Extended Options Problem

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jeffkjo
Aug 1, 2005
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I originally posted this to the official adobe forums, but got no response:

I have Photoshop 7, and my computer has decided that whenever I click on a tool in the tools window, that it will show all of the extended options / hidden tools. IE, if I click on the lasso tool, it immediately shows the full extended options of the lasso tool, polygonal lasso tool, and magnetic lasso tool. It usually only shows the extended options if I hold down the mouse button on a tool. This is extremely annoying, and I can’t seem to make it stop.

I reset all of my Adobe preferences, selected and deselected and selected again the ‘Use Shift Key For Tool Switch’ checkbox in the general preferences, and then, when that didn’t work, uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop. After I uninstalled, I completely deleted the Photoshop directory in Program Files, and the hidden directory in the documents and settings application data folder.

Nothing helps! It still does it! This doesn’t happen in any of my other Adobe software, just Photoshop. What am I missing?
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edjh
Aug 1, 2005
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I originally posted this to the official adobe forums, but got no response:

I have Photoshop 7, and my computer has decided that whenever I click on a tool in the tools window, that it will show all of the extended options / hidden tools. IE, if I click on the lasso tool, it immediately shows the full extended options of the lasso tool, polygonal lasso tool, and magnetic lasso tool. It usually only shows the extended options if I hold down the mouse button on a tool. This is extremely annoying, and I can’t seem to make it stop.

I reset all of my Adobe preferences, selected and deselected and selected again the ‘Use Shift Key For Tool Switch’ checkbox in the general preferences, and then, when that didn’t work, uninstalled and reinstalled Photoshop. After I uninstalled, I completely deleted the Photoshop directory in Program Files, and the hidden directory in the documents and settings application data folder.

Nothing helps! It still does it! This doesn’t happen in any of my other Adobe software, just Photoshop. What am I missing?
Could be your mouse or tablet settings need tweaking. If it is a recent change trashing preferences may fix it.

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jeffkjo
Aug 1, 2005
Did you even read my message?

I already trashed my settings, and uninstalled and reinstalled photoshop.
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jeffkjo
Aug 1, 2005
In addition, it only happens in photoshop.

All I use is a mouse, so I don’t have any fancy add-on programs.
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Harry Limey
Aug 1, 2005
Normally where there is more than one option for a tool, there is a little triangle in the corner of the button to indicate this and it is necessary to click on that triangle to see all the options!
You are not clicking on the triangle by mistake I suppose?
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KatWoman
Aug 1, 2005
"Harry Limey" <harrylimey[@]lycos.co.uk> wrote in message
Normally where there is more than one option for a tool, there is a little triangle in the corner of the button to indicate this and it is necessary to
click on that triangle to see all the options!
You are not clicking on the triangle by mistake I suppose?
I have broken my mouse before and it would double click when I was only single clicking, it wasn’t a driver error, it was broken. But of course it was doing it in all the programs. Under control panel there is a test area for the mouse buttons.

If you have the latest mouse drivers for your model and you have trashed preferences and if the mouse itself is not broken, then it is a really weird error.

Could this be a display issue?

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