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How can you fix a left mouse button not working?

Anonymous
2023-06-27T01:12:19+00:00

I've done every fix I could find, changed batteries, switched ports, etc., and it still doesn't work. I've checked the manufacturers website to find a new driver update, but its all on chinese. I'm having a really hard time here, since I use my pc a lot for school related things and such. I'll go ahead and provide more info if someone responds.

But I did do the sfc scan thing and it told me it found the corrupted file and is fixing it. I don't know what to do next though. (I tried to paste my screenshot but it said it could not be found.)

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-27T01:54:53+00:00

    Hi, I am Dhanam, Independent Advisor here to work with you on this issue.

    I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you.

    1. Go to Start > Settings > Devices > Mouse > Related Settings > Additional Mouse Options.

    The Mouse Properties window will pop up. At the bottom of the Buttons tab, you'll see the ClickLock options. Untick in the checkbox to disable it. and check.

    1. In the search box on the taskbar, type device manager, then select Device Manager from the list of results.

    In the list of hardware categories, find Mice and other pointing device

    Click the Driver tab> right-click> Uninstall the device

    after the restart, Windows will install its generic version of mouse drivers.

    This is a public user-to-user support forum. I'm a user like you helping other users. I do not work for Microsoft and cannot access any user accounts.

    I hope this can help you. If this still can't solve your problem, just let me know and I'll do my best to try to help you.

    Regards,

    Dhanam,

    Independent Advisor.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-11T21:54:54+00:00

    I had this same problem, and what solved it for me was that I finally realized that I had a second mouse configured to work with this particular computer, and that second mouse was turned on and was near enough to my computer that, for whatever, reason, it was taking precedence. The other mouse was in my backpack. The mouse that was on my desk would move the pointer around, but could never left-click. When I finally realized this I just turned off the mouse that was in my backpack and the one on my desk started working.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-27T01:14:21+00:00

    This is what the SFC scan told me:

    Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them.

    For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at

    windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For offline

    repairs, details are included in the log file provided by the /OFFLOGFILE flag

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-28T07:05:38+00:00

    Thats hard when you can’t click on anything put move the mouse

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-09-17T06:57:14+00:00

    Hey Sebastian,

    I had the same issue today and I noticed it was right after a microsoft security update - none of the other fixes worked but after uninstalling the update I am happy to say my mouse is working again.

    In search bar type "update history" -> click "uninstall updates" at the top -> I found the most recent update from today and uninstalled it -> after restarting it's working again (but I did have to do this process twice for some reason)

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