Recently my mouse has seemed to stop working properly. I'm not so sure it's a mouse issue though. I can open up an application- say Firefox just fine, but it really doesn't want to close. Other folders can be opened fine but require double clicking to close them. The inability to close a window isn't limited to Firefox either. Thunderbird does it as does pretty much every other program. I can't click on my update icon or sound icon to open them at all. Left click on the mouse seems to work fine though, but left clicking on the "X" button in an attempt to close the window doesn't work either. Clicking the show desktop icon doesn't do anything, nor does clicking the "menu" icon. I can't even restart or shut the computer off unless I either A) switch to another workstation or B) do a control, alt, delete and navigate with the keyboard. Sometimes I can switch workstations, then switch back, which gives me the ability to close the window that I've got open. Clicking on anything inside the open window, like links, tabs or buttons seems to work fine.
I don't have another mouse to try, but like I said, I don't think it's the cause.
Could it be some sort of malicious attempt or hack? I noticed that the one time clicking on the update icon, it popped a message up to the effect of "Cannot lock onto the mouse, there may be a malicious script or blah, blah, blah" (Cannot remember the rest)
Really lost here!
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
I don't have another mouse to try, but like I said, I don't think it's the cause.
Could it be some sort of malicious attempt or hack? I noticed that the one time clicking on the update icon, it popped a message up to the effect of "Cannot lock onto the mouse, there may be a malicious script or blah, blah, blah" (Cannot remember the rest)
Really lost here!
Thanks in advance for any and all help.
Last edited:
