Can Windows 7 Jump Lists be made to behave like menus when dragged out with a mouse?

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Published on 2012-03-21T04:38:02Z Indexed on 2012/03/21 5:33 UTC
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On a traditional menu, if you mousedown on the menu title, drag down, then release on a menu item, it will trigger that menu item immediately, e.g. in Notepad:

Left mouse button down on File
Drag down to New
Release mouse button

will start a new file without requiring an additional click.

However, when dragging out a Jump List on Windows 7, you must additionally click the desired item to launch it. Is there any way to change this behavior?

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