SRS -

For looking at properties, you need to right click on the file name and then click on Properties.

If you left click once, it should "select" the file. If you left click again, it should open the filename so that you can type a new name or edit the existing one. The end result is the same, regardless of which way you do it. The background, usually blue, that shows the file is selected "shrinks in" to show that the filename is editable.

Click the icon for the file, hit Enter, or just click on another file, and the "edit" should close. It's a lot faster than right click - select rename. The only hazard is that if your double-click speed is set too slow the second click may look like the second half of a double-click and you end up opening the file.

You can also use the "filename edit" feature for record keeping since you can COPY (Ctl-C) the filename when it's open for edit, to past the exact long filename in use somewhere, as in a document or log. When I paste a picture in a document, I often like to paste the filename with it, and copying the filename directly from Explorer avoids a lot of typos.

You can also use Paste (Ctl-P) to put a new filename on a file, if the filename is opened for edit.

This "slow two-click edit" actually should work in anything from Win3.11 on.

John