Does double-clicking make me old?

Foxhound5366

Foxhound5366

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So after spending all my computing in recent years in the safe bosom of Windows 10, I finally got a new work laptop and it has Windows 11. Overall I didn't have any problem adapting to the interface updates, barring one crazy thing: double-clicking was not an option! To open a file required just a single click. And so obviously every time I tried selecting multiple files, I'd end up opening one. Over. And over. And ... bugger it, let me google it ... *delve into some ancient menu settings* ... "double-click by default" ... Apply ... bliss.

Is it just me? I've always contemplated that getting old will sneak up on me in unexpected ways, until I find myself unable to do the 21st Century version of changing the time on my VHS recorder. I've been waiting for that first moment for me. I wonder if this is a precursor.
 
How about using shift / ctrl / end / cursors to move cursor (yes cursor!) / select text?

Or ctrl + C/V/X/Z?

All these are so much more comfortable and faster than any quantity if mouse dragging / clicking
 
both my windows 11 machines are double click :dunno

TBF, maybe it is single click by default, and I just know to go into “view -> options” to change it (which is my my first action, along with “apply to all folders”)
 
Foxhound5366 said:
So after spending all my computing in recent years in the safe bosom of Windows 10, I finally got a new work laptop and it has Windows 11. Overall I didn't have any problem adapting to the interface updates, barring one crazy thing: double-clicking was not an option! To open a file required just a single click. And so obviously every time I tried selecting multiple files, I'd end up opening one. Over. And over. And ... bugger it, let me google it ... *delve into some ancient menu settings* ... "double-click by default" ... Apply ... bliss.

Is it just me? I've always contemplated that getting old will sneak up on me in unexpected ways, until I find myself unable to do the 21st Century version of changing the time on my VHS recorder. I've been waiting for that first moment for me. I wonder if this is a precursor.
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Someone set it up like that, that is not the Windows 11 default behaviour.
 
supersunbird said:
Someone set it up like that, that is not the Windows 11 default behaviour.
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ROFL, I may need some stern words with our IT manager who set up this brand-new laptop then. It’s a Lenovo, maybe that’s something new they do? All I know is single-clicking to open killed me, and I managed to find the setting to change it permanently back to double-clicking.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
ROFL, I may need some stern words with our IT manager who set up this brand-new laptop then. It’s a Lenovo, maybe that’s something new they do? All I know is single-clicking to open killed me, and I managed to find the setting to change it permanently back to double-clicking.
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Nope, I have a new Lenovo laptop and it isn't set up like yours was.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
So after spending all my computing in recent years in the safe bosom of Windows 10, I finally got a new work laptop and it has Windows 11. Overall I didn't have any problem adapting to the interface updates, barring one crazy thing: double-clicking was not an option! To open a file required just a single click. And so obviously every time I tried selecting multiple files, I'd end up opening one. Over. And over. And ... bugger it, let me google it ... *delve into some ancient menu settings* ... "double-click by default" ... Apply ... bliss.

Is it just me? I've always contemplated that getting old will sneak up on me in unexpected ways, until I find myself unable to do the 21st Century version of changing the time on my VHS recorder. I've been waiting for that first moment for me. I wonder if this is a precursor.
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I know, what you mean....now that you have cracked the seal...get us to more and more instances popping up :) with each step, the body is walking to its end/ the grave ...once you settle and accept the fact, you look at life far differently...more with ease, and let things slide, just so much more to life that deserves my attention. I am still amazed that it takes my phone 15 min to fully charge from 1-3% ....back in my day....
 
AlmightyBender said:
I as a genuine millennial do acknowledge that you are indeed still young and furthermore that anybody that prefers single click over double click is a literally psychopath monster and should be dealt with asap.
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If I remember tomorrow I will send our IT manager a request about this and demand an explanation.
 
It isn't default behaviour and the option to turn it on has existed for several Windows versions. It was originally put in for people who struggled with the concept of double-clicking, because all they knew was how to dumbly click on things in web pages. The problem is that using a single click to open a file, then means that the functions previously accessed via a single click now need some other means to activate them. Maybe people who think everything is the web aren't sophisticated enough to need those functions.
 
I asked our IT manager who set up my laptop and he solved the mystery: he confirmed it was him who had activated the single-click behaviour, because he prefers this (he sees this as saving time on a second click). He says he just forgot to disable it before handing the laptop over to me.
 
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