With Notepad in XP I can double-click anywhere in a line of text and the whole line becomes highlighted.
In Vista however only the word becomes highlighted. Is it possible to revert to XP behaviour and double click to select the entire line?
Many thanks.
I believe a triple-click will select the entire line.
Not for me. I’m in XP and double-clicking just selects the word. I just tried. (Triple or single clicking selects nothing.)
Is there a setting for this somewhere in XP (not that I’d want to select lines like that, ugh!).
ETA: Well, on further experimentation, maybe triple-clicking selects the word too. I guess it may depend on how fast you are.
I can double click and highlight a word and triple click and highlight the line. Vista sp2 here.
Mmm, weird - triple clicking selects and then deselects the word and does not do the whole line. Odd that **njtt **has XP with a similar thing indicating that there may be a common option somewhere. (Word does the triple click thing but notepad does not for me).
The reason I ask is that I have to copy / paste a load of license codes into various networked computers and have put together a shared text doc with the codes on different lines. The XP machines light up the entire code with a double click but the Vista ones just get the portion of code between dashes.
eg. double clicking on:
JUR0A-EGDNA-LUM0R-U7PT8-6RBUY
would only get the EGDNA or whatever so I have to use the mouse to drag across the whole line. Any further comments please?
I think you’ve just got your double-click speed for your mouse set too fast or slow for your hands. So what you think of as a triple-click is being seen by the PC as a double-click followed by a single.
Try experimenting with increasing and decreasing the double-click recognition settings.
Put the cursor at the beginning of the line and hit shift and down-arrow at the same time.
You don’t even need to fiddle with settings, just click faster.
I’m on XP right now and I “triple clicked” a word and it highlighted it then un-highlighted it. Well, I thought I “triple clicked” it. I went click. click. click.
I tried again and went clickclickclick and the entire sentence was highlighted.
Thanks for the advice but it’s not a mouse speed thing, honest!
We are talking about Notepad right? Not Wordpad or Word where the triple click works fine.
Triple-click doesn’t work in Notepad.
Oh, sorry - quite right. I somehow missed the part about it being Notepad, where 3x-click doesn’t work. 
If Notepad isn’t working, try Notepad2. See if that works for you:
Or click right before the first letter of the line and then drag down a little. The entire line should be selected.
In the example:
JUR0A-EGDNA-LUM0R-U7PT8-6RBUY
Click right before the “J” and drag down.
You could also just open the file in Wordpad, which every XP/Vista/7 computer should have.
Thanks very much for all the suggestions - the best course of action seems to be to associate .txt files with wordpad on all the PCs. Thanks Dopers 