Double-duty clicking

[bixaorellana]

See the emoticon above? I clicked on the little smiley face once, but as you can see, I got two emoticons.

This just started this morning. My mouse is hyper-sensitive. If I double-click on anything, I'm likely to get two pages instead of one. If I try to position the cursor, it highlights a double space. Worst of all is the accidental turning off. If I open something from Documents, when I exit that page, it exits me from Documents as well. Just now I had two different AnyPort pages open. When I closed one, that also closed the other one.

I know that picking up the computer and hurling it across the room probably won't fix the problem, but it's all I've got at the moment.

Heeeeeeeeeelllllllp meeeeee!

[onlymark]

Control Panel - Mouse - Double click speed.

No?

[rikita]

oh, mr. r. had a mouse like that once - even when it was set to the least sensitive and all, it kept interpreting single clicks as double clicks etc. - like when i closed one firefox window it often closed two or three behind it too, or if i just used the little scroll-up-thingy at the side to scroll up and did that a bit too fast, it would count the fact that the mouse got to the vicinity of the red x as me wanting to close the window...

[onlymark]

Control Panel - Mouse - Switch Primary and Secondary Buttons

This will check if it is purely a mechanical issue with the pressing of the left clicker thingy by swapping over the functions between right and left side.

[onlymark]

Control Panel - Mouse - make sure 'Turn on ClickLock' is not ticked.

[bixaorellana]

Ah, okay. Just came back to report that I set it to the lowest speed but that didn't change anything.

Lemme go look for the new stuff you suggested. (thanks!)

[bixaorellana]

Whew! I think it's fixed now, Mark ~~ thank you!!

I wonder why the speed crept up like that. About a month ago it started highlighting more than I wanted highlighted, resulting in accidental deletions. Then, more recently it was sort of stick on the scrolling function. After that was today's strange acting-up.

Setting the speed to between slowest & the middle is what finally fixed it. (it had been right in the middle)

[onlymark]

You failed to take into account one thing.
It is you who is slowing down.
The mouse is only doing what it's always done speed wise. But now as your reaction time lengthens the mouse just seems to be getting quicker.
It's all relative.
There was a programme available that affected the mouse depending on your age. You put in your D.o.B. and the mouse software compensated according to how old you were.

The fastest setting was for those in their mid to late teens and it gradually extended the time as the years went by. It was a refinement invented by Douglas Engelbart shortly after initially inventing the mouse in 1963. At the time he was in his early fifties and he is still using the same one.
Fortunately the period between double clicks, adjusted for his age, now allows him time to have a bed bath and a puréed steak meal.

[cheerypeabrain]

;D

[Deleted]

IE has been freezing on me from time to time, so I use Chrome when it irritates me too much. However, Chrome is very guilty of the "excessive highlighting" problem.

[cheerypeabrain]

I've never been able to use IE when I'm using message boards...I have to use Mozilla. My problem atm is my keyboard...the letter 'a' sometimes doesn't work.... gremlins.

[bixaorellana]

Mark, just because you are now in the slowing-down age spectrum, I feel it's only fair to advise you that I am somewhere in the greater Cairo area.

Just go about your business as normal, trying not to think that one day you'll probably have a public, childish accident in your clothing when I *pounce* with the speed of a cheetah.

[bixaorellana]

IE only exists to whip me into a lather of hatred and impatience.

I had to go back & readjust the blankety-blank mouse once again.

Cheery, have you done the turning over the keyboard and bouncing it against the desk thing? When I used to smoke, I would find the makings for at least one whole cigarette whenever I banged the keyboard.

[Don Cuevas]

"Just go about your business as normal, trying not to think that one day you'll probably have a public, childish accident in your clothing when I *pounce* with the speed of a cheetah".

Don't think she's kidding, either. ;D

[onlymark]

Now I'm scared.

[bixaorellana]

Yes. I'm sure your teeth are clickety-clacking with fear.

[Deleted]

I just shook my office keyboard upside down, because it amuses me, and from what I can determine, my eyebrows may be going bald.

[bixaorellana]

Thank you for sharing.

(I can't be too snarky since my defense against aging is to pluck my eyebrows to a fare-thee-well, in the belief that it makes me look more alert, thus younger.)

[joanne28]

I get my eyebrows waxed, then carefully pluck any white ones left.

[Deleted]

You people are strange.