Disable control-click

Is there a way to disable the control-left click from coming up as a right click? This is interfering with a lot of applications I use to include flash and jave based applications. I have to be able to control left click something and the system is causing it to pop up with a contextual menu and not doing what I need it to do. I would like to be able to turn this function off since I have a two button bluetooth mouse and a four button trackball all of which do not need the control-left click menu.

Ctrl + left click is reserved by the OS for single-button mice to enable right-click. I doubt there is any way to alter it. Any program written for OS X that tries to use ctrl + left click is poorly written as that combination has been part of the OS for nearly as long as the OS has existed (maybe from the inception).
If you google, you will find lots of requests. Depending on what software you are using, you may be able to alter the shortcut within the program.
You might also try shift or option along with the ctrl-click. It may pass that through as a ctrl-click.

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