ClickZap - add double right-clicking to your XP machine

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ClickZap - add double right-clicking to your XP machine

by Jason Clarke Nov 14th 2007

Remember the days of the one-button mouse? Ahh, things were much less complicated back then. But simple is not always better!

Most people these days can't live without a two-button mouse, and in fact many of us have gotten used to using the click wheel as a 3rd mouse button, for things like closing open tabs in our browser. Without adding yet another button to your mouse, there is a way to get another action out of it. This is by cleverly using a double right-click gesture.

Think about it - you use the double click on the left mouse button constantly. Why not have a double click on the right one? If you'd like to add this functionality to your machine go ahead and download ClickZap, a very small utility for Windows machines that adds this very feature.

ClickZap offers the following actions that can be set for the double right-click:

Lock Computer
Log Off Computer
Shutdown Computer
Minimize Active Window
Minimize All Windows
Close Active Window
Close All Windows
Mute Sound

The default action is Lock Computer, but we'd prefer if it was Minimize Active Window, which appears to be the most commonly used action from this list.

Tags: ClickZap, double-click, double-right-click, middle-click, multi-click, right-click, Windows-XP

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

kingkool68 said 3:00PM on 11-14-2007

I think shutting down your computer by double right clicking is a bit extreme. Accidentally double clicking a mouse button happens to me every now and then and I would hate for my computer to shut down everytime I bumped the mouse wrong.

james 42 said 10:54PM on 11-15-2007

The first mouse I bought had four buttons, since then I generally try to get five button mice. But I'm not normal, I used to do a lot of CAD work. But for the average computer user, one button really is enough, and better because it forces the (smart) application designers to create interfaces that a simple and elegant.

James said 4:57PM on 11-19-2007

Other James, I beg to differ. The brilliance behind a 2-button mouse (and the reason Macs are full of terrible design ideas...) is that you have a button that says "do the most common action", and another button that says "tell me what other actions I can take", e.g. bring up a context menu.

hussin said 8:38AM on 12-01-2007

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