Thank you.
I am still curious, though, as to Microsoft's intent with this. If this had happened because someone neglected to think of the consequences and it were by omission, I could understand that, but that his hardly likely. On the other hand, if
this is indeed by design, then it is intentional, and someone at MS must have seen, after analysis, some benefit to retaining details pane content until the user clicks the mouse or presses the space bar.
Perhaps it was a cloaked way to speed up navigation through folders--to prevent the details pane from refreshing as the focus passes each folder in the navigation pane, but that would more logically be solved by something as simple as a half-second
delay in calling for the view refresh as the focus passes to each folder in the navigation pane.
Anyway, the logic continues to elude me. This is minor, but definitely not an improvement over XP in my unimportant opinion. After all, I am just a user and systems manager for 100 computers. I do not like introducing third-part tools, so I just have
to remember to pick up my mouse or press the space bar to activate the currently "active" folder in order to actually select it.
