Re: [Thinkpad] [TPR40] Autoclicking mouse

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

I will ask. This is a strange feture to build into a program, IMO.

David

>
> Deanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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