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Double-click won't launch applications
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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I was at a friend's house yesterday helping to troubleshoot his G4 Power Mac which is running 10.4. What a disorganized mess it is. I tried to stress the importance of organization, but my friend doesn't think that way.
Anyway, when attempting to launch applications such as Disk Utility, a double click doesn't do it. Clicking once to highlight the application icon and then hitting command-O will launch the program just fine. What's going on there? He's using a Microsoft two-button mouse and I was using the left button for everything. Single clicking on applications that are in the dock launches them just fine.
Any suggestions?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2006
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Depending if he installed the software for that particular mouse or not there may be a System Preference that controls how the left and right buttons behave. Check there first.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Have you restarted the Mac? I had that happen once-icons would bounce once in the Dock and then nothing would happen. A restart fixed it quick!
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Glenn -----
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Yes, did several reboots in the process of troubleshooting. (He has an unreadable partition on his disk.) Will ask him to look for a sytsem pref for that mouse. I thought most USB mice worked fine without any drivers or software. Thanks for the responses.
Have recommended he purchase Diskwarrior to (hopefully) recover his dead partition. Disk Utility and Drive Genius were no help.
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I thought most USB mice worked fine without any drivers or software.
Yes they should, my comment is that if you install software specific to the mouse you can then "tweak" it to do weird things, some good, some bad. I had a Kensington mouse that had more options than I had ever even thought of!
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Have you tried triple-click?
</cheap joke>
Anyway, have you tried adjusting Double-Click Speed in Keyboard & Mouse preferences?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Originally Posted by iDaver
I thought most USB mice worked fine without any drivers or software.
They do. Which is why the problem here might be caused by using a third-party driver rather than the one that comes with the OS. I've found that in general, it is best not to use any custom mouse drivers.
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Chuck
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