Double-click icons with Vista????????????

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?

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.
>
> Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
> Mouse Properties.
>
> 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).
>
>
>
>
> "Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
>
>> 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?
>>
>
>
>

That's the problem. Don't use the wheel and test a real left double click
instead. There's a new mouse setting in Vista and Intellipoint that previews
the contents of the folder. On my mouse I reset it to a button on the right
side of mouse. It was auto set to the wheel press and I hated that. Go into
Mouse Properties and change it back to default, then change it back to double
click. I had to do change it twice to get rid of it!

"Hula Baloo" wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
> > Mouse Properties.
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
> >
> >> 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?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Mary,
I think that must've been what I did just by hit and miss. I piddled
with a lot of settings (I remember reseting to default a couple of
times), and suddenly pressing the wheel opens applications when I click
on their desktop icons. I don't understand it, but I'm certainly happy
to have it working like I want it now! :-)

Mary wrote:
> That's the problem. Don't use the wheel and test a real left double click
> instead. There's a new mouse setting in Vista and Intellipoint that previews
> the contents of the folder. On my mouse I reset it to a button on the right
> side of mouse. It was auto set to the wheel press and I hated that. Go into
> Mouse Properties and change it back to default, then change it back to double
> click. I had to do change it twice to get rid of it!
>
> "Hula Baloo" wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>>
>>>Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
>>>Mouse Properties.
>>>
>>>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).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

If you had provided this info in the original post, it's not likely that
Puppy would have given you the answer he did.
Does double clicking using the left mouse button work properly?

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"Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:45EC7946.6040002@yahoo.com...
> 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.
>>
>> Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
>> Mouse Properties.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>

You have a point; when I originally wrote the note I had no idea that
one double-click was different from another, since it never has been in
the past. But then Vista has certainly changed a lot of things, hasn't
it! Yes the manual double-click still seems to work like it always has.

David B. wrote:
> If you had provided this info in the original post, it's not likely that
> Puppy would have given you the answer he did.
> Does double clicking using the left mouse button work properly?
>

Double-clicking still works. You don't need to right-click and choose Open.

Maybe you need to change your double-click speed. You can do that through
Mouse Properties.

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).




"Hula Baloo" <wpgwpg@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:45EC7263.5030905@yahoo.com...
> 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?
>