When i switch my comp on and start up is complete i can left click on taskbar to open progs, but cannot left click on folders on desktop or on any tasks on the opened progs, until i have pressed ctrl and esc to get windows menu up. Started last night, any ideas?1 person needs an answerI do too

When i switch my comp on and start up is complete i can left click on taskbar to open progs, but cannot left click on folders on desktop or on any tasks on the opened progs, until i have pressed ctrl and esc to get windows menu up. Started last night, any ideas?How your Click been set up to? 1 Click Double click to open file//folder/program?Open Windows Explorer and click Tools >>Folder Options >> Under general Tab you will see This option:Click Items as Follow: ( ) Single click to open an item ( Point to select) (*) Double click to open an item (single click to select) Which one of these is selected?Is that what you mean, before you have been able to open Items by single click but now you have to double click to open them.Using the keyboard to control the mouse in Windows XP nass -- http://www.nasstec.co.uk

Hi nass1, thanks for your reply but that is not the problem, i could click 100 times on a folder and nothing will happen until i have pressed ctrl esc to get the windows menu up on screen then i click any part of the desktop to close the menu after this i can open my files as usual, also in any programs where i need to click and drag this just won't happen. I have noticed that firefox is running very odd at the moment too, could this be related?, it will load up ok but when i select a site to go to it hangs and task manager shows it is not responding for up to a minute, and sometimes when i go back a page it goes back but then loads back up the page i have just come from.

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