Why do I have to Right Click to open a Application or Link on my desktop?

On My Mac Mini, to open a application such as Mail or Safari I have to Right Click then open it.
Does any one have any solution on how I could fix this? So I could just click on it twice then it should open.
Thankyou
Neil Patel

Hi, glad I could help!
Let me clarify my answer:
In OSX 10.6 (snow leopard) it's in mouse/trackpad, like I said.
I answered you from my MBP which is still SL.
I realise now that in 10.8 Mountain Lion (and probably Lion, which I skipped) this setting has moved to Accessibility.
Didn't notice until now, just checked it on my relatively new Mac Mini (which runs Mountain Lion)
I wonder why they moved it, it seems not a logical location. All the mouse settings should be grouped together in Mouse/Trackpad prefs, in my opinion.
Apple makes many strange decisions lately...

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