May have more to do with touchpad oversensitivity.

And to the OP, that's not a Vista feature. It was available on earlier
versions of Windows.



"wifie29" <wifie29@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have unchecked the box that activates this feature and it STILL does it!
> I have a Dell, I use both the touchpad and a regular mouse and it does it
> with both even though I have supposedly disabled this feature. What else
> can
> I do? This is creating problems for me because I am typing a thesis for
> my
> Master's and it keeps inserting the cursor (and unwanted text) in the
> wrong
> places AS I TYPE. And just now, it closed a window! Please help!!
> "mungo" wrote:
>
>>
>> Dick;186139 Wrote:
>> > Vista comes with a feature that I find simply annoying. If the mouse
>> > pointer
>> > is allowed to hover over something for a few seconds it will activate
>> > it
>> > without a click. I have searched all provided documentation and can NOT
>> > find
>> > how to turn this feature off. Please tell me. You should put
>> > enable/disable
>> > right on the mouse menu in control panel! Dick Foster
>>
>> SOLUTION:
>> Nothing to do with mouse settings! Go to:
>> Control Panel> Folder Options >Click items as follows
>> and select double click instead of single click.
>>
>> /This hover thing drove me nuts too. Seems to be particularly common on
>> OEM installs where some l33t guy must have tweaked the settings..
>>
>>
>> --
>> mungo
>>