How to disable Full row select feature, enable column heading in all views and reordering enable icon in Windows 7 Explorer?

Windows 7 comes with many improvements and new features, but also some annoyances. The biggest annoyance with Windows ExplorerWindows 7 is the renewed.

Microsoft removed some classic and useful functionality of Windows 7 Explorer such as:

You cannot change order of icons in Windows 7 Explorer with simple drag-n-dropWindows 7 Explorer not exhibit column heading (header type) folder views except the Details view

There are also many people who didn't like the new full row select feature in Windows 7 Explorer.

We have many tutorials posted in the past to solve these annoyances. But today we are going to an absolutely free and very small nut "folder options X" which allows you to fixed after annoyances in Windows 7 Explorer to share:

Entire row selectEnable column header in all disable rearrange icon viewsEnable

Folder options x is a free software "T800" AskVG created by reader. You just have to install this tool, run it and select the applicable options, use the check boxes as shown in following screenshot:

Just click on the Apply button will be enabled/disabled and the functions directly in Windows Explorer. No restart or log off is required.

After his 2 screenshots showing the before and after effects:

Standard Windows 7 Explorer:

Modified Windows 7 Explorer folder options x tool:

As you can see in the second screenshot, select entire row, column heading (header type) function is enabled in all folder views and now you can change the order of icons with simple drag-n-drop.

You can use this tool following download link:

Download folder options x

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It works in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 7.

If you want to do these things manually, check out these tutorials:

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