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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.

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“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
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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.

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greg358 from Darksouls 3 PVP is a CHEATER.

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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 :lol:

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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.

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“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts

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