able6actual
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I purchased a wireless mouse made by Logitec to replace an older wired trackball style mouse I was using. The new mouse used a bluetooth dongle. That mouse didn't work well with a CAD program I use so I uninstalled the software for that mouse and went into device manager and confirmed it was not listed as a mouse there. I shut down my PC and plugged back in the older trackball mouse to use till I can find a better solution. When I turned the PC on to boot windows saw it and installed the basic windows driver it installs. I have the latest full mouse driver software for the mouse ( downloaded from Microsoft) that I used in the past and I installed that. No reboot after installation was needed and the mouse worked for the rest of that day.
Here is were everything got weird ...
I booted my PC the next morning the mouse cursor moves when I use the trackball but when I click the mouse to open a program on the desktop ( like a pdf file) it will open the file but I cant click to close it. None of the quick launch programs I have will launch ( if I click them nothing happens) The start menu will not open when I try to click it. Right mouse clicking seems to be uneffected and works normally.
Now for the really odd part. If I do a Control Alt Delete, as if I wanted to access the task manager, lock the PC or change users the mouse works fine there. when I click cancel to close that area and return to the desktop the mouse will then work normally on the PC.
Anyone heard of such a thing?? or have any ideas? I have uninstalled the software and the mouse three times so far and even have tried it in another USB port and it still does it
Here is were everything got weird ...
I booted my PC the next morning the mouse cursor moves when I use the trackball but when I click the mouse to open a program on the desktop ( like a pdf file) it will open the file but I cant click to close it. None of the quick launch programs I have will launch ( if I click them nothing happens) The start menu will not open when I try to click it. Right mouse clicking seems to be uneffected and works normally.
Now for the really odd part. If I do a Control Alt Delete, as if I wanted to access the task manager, lock the PC or change users the mouse works fine there. when I click cancel to close that area and return to the desktop the mouse will then work normally on the PC.
Anyone heard of such a thing?? or have any ideas? I have uninstalled the software and the mouse three times so far and even have tried it in another USB port and it still does it