MS mouse: unable to slow down double-click response

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I have Dell XPS 17 9710, in Win 10 Home 21H2

I have shaky hands, so when I single-click on my MS mouse, the response sometimes corresponds to a double-click.

In Control Panel > Mouse, the current setting is on extreme left.

If I deliberately try to do a fast double click, the indicator still reacts positively.

On all my previous Dells, I was able to increase the minimum acceptable interval between clicks to about 2 clicks per second, at a slider position of ~20%.

I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks

TV2 said:

Does moving the click speed slider in any direction change the mouse behavior at all?

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Yes.

In fact, the easiest way to prove that is simply to do the steps that I would normally use on any new laptop - adjust the double-click speed as follows:

- Start > Control Panel > Mouse
- Slider: AFAIK, the original position on a new laptop is 100%. So, set to 100%

As in any test, we need to define SUCCESS in advance. In my case, success means that the door opens or closes on the SECOND click of a double click. So the interval must be greater than the interval between an intended single click followed immediately by an involuntary twitch.

Using the seconds timer on my sys tray, tap the door twice per second.

For me, the max position has always behaved erratically - it will either respond erratically or it will not respond at all. So, arrow left to move the slider to the next lower position. (BTW: This erratic behaviour at 100% does not inspire confidence in the code behind. On analog devices, we expect pointers to stick at the extremities - hence the tapping on glass.)

In my case, the door does not respond to the second click. So arrow left again. Repeat until the door responds to the second click.. That represents SUCCESS for a user who is deliberately trying to click slowly.

For me, on this Dell XPS, the door responds with the slider at 50%. Previous Dells (and an Asus) responded at 20-40%. So I moved one further click to the left for luck. That's 40% (it's a 10% increment per click)

If I had simply stopped there and done something useful, this post would never have been written.

However, I then moved the slider to the extreme left, and clicked very fast on the door. The door responded to every click, as mentioned in my OP.

In fact, the door responded to FAST clicking at EVERY position of the slider.

I'm not a techie, but it seems to me that when the slider moves to the left, the code respects each change (apart from the erratic behaviour at 100%) and decrements a counter.

But when the slider is moving to the right, the same code is executed repeatedly - without respecting the change in the slider position. So the mouse behaviour never changes - the door always open/closes irrespective of the slider position.

Thanks

@TV2 :

Thanks for all your work. Maybe MS might notice this post.

To be fair, the current settings allow slow double-clicking, which would have prevented many of the serious mousing injuries that I've seen in my life as a contractor in about 30 companies.

Some other tricks:

- I switch the mouse position (left or right of laptop) about once a week. And no, I don't switch buttons - takes too much time. I simply think "left-click, right-click" rather than "forefinger, middle finger". So tutorials don't need to be translated.

- My MS mouse is about one inch longer than a normal MS mouse. That means that my fingers can't reach the buttons if my fingers are in the normal "crook" position. The crooked finger is one cause of injuries. My fingers are almost straight. The other cause of injuries is fast tapping. The longer mouse automatically prevents fast tapping because of the increased torque and angular momentum. If I use someone else's normal-sized mouse, my fingers are now automatically straight. So they overhang the ends of the buttons by about 3/4 inch, but I still prefer to keep my fingers straight.

Thanks