Puppy,
I set my scroll wheel to do a double-click. When I press it with XP,
it does an open. When I press it with Vista, I get the task thumbnails,
NOT the open I want, so I don't see how your suggestion would help in
this case.

Puppy Breath wrote:
> Double-clicking still works. You don't need to right-click and choose Open.
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> Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
> Mouse Properties.
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> You can also switch that to single-clicking if you want, using Folder and
> Search Options. (Open any folder click Organize, then click Folder and
> Search Options).
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> "Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
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>> In the good ole days we could double-click an icon on the desktop to
>>open/start the related application. With Vista it appears that we must
>>right-click, then click Open, since double-clicking now gives us these
>>thumbnails of every active task. That's a royal pain - YUCK!!!! :-( Is
>>there a way to get it working like every earlier version of Windows going
>>all the way back to 3.1?
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