Win 7 Question - auto click?

[Twayne]

Getting used to win 7. Somehow, I seem to have somethinig turned on I don't
want and didn't know I turned on:

If the cursor rests for more than a few seconds over a link or button, it
auto-clicks the link or button on me. I have to be careful to put the curson
into empty areas of any new screens that open.
I DO have single-click vs double-click turned on, but that doesn't seem
to be the cause of this issue. Hovering selects the link/button and clicking
activates it. I've used it on XP forever and still do.

Any idea how to get rid of that auto-click or whatever it is really called?

TIA,
Twayne`

 

[G. Morgan]

Any idea how to get rid of that auto-click or whatever it is really called?

Did you turn on any accessibility options?

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access Center

 

[crkeehn]

Mouse or track pad?

Nope, it's apparently a setting built into Win7, my laptop does the same
thing. If you search on Disable Auto Click you will see others who have had
the same concern.

Carl

 

[Ed Cryer]

Did you turn on any accessibility options?

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access Center

That's the one.

Make the mouse easier to use.
Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse.

Untick.

Ed

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

"Nope"? It's either the mouse of the track pad. I have noticed that
laptops that use a track pad instead of a mouse have that problem and they
were running XP. I have seen it happen with Vista as well.

I have seen track pads that are set so sensitive that they just regularly
click the mouse every now and then even when your fingers are nowhere near
the pad.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Nope, it's apparently a setting built into Win7, my laptop does the same
thing. If you search on Disable Auto Click you will see others who have had
the same concern.

Carl

Well, it's never happened to me on several computers runing Win 7, both
desktops and laptops...

But see the post by G. Morgan in this thread,
Message-ID: <[email protected]>,
and Ed cryer's reply to it.

And Brian Gregory [UK] reports some relevant experience too:
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

 

[Twayne]

In

Mouse or track pad?

Track Pad (Synaptics).

 

[Twayne]

In

Did you turn on any accessibility options?

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Ease of Access
Center

No, at least not intentionally. I'll check them out though as I hadn't
thought of that.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

First thing I do is turn off the track pad and use a USB mouse.

When possible I just change the settings so that it won't click when you
don't want it to, or not often anyway.

Some are best with clicking on the actual pad switched right off so you have
to use the separate button underneath. With the pad on my netbook I've
learnt to work it without often making accidental clicks.

I'd like to be able to switch between using the pad or a real mouse freely
but often Windoze's single sensitivity control cannot be set to make both
devices comfortable to use.

 

[Twayne]

....

First thing I do is turn off the track pad and use a USB
mouse.

On a laptop? First thing you'd do isn't much help to me.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

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Get a USB mouse and turn the track pad off. I have seen
dozens of track pads that will click when you think
you're just hovering.

Check my latest post to myself; as you can see, the matter was resolved and
I simply turned off the feature.
Mice aren't that useful on a laptop unless you're docked.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

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Check my latest post to myself; as you can see, the matter was resolved
and I simply turned off the feature.

What post?
What feature?

Mice aren't that useful on a laptop unless you're docked.

They are useful if your trackpad is no good.

 

[James Silverton]

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Check my latest post to myself; as you can see, the matter was resolved and
I simply turned off the feature.
Mice aren't that useful on a laptop unless you're docked.

You can get small mice with USB cables. I use one quite a lot when space
is not limited and I've never bothered to turn off the track pad;
indeed, off hand I've forgotten how!


--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not* (e-mail address removed)

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You can get small mice with USB cables. I use one quite a lot when space is
not limited and I've never bothered to turn off the track pad; indeed, off
hand I've forgotten how!

You can also get small mice without USB cables

Of course I'm referring to cordless mice, which I vastly prefer over
corded mice even on a desktop computer.

Actuyally, I have no problem using touchpads (knock on wood), so I
don't actually bother with cordless mice on laptop computers.

 

[choro]

You can also get small mice without USB cables

Of course I'm referring to cordless mice, which I vastly prefer over
corded mice even on a desktop computer.

Actuyally, I have no problem using touchpads (knock on wood), so I don't
actually bother with cordless mice on laptop computers.

Chordful (!) mice are far better. You can't lose them and there are no
batteries to run out! So long as they are not the very old uniball
variety! I detest touchpads and touchpads do not seem to like my fingers
either. Thus they end up being a pain in the neck!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Chordful (!) mice are far better. You can't lose them and there are no
batteries to run out! So long as they are not the very old uniball variety! I
detest touchpads and touchpads do not seem to like my fingers either. Thus
they end up being a pain in the neck!

I wonder if you mean that "pain in the neck" might be literally true
for you. Certainly, these sorts of things cause pain for some people
:-(

But of course what works for you might not (let me be honest: doesn't!)
work for me and vice versa, and then there are all the other people
with their own variations

 

[Twayne]

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You can also get small mice without USB cables

Of course I'm referring to cordless mice, which I vastly
prefer over corded mice even on a desktop computer.

Actuyally, I have no problem using touchpads (knock on
wood), so I don't actually bother with cordless mice on
laptop computers.

Same here; I find the various gestures pretty handy and miss them when I go
to my desktop, especially the 2-finger ones.
The biggest thing with touch pads is getting their sensitivity set so it
agrees with your own habits of pressure, tapping, etc.. Most of the time I
don't even use the left-button but do use the right-button now & then. Only
think I don't like in the Synaptics is the missing magnification ability;
Logitech spoiled me I guess.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

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Of course, desk tops don't usually come with track pads.


Better hope, then, that your track pad doesn't click on
malware.

How would what you say help me?

Well, if you were paying attention, you'd have noticed the problem was
RESOLVED quite some time ago.

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

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Well, if you were paying attention, you'd have noticed the problem was
RESOLVED quite some time ago.

So you say, but the post you claim contains your solution DOESN'T EXIST.

PLEASE TELL US THE SOLUTION YOU CHOSE.

 

[Twayne]

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So you say, but the post you claim contains your solution
DOESN'T EXIST.
PLEASE TELL US THE SOLUTION YOU CHOSE.

Yes, it does. Your shouting causes me to not want to bother helping you -
sorry. I'm looking at it rght now.
You can also look for my thanks to two people who made essentially the same
suggestion and I thanked them specfically. That one's down in the thread
further.