Mouse hovering acts like click

[johnbee]

It's as annoying as hell, isn't it?

-Al-

My guess was that he has dropped crud on the keyboard and it needs a good
cleaning
because the keys are sticking. That could be true of the mouse as well, now
that we no longer clean them often.

 

[Al Smith]

Not necessarily a bad problem to have, if I'm getting your drift.

It's a question of age. When you're 20 you clear the keyboard, but
when you're 40 you get random characters.

-Al-

 

[Dave]

Help! Since upgrading to win7, sometimes when I just slide my mouse
pointer over an icon it selects that file or launches a program. I know
this is a 'feature' of Win7, but I want to turn it off.

I've gone into Control Panel--> Ease of Access --> Make the Mouse easier
to use and unselected (actually that was the default) Activate a window by
hovering over it with a mouse, but it still happens. The frustrating thing
is that it's inconsistent, doesn't happen all the time.

Anybody have any ideas? Do I need to change settings in more than what
I've detailed above, or is this maybe a bug?

Thanks

Paul

If you're having this problem on a laptop, I had the same problem. When I
first had the problem, running Vista and using the touchpad on the laptop, I
found the sensitivity for the touchpad was set too light and when I set it
higher the problem went away. Also, keeping the touchpad clean and free of
oils from skin help too.
Then I went to a wireless mouse and got the problem again, found if I turned
the touchpad off then the problem went away. If, for some reason, I want to
use the touchpad and the mouse is turned off, after I boot up I click the
switch just above the touchpad to turn it on and it works fine.
HTH,
Dave

 

[TOM]

Thanks. I thought of it because I have an extended family member with
that issue. She says her mouse has a mind of its own, but the rest of
us can see what she's doing even if she can't. Even so, she doesn't
believe us.

With that kind of "problem," she must be a touch typist. There's no need
to tell her not to look at her hands. "Hands, what hands??? :>))

 

[Paul Gray]

Dave,

Thanks for the input. My problem was the touchpad, but not specifically
the sensitivity. I had the 'tapping' function activated (tap touchpad is
same as click) and I was sometimes inadvertently pressing down on the
touchpad as I moved the cursor around. I turned off the tapping
function, and the problem has completely gone away.

Paul