Compensating for a faulty mouse that doubleclicks?

Nanako

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I have a habit of buying cheap mice. Just the cheapest junk from china, they typically last 2-4 months before becoming too faulty to use. And then i replace them.

This is fine, it works for me mostly, i'm happy to keep this up. However i'm interested in extending their lifespan a bit, by compensating for the most common fault

The first thing that usually goes wrong with these mice, is that they start occasionally doubleclicking when I click once. The mouse sends two clicks instead, rapidly. More rapidly than I ever do when i'm actually intending to doubleclick

I'm here to ask, is there any way to use software to compensate for this? Perhaps a windows setting? Something that could allow me to set a tiny minimum delay between two clicks, so that these occasional faulty doubleclicks would be dropped and ignored?
 

Lutfij

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Software - no. Hardware - well, if you start adding how much resources you've dropped into buying cheap mice and having to replace every now and then alongside the down time or annoyance, then you'd have been much better off investing in a proper mouse to begin with.
 

Nanako

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I really wouldn't, i've been there, tried it, done the math. This works out cheaper over the long run.

I go through an average of six of these mice a year, and they cost £1. A single pound

High quality mice seem to range from 30-80 quid. I've never had one last the five years that'd be necessary for it to be economical