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Originally Posted by stork100

Try this: Find the SH3 folder in My Documents and open data/cfg/GameplaySettings.cfg. Should find this:

[MiscSettings]
AlwaysAutotargeting=0,0,0,0,0;for warships, merchants, uboats, air and, respectively, land targets

The numbers might be different if you've selected any default actions before. Just change all the numbers to 1's, which I think is the option to maintain current orders, and the small screen shouldn't appear any more.

Not sure if this works as I've not tried it, but this is definetly the thing that controls that. Personally, I really like it. Gives me a thrill when it comes up after staring at my map view for over an hour of real time!

More easy and sure @schlechter pfennig solution