Windows 10: laptop keeps on right clicking + left click works as right click

hey... i've been really frustrated for the past few days. my laptop has been right clicking on it's own since a few days ago and i also noticed that the left click works the same as the right click. it just keeps on showing the menu thing even though i don't press anything. i already tried a few solutions i found on youtube and google but it still didn't work! i tried updating and it still didn't work.... i hope someone has the solution to this since i really need it to not keep on right clicking on it's own will. THANK YOU. PLEASE HELP I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL...

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Dell laptop keeps treating left-clicks as right-clicks

I am increasingly frustrated by the behaviour of my Dell laptop, which is two years old. It's a 5559 and the touchpad has *always* been flaky despite several installations of the "latest and greatest" touchpad drivers. It's gotten especially bad in the last few weeks and in almost every case, treats a normal left click as a right click. As a result, I am constantly closing context menus that I didn't want so that I can do what I actually want to do. Sometimes, it takes 3 or 4 tries before it actually treats a left-click as a left-click and not a right-click.

I've looked at my hands and they are not on the right hand side of the touchpad when I click yet the touchpad continues to behave as if I am on the bottom right corner rather than the bottom left corner.

I haven't tried a driver refresh lately because none of my previous driver updates actually accomplished anything very dramatic. Do I need to try that yet again, despite previous failures to solve the problems? How long does it usually *take* before the touchpad drivers on a laptop actually work properly? Mine have been hyper-sensitive from the start and frequently behave as if I've touched the touchpad when my hands are hovering well above it. I've gotten used to this over the past two years but this goofiness with mistaking left-clicks for right-clicks may be the straw that broke the camel's back.

I can't afford a new computer right now so I'm hoping someone here can suggest some way of getting this touchpad to work better than it is currently behaving.

 

Feature suggestion: Add right-click menu

Suggestion: Please add a Windows 7 Jump-List and/or right-click menu to the GPU-Z icon in the Windows taskbar. Possible menus in it would be "Exit" and "About GPU-Z...".
Maybe also "Switch to tab 1/Switch to tab 2/Switch to videocard 1/Switch to videocard 2" too.
Examples of programs that have such menus are ICQ, Skype, AIM.

NOTE: It seems for a right-click menu, Windows 7 is not needed - it works on WinXP and Vista too.
But even a Windows 7 Jump-list may be good enough.
What do you think?

 

Touchpad Left- and Right-Click Not Working

Hi Bill,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.



Please answer the following question:

Did you log in to the system using a standard user account or an administrator user account?

In order to make changes in Device Manager you MUST be logged on as an administrator.

After logging in to the administrator Account, I would suggest you first try updating the driver.

Follow the steps to update the Touchpad drivers:

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  Press Windows key + X key and click Device Manager.
  
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  Find the relevant Touchpad driver and right click on it.
  
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  Select Properties and then go to the Driver Tab. Click Update.
  
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  Restart the computer and check.
  

If this doesn't solve your problem, you have to uninstall and then reinstall your driver in compatibility mode.

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  Press Windows key + X key and click Device Manager.
  
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  Find the relevant Touchpad driver and right click on it.
  
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  Select Properties and then go to the Driver Tab. Click Uninstall.
  
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  Restart the computer and check.
  

Now go to your manufacturer's website and re install the driver in compatibility mode.

Hope this helps. Please respond if you have further related queries.

Regards,