Re: [Thinkpad] [TPR40] Autoclicking mouse

Possibly the "press-to-select" feature of the Trackpoint has malfunctioned.
The pointer may have been jammed down, as to make constant contact.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] [TPR40] Autoclicking mouse

> A colleague has a problem with an R40 (under XP), it seems that every
> time the cursor passes over an icon it launches the program or file the
> icon represents. I asked him to see if it had the same behavior in the
> BIOS or running PC-Doctor from a floppy, the answer seems to be yes
> (we're doing this by email, and communication isn't always perfectly
> clear). From this I infer that there is a hardware problem of some
> sort - a stuck button perhaps, though I would have expected that to
> result in some kind of Windows boot error. I suggested he try blowing
> some compressed air through the keyboard in case the problem is an
> errant crumb or insect.
>
> Any other ideas? His machine is still under warrantee, but he is in
> Africa right now so I don't know how accessible service is.
>
> - David R.
>
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