One left click acts as several clicks Please help

[onezus]

HP pavailion p7-1126s

Windows 7 64 Bit home premium

no errors/changes made (other than changing out the mice and uninstall/reinstall of the drivers/software for the mice.)

When I do left clicks it clicks multiple times, most of the time it just double clicks. It clicks 2-4 times per left click. And it actually has been getting worse, clicking faster and more often.. Also when I try to highlight something and release the left button the mouse insteads clicks once or twice, unhighlighting the text. I have to do it 5 or 6 times before I get the part highlighted. So I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software for the HP 3 button mouse that came with this system. After that didn't work I brought out my old Logitech M100 wired USB optical mouse. I still have the same problems with it, so I know its not the mouse thats the problem or I'd just buy another one. I've had mice to break or wear out, but this a new one on me. And yes I have checked control pannel's mouse settings throughly. And no I do not have the button set for a single click to act as two clicks. And yes I have checked every possible double click speed setting there is. With that much out of the way, any suggestions will be tested, with the results posted within the same day.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

That is a new one for me too.

The only suggestion I can offer, if this problem has just started recently (within the two weeks or so), would be to run the system restore utility, and see if that fixes the problem.

If that doesn't fix the problem, then perhaps more draconian measures are required, such as a restore of the operating system to the state it came from the factory.

A restoration of the operating system would require you to back up all of your files, and you would lose all programs you installed subsequent to getting the PC, so you would need to reinstall those as well.

Paul

[onezus]

Hello Paul,

Thank you for your time, and advice on this bizzare event I've recently used system restore, its scary using  it though due to past experiences with vistas  missing files, corrupt data, etc. In all efforts I managed to successfully restore my system as to what it was 2 weeks ago, but it didn't  fixed the problem. Would like to save the reinstall of windows 7 as a last resort though.
 

[onezus]

New thread, same problem, no results

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/266738

[ehoser]

Does it do the same with the right button? Maybe try setting it for a left-handed mouse and see if the problem switches sides or stays the same. Also try downloading and booting a Linux liveCD and see if it has the same problem.

I would avoid system restore. I just tried to replace just the restore partition on my HDD a few weeks ago. The message that came up on the screen said it was going to restore just that partition and I would then need to use the boot-up restore function. What it really did was format my OTHER drive and put both the restore partition AND the Windows partition on that drive. Lucky thing I had three backups and it only destroyed two. The third was on a USB drive that I had unplugged.

[onezus · Accepted solution]

Recently borrowed a friends wireless mouse to troubleshoot. And got the first time fix (other than the two I'd tried before that were older but still optical/laser mice.) Was crazy how either both were either so worn out they had double clicks as one left click (both also had beverages spilled on/around them which was a consider) or the software was so old it was beyond anything microsoft or retailer could solve/provide answers to. But when the borrowed mouse worked I knew right away if one can do this....another one could as well. So after the dispute, and download upon re-download of drivers for these mice. I now have this issue resolved by "just buying a new one." And word of the wise to you ehoser, YES system restore is bad on your drive, I now have a name I (unfortunately) used symbols with (as a unique,one and only name) as my main admin. login name and now every program says it can't find that user, and installs it anyway. (Had no idea it was going to do that, it worked fine w/ vista) and there is no way to change it, you can but its stored in the registry as what it was assigned as, and even tried copying that acct. w/ a new name provided it w/ admin, and had SERIOUS ISSUES w/ that but not doing another reinstall its bad ennough that its prob. corrupting my registry as unknown user etc. not to mention the damage I've already done to it by reinstalling win 7 once. And as far as back ups go, good job on your part for the usb drive, a friend encouraged me to buy one saying "if its something you can't live without, BACK IT UP!" That was years ago when they were the baby sized 100 - 250 GB usb drives, which I still own. And still using for the same purpose.