Windows 10 explorer centers view on item when selecting

Since it came out Windows 10 has had this very annoying feature in file explorer. If you click on a file near one edge of the window, it will immediately be centered in the window. This is a problem if you’re trying to double-click on that file, because your second click now selects a different item that has been moved under your cursor by the window scrolling around, rather than opening it like you wanted.

Have any of the updates added the ability to disable this behavior? Does anybody know what this feature is officially called so I can google it better?

Explorer has done that for a very long time, it’s not new to Windows 10.

I’ve never seen this happen, but I always use list view. Is that an option for you? I don’t really understand why people use icon view.

I’m not experiencing this. Icon view, click on file, stays in place.

Windows 10.0.18362

This is in list view and only happens when an item is near the edge of the window, usually with it’s name extending partly past the edge of the current window.

Yeah, I hate this. And it’s been around longer than 10.

What the situation I see occurs when listing by file names, if the file name extends past the edge of the window then the shift happens. Which, like the OP, messes up my double clicks.

So, icons, short enough file names, whatever doesn’t cause this.

If there was a well known fix for this (e.g., a reg patch), I would have probably found it by now.

I can’t reproduce the problem on my Win-10 system. When I click on an icon that’s only partially visible, the window scrolls slightly to move it fully into view, not send it to the center. I have no problem double-clicking on a partially visible icon.