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[EnmimaRaS]

i have this thing i activated that when ever i scroll over a window, it will highlight it just as if i were to click on it. i want that off, how do i do so.

[dammit]

From what I can remember....go to control panel>mouse...there should be an option to disable "point and click"

[EnmimaRaS]

its not in there does anyone eles have any other ideas. i was thinking it is in the accesibility options. but i looked there many times, any help would be great. thanks

[smurfy]

I think you'll find this in Folder Options - Windows Explorer, Tools > Options.
First Tab. (sorry, not anywhere near a 9x PC at the moment).

[EnmimaRaS]

hey, what you said to do wasn't the problem i was having, it loads differnt windows just fine its just that when i have many active windows, if i scroll over one of them it will highlight it and make it my active window. again, if you can gimmie some help, that would be great.

[AnnMarie]

Hi EnmimaRaS. Try this, go to Start > Run and type:

regedit

and OK. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse (click on the + so that the Mouse key is open). Look in the righthand pane, is there a value named ActiveWindowTracking? If so, rightclick on it and choose Modify. Where it says Value Data, type:

0 (BTW..that is a zero not an O)

And OK

Exit your registry editor and reboot.

If not, go to Edit > New > DWORD Value and name it ActiveWindowTracking. When you have done this, rightclick on it and choose Modify. Where it says Value Data, type:

0 (see above)

And OK. Exit your registry editor and reboot.

Let us know if this helped. If there is anything that you are not sure of, post back rather than go ahead and make a mistake.

[EnmimaRaS]

hey i tryed doin that but it didnt work. uh thax for your help ne ways

[smurfy]

Hi there. Haven't given up yet...
What sort of mouse do you have? Does it have a "helper" application running (like Logitechs MouseWare).
Start>settings>control panel>mouse - How many TABs can you see?