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

[Richard Burke]

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

[Maureen Goldman]

>Richard Burke > 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-----
>>Richard Burke 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]

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

[Richard Burke]

> Are you using a Tablet PC or a tablet application?

Hi Jan - nope, a regular laptop with a trackpad.

Sorry it took time to reply - lost my post, couldn't track replies...

Richard

[Richard Burke]

In article >,
Maureen Goldman > wrote:

> 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.

Hi Maureen, Thanks, but... One click isn't on, and i have no idea what
x-mouse might be!

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


"Richard Burke" > wrote in 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