For some reason, after running Edge, now it is back to highlighting on hover as well as bring up the context menu when clicked.
I am having issues pining down the exact causation of the issue.
It does seem to occur when I switch over from the Standard User account. I am unsure if using Edge is what corrected it at the time, yet it was a problem for more than five minutes before I decided to post about it here so it wasnt just a hiccup waiting to catch up with memory.