sentence):

(Sometimes two single clicks will be misinterpreted as a double-click
because your double-click speed is set too slow. For example,
highlight a file by clicking on it, and then start to rename it by
clicking on it again. If this setting is too slow, it will open the
file accidentally.)

http://xona.com/2004/05/22.html

There is no debate that this function exists. Jim's issue was purely
that Explorer's left pane had previously been behaving differently to
the right pane and he wanted to know why. I suggested an answer which
works on my computer and all of his.

Unless someone else has something to add, I think we should leave it
there.

 

[stuarth]

ever since forever, to rename a folder in the left pane of WE I had to
hit F2.
Since I did a clean reinstall on my DT I can single click the folder
and it opens rename just like the right side.

what happened and How can I make this happen on my laptops?

thx

Adjust your double click speed to SLOW.

This annoying rename trick is a feature given to us since Windows 95.
If you perform a click then another click slower than the DoubleClick
speed of the Mouse then it thinks you want to rename.
Adjusting the double click speed to Slow in the Control Panel > Mouse
or as I did via the registry editor to 'very slow' makes the rename
effectively go away.

If the Slow speed in the Mouse applet isn't slow enough (its only
900ms max.) use regedit.

I set the it to 1900ms
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse]
"DoubleClickSpeed"="1900"

**Note: once you manually alter the click speed via the registry you
still need to open the control panel, click on the mouse applet and
then click OK on it to close it again. Otherwise the new registry
setting does _not_ get noticed by the OS.

I had to find a way to simulate a reliable reproducible doubleclick
speed,

So I wrote a tiny AHK (AutoHotKey) script to simulate a double click
on a file within Explorer with a fixed delay between the clicks to
test this out.
With the OS Dclick speed set to 900ms, if I do a simulated double
click of 850ms or more then it tries to rename a file in Explorer. If
the simulated Dclick is faster <850ms) it opens. (the script takes
maybe 50ms to work).

So I'd increase the DoubleClick speed until the problem goes away.
Individuals will find the amount you need to use varies.
I'm using WinXP pro SP2.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

i cannot rename folders in the left pane using a slow double click
(windows vista).
with XP i was able rename folders in the left pane using a slow double
click, with the following settings:

- show common tasks in folders: on
- dispaly simple folder view: off.

my double click speed works fine in the right pane.

i cannot get this to work in vista. can anyone help please?

I would ask in a Vista newsgroup.