double click the right mouse button behavior

[Dominic Tocci]

It seems when I double click the right mouse button, a new window opens to
whatever link I'm near, or sometimes some former link if the mouse is far
from other links. The window ALWAYS shows the "page cannot be displayed"
error.

My right mouse button is a little trigger-happy and seems to double click
accidentally quite often, so I'd like to get rid of this behavior.

I've tried double-clicking with the right mouse button on my laptop's
windows 2000 installation and nothing happens. How do I make this the case
on my XP PC?

I'm running XP SP2, IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158. It's a
relatively fresh installation with no spyware or viruses. I'm sure of that.

Thanks,
Dominic

 

[David Candy]

Double click right button does nothing. You are probable single clicking and clicking randomly on the menu.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

Well I have a wacom tablet that comes with another mouse. I can use that to
test the theory and, when I right click with that mouse, I never get the
behavior. However, when I double-right click I do. This tells me that the
problem is a combination of an overactive right mouse button on my mouse and
strange behavior when double right clicking in IE.

I'm positive I'm not clicking randomly on the menu. I can verify this
because when I right click very deliberately (so it only right clicks once
and brings up the menu) I can click on any menu item and never get the same
behavior (page cannot be displayed error in a new window).

I really don't know why this is happening and I am a very experienced user.
I'm the guy my family and friends call to fix their problems.

Is there a place in the registy where I can I find the double-right click
settings? Perhaps something is set there?


Double click right button does nothing. You are probable single clicking and
clicking randomly on the menu.

 

[David Candy]

There are no double right click settings.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

OK... Well do you have any other ideas why a new window would immediately
open with a "page cannot be displayed" error when I right click? It's
definitely not an inadvertent menu click as I have tried deliberately
clicking to each menu item and none give the same result.


There are no double right click settings.

 

[David Candy]

Boot into safe mode and see if it happens. Remove all pointing devices and use only standard drivers. See what happens for each of these.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

Hi David,

Thank you for your advice. I booted into safe mode and the behavior ceases
to happen upon double clicking. So I went back into normal mode and tried
these things:

Update mouse driver, restart.
Result: no change
Remove mouse device entirely, restart
Result: no change, but upon starting xp asked me to restart again "to
finish installing... blah blah blah"
Restarted again
Result: no change

So now the question is... what is different about safe mode that can get the
strange behavior to stop, and how to I make normal mode behave the same way?

Thanks,
Dominic


Boot into safe mode and see if it happens. Remove all pointing devices and
use only standard drivers. See what happens for each of these.

 

[David Candy]

You probably have spywear.

Type
Clean boot troubleshooting
in Help while online and spend some time being bored.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

Thanks again, but no I don't have spyware. That seems to be the go-to cause
in newsgroups and forums, but it's not mine. I've had this problem through
a clean installation a few weeks ago. My PC is locked down too with Outpost
firewall and a network activity monitor. There is no unauthorized network
activity nor network activity attempts. There are no ads appearing or
pop-ups. There are no unauthorized programs in any of the startup
locations.

To be certain, I just ran AdAware and Spybot S&D. Both found nothing
(except a few tracking cookies here and there).

There must be some strange conflict somewhere, or some legitimate piece of
software that is interfering. Or, since the mouse works fine in safe mode,
the driver could be messed up in some way. Like you said, there is no
double right click in IE (or at least there shouldn't be).

Is there a simple way to make the mouse behave like it does in safe mode?
Barring that, which are the startup directories or drivers that are bypassed
in safe mode? I'd like to track down the offending process.



You probably have spywear.

Type
Clean boot troubleshooting
in Help while online and spend some time being bored.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

BTW - I see what you're talking about with the clean boot troubleshooting
stuff. I'm going to run through the diagnostic startup just in case.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

This didn't seem to help at all. Upon the "clean" restart the
double-right-click error was gone, just as it was in safe mode. I then ran
each individual system.ini item, win.ini item, service, and startup line one
by one. When I was done, the problem still was gone (although my windows
environment was certainly not normal. it looked like it was missing its skin
or something). I restarted back into normal mode and the problem returned.

This is very frustrating...

What else could it be if not something in the system.ini, win.ini, boot.ini,
services, or start-up? I don't know what else runs that makes the
difference between diagnostic startup with everything started manually and
normal startup.

Any ideas?

PS - Thanks again for your help, in case I haven't been thankful enough.

 

[David Candy]

If this only happens in IE then check in Options - Advanced that Disable Third Party Addin is cleared.

Try MSConfig again with selective startup. Disable the boxes one by one and reboot.

It's one of those items in MSConfig.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

Hi David,

I did some experimenting and discovered the problem seems to happen in any
html viewer that uses the html components available to Explorer. For
example, when viewing html emails in outlook, the same behavior happens.
Also when using Homesite (HTML Editor) in the preview mode.

I'm using the google toolbar, so I'd rather keep third party addins. And
since I've got the problem whenever windows views html files it's probably
not that checkbox, right?

I will try the MSConfig thing now. Thanks.


If this only happens in IE then check in Options - Advanced that Disable
Third Party Addin is cleared.

Try MSConfig again with selective startup. Disable the boxes one by one and
reboot.

It's one of those items in MSConfig.

 

[Dominic Tocci]

David,

The culprit is apparently nwiz.exe, part of nvidia's software package for my
video card.

I'll take it up with them I suppose, as that file is responsible for a lot
of useful features and disabling it would disable them.

Thank you very very much. I can't tell you how much this problem has
bothered me. You're a life saver.

Dominic