Re: filename changes during save

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:38:58 -0600

Hi Paul,

Check your settings here:

1. If you are using X-Mouse, disable it.
2. If you have increased your menu screen, tone it down a couple of
notches.
3. If you are using, Open submenu's when I pause on them with my mouse,
un-check it.
4. Lastly, try lowering your hardware acceleration. 

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"paul" <paul@nowhere.com> wrote in message 
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>>>>>
>>>>> I'm a bit frustrated by this perhaps someone can suggest how I can 
>>>>> change this 'behaviour'
>>>>>
>>>>> Whenever I am saving a file and have to navigate to the folder I want 
>>>>> to save to, if I touch an existing filename>>> PaulD
>>>>
>>>> You navigate to a folder and then select an existing file and expect 
>>>> Windows not to think you want to save the file as what you have 
>>>> selected?>> Jay
>>>
>>> Hi Jay,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. I'll try to explain better.
>>> I'm dowloading a file from the internet and the save dialog box appears. 
>>> I select the folder I want to save into, and when that folder opens 
>>> there are other files inside it. If I don't get my mouse out of the way 
>>> fast enough, and the mouse pointer touches any other filename, the 
>>> filename of the file I am downloading changes to the "accidentally 
>>> touched" filename.
>>
>> Ahh thanks for the clarification.
>> Simply hovering your mouse over a filename selects an existing 
>> file(name)?
>> Certainly a new one on me. You aren't left clicking on an existing file?
>> What application is this? (browser, download manager, other?)
>>
>> Jay
>
> Yes, hovering is the correct term. This occurs in the IE6 browser. I have 
> SP2 installed.
> No left clicking involved, just hovering. It is difficult to get the mouse 
> pointer "out of the way" in time, particularly when the folder populates 
> the dialog box with existing filenames.
>
> PaulD
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