Mouse won't click to open files

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The discussion revolves around a user experiencing issues with their laptop where they are unable to open folders and files using the left mouse click. The problem has persisted for about a week, with the user needing to restart the computer multiple times a day. Participants explore potential causes and solutions, including hardware diagnostics, software issues, and virus scans.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant suggests running a virus scan and hardware diagnostic, proposing that the issue could be related to a virus or hard drive problems.
  • Another participant questions the absence of function keys on the user's laptop and provides suggestions for activating them.
  • Several participants recommend unplugging and replugging the mouse, as well as trying different USB ports to troubleshoot the issue.
  • The user reports that a complete scan with Norton showed no issues, expressing doubt about a virus infection.
  • One participant mentions that the laptop sometimes gets stuck during shutdown, requiring a forced power off.
  • The user attempts a system restore to an earlier date but is limited by available restore points.
  • Another participant suggests running hardware diagnostics to check for potential hardware issues, specifically mentioning a memory test.
  • The user reports that the memory test passed but the original issue persists, leading to speculation about a software problem.
  • One participant provides a link to check the hard disk for errors, while expressing suspicion that the problem may still be hardware-related.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a range of views on potential causes and solutions, with no consensus on the exact nature of the problem. Some focus on software-related issues, while others suggest hardware diagnostics as a necessary step.

Contextual Notes

The discussion includes various troubleshooting steps and suggestions, but limitations exist regarding the user's ability to perform certain actions due to hardware or software constraints. The user also notes difficulties in accessing earlier system restore points.

Who May Find This Useful

Individuals experiencing similar issues with laptop functionality, particularly related to mouse operations and system responsiveness, may find the discussion relevant.

  • #151
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!

Thanks
 
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  • #152
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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