| How do you click? Do you like to double-click the icons on your desktop? Would you prefer to single-click your icons the same way you click hyperlinks on a web page? Should the names of your icons be plain text or underlined like a hyperlink? Windows XP comes from the factory set up for traditional double-clicking. (This is where you single-click an item to select it and double-click to open it.) To change Windows's click mode, just follow these steps: 1. | Click the Start button to display the Start menu. | 2. | Select Control Panel to open the Control Panel folder. | 3. | Select Appearance and Themes, and then Folder Options to display the Folder Options dialog box, shown in Figure 5.6. Figure 5.6. Change Windows XP to single-click operation.
| 4. | Select the General tab. tip | If you select single clicking, you can choose to underline the titles of all desktop icons or only underline titles when an item is hovered over. |
| 5. | If you want to use traditional double-clicking, check the Double-Click to Open an Item option. If you want to use Web-like single-clicking, check the Single-Click to Open an Item option. (In this mode, you select an item by hovering your cursor over it and open items with a single click.) | 6. | Click OK. |
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