For a few weeks I've had problems with my 64-bit Windows 7 system, where left mouse clicks wouldn't "take" randomly. Sometimes I had to click a few times, sometimes I had to hold the button down, really: maddening. It appeared to be independent of application.
Searching the interwebs showed this was not an uncommon problem, with suggestions pointing to changing USB bus options ("don't turn off to save power"), updating drivers, and the like. None made any difference.
One set of suggestions revolved around changing one's mouse, but it was raised by folks with more exotic, specialty/gaming mice, and since I have a plain vanilla Dell mouse that I've been using for years, I just didn't see how this could be it.
It was; replacing the mouse with one from Microsoft made the problem go away.
Interesting! But did you figure out what the actual reason for the incompatibility is?
When I was getting new laptop recently similar type of incompatibilities were what really worried me because I planned to install Linux.
Posted by: Beth | December 05, 2015 at 05:50 AM
I found this can happen sometimes if the battery is going out on the wireless mouse.
Posted by: Matt Musante | April 21, 2016 at 04:55 PM