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Right Click Menu Opens When I Use Left Click Mouse Button

Anonymous
2017-04-23T21:40:08+00:00

Almost everytime I left  click my mouse button, the right-click menu appears. I went to "Mice and other pointing devices" in the Device Manager and I see 2 "Hid Compliant Mouse" entries. I disabled one of them, but the problem still exist. Even if I uninstall the second mouse entry, it always returns and the same left click problem remains..

I am using a Logitec wired mouse. I have an Acer Aspire X1920 with a Pentium Dual Core 3.20 GHz

4gb ram. I am also using a Logitech MK270 Wireless Keyboard.

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  1. LemP 74,935 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-24T21:48:28+00:00

    Sorry for being dense. 

    I assume that "The button works when the box is checked, but it does not when it is not checked" means "The [right] button works [to click and drag], but it [the right button] does not when it is not checked.  That is how things are supposed to work.

    I take it when the box is NOT checked, you can't click and drag at all.

    Perhaps (no guarantee) this will work (with the box NOT checked):

    In Windows Explorer, click a file with the left mouse button and keep the button held down. Then press the Escape key. Drag and drop is miraculously re-enabled.

    If that doesn't work, try clicking a file with the right mouse button and keeping the button down while pressing Escape.  I've seen this variant also.

    Because that "fix" is only supposed to re-enable drag & drop and you mentioned that the right-click context menu opened when you clicked the left button, you may have something else going on ... but it shouldn't hurt to try.

    If neither of those things work, sorry, but I'm out of ideas.

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  2. LemP 74,935 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-23T22:53:36+00:00

    Click the Start Orb, type Mouse into the Search box, and press Enter.

    On the "Buttons" tab, UNcheck the box that says "Switch primary and secondary buttons" and then click OK.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-23T23:15:02+00:00

    The "Switch primary and secondary buttons" box is already unchecked and I still have this problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-04-24T18:42:38+00:00

    I clicked inside the box and the right button became highlighted. This method works, but it switches the buttons around. I would like for my left mouse button to be the main mouse button for clicking and dragging instead of the right one.

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  5. LemP 74,935 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-24T19:46:53+00:00

    Do I understand you correctly that regardless of which button is highlighted in the "Mouse Properties" window, the context menu appears when you click the left button?  Or to put it another way, you can't click&drag using the left mouse button regardless of the setting in "Mouse Properties"?

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