Doug said:
Someone, or something, has changed mouse hover time such that clicking
on
start and sliding quickly up to My Computer, if the mouse pointer
passes over
"All Programs", All Programs opens up.
That's bad, sudden changes to settings should be investigated. There's a
couple of worms called W32/Dioxin.B and W97M.Durlen that
change these settings among other things (they are real doozies!) Look
for the files Dioxin.exe and WinDio778.exe.
How can I increase the time before hover is recognised. It isn't in
Conntrol Panel Mouse, or in TweakUI.
It should be. There should be a Mouse branch in the left pane which has
a Hover sub-branch. Are you sure it's not there? Did you
try closing TweakUI and running it again; sometimes I find that the
TweakUI tree is mangled when it runs (no clue why).
If you can't get the Hover options in TweakUI (even more reason to
investigate), then you can set the registry entries manually
(you'll probably have to reboot or log off/on for them to take effect).
In the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse] key you should set these:
MouseHoverTime : REG_SZ : hover time in milliseconds : 400 default
MouseHoverWidth : REG_SZ : hover width in pixels * 2 : 4 default (2
pixels)
MouseHoverHeight : REG_SZ : hover height in pixels * 2 : 4 default (2
pixels)
Those are the ones that TweakUI changes.
HTH