"BillW50" wrote in message ...
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SC Tom wrote on Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:25:40 -0400:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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As for your one, I think some of the explorer alternatives _do_
offer the behaviour you desire - I think some of them call it
something like Xerox-like, as other OSs do have this mode. Or it
might be add-ons that give you that mode - possibly even variations
to the mouse (or touchpad) driver. (I thought I'd seen it in the
Synaptics settings, but I've just had a quick look and can't see
it.)

There probably is an add-on or replacement that would accomplish
that, but I don't feel like loading my system up with a bunch of
third-party stuff that may, after a Microsoft update or two, prove to
be non-beneficial. It's really not that big of a deal, but always
thought it would be nice to have incorporated into the OS. I looked at my Synaptic (touchpad) and SetPoint
(Bluetooth Logitech
mouse) settings and didn't see anything either. I looked at my
Intellipoint settings on my desktop PC, and there's nothing there,
either. Oh well, I've lived with it this long. . .

Are you two speaking about Xmouse? If so, I seem to recall it is under some (not all) versions of Synaptic drivers.
Also Windows TweakUI offers Xmouse control to be enabled too. You can also enable Xmouse under a registry hack too.

And Tom... I used to like to keep all of my systems as close to stock as I can keep them. As helping lots of people,
you have to know how to do things the stock way. I also wanted to stay away from third party enhancements due to the
possibility of stability issues too.

But ending up with more and more test machines, I started to play with them more and more. And quite frankly, some of
them I wouldn't want to live without. And my fears of stability problems were mostly unfounded. Sure you run into one
once in a blue moon or something, but it isn't that big of a deal really.


Oh, don't get me wrong, I've used plenty of 3rd-party stuff (and still do LOL). My objection (if that's what it truly
is; maybe "dissatisfaction" would be more appropriate) is to something working one way in one native program, but not
that same way in another native program.

I tried Xmouse in TweakUI for XP, and it works fine for changing focus (even bringing the newly focused on window to the
forefront, if you want it to), but not within the same window. It doesn't change the focus from the Folder pane to the
File pane in Explorer. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
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SC Tom