

It happens if the file is already highlighted in Windows Explorer and if it is left-clicked again, or if the user double-clicks on the file and the double-clicks are interpreted as two single clicks.įirst the bad news: There is no option to disable the left-click renaming feature in Windows. There are two situations where Windows interprets a left-click on a file or folder as a request to rename the file. He mentioned that he could not "figure out how to get the File Browser to stop trying to rename files" when clicking on them. I first became aware of the problem when Dotan posted about it in the Ghacks forum.
