single click desktop icons

[Tom]

How can I get only the icons on the desktop to open with a single click?

Many thanks
Tom

[Richard]

Hi Tom,

That feature is controlled by Windows Explorer. Change Explorer to single
click thru the tools menu.

Richard

"Tom" > wrote in message
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> How can I get only the icons on the desktop to open with a single click?
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> Many thanks
> Tom
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[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Tom,
In any explorer window, click on tools>folder options. On the general tab,
select the radio button "Single click to open an item...".

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"Tom" > wrote in message
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> How can I get only the icons on the desktop to open with a single click?
>
> Many thanks
> Tom
>
>

[Tom]

Yeh that changes all icons in explorer as well though. I found this happened
when sampling a few different themes which seemed to invoke this so it
mightve been a glitch (?) grrr

But it enabled me to open desktop items like the taskbar, but with other
stuff dbl click which I prefer to keep for main folders . Anyway really
infuriating cause I cant find which theme it was again thats why I wanted to
know.

Tom

"Richard" > wrote in message
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> Hi Tom,
>
> That feature is controlled by Windows Explorer. Change Explorer to single
> click thru the tools menu.
>
> Richard
>
> "Tom" > wrote in message
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> > How can I get only the icons on the desktop to open with a single click?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Tom
> >
> >
>
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