Does anyone know how to disable not delay the hover feature for Window 7. There are a lot anwsers but no resolution. I've tried them all... Did windows drop the ball, again. This is actually my second time writing this questions within the last 5 minutes. The hover feature closed my previous window which had more details. Please help. Windows, this feature was a bad idea, especially when you don't give the option to disable it.
May 10, 2024
Contribute to the Windows forum!
Click here to learn more 💡
May 10, 2024
Windows 7 Top Forum Contributors:
Bill Smithers - LemP ✅
May 10, 2024
Windows 7 Forum Top Contributors:
Bill Smithers - LemP ✅
Disable Hover Feature
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
* Please try a lower page number.
* Please enter only numbers.
If a Mouse (or if you use both a TouchPad and a Mouse)
Start - Computer OR Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - General Tab - check the
Double Click to open an item - APPLY / OK (if set properly then change as if you planned
to leave it that way and then go back and change it back).
Control Panel - Mouse - look for Settings for Hover or Auto Click or similar depending on your mouse.
If a TouchPad
Look in the Notification area near the clock for any TouchPad control program.
Also Control Panel - Mouse - look there for TouchPad (mine is on Device Settings tab however
other brands and can be on other tabs and more than one). There usually are Settings than
can determine whether one click, a double click, or hovering can open or close a program.
Start - Computer OR Windows Explorer - Tools - Folder Options - General Tab - check the
Double Click to open an item - APPLY / OK
If some of those are set correctly then change to some other setting as if you planned to leave
them that way and then change back.
Hope this helps
Rob Brown - MS MVP - Windows Desktop Experience : Bicycle - Mark Twain said it right.
Microsoft MVP Windows and Devices for IT 2009 - 2020
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
4 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Just to make a note. I just typed an entire reply to this forum. Yet it was deleted before I had a chance to post it; and I don't know how.
So let just say I'm fed up I will pay what is required to Microsoft and hopefully get resolution to this problem. My previous post indicated the extact issues with the mouse hovering; but I don't dare type it again.
Nothing is resolved as yet, if I ever find the solution I will post it to the forum. Other than that it's a waist of time. I actually use my sisters computer when typing important documentation because I've lost entirely too much work on this computer with windows 7.
But, we've gotten so used to the flaws within MS Windows that its commonplace to shrug your shoulders and say oh well. It will get resolved eventually. Actually I do expect this post to be removed.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
3 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Keyvie - I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU!!! I am having the same idiotic trouble!! I simple do not understand the hundreds of mundane "solutions" proposed by others on all these blogs/sites. I too have scoured every option,followed every tip/trick & instruction; to no avail!!!
It is simple enough to understand: hover = cursor engages activation while hovering above location!!
I am so pissed off at how much of a hassle & how much time I've lost so far fixing the problems created by this utterly inept "feature" by the mindless windows crew!!! Whether it is a default setting or not - IT EXISTS!!! NO it can not be turned off by simply unclicking the box in mouse settings or ease of use!!! Nor does it fix itself by pretending you want it,pressing apply,then unclicking the box in 2 minutes!! Again, like Keyvie I have followed every possible tendril of advice including updating the drivers!! YES I found the TouchPad settings menu & fiddled with every possible permutation! As I just came back in here to enter this site,the idiotic feature bit me again while I tried to mute my volume settings. It opened the icon & clicked to remove it from my taskbar completely-without muting it-by hovering. It did all this in about 1/10th of a second,not exactly enough time to react or stop it from happening!! It hovered for as much time as it takes to move the cursor over the mute button & attempt to press the double click!
This is the dumbest feature I have ever encountered from Windows & am so disgusted they would ever think it was a GOOD idea? Man I gotta quit using windows OS altogether,it just never ends with these idiots. YES PLEASE Keyvie,if you ever find an answer post it here & everywhere!!!!! I shall do the same!! Obviously noone has a clue except those suffering the same demons! As each of us know from searching every forum possible for the REAL solution, there are others out there dealing with this same stench! Whoever the ____ would ever add this to an OS is an absolute moron & should be fired!! You can be aware of it, paying complete attention & it still screws you over right before your eyes!!!
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
7 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
1 person found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Hover Alert!!!
I think I may have found an answer. Try this: Start> Control Panel> System and Security> System> Advanced system settings (on the left side of the screen, Win7 Pro it is the last item). The Advance Tab should come up. In the performance section click settings. Check the “Custom” radio button. I disabled everything then one at a time started re-enabling them; so far so good.
I have hovered over everything I could find and nothing has happened that I did not want to happen. I’m going to test this for another hour before I post, just to be sure.
Well, I've done everything I could think of to make the darn thing engage while hovering. I really hope this works for you raebeia. I'm at gmail with this moniker if there are any questions.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
6 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
By default in Windows 7, when you hover your mouse pointer over the "All Programs" menu or other defined menus in the Start Menu, after a brief moment Windows automatically opens the submenu. This assumes that whenever you hover your mouse pointer over a menu, you mean to expand it.
If you do not like this behavior it can be disabled.
1. Right-click an empty area of the taskbar and choose "Properties".
2. The "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" multi-tabbed dialog box appears. Click the "Start Menu" tab.
3. Click the "Customize" button.
4. The "Customize Start Menu" dialog box appears. Scroll down and uncheck the "Open submenus when I pause on them with the mouse pointer" box.
Disable automatic submenu expansion in the Start Menu upon mouse hover in Windows 7
5. Click "OK" on the dialog boxes to close them.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
8 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
2 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
7 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Report abuse
Thank you.
Reported content has been submitted
2 people found this reply helpful
·Was this reply helpful?
Sorry this didn't help.
Great! Thanks for your feedback.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.
How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback.
Question Info
Last updated November 28, 2022 Views 13,105 Applies to: