Since you say your problem is on a laptop, and don't say what kind of pointing device you're using it might be assumed you're using a touchpad. Many of these have rather "touchy" sensitivity, and since you have to move your finger around to get to where you hover, it's quite easy for the pad to sense even slight variations in your finger pressure as a click - or two. There should be a setting, usually under "mouse" in Control Panel where you can set several things like "speed," "acceleration," and separately the "click sensitivity."

The click sensitivity setting often assumes everything sensed as a click is a click, and there often is little control of what is seen as a click, but you usually can set a "click rate" so that faster, or very much slower successive clicks aren't seen as a "double-click."

Note too that some laptops have a separate "app" for setting the touchpad (or whatever other gimmick is built in) and you might need to find that application to turn the touchpad off (as I do) and plug in a real mouse - or even a trackball. (If you also plug in a real keyboard, you shoudn't really need to turn any of the "onboard" trash off.)

The separate app for the "pointing device" is because the laptop maker wants you to believe that your simulated mouse is "something special" to avoid admitting that yours is the same piece of crap everybody else uses.

John