So this laptop I'm trying to use seems to have this issue, where if I leave the mouse cursor over a link for a second (or less, it seems rather random) it sometimes automatically opens the link...or closes a window...or opens a program. It's extremely annoying, but also intermittent. Has anyone encountered this before, is there a Windows setting to turn this off or is something broken, hah? I turned off a lot of the default XP Windows visual features but it's still doing it. I've never had it on my desktops.

 

It's WinXp/sp2, Sony Vaio.

Edited May 19, 200916 yr by LadyCrimson

Have you tried a different mouse, that don't sound like a feature of windows. Maybe one of the buttons on the pad is borked.

Edited May 19, 200916 yr by Gorgon

I've had a similar issue before on my wife's laptop. It was because the touchpad was set so that tapping it would act like a mouse click -- not so much a problem in itself but the touchpad was very sensitive causing it to click on things "randomly."

 

I don't know if your problem is even remotely similar but good luck figuring it out

That's what I thought was happening too, LostStraw...but it's happened when using a wireless mouse and when my hands were nowhere near the touchpad. I wonder if the plastic areas around the touchpad are "loose" or something...maybe even my hands on the sides of the touchpad sometimes trigger it via vibration.

 

Very strange.

Edited May 20, 200916 yr by LadyCrimson