Mouse won't click to open files

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A user is experiencing issues with their laptop running Windows 7 Pro, where they cannot open files and folders with a left mouse click, requiring frequent restarts to regain functionality. Despite running a complete virus scan with Norton 360 and diagnostics that indicate no hardware issues, the problem persists, leading to speculation about potential software conflicts. Attempts to perform a system restore to an earlier date have been limited, and the user reports that the computer remains fast for other tasks, suggesting a specific software issue rather than a general performance decline. The discussion includes suggestions to check for background processes and run disk checks, with the user considering contacting Lenovo for further assistance. The situation remains unresolved, with the user seeking additional advice on restoring the system and troubleshooting the clicking issue.
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I want to put this in a separate post. The only thing that help is increase the virtual memory suggested by my friend. After recovered the computer, it still fail average ones a day. BUT all I have to do in the last week is to go to Task Manager, stop the Explorer.exe, then start it again. Everything goes to normal until the next time. Before the recovery and increasing the virtual memory, blue screen or something bad would happen within hours after stop and restart the explorer.exe. Now, everything is ok for over a week by just stop and restart the explorer.exe. I can actually live with this.

I checked, I still have about 40G free space in the SSD drive. I have 8G RAM. MeBigguy asked me before to monitor RAM useage, it never went above 5G. I don't think I am running low on anything.

Another thing, should I upgrade to Win10. I have my other Lenovo laptop that NEVER work right from day one, it was a Win8 upgraded to 8.1. It was so intermittent that my wife just refused to use it. It was a 3rd gen I5, only 3 years old, been lying around all this time. I upgraded to win10 about 2 weeks ago, it's been working consistently since! I have to really give it a full work up, but would have done something funny by now with the win8. Some of the former symptoms are the wireless connection kept having problems, web pages get very slow or freezed up, doing funny things that I had to restart the whole thing. It's all GONE after the Win10!

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I updated to Win10, has been running for a week and so far so good.

The other Lenovo that is very unliable since day one has been running Win10 for 3 weeks, still have some problems, but it's a whole lot better since Win10. The only real problem is when I close the lid and put it in SLEEP mode, the next day, it won't wake up. I have to hold the power button to shut it down and push the power button to start it again. Other than that, it pretty much work...reluctantly.
 
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