Mouse on keyboard Release Doesn't Work

When I click on some text to copy, just releasing the left key of the mouse doesn't end the highlighting process. I have to click again to stop it -- but if I don't do it quite right, the highlighting disappears.

I presumed that my mouse pad on my laptop was broken (HP Pavilion) and have just been lazy about sending it in for repair. It came back like that from a previous repair -- the tech person made a mess of it -- he re-formatted it under his name "Test" and partitioned the drive so that the OS back-up took up 80% of the HD and the usable disk for me to be 20% (It is supposed to be the other way around.) Just have been too busy to do anything about it.

I just received a wireless mouse for free from HP after ordering cartridges for my printer. I figured -- well I'll use this and that will solve my mouse problem until I can send it in for repair.

Well, the wireless mouse does the same thing -- straight out of the package.

SO I suspect that the problem with the mouse is software related on the laptop. I've looked everywhere I can figure out to look to see if there is some strange setting somewhere that causes the release not to register but that I have to click again when I finish the highlighting (or drag and dropping, etc.)

Does anyone have a clue what is going on?

 

Check if there is a setting that looks off...

Go to "Control Panel" - "Hardware and Sound" - then "mouse" - look at all option there.

Also, which touchpad? Synaptics or Alps? - Although that shouldn't matter with an external mouse.

 

I should have mentioned I am still using XP so the categories are a bit different. However, I went into the hardware one which lists "printers and other hardware" -- previously not thinking that there would be keypad mouse settings in there -- and voilà -- there it was: ClickLock had been turned on.

I've turned Clicklock off and it seems to do the problem.

Thanks so much!!!! --- This saves me from sending in the laptop for a repair that was not needed.

Now all I have to do is completely reformat and re-partition my hard drive to clean up the rest of the mess the tech left my laptop in....

 

Nice to hear the problem is solved

So much for tech support... ah well, that's what NBR is for Good luck!

 

Help!! The same thing happened again. I accidental held the shift key down to long and up came a box that said sticky keys had been turned on and to press cancel if you didn't want it. I pressed cancel -- and the same thing has happened. My screen gets highlighted and no matter where the cursor moves the highlight expands and contracts and I can;t stop it.

The clicklock box was not checked off in Mouse properties. I've looked for everything and nothing is stopping this. And I am on my other laptop ASUS than I was when I first posted the message which was when I was on my HP.

So obviously I turned something on and I can;t find how to turn it off!!

Help please...

I must have done something to fix it-- because now everything is fine. I wish I could figure this out!!!!

I've done it now on two separate computers so obviously it is something I've done.