How to disable auto word/line select when click on text?

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Alright- My question to you guys is: How can I disable auto selecting whole words and lines when i click text? This was a new thing with win 95, and I never liked it. It's just too cumbersome- it gets in the way more than anything. I'm not that feeble. I can select what I want, on my own, ya know. Click your address bar, it selects the entire thing. Then you have to click again, often more than once to get rid of the auto highlight. I don't know, it's just silly. OK, Fix it up! Thanks.
 
Sorry to disappoint you, but AFAIK you can't change the behaviour of GUI components unless the app provides a setting for that or you recompile the program.
 
While it may not be something I'm famliar with changing, I know there are programs that have the option to not to do this... Wordpad for example has an option, "Auto words selected". Disable this and I believe you can select letters instead of being forced to choose words.

Yes, I've always disliked this feature too.
 
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