The obvious solution to this problem, and the most common advice, was “buy a new mouse.” Back in the day, I had no trouble removing the ball from the underside of a mechanical mouse to clean it, but that day is long gone. I found instructions on taking a mouse apart to fix it. It makes sense–even optical mice must have some sort of physical mechanism for transmitting clicks. When I googled “mouse sends double clicks,” I found plenty of folks who’ve had the same problem with aging mice (and mine was coming up on four years of steady service). By then it was even affecting my attempts to select text. Not every time, but often enough to be really annoying. Then last weekend, I finally figured out what was actually going on–the mouse was randomly sending out double clicks when I was sending out single clicks. I tried googling terms like “hair trigger mouse,” and found nothing. I went to the control panel and tried adjusting the click speed, but that had absolutely no effect. In due time I realized that the problem had to be related to my mouse. Same thing with Twitter–it took several attempts to open a picture (Twitter was invented to disseminate pictures of cats, right?). I’d click on a program description, and the box would snap open and shut too fast for me to read it. And the problems spread to the web site I usually use to look up the TV schedule. I was sending empty emails, and duplicates, and I had no idea why. A few weeks ago I started having problems with my email program running away with me.
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