Denis,
Thank you for your help.
Best regards.
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@Farvatten,
Thank you for the detailed reply.
I don't want to annoy you even more. :)
But on Windows 7 it does work as expected.
At least I've learned that you gentlemen, the gurus here, are not aware of a simple solution.
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Question - File Explorer: select line on right-clicking in empty space | Tom's Hardware Forum.
I did a quick test with "Files" and it seems to work as you require whereas explorer does not.
You can test "Files" without replacing Explorer but the app does include the option to replace. Personally I just pin it to the task bar and use when required.
You can get it here if you want to test.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/fi...ot:overviewtab
Yaron!
I just want to jump in here real quick, and post my comment!
I know exactly what you're talking about!! I was sooo used to right clicking another line, which isn't selected, to look at the properties of that other line's file/folder. It was an annoyance that Windows 10 didn't let me do that.
But honestly, over time, I have gotten used to making sure that the line I want to do things with, is now selected
OR
I right click on the other line's text instead of the empty space.
It took me a while to get used to it, but I've been able to adapt to that. I do want to apologize to say that I don't have a solution to change the way Windows 10 is about that, yet I am only suggesting that you can re-train yourself to actually get used to doing it slightly differently, or even using the right-click on the other line's text, to apply the right click context menu on that other non-selected item.
That's all =)
This is the "Full row select" option in the Listview control. This is a developer, not a user option. There are many such options provided for the developer and very few of them are available to the user.
There are many third party Explorer replacements that have this option but it usually isn't the default. I won't make recommendations.
Hello all,
Just retested it in Windows 7.
I was wrong. The behavior is the same.
Sorry.
Still inconvenient IMO.
lol. No worries.
I also remember that in previous versions of Windows, that this was more convenient than it is with Windows 10. Might've been Windows 8.1, or even Windows XP. (I jumped straight from XP to 8.1. Completely skipped 7. All I can remember was that I kept using XP until Microsoft decided to stop releasing security updates for XP. That moment in time was when Windows 8.1 was the latest version of Windows... so I upgraded XP to 8.1. Once Windows 10 came out, and it had such good expert reviews, AND was said to be the last version of Windows... I said: "Why not!" lol.
So I got myself Windows 10... even though it is no longer the last version of Windows.
Probably thousands of years later into the future, there will be a Windows 122... and then after that, a Windows 123!
Yay! Windows as easy as 1, 2, 3
It will be the easiest, cleanest, no bugs, version of Windows! lol. That's when my body will be re-incarnated from the soil the biologists will recover in the future. =)
And Yaron, no worries my friend. You gotta retrain your brain like I did to avoid yourself from right clicking in an empty space of a different line =þ
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