intellimouse explorer and windows xp

[mike]

I've had two intellimouse explorers: I bought one and the second one was
sent to me by Microsoft in replacement of the first. The replacement came
because the first mouse started double clicking when I obviously single
clicked. Now the second mouse has started up with this behavior, and I'm
getting tired of it.

What would it take to write some low-level software for windows xp that
always intercepted mouse messages and discarded extremely quick button
releases and represses. This would I think alleviate much of the problems
these mice are giving me.

If nothing easily can be done through software to alleviate this, I guess
I'll just call up microsoft and ask for a third mouse. But how long will
this problem keep coming back in their mice. And how long will they keep
sending me free mice?

I don't put my mice through any particular strain either -- I've been using
computers for years and I have a good sense of how to click a mouse
properly.

-Mike

 

[Bob Byrne]

I've had two intellimouse explorers: I bought one and the second one was
sent to me by Microsoft in replacement of the first. The replacement came
because the first mouse started double clicking when I obviously single
clicked. Now the second mouse has started up with this behavior, and I'm
getting tired of it.
.......

Under Folder Options there is a single-click option to open items. This may
be setting itself for some reason.
Have you tried setting your mouse properties to a slower double-click speed?
If the problem persists try setting the select button to the middle or right button
for testing and see if it double-clicks as well. This could rule out a hardware
problem.

 

[Cisco]

I´ve just corrected a similar problem. This one was with
the Logitech Wheel Mouse, but the problem was basically
the same. After trying out many different options, I
finally reinstalled XP over the previous one (no
formatting involved, personal configurations saved), and
voilá, that was it!

A friend of mine told me that something like this
happened to him with the scanner until reinstalling the
OS.