[Classic Explorer] Disable Full Row Select

[jedikalimero]

As you may know, from Windows 7 when you are in Windows Explorer's details view, clicking anywhere on the row of an item selects it while previously, only clicking under the name column selected the item.

This is very annoying for actions like drawing a rectangle to select several items. Or just something as simple as right clicking on the background and not on an item becomes nearly impossible in a crowded folder.

Please, add in the Classic Explorer config/File Pane an option to enable/disable Full Row Select.

[NebelNidas]

QTTabBar can do this, here's the result:

You just have to enable the Compatible Folder View and then the No full-row-select feature, see here:

You probably should disable all the other checkboxes as seen in my screenshot, they just add unnecessary eye-candy I personally find very distracting.

Please note that QTTabBar is a really huge, almost bloated program and its defaults are horrible. So I highly suggest you to import these settings under the General tab for usable defaults.

Also, if you want to revert to the default Win10-style folder view, remember to do so in QTTabBar's settings. Just uninstalling the program won't revert any changes made to your system!

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Edit: If changes don't become visible immediately, make sure to restart explorer (closing all open windows and then re-opening them is often enough, though)!

[jedikalimero]

As you said, QTTabBar is a really huge, almost bloated program so I would prefer not havingto install it just for this. I think it would be great to have this option in Classic Explorer in the same way we already have "Display Column Headers Always", an option also present in QTTabBar.

[NebelNidas]

The current QTTabBar unfortunately isn't open source, so the Open Shell team won't be able to look into its method of accomplishing this feature, however there exists an old fork from 2013 here. This version has a few issues with Win10 as it's officially only been made to be compatible with Windows 7, but the Compatible Folder View feature should in theory still work (because how else would the modern version accomplish the same thing?).

Here you can see the according settings:

As you can see, they are greyed out, probably because of a hard coded Windows version check. But perhaps it could still work, maybe @coddec or @ge0rdi could take a look at this?