Windows 10: Windows update affecting mouse left-clicks? Not registering some clicks or registering as...

Hello, The past couple weeks, my mouse has been acting weird. The left-click is either not registering some clicks or a click registers as a double-click. This happens maybe 10-20% of my clicks. Also, it affects when I try to highlight text. I am using W10.I thought it was maybe just my mouse. But then I told my friend and he said he is having the same problem on W10 and W11. And then said his friend also asked him about "ghost mouse clicks" around this same time! So 3 of us are having problems with our mouse clicks. Is this a coincidence? Or has Windows had a recent update that affec

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Left click not registering

I suggest you start the trouble-shooting effort with simple left-click actions, e.g. like so:

• Single click any desktop item. This should highlight the item.
• Double-click any desktop item. This should open it.
• Drag any desktop item do a different place, using your mouse. Can you move it?

Could it be that your mouse buttons are reversed?

 

Left click not registering

I have an asus Q550LF running windows 10.

This problem just started 2 days after i did a clean boot from usb.

The problem is NOT my mouse (the problem happens with the left click on my mouse, the left click on the pad on my laptop, and the single click on the pad on my laptop). There is NO problem with the touch screen though.

Furthermore, I want to make very clear what the specific problem is. My left click DOES work. The thing is it does NOT work in one very specific situation. I can provide two examples of what I'm talking about.

1) On Youtube: If I press the space bar to start a video (assuming it was paused to begin with) and then try to left click the screen to pause the video, the click does not register. In fact, I can click up to 5 times before it actually registers that I'm
left clicking and then, eventually, registers that I left clicked and pauses the video. But that's only if i click again later. If i don't click again, it just completely ignores the fact that I clicked to begin with (it's not just a delay, it's literally
acting like i didn't do anything). This does NOT happen with the right click.

2) On FL Studio (music DAW): Same exact thing as with youtube. If i press play and the song starts, I can't add musical notes inside the piano roll using the left click button. It acts as if i didn't click, but then if I wait like a second or two, then it
will recognize that I am left clicking. Ruins my workflow.

It seems to have something to do with the "processing power" (or something, I'm not an expert) because if i'm not telling either YouTube or FL Studio to play the media first, then there's no problem. The problem only happens immediately after i press engage
the video to start (YouTube) or the song to start (FL Studio).

I'm NOT the only person with this problem.

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Like i said, this started happening after i did a clean boot from usb. I did another clean boot after to try to fix the problem, but it didn't fix anything.

I obviously tried reinstalling the drivers, but like i said, it's not just the mouse. its the left button on the pad on the laptop and also the single touch on the pad (single touch that registers as a left click).

 

Mouse Without Borders - Left mouse click not registering

I have successfully installed, linked and am currently running Mouse Without Borders on two machines. Problem is, my remote machine is not registering left mouse clicks. I can right click all day, but nothing can be selected. Any ideas?