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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2009-12-03T05:37:48+00:00 This does not solve the problem. The problem is that if you hover over any button or window or even the desktop for more than a few seconds without moving the mouse, then suddenly anything below it gets automatically selected.
This happened in older versions of Windows as well. The "Activate by hovering" button does NOT need to be activated for this to occur... it happens all on its own.
How do you turn this annoyance off?
Thank you in advance.
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2009-12-03T06:21:38+00:00 for some reason it didn't help me. i cant get the tapping turned off either, and it is starting to make me mad i am beginning to hate windows 7 because of it. they tried to make it SO easy to use that it is nearly impossible. i don't have a tapping option anywhere in windows 7.