Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 13:47:24 10/19/00
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> I'm not sure if this is a mouse issue though. It is a mouse and shift key combination. Sometimes Windows 98/ME will forget to clear the shift state (or it may set it due to some transient instability during some program exit). The shift combined with a click on an icon marks the range of icons as a set (like in cut & paste operation), beginning with the one which was highlighted before and the one which is getting a click now. One more thing has to happen to get the primary problem. For example if your mouse has a bounce problem (i.e. occasionally it generates multiple fast clicks instead of a single click, depending on which point of the button area your finger presses), then Windows will see this as a double click and perform the double click operation on the entire marked set. Even if you have a good mouse and perform double click intentionally, the stuck shift state will also cause the double click execution on a set. Or if you have the shell set-up to use single click to simulate double click, again you will get the problem. One thing that fixes the problem (if you don't mind extra steps) is to toggle shift key down & up after applications exit. Or click a mouse on an empty area of a desktop. If the source is a mouse bounce (and you will know it because it will show occasional spurious double clicks unrelated to the shift problem), you could replace mouse. We all need to tip our hats to Bill Gates' business genius, since only a business genius could dominate the OS market with Windows.
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