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In the past several weeks, my mouse has taken to randomly double-, triple-, or even (rarely) quadruple-clicking on me when I try to single-click. I don't notice the problem when left-clicking, but I don't left-click nearly as frequently as I right-click. It seems sporadic, sometimes related to which direction I'm moving the mouse, and it's very very frustrating. For instance, I'll be highlighting something in a word processor or a webpage and just as I get to the end of the line, the mouse will react like I let go and clicked again, leaving me without the text selected. Or I'll go to close one tab in my browser, only to have the mouse double-click, closing the first tab and the second. Good thing IE is able to recover recently closed tabs.
So the question is this: does anyone know what might cause this, and if it's fixable? Or am I out of luck and just need to replace the thing?
The specs: the mouse is a 5+ year old USB optical mouse from Logitech, and aside from past jitteriness in XP (that may have just as likely been attributed to my computer as to the mouse, since it behaved itself on Hubby's laptop), it's worked wonderfully. It's a nice, basic optical mouse, with only the two standard buttons plus scroll wheel.
If it matters, I'm running Windows 7 on a home-built system, but the multi-clicking is a more recent development than my upgrade to Win7.
What I've done so far: based on some mostly unhelpful Googling, I opened up the mouse and dusted it out to see if that would help. I removed some dustballs, but aside from initial cooperativeness from the mouse, there's been no noticeable change in its behavior.
So the question is this: does anyone know what might cause this, and if it's fixable? Or am I out of luck and just need to replace the thing?
The specs: the mouse is a 5+ year old USB optical mouse from Logitech, and aside from past jitteriness in XP (that may have just as likely been attributed to my computer as to the mouse, since it behaved itself on Hubby's laptop), it's worked wonderfully. It's a nice, basic optical mouse, with only the two standard buttons plus scroll wheel.
If it matters, I'm running Windows 7 on a home-built system, but the multi-clicking is a more recent development than my upgrade to Win7.
What I've done so far: based on some mostly unhelpful Googling, I opened up the mouse and dusted it out to see if that would help. I removed some dustballs, but aside from initial cooperativeness from the mouse, there's been no noticeable change in its behavior.
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