I went to the control panel (whatever Windows calls it) at work and set the mouse click speed for slooow. The slowest setting. I then clicked the mouse very fast. Guess what! It still worked. I even rebooted. So what’s the point of having the control?
I haven’t tried this on my mac yet, but I may.
Are you talking about the double-click speed?
Because if you are, then setting it to sloooow lets you have more time between clicks and the system will still treat it as a double-click. So setting it to sloooow and then clicking quickly won’t make any difference from what your original settings were.
If you set it to faaaast, you need to click faster in order for the two clicks to be recognized as a double-click. Of course, there’s not a whole lot of range; my standard double-click speed is accepted at the “fast” end of the scale.
The slower the mouse click speed is, the more time can lapse between mouse clicks. It doesn’t mean you ~have~ to click that slow, but that you can, if you happen to be a slow clicker.
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I always viewed that setting for people who have a tendency mis-click a lot (meaning clicking when you don’t intend to click). This will prevent applications on the desktop from opening just from a couple of accidental clicks. I have a Logitech Trackman Marble with the thumb-ball and late at night when I’m really tired, I tend to click a lot when I don’t want to click. If I had my double click speed set to ‘slow’, i’d be opening a lot of applications I didn’t want to.
I could also see slowing down the click for those people who just aren’t capable of double clicking quickly like my 68 year old mother who never used a computer until she was in her early 60s…