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.
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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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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2012-03-11T16:40:56+00:00 Minus my creative use of US Navy-certified curse words, your letter sounds just like what I intended to write. This is the stupidest feature in a long list of stupid features that should have been left out of Windows 7. But even though it's a piece of ****, Windows 7 is miles ahead of Vista, though it will never be as good as Windows XP. I assume it was the retirement of Bill Gates that caused this precipitous fall in quality. But here is how you fix this moronic setting (though, really, you CAN'T fix it--you can only make it happen less often. You CANNOT turn off Mouse Hover. It has no "OFF" setting. Morons designed it and so--surprise--it's moronic.
- Go into RegEdit. (you may want to EXPORT (file menu) the registry for safekeeping before you change it)
- Open up Control Panel and then
- Open up Mouse.
You will find three registry settings for Mouse Hover: MouseHoverHeight, MouseHoverTime, and MouseHoverWidth.
- Double click on the icon next to MouseHoverTime and in the dialog that pops up
- Change this value to 4000.
It's the maximum length of time you can prevent Windows from screwing up your life. I suspect that it's four seconds. But it might be 4000 seconds--who knows? I'm sure the Windows engineer who came up with this scheme is in a straitjacket somewhere and can't be reached for further information. Just remember: Windows 7 sucks. It doesn't suck as bad as Vista, but it is a really sucky product all the same. Maybe that french woman at the sidewalk bistro who claimed Windows 7 was her idea was telling the truth (famous Windows 7 commercial). There is something about Windows 7 that bespeaks thick armpit hair and body odor, a severe wine-drinking problem, and hours spent sipping espresso on month-long vacations--in short, it is French.
- Close RegEdit. Reboot. Still have a problem? Leave a flaming bag of dog doo on the front porch in Redmond. Windows 7 sucks.
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2012-03-17T07:52:25+00:00 Same problem the solution I found was to go under "folder Options" inside of the Control panel and under the General tab, I changed my clicking preference from "single (point to select)" to "Double click (point to select)"
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