Re: [Thinkpad] [TPR40] Autoclicking mouse

Might he have downloaded a shareware program named "TrueLaunchBar"? This
behavior is one of its optional features.

Deanna

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From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] [TPR40] Autoclicking mouse

> > He should go into TweakUI (is it included with XP?) or whatever
> similar
> > utility he might have (like X-Setup) and UNselect "Activation Follows
> Mouse
> > (X-Mouse)".
>
> This is the first thing I thought of, but I couldn't reproduce the
> described behavior using TweakUI. The problem isn't only that it
> activates the window in which the icon lives, and brings it to the front
> of the other windows, it *also* opens the program or file or whatever,
> without clicking. This is way beyond acceptable X-mouse behavior.
> Plus, X-mouse is a Windows thing, the behavior also evidently takes
> place in the BIOS/TP-Setup screen level.
>
> I thought maybe it might be some kind of virus, but the closest I could
> find to this behavior in in virus definitions was one where the icons
> run away from the cursor. Besides, most virii are OS-specific.
>
> Anyway, I should hear back on my lame "clean the keyboard" advice
> whenever it becomes daytime in Swaziland.
>
> - David R.
>
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