{"id":2650,"date":"2022-06-07T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2022-06-07T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:40:40","slug":"windows-11-mouse-multiple-click-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/?p=2650","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 mouse multiple click issue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have had a repeated issue on windows 11 where my usb mouse appears to do multiple single clicks for one click, including an apparent extra click triggered by the mouse button release.<\/p>\n<p>I tried a number of tricks with the settings, and also changed to another older usb mouse and replaced the original ageing mouse, but the issue persisted. I also wondered about USB port\/hardware issues, and tried swapping ports several times, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>I also tried updating the HID compliant mouse driver and the usb drivers, but in every case I was told that I was already on the latest version. In the end, I followed some online advice and removed all the HID compliant mouse drivers (as I was trying 2 mice to compare the issue). I then had to use the keyboard to navigate to a restart.<\/p>\n<p>The restart reinstalled the latest mouse driver, and this completely fixed the problem. I am not sure if the issue was due to a corrupted mouse driver or corruption in its configuration\/the registry somewhere, but either way, this resolved the problem perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Mouse issues like this, including possible causes and solutions, are discussed online <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeekpage.com\/fix-windows-10-mouse-double-clicks-on-single-click\/\">here<\/a> <\/strong>and also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/fix-double-clicking-mouse-windows\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a repeated issue on windows 11 where my usb mouse appears to do multiple single clicks for one click, including an apparent extra click triggered by the mouse button release. I tried a number of tricks with the settings, and also changed to another older usb mouse and replaced the original ageing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,11,133,41,230],"tags":[40,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2651,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salientsoft.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}