I hate the new selection floater in max 2009, it slow to open and just really clunky especially in big scenes.
If you go to customize, and down to selection floater and assign it (i assigned to H over the 2009 seletion floater so I never have to use it again) you get the old floater back and … nows it modal you can keep it open and make selections in viewport and and… if you double click an object it shows you that selection in viewport
great stuff, I hate it too!
hmm! modal eh? thats better than the normal ‘UseSceneExplorer=0’ in the ini file fix.. i’ll have to try that out
the modal thing is cool, but it’s not a replacement.
What if you do ‘unhide by name?’… you get the stupid new select thing which does suck.
The ‘UseSceneExplorer=0’ is a replacement however for all selection options.
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what is this ini file fix you speak of??
Go to-
C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\2009 - 64bit\enu\defaults\MAX
Open this file-
CurrentDefaults.ini
Ammend this line-
SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer=1
To be-
SelectByNameUsesSceneExplorer=0
Voila!
In theory it should work in 2010 as well but havent tried
That has made my day, thanks for the tip… the new crappy select by name in max2009 is truely awful, as said on big scenes it is unbearably slugish
there’s also some macroscript out there to have a toggle button in a toolbar to switch between the two. In case there’s any things you need from the new one.
Ahhh, my old beloved and superfast ‘Select Objects’ floater is back.
thank you guys.
Yeehaa
Can’t thank you enough, strange thing is Max 2009 and 2010 (yes it work in 2010 as well) seem to open faster
laters
spike
works with 2011 too 
How does it work in max2013? the ini file mentioned earlier is not in the ENU folder anymore or gone entirely 
Help is much appreciated. i can’t stand the new scene explorer or change in max other then speed in general 
It’s still there
C:\Users\Simon\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMaxDesign\2013 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\defaults\MAX.vray
CurrentDefaults.ini
and it works…
For some reason my 2013 install, installed a load of language versions as well, so I have a ton of extra folders everywhere, very handy…not!
You made my day! Worked just fine Why do they put things in different places EVERY release?!?!??! And yes it did! I wonder if it happened with one of the production updates? When i installed it 2 days ago it prompted that prod. update 4 was out and instaled it all together.
where is that in max2014? the paths change every release…annoying
EDIT: Here: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2014\en-US\defaults\MAX\FactoryDefaults