Mouse automatically 'clicks' if I hold if over something too long

[The Unknown P]

Look at your mouse options in the control panel. Have fun.

[Maureen Goldman]

>Richard Burke <removespam...@btinternet.comnospam> wrote:

>I only want to click when *I* click. in Windows XP Home, there seems to
>be some setting somewhere that (occasionally) decides that if I've
>hovered over something long ernough, I menat to click it. I didn't. i
>was thinking. how do i switch this off?

I'm guessing that you have the x-mouse setting in TweakUI. With that
one, a window becomes active by the presence of the mouse rather than
clicking on it. In combination with a single-click launch (control
panel \ folder options), it can sometimes do strange and wonderful
things.

[_ _ J]

| I'm guessing that you have the x-mouse setting in
TweakUI.

Except that I run in X-mouse mode, in single-click mode,
and even with my touchpad enabled and active, I have never
had the situation where a prolonged hover will be treated
as a mouse-click.

This behaviour occurs on non-contact "Tablet" PCs, but I
have never used one, so I have no idea on how to help the
original poster.

Jan

>-----Original Message-----

[_ _ J]

Hello Richard,

Are you using a Tablet PC or a tablet application?

Jan

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi -

>I only want to click when *I* click. in Windows XP Home,
there seems to be some setting somewhere that
(occasionally) decides that if I've hovered over something
long ernough, I menat to click it. I didn't.

i was thinking. how do i switch this off?

>TIA,

>Richard

[Dad2ten]

Richard:
I was having the same problem with the Microsoft wireless mouse that I use.
In my mouse hardware advanced settings I found a Fast Initialization setting
which I cleared. That stopped mine from getting tired of setting in one
place.
Hope this is some help.
Jerry

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