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Handicap - Mouse setting to ignore shaky movement and erratic button clicks due to hand tremors.

Anonymous
2010-11-02T20:43:03+00:00

I experience tremors in my wrist, hand and fingers. This means my hand and fingers shake uncontrollably. These tremors make it difficult for me to hold my mouse still, over a location. This also means that my finger makes unwanted double-clicks. Yes, double-clicks. My shaking finger can double click my mouse faster than I can do so by intent.

Is there a mouse setting or mouse driver that can filter out the shaking movements of my hand? Perhaps it would identify rapid movements which are not moving in roughly the same direction.

To solve for the double-click problem, I propose an option to the mouse double-click settings that would create a window of acceptable double-click speeds. Instead of having only a minimum double-click recognition speed as we have now, the option would apply a maximum double-click recognition speed. The double-click would be ignored if the speed was too slow or too fast. This option would create a window or range of legitimate speeds.

Well, anyway. Does anyone know a solution to my hand tremor problem?

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Anonymous
2010-11-03T09:41:03+00:00

Control Panel -> Ease of Access Center -> Make the mouse easier to use -> On make the mouse easier to use window under See Also (below), Click on "Mouse settings" (blue link)to open the Mouse Properties -> Click on "Button"s tab, under double click speed", adjust the speed to your liking. Double click on the small folder to test. At Slow setting the folder opens and close at slow and high speed mouse clicks, while high speed setting only works for high speed mouse double clicks. In your case I would choose high speed settings where slow mouse double clicks are ignored, while on slow speed settings high speed mouse double click are not.

Hope I could help

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