Its own name really defines it, and it’s nothing more than clicking on one of its buttons and registering a double tap Instead of one, i.e. one clicks once and two clicks are recorded, the second being unintentional by the user.
This in Windows is not too boring if it is not constant, but in games it is 100% unacceptable so the victim ends up being bothered and with a bad idea of the model or brand of the mouse. But often the problem is not physical, that is, it is not hardware, but can be software, so it is convenient to see possible solutions to the problem before sending the mouse to RMA or, failing that, having to change the switch or purchase a new model.
Dirt
This is, although it may not sound like, more common than it looks, especially in the mouse wheel and its vertical click. Dirt, dust and even hair stick to any surface and penetrate through the smallest and most inhospitable interstices.
Mouse clicks are no exception and we can get dirt between its spring and the switch, for example, after touching the mouse with dirty hands or liquid. The solution to this problem is somewhat complicated, as it requires completely disassembling the mouse and cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol and cotton swabs, emphasizing the previously mentioned parts.
A compressed air spray will also help, but not with the mouse closed, but open, to extract dust from the most difficult and inaccessible places. In any case, when cleaning, do not touch the sensor of it if you do not see it dirty or stained due to the liquid spill, and it is very common to clean it since we are cleaning the switches and clicks internal.
If wireless, it may be interference
This is another of the big problems, also with an easy fix but not to everyone’s liking. If we are in a community with a large number of Wi-Fi networks, surrounded by televisions or monitors or radio waves everywhere and with stations nearby, it is possible that the radio frequency of the mouse is suffering from problems, whether because of RF or Bluetooth.
The best solution, if possible and if the mouse allows it, is to connect it by cable and check whether the double click occurs or not. If this is the case, we will go to another point, but if it is not, we will have to eliminate as much as possible interference from nearby devices and leave nothing between the receiver and the aforementioned mouse, avoiding cuts in milliseconds in the mouse.
Software may be the cause
Most competitive gaming mice can be adjusted in their click times, changing the response time of each keystroke. It is true that this setting is very personal and very few can do it, but in those that their software allows it and is misconfigured for upper and lower speed, it can give us a fake double click which is nothing. more than that, a wrong time-adjusted answer.
It will be enough to enter the mouse configuration in the software of yesteryear and modify this value by adjusting it to our liking, but on the other hand, there are also more software problems, especially in Windows.
If we go into the Windows control panel -> mouse -> buttons tab, we will have a section called Double Click Speed, as shown in the picture. Adjusting the scroll bar changes the behavior of the scroll bar and may cause the problem.
We’ll just have to adjust it to taste until we stop suffering the dreaded double click. If none of what has been said so far works for you, then let’s move on to more important words.
Hardware issues when double clicking
Here we enter a multi-actor scene. The mouse may break down on its own, the switch may have said enough or it no longer responds as it should and must be changed (desoldering on low and mid-range mice, internal change on high-end mice), but also there is a case of motherboard problem with USB sticks and mice.
Many times we move the mouse and hear a more or less high-pitched hum on the PC in time with the movement, where it stops when the mouse is stationary. This is produced by the capacitors charging the PCB and the USB controller on the board which does not go directly to the CPU.
Typically, these capacitors are considered “hit” and may soon be sunk, solid or not. It can also be the coils that come with them, but there is no doubt that they interfere with the USB where the mouse is connected, so the solution is to simply change it to a USB 2.0 which connects to the CPU. The manual of our plate must specify this in case we have any doubts.
If that doesn’t fix the problem, then we need to start thinking about an issue with the mouse, click, or switch tension spring that it may be a calculation of the two included.
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