Mouse click causing double-click

On my mouse, when I do a "single click" often times the computer reads a double-click. I understand this to be a mouse contact bounce problem.

I replaced the mouse once with a different model, and the new mouse started doing this within a couple of weeks. Replacing the mouse every month or so is not an acceptable solution.

Many years ago, I think I had a mouse which had that double-click suppression option built into its driver software. Since I rarely use a mouse's double-click, but usually do the double click manually suppressing the contact bounce second click would not create any hardship.

Is there any software out there which looks at how rapidly the double-click happens and suppresses the second click if it is less than "x" microseconds after the first click?

 

I agree with Pete. I have seen before where the problem was the slider was set all the way to the left towards "Slow ". Intuitively, that seems backwards to me, but setting it just to the right of center made the double-click action work as expected.

That said, you are right that button contact bouncing (weak return springs) can cause this too. If the slider does not work, I would probably try a third mouse - a good one - just to make sure the 2nd going bad after a month was not a coincidence. You might also try the two bad ones on another computer and see what happens there.

As far as your "years ago" mouse, the driver software you mentioned probably just moved that same slider.