In Windows 7, whenever I hover over things, the mouse automatically selects items or follows links without me clicking.

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I installed Windows 7 Premium Home Edition on my laptop. I am having problems with the mouse constantly selecting items that I don't want it to select. I would like to get it back to the way it has worked in every other version of WIndows where I have to click on something to select.

Do you know how annoying it is to be typing something on a webpage & suddenly your redirected to another page because your mouse hovered over a link???? Or in WIndows Explorer when I'm looking at pictures & the mouse hovers over a folder & moves it to another folder all WITHOUT me clicking & selecting it!!

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Anonymous

Jenna I checked the box to activate the hover under make mouse settigns easier and the reverse seems to be true.

No more links automatically opening.

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Found the solution. I guess this was introduced in Vista, so people moving over to Win 7 from XP didn't know about it. To FIX, go to:

Mouse Properties > Device Settings (Tab) > Settings (button) > Tapping (menu item) > then uncheck "Enable Tapping"

Done. Fixed. Annoyance gone.

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my husband found the drivers from vista(which are utterly amazing) i had to go to the laptop manufacturer web site for the drivers that are specifically for the laptop mine is an acer . so check your computer site for drivers

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2010-03-02T16:06:44+00:00

ok, I have done all of this, and still have the problem of my mouse opening up anything I hover over, as well as "highlighting anything below it at randow times. How do we fix this?

Jenn
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2010-02-22T10:00:28+00:00

Above 'proposed answer' was a mistake click, sorry about that. horseluver2me's answer is not the solution

Tha answer is:

Control Panel>Ease of Access>Ease of Access Center> Make the Mouse Easier to use> (off) Activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse

note: also look at the check box below it. Getting tired of your windows changing sizes? Thats the box to check to turn it off.

Mike
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