I have just purchased a dell netbook with xp home and whenever I pause the pointer over a clickable button it does the clicking for me. How do I turn that off?

Lol, i thought this was about C++ pointers :)
Anyway, wrong section you posted this in.

I guess you have to got to Control Panel -> Mouse -> Buttons.

There should be a checkbox at the bottom about clicklock, you have to uncheck it ;-)

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