Mouse failure to double click

Hi
Can anyone explain why using options to reset mouse speed to slow worked. All conventional sol. (REbooting, fix permissions etc) failed. I can now use mouse to xx click, but slow speed messes up thing playing some of the computer games. I would really like to speed it up w/0 losing other things.
Anita

You might look into the alternative mouse software SteerMouse.

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