Computer question: mouse makes an extra click each time

[morph999]

Never seen this before. I'm known to be very rough on things with my hand. I've broken a few video game controllers and bent a few markers in my time. When I click my mouse now, every ten times or so, it'll make an extra click. I use lots of copy and paste functions so lets say I'm searching for a word in notepad. I click "find" then it'll find the first word then immediately skip that word and go to the next one like I've hit the "find " button twice which I assume it is actually doing. I think it's clicking the button twice because when I'm clicking around, I notice that it'll click a second time and move to a part of the page that I didn't want to go to. I guess it's a mouse problem? I'm hoping it's just the mouse because that's cheap to replace. And maybe I can fix this myself since I've opened the mouse a few times myself to clean it.

 

[Anonymous]

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[spinningmagnets]

Basic troubleshooting: borrow a mouse that isn't double-clicking and swap it in to see if its the physical switch, or a virus in the driver program.

 

[morph999]

ok, I'll see if I can borrow someone's mouse. Maybe I'll pop it open again. I've popped it open twice to clean it. I've never had this problem before ever in my life.

 

[Link]

How old's the thing? My bet's on degrading contacts.

 

[morph999]

I'm a programmer....well self-taught programmer. I program for fun believe it or not so I'm thinking all the clicks that I've done have degraded the contacts like Link says.