Click to activate VS2005 tool panes in Vista causes double-click

Question

I've been putting up with this forever and suddenly I thought: Maybe someone else has run across this!

In Visual Studio 2005 on Vista x86, when I click on a tool pane that does not have focus, it does a double-click. Does this with the property window, toolbox, error list, output window, and so on.

Some things I've noticed:

• This happens on a totally fresh install of VS2005, which rules out my add-ins and macros.
• It happens on two different Vista machines but not on any XP machine I've used.
• I don't use any weird Logitech mouse helper apps or other system mouse-hooking background things.
• This is unique to VS2005: no other app that I use has this issue.

UPDATED:

• I have tried running as an admin. One one of my Vista machines I have UAC disabled - no difference.
• VS2005 SP1 is installed, Vista SP1 is installed, and the Vista update for VS2005 SP1 is there too. Fully patched.
• I have looked through all the release notes I could find and notes about 2005 from Microsoft, but nothing is in there about weird GUI behavior.

Has anyone else run into this? My workaround is to right-click on the tool pane first, then I can do what I need in there. Bleh.

Answer 1

Have you installed the VS2005 SP1 Update for Vista? Are you running as Administrator? Here's the low-down from Microsoft on Vista/VS2005.

Answer 2

Sounds hardware-y. Have you ever adjusted your mouse sensitivity or anything like that? Have you tried with a second mouse to see if it happens with that one?