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I would like to disable filter box, since I have one borring problem.

If I have more files that start with the same letter, I browse through those files by pressing that character again and again, until I select file that I need.

Problem is that after third time same letter pressed, Filter box become active and selected! That is not what I want

Two Solutions:

1. Set Tools -> Advanced Options -> Layout Settings -> Incremental Search Auto-Filter to 0. This will disable the focus-stealing, while leaving the filterbox still available for manual selection.

2. Set Tools -> Advanced Options -> Layout Settings -> Filter Box Size (% of Addressbar) to 0. This will remove the filterbox completely, if you don't have a use for it.

Ironically, of course, the whole point of it was to eliminate the silly repetitive pressing of the same key over and over to find things - but to each their own.

Solution 1 is what I need

Kilmatead wrote:Ironically, of course, the whole point of it was to eliminate the silly repetitive pressing of the same key over and over to find things - but to each their own.

This may be true. But for me it interfered with (quick) selecting files with Ctrl-Space so much sending it as spaces in the filter box that I simply didn't see a benefit in this.

BRX wrote:...selecting files with Ctrl-Space so much sending it as spaces in the filter box...

Not using the keyboard to select files, I never noticed that, but you're right - and there's no rational reason for it to be allowed considering that windows does not allow filenames to start or end with <Space> characters, so leading spaces should never be trapped. I'd class that as a bug. Not one of those big evil baby-stealing bugs like they have in Thailand, but enough of a bug to arouse an attentive spider's dinner-sense.

Actually I've managed to create filenames that start with space, usually accidentaly... WE might prevent it but it seems valid...

Maybe those were hard-spaces? I was just going by what happens when you edit/rename an object and intentionally prefix/suffix spaces to the name - it's auto-stripped before applying. (Even when holding <Ctrl> or <Shift> which is the usual means of inserting hard-whitespace.)

actually you can rename files or folders with leading spaces using Ctrl-F2... you have to use Ctrl-F2 to remove those leading spaces...

Create a file, say "asdf". Then, from command prompt, enter the command and you will have a weirdly spaced out filename (Win 7 Ult 64-bit).