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How does Explorer determine the delay between clicking on an item and initiating an edit?

June 25, 2012 Jun 25, 2012 06/25/12

Raymond Chen

Ian Boyd wants to know why the specific value of 500ms was chosen as the edit delay in Windows Explorer. Because it's your double-click time. Since the double-click action (execute) is not an extension of the single-click action (edit), Explorer (and more generally, list view) waits for the double-click timeout before entering edit mode so...