Okay, so my mouse is doing strange things. I can click on some links but then on others it isn't working. For example, I'm using chrome browser, and I can click on the little plus sign to open up a new tab, but I can click on an existing other tab to go back to it.

It is doing other weird things as well. Like, the "right-click" dialog box will randomly start flickering.

I know it isn't the mouse, because I swapped another one in, and same issues.

Steps taken thus far:
- swapped in new mouse
- went to device manager and uninstalled both mouses, and then restarted computer.

It’s a Lenovo desktop running windows 10

Any ideas?

This post was edited on 9/20/20 at 5:21 pm

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Posted by Brosef Stalin

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Posted on 9/20/20 at 5:26 pm to MidnightVibe

update the drivers

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Posted by RowdyMcflowdy

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Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:28 am to MidnightVibe

You didn't mention anything about the mouse, wireless, wired, what brand? Rey changing ports for the mouse or dongle. That will likely fix it unless its a Microsoft mouse. In which case change the mouse.

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Posted by Sidicous

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Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:03 pm to MidnightVibe

Check the settings to be sure it has not switched to left handed settings.

Big hospital I worked in I used to get sent to a couple of departments pretty regularly and it was simply resetting the mouse to right handed. Don't know who, or what, caused the 2 PC's it would happen on, but somehow they were getting set to left handed mouse and it blew everyone's mind including IT.

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Posted by jmarto1

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Posted on 9/21/20 at 6:47 pm to MidnightVibe

Clean the ball

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Posted by SG_Geaux

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Posted on 9/21/20 at 7:11 pm to jmarto1

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Clean the ball

God dammit this made me LOL

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 9/21/20 at 8:53 pm to SG_Geaux

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Clean the ball
God dammit this made me LOL

Reminds me of back in high school before optical mice, after moving to a new classroom my teacher's mouse ball turned up missing. He said he had a female mouse, and they don't work nearly as well as the male ones.

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Posted by MidnightVibe

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Posted on 9/22/20 at 3:21 pm to RowdyMcflowdy

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You didn't mention anything about the mouse, wireless, wired, what brand? Rey changing ports for the mouse or dongle. That will likely fix it unless its a Microsoft mouse. In which case change the mouse.

I originally had a wireless mouse when it started doing it. To make sure it wasn't the mouse, I swapped in a wired mouse and it was doing the same stuff.

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Posted by MidnightVibe

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Posted on 9/22/20 at 3:21 pm to Sidicous

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Check the settings to be sure it has not switched to left handed settings.

Big hospital I worked in I used to get sent to a couple of departments pretty regularly and it was simply resetting the mouse to right handed. Don't know who, or what, caused the 2 PC's it would happen on, but somehow they were getting set to left handed mouse and it blew everyone's mind including IT.

It's not that.

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