{"id":16632,"date":"2020-11-20T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=16632"},"modified":"2020-11-20T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:59:26","slug":"fix-single-click-to-open-an-item-is-greyed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-single-click-to-open-an-item-is-greyed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: “Single-click to open an item” is Greyed out in Folder Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to disable single click to open folders \/ files in Windows Explorer? Can’t change single click to double click? In order to change the behavior to open files with a single click or double click, you have to open the Folder Options<\/a>. But what to do if you find the option “Single-click to open an item (point to select)<\/strong>” is greyed out? To fix this issue, you have to turn off Classic Shell group policy for Windows Explorer.<\/p>\n

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Method 1: Turn off Classic Shell Using Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Open Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and browse to: User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components<\/code>, then click on “File Explorer<\/strong>” (or “Windows Explorer” for Windows 7\/Vista\/XP).\n

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    \tIn the right side, double-click on the “Turn on Classic Shell<\/strong>” policy to edit it.<\/li>\n

  2. Select either Not Configured<\/strong> or Disabled<\/strong>. Click OK<\/strong>.\n

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  3. Exit the Local Group Policy Editor and restart Windows. After that you can open Folder Options and enable single-click or double-click for opening folders \/ files.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Turn off Classic Shell Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Open Registry Editor<\/a> and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer<\/code>. In the right pane, locate the DWORD ClassicShell<\/strong> and right-click it, then select Delete<\/strong> from the pop-up menu.\n

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    2. Use the same method to delete the ClassicShell<\/strong> value if it also exists under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\Explorer<\/code>.<\/li>\n
    3. Close Registry Editor and restart your computer for the changes to take effect. You should then be able to select or deselect “Single-click to open an item (point to select)” setting in Folder Options.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      How to disable single click to open folders \/ files in Windows Explorer? Can’t change single click to double click? In order to change the behavior to open files with a single click or double click, you have to open the Folder Options. But what to do if you find the option “Single-click to open […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894,3,39,5,4],"tags":[4601,4600,4602],"class_list":["post-16632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","category-windows-7","category-windows-8","category-windows-vista","category-windows-xp","tag-change-from-double-click-to-single-click","tag-single-click-to-open-an-item-greyed-out","tag-turn-on-classic-shell-gpo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16632"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16644,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16632\/revisions\/16644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}