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Asked: 2026-05-27T03:57:36+00:00

I have a problem with my mouse. Every now and then it will double

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I have a problem with my mouse. Every now and then it will double click when I only single click. I know this is a problem with the mouse, and I’ve contacted the manufacturer, still waiting for a reply. But in the meantime I was wondering if there was a way that I could find out when the left mouse button had been clicked twice within a very short period (probably 1-10 milliseconds) of time, and disable the second click.

I mostly know how to use hooks, so that’s not the problem, my main question is how to stop an event from happening, if that’s possible.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The information on how to prevent the mouse message from being processed is in the documentation of the “LowLevelMouseProc callback function” in MSDN:
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644986(v=vs.85).aspx
    Specifically, it says: “If the hook procedure processed the message, it may return a nonzero value to prevent the system from passing the message to the rest of the hook chain or the target window procedure.” So, if you know about windows hooks, you know how to do it.

    EDIT: Actually, now that I think more about it, you don’t want to discard any event. You simply want to transform the doubleclick event into just another left-button-down event. I believe you can do it from within the hook handler, and it will work. Have you tried it?

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