{"id":20673,"date":"2008-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/02\/the-dangers-of-setting-your-double-click-speed-too-short\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T10:00:00","slug":"the-dangers-of-setting-your-double-click-speed-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081002-00\/?p=20673","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of setting your double-click speed too short"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I noted how the window manager uses the double-click time as a basis for determining how good your reflexes are<\/a>, people got all excited about reducing the double-click speed to make Windows feel peppier<\/a>. But be careful not to go overboard.<\/p>\n

Back in the Windows 95 days, we got a bug from a beta tester that went roughly like this: <\/p>\n

Title<\/b>: Double-clicks stop working after using mouse control panel
Reproducibility<\/b>: Consistent, hardware-independent
Severity<\/b>: Major loss of functionality
Description<\/b>: <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open the mouse control panel. <\/li>\n
  2. Go to the Double-click speed slider. <\/li>\n
  3. Drag the slider all the way to the right (fastest). <\/li>\n
  4. Click OK. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Result: Mouse double-clicks no longer recognized. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    We had to explain to the beta tester that, no, everything is actually working as intended. But if you set the double-click slider to the fastest setting, you had better be good at double-clicking really fast. You have clearly set the double-click speed was faster than you are physically capable of double-clicking. Maybe you can ask your twelve-year-old nephew to do your double-clicking for you. <\/p>\n

    That’s why there is the test icon next to the slider. Before clicking OK, make sure you can still double-click the test icon. If you can’t, then you picked a setting that’s too fast for your reflexes and you should consider a slower setting. <\/p>\n

    Pre-emptive Yuhong Bao comment<\/b>: In Windows 95, the test icon was a jack-in-the-box. <\/p>\n

    [Raymond is currently away; this message was pre-recorded.] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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