loss of mouse click use

[niloc]

I'm in the uk,  but I will   pop along to my local  repair shop,  

[niloc]

update,   I have  found out that this only happens when I am on websites,    when I  write in notebook  or  word  and loging in  its perfectly  OK,   also  I have sice discovered if I  type  dead slow and gentle  its  nowhere near as bad !!!!!!!!

[mdklassen]

> I have  found out that this only happens when I am on websites ...

This sounds like a "browser-hijacker" that is monitoring every keystroke, and filling-in characters, whenever your web-browser (Internet Explorer or Google Chrome or ....) is running.

In Windows 7:

* Close Internet Explorer,

* Click the Start button,

* Click All Programs,

* Open Accessories,

* Open System Tools,

* Click "Internet Explorer (no Add-ons)"

and see if you get the same behaviour.

Or, within "normal" Internet Explorer, click "Tools", and "Manage add-ons".

Look in "Toolbars and Extensions" at all the "enabled" items.

Find anything "suspicious" ?

Click on that one, and lower down, click on "Disable".

Close the window.

Close Internet Explorer.

Open Internet Explorer.

Test for the odd behaviour.

If you're not using Internet Explorer, adapt the above instructions to look at whatever the other web-browser uses instead of "Toolbars and Extensions".

[niloc]

hhmm  at last  something that sounds   feasable   I will look at what you have said next time I use that machine and report back,   I mostly use  Google Chrome  on that  machine   and was wondering  if   I   was to uninstall  and reinstall   it   that might cure the problem!  I'll give it a go anyway ,  and thanks   

[mdklassen]

> at last, something that sounds feasible.

Yes, the additional information you supplied about "when" it happens was the trigger.

Yes, Chrome allows "extensions", which can be "disabled" or "removed".

Please tell us what you have found and removed.

[niloc]

I   disabled  ext's  on   my browsers  last night  but unfortunately  that has made no difference at all,   

[niloc]

update on  eratic  keyboard,   I  invested in a  USB     remote keyboard  and  that works   perfectly,  so I  assume by that  it is more a keyboard issue than I software problem,   what  do you think ?   

[mdklassen]

> what  do you think ? 

It's odd that you said that your first keyboard malfunctioned ONLY within a web-browser, not within other programs such as NOTEPAD or WORDPAD or Microsoft Word.

I think that you have successfully bypassed the problem.

[niloc]

yes  very odd indeed   !!   well as you say I have  bypassed  it  for now ,   but not cured,    so ill keep looking for a cheap   one for spares,   being a retired electrician  and having  a bit of knowledge about circuitry  the thought came to my mind  that some thing is shorting or tracking   somewhere  along the line,  just a thought,  I have never spilt  anything on it though  

[niloc]

up date,  problem  solved but   how  to fix!!!!!    I have now  deternined  the problem  after my  dog  got tangled in the  mains lead and pulled it off the table!!!   the battery  came out    and the   2  mouse  buttons  on the touchpad assembly  came away   to reveal  the  place where they go  was full to the brim  with dust a and hairs,  after  cleaning out with a vacumm   nozle   the  2 micro switches  work  perfectly  by  pressing with  my finger tip,   allthough  part of one  is missing  along with  the plastic  retaining  clips  being brocken,   also  the  keyboard  now works perfectly ,  so i am now  in the process of  finding a way to  hold the  buttons in place,  the retaing  plastic  clips aslso  have   a  sprung return   action  so  that has to be adressed  too.   but I'm  so surprised   some one didn't twig this   with  the symptoms I had !!!!!