Desk top ikon won't open

I have been given a 12ins Power book which I'm trying to set up for my daughter. the Hard Disck Ikon on the desk top won't open nor will another item I copied over from a memory stick. Unfortunately I copied all the Applications into the HD disc ikon so can only open Applications that ar ein the Dock, Mail, Safari etc.
I have used Permissions Repair in Disk Utility twice without any change in the Desk top problem.
Anybody got any ideas?
R

Stargazer,
Open System Preferences...>Accessibility>Mouse & Trackpad, and experiment with a different "Double-click speed:"

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