Left and right click is messed up. Many things unresponsive and more and more things are failing to work.
This started a few days ago. I am using a Refurbished Acer Netbook. While on my desktop screen, left-clicking brings down the right-click drop down box almost as though the computer is set to a one-mouse-click option. This are also starting to fail on me. I currently have Google Chrome (which I am on right now) and Zune as my two tabs to the right of the start menu. I cannot open Zune w/out using Alt+Tab.Also, using search engines like YouTube's search engine to find videos is miserable. I'll left click the search bar and get in one letter when the right-click drop down box comes down preventing me from typing anything else in I hate this problem because I can't do anything on my laptop now. Its getting slower and slower now I have to move to something else.1 person got this answerI do too
June 14th, 2010 4:34am

Attach a USB mouse to make things easier first. There may be a physical problem with the touchpad and its buttons. Then make sure you're working from a clean base:http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Removing_MalwarePost back with the results so we can move onto the next troubleshooting step.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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June 14th, 2010 4:26pm

I did try both wireless USB mouse and wired USB mouse w/no result. Cleaning also had no affect. I don't believe it is any physical problem with the mouse itself but rather with Windows because left clicking on the the desktop actually brings down the rick-click drop down box.Also, certain software features aren't working now. I cannot bring up windows from the control panel on the bottom of my screen (Win XP) unless I use Alt+F4. I can change tabs on Internet Explorer o/ Google Chrome as well. Thanks for quick replyTim
June 14th, 2010 10:15pm

What happens in Safe Mode? Try running your malware scans from there.MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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June 14th, 2010 10:53pm

I am not capable of starting Windows in Safe Mode. I hit F8 during start up -> select Safe Mode-> Get directions to select user name (Administrator o/ my user name). I click on my username and it get highlighted as though it is starting up although nothing happens and it is unresponsive. I can click Administrator and it too becomes highlighted but with no affect. Turn off computer is also an available option at the lower-left hand side of the screen. Clicking it however, makes the Turn off Computer text to ->Turn off Computer (doesn't start shutdown process w/out physically holding the power button on my netbook). When returning to normal mode now, the affect is still constant and just as frusterating. Thanks for quick reply,Tim
June 16th, 2010 4:39am

This could be software but it could just as easily be failing hardware. There isn't any way for me to tell. If the machine were here in the shop, I would:1. Pull off any data that needed to be backed up from outside of Windows. See the end of this post for how to do that.2. Test the hardware to make sure it is sound (and I suspect it isn't).http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_TshootIf any of the hardware fails, you will need to make the determination whether to replace it based on what the component is, its cost, the cost and age of the refurbished computer, etc.3. If the hardware passes all the tests, do a factory restore of Windows with the Acer recovery media. If you don't have the recovery discs, order them from Acer. This is usually quite inexpensive, around $35-30.Retrieving data from outside Windows:1. Pull the drive and put it in a USB drive enclosure or use a USB drive adapter. Attach this to a computer running a working install of XP/Vista/Windows7. Use the working Windows Explorer to copy the data to the rescue system's hard drive and then burn the data to cd or dvd or copy it to an external hard drive. I prefer not to do this if I know the drive is infected because there is a chance of infecting the host system. In these cases, I use #2 below.2. You can boot the target computer with a Bart's PE (XP only) or a Linux Live CD such as Knoppix or Ubuntu and retrieve the data that way. This has the additional advantage of telling you whether the problems you're having are hardware or software-related because if the computer behaves perfectly under Linux you know that Windows (software) is the culprit. Conversely, if the computer misbehaves under Linux you will know that there is a hardware problem. Here is general information on using Knoppix for data retrieval when you can't get into Windows:You will need a computer with two cd drives, one of which is a CD/DVD burner OR a USB thumb drive with enough capacity to hold your data OR an external USB hard drive. Download the Knoppix .iso and create your bootable CD*. If you are doing this in an older operating system (XP or Vista), you'll need third-party burning software like Nero, Roxio, or the freeImgBurn (Windows 7 can burn .isos natively). Burn as an image, not as data. Then boot with the CD you created and the Windows files will be visible in Linux. If you want to burn CD/DVDs, there will be a Linux burning program to use.*If your computer only has one optical drive and you want to use that drive to burn data or need to test the drive, you can create a bootable USB thumb drive running Linux instead of a bootable CD. This website will show you how to do that -http://www.pendrivelinux.comhttp://www.knoppix.net http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - Bart's PE BuilderAlso see - http://lifehacker.com/5504531/the-complete-guide-to-saving-your-windows-system-with-a-thumb-drivehttp://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17044/move-files-from-a-failing-pc-with-an-ubuntu-live-cd/https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDAnd for future disaster recovery strategies - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Backing_UpMS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
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June 16th, 2010 3:27pm

I guess I will start from here. I appreciate all the help and sure hope I can get this running like it was when I bought to. Great advice. ThanksTim
June 16th, 2010 10:29pm

I'm not sure if this will fix your problem or not but i had a similar one, when i left clicked it brought up the right click drop down menu. I check ALL of my settings, scanned everything, checked the drivers, i couldn't figure out what was wrong with this thing.So I bought a replacement for the mouse thinking that was the problem but it ended up doing the same thing, left click brings down the menu...I just finally figured out what was wrong with it.It was actually a touchpad setting...control pannel > mouse> click on your touchpad/ touchpad settings> click button setting> then at the bottom theirs a box that says "swap left and right buttons on external usb mouse" [idk why the ____ they have an option like that...]but that fixed my problem.I'm running on vista~Hope this helps someone and good luck fixing your problem!
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July 12th, 2010 3:24am

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