Windows 7 – How to Tweak or Rotate Mouse Orientation

Try this: Taskbar Activate.

Manage the way taskbar window is displayed on the screen :

• displayed or hidden are directly managed by Taskbar Activate.
• delayed activation when mouse is over.
• force activation or not with "always on top" windows.
• make the taskbar always reachable even with full-screen windows.
• works with dynamic screen resolution change, moving the taskbar to another edge of the screen , Windows 98 multi-monitor.
• show a highlight line when mouse is over.
• manage also others Windows bars.
• it can be temporary suspended.
• you can have the taskbar completely hidden (no more one line at the bottom of the screen).
• you can choose the color for hilighting when you go over the taskbar.
• you can stop managing one bar if there is a problem with it.
• even more options.

Well the best way to solve this would be to return the device, as it's supposed to have a 3 year warranty.

The microswitch is obviously damaged and all basic solutions would require you to attempt to modify it or its circuit. From your text, I can't see if it shows multiple clicks when the switch itself is held pressed. If it doesn't, then you could try to solve the problem by adding something between the switch itself and the button which would increase the pressure on the switch, but it won't be a long term solution. In situation such as this, the switch is already sparking too much and the contacts are probably already damaged with tendency to get worse so even if this helps, it won't be a long term solution.

If the switch opens even while held pressed, then a little bit of some sort of contact cleaner could be helpful if there's a way to actually insert it inside the switch, but that could be difficult since most of those switches aren't constructed with ability to be opened in mind.

If you happen to have a similar switch, you could try to replace the whole switch, but then you'd probably lose the warranty, in case something similar happens again.