My mouse keeps double-clicking when I click normally!

[Ranquil]

Oh dawg, this is starting to get really annoying.

Sometimes when I click something once, everything goes just fine. At other times my mouse registers one click as a double click.
Now you may think: "Wow, that's such a first world problem!" Well, hear me out, because it's getting really fucking annoying!

I'm writing a long piece of text and I notice a small error in the middle of it. I click the part, use backspace and then correct it. Oops, since I had accidentally double-clicked the text, the whole text was highlighted and thus I had just removed the entire text.
I use Opera as a browser (don't judge me lol) and I click one of my gazillion tabs. When a tab is selected, a small X appears on it's left side giving the option to close the tab. Because I have so many tabs, they're also small in width. Oops, since I just accidentally double-clicked a tab instead of clicking it once, it registered the other click as a click on the X and thus the tab is now gone.

This wouldn't be as annoying if it didn't happen all the fucking time.

What should I do?

[ForeverZer0]

Is it a hardware issue?
Try decreasing the double-click time and see if it helps anything.

[Ranquil]

Is it a hardware issue?
Try decreasing the double-click time and see if it helps anything.

I have no idea whether it's a hardware issue or not. This mouse definitely hasn't always been like this.
I tried that and it did nothing. Now it just also accepts two slow clicks as a double-click.

[WhiteRose]

I've had this happen to a couple of mice before. It usually means that the pads under the mouse buttons have just worn through, unfortunately; there isn't much that you can do except get a new mouse if this is the case. Sorry for the bad news.

[PhoenixFire]

Have you tried uninstalling then reinstalling the driver for it?

Is it an external mouse or the touchpad? If external; wired or with wire? brand? model? have you changed anything significant at all lately (even if it had nothing to do with the mouse?) Are you running Windows or other OS?

[Blizzard]

Have you checked the mouse settings? Maybe that options for single-click is on.

if it's really the hardware, first try wnother mouse to make sure before you buy a new one.

[Ranquil]

Have you tried uninstalling then reinstalling the driver for it?

Is it an external mouse or the touchpad? If external; wired or with wire? brand? model? have you changed anything significant at all lately (even if it had nothing to do with the mouse?) Are you running Windows or other OS?

This mouse is just a pluck-and-play mouse so I don't think it has a driver. It's a wired external mouse. It's made by Microsoft but I have no idea of its model. I haven't changed anything significant at all lately. I'm running Windows 7.

Have you checked the mouse settings? Maybe that options for single-click is on.

if it's really the hardware, first try wnother mouse to make sure before you buy a new one.

I checked the mouse settings and there is no option like that. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that though.

I'll see if I have a spare mouse here somewhere.

[legacyblade]

My mouse started doing that once. It's only ever happened to the cheap ones that come with my computer though. Try plugging it into another computer and seeing if the issue persists. If it does, then you'll just have to buy a new mouse. You can get another cheap one for about ten bucks.

[PhoenixFire]

Okay, so it probably uses Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center (I have the same type of mouse, it must cost more like $40 cuz its a special one =p ). So, if you can locate the control panel for the m&k center, you should be able to uninstall it from there...

Or I could be completely wrong, but it's worth a shot I guess.