Windows 10: Mouse left-click randomly minimizes all applications

I've recently bought a new mouse and am having an issue with it: the left-click of the mouse, whether it's just a click or when used in dragging, sometimes minimizes all application windows, seemingly at random. I haven't found anyone else with the same problem and am pretty much at a loss for what to do in attempting to fix it. I've looked through a lot of the mouse settings in windows that were brought up in other problems but none of them contained anything useful.

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applications keep minimizing randomly and mouse moves around in Windows 10

I have Windows 10 installed on my home desktop, and recently my open applications and windows have started randomly minimizing. This happens every few seconds to few minutes, and when it does, the whole screen flashes for a second and the mouse also blinks out of existence and then reappears in a different area of the screen. At first I thought it was the touch screen feature of my desktop having trouble with calibrations, but that's not what it is. The touch screen features still work like normal and when the windows minimize and the mouse moves, it all happens too quickly for it to have come from the touch screen. Please help! I have no idea why this is happening and I use this computer for a lot of my work from home.

 

Mouse randomly clicks all by itself

I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo T460s laptop. The laptop has recently developed this strange problem with the mouse. It's very similar to the problem described in this ticket:

Cursor clicks on things randomly all by itself

The issue reproduces no matter what mouse I use:

• Logitech bluetooth mouse
  
• Logitech wireless USB dongle mouse
• Microsoft Comfort wired USB mouse
• The Machine's touchpad

Steps I've taken to troubleshoot the issue:

• I disabled the touchpad
• I uninstalled Logitech software which was recommended by Logitech for the bluetooth mouse
• I updated the driver for the touchpad (it was already up to date)
• I tried a clean boot (according to the MS support instructions)
• Bought a new mouse
• Changed touchpad sensitivity to "low"
• Uninstalled the driver for the touchpad (synaptics pointing device) - weirdly, when I restarted there was a new device listed in the device manager called "PS/2 compatible mouse" and the touchpad now works again, and I can no longer find the setting to
  disable it. So, that's strange. But apparently it's now using a Microsoft driver, which was the next thing to try - installing MS generic driver...

I'll try to describe the behavior a little better than the other ticket:

The cursor randomly left-clicks and holds. If I move the mouse when this happens, it drags whatever the cursor was on or it selects text, exactly as if I were holding the left mouse button. It randomly releases, too. Sometimes, it lasts only for a quick
second, but sometimes it really gets stuck. When it is stuck, right-clicking usually releases it so I can continue working. Left-clicking doesn't help, I can left-click repeatedly and it doesn't release, when I use the touchpad buttons or the USB mouse buttons.
Keyboard actions also don't have any effect on the behavior, as far as I can tell.

 

Minimize applications

Hi Osman,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As the above description is not clear do let us know the following to assist you better:

• Which applications are you referring to?
• Are you referring to the minimized applications in the Task bar?
• If so, what is the exact issue you are facing with it?

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