I had a similar problem. Anytime my mouse passed over something it would run it.  The problem was a defective enter key on my keyboard that was always "pressed". I changed the keyboard and the problem vanished.  Is it possible that an arrow key is getting stuck?




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From: Ian <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:40:04 +1200
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Subject:      [PCBUILD] Wacky mouse behaviour

Re: I'd be interested to know if anyone else has run across this situation:
Re:
Re: A customer running W98SE has had sudden bad behaviour from her mouse.
Re: Resting the pointer on any box with a drop-down option (say, like msconfig)
Re: results in an uncontrollable scrolling of the drop-down contents.
Re:
Re: At first I thought this was a damaged mouse (a serial mouse) so I replaced
Re: it with a new PS2 mouse.  The same thing occurred.
Re:
Re: She has an up-to-date Norton AV but, just to make sure it wasn't a gremlin,
Re: I ran a virus checker in DOS.  No bugs.
Re:
Re: So I rebooted into Safe mode - which removed the problem.
Re:
Re: Hmmm.  So it would appear that something is running in Windows which is
Re: hassling the mouse.  Or maybe the Windows inbuilt mouse drivers have been
Re: damaged, ie mouse.vxd or mouse.drv?  But I would have thought these drivers
Re: would also be needed in Safe mode?  Which doesn't explain why the mouse runs
Re: ok in Safe mode.
Re:
Re: I also cleaned out a heap of startup stuff via msconfig, as well as cleaning
Re: out all the temp files I could find.  She has plenty of hard drive space.
Re: So I'm a bit baffled.  Suggestions would welcome.
Re:
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