diff --git a/src/msw/button.cpp b/src/msw/button.cpp
index 6f5cb6782d..81c588c5be 100644
--- a/src/msw/button.cpp
+++ b/src/msw/button.cpp
@@ -352,9 +352,18 @@ bool wxButton::MSWCommand(WXUINT param, WXWORD WXUNUSED(id))
     bool processed = FALSE;
     switch ( param )
     {
+        // NOTE: Apparently older versions (NT 4?) of the common controls send
+        //       BN_DOUBLECLICKED but not a second BN_CLICKED for owner-drawn
+        //       buttons, so in order to send two EVET_BUTTON events we should
+        //       catch both types.  Currently (Feb 2003) up-to-date versions of
+        //       win98, win2k and winXP all send two BN_CLICKED messages for
+        //       all button types, so we don't catch BN_DOUBLECLICKED anymore
+        //       in order to not get 3 EVT_BUTTON events.  If this is a problem
+        //       then we need to figure out which version of the comctl32 changed
+        //       this behaviour and test for it.
+
         case 1:                     // message came from an accelerator
         case BN_CLICKED:            // normal buttons send this
-        case BN_DOUBLECLICKED:      // owner-drawn ones also send this
             processed = SendClickEvent();
             break;
     }