Yesterday morning I was trying to clean up the usual clutter of spam
messages. I had selected about 4 or 5 for deletion and was
CTRL-clicking on another to include it in the group when...
All of a sudden all of the selected messages (none of which I'd ever
want to open) opened as a group. I was startled, closed them quickly
and then sat back trying to figure out how that had happened. I was
baffled. Not much later it happened again... as I was trying to select
messages for deletion they all suddenly opened. I pondered this a while
longer but was still mystified... had some gremlin infected Thunderbird
(my email system)?
A few hours passed with no more strange events. Then I tried to use the
Windows calculator and almost immediately began getting strange answers.
I looked back and saw that the strange answers were not strange at
all. The were simply correct answers to the set of numbers "I" had
selected by clicking the mouse. Then I wondered how I had created so
many "typos". Then it suddenly occurred to me that all of the "typos"
were repetitive entries of the same digit. I might have wanted 24.3 but
instead got 24.333 or 43.9 and got 43.99.
After a few little experiments it became apparent that my Logitech 310
mouse had become a left-click stutterer. I swapped mice and receiver
with my laptop (all 3 mice in the household are Logitech M310) and all
was well again.
I've owned a couple of keyboards over the years that would stutter or
stick on a particular key (in fact the one I'm typing on now does it
maybe once/week) but I've never encountered the behavior in a mouse. I
find it strange that the mouse can do repetitive clicks on its own which
is not a behavior that is naturally there as in a keyboard.
Despite the glitch I've been happy with Logitech M310 mice for several
years so ordered another one from Amazon Prime today for the princely
sum of $16. It will be here before the laptop I stold the mouse from
needs to make a trip with me.
Just thought y'all might want to know of a strange glitch you might
encounter one day. Try using the calculator. It shows the true problem
very quickly.
Chuck Norcutt
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