Windows 10: Mouse Thumb Buttons "Freezing" Computer

Recently, I've been having an issue with my mouse where pressing one of the thumb buttons MB4 and MB5 causes my computer to "freeze." But not in the sense where the entire monitor stops. Rather, if I'm in a fullscreened game, I can't press the Windows button and tab out. If I try to click anything on my tas

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Computer and mouse freeze

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There are several reasons that could have cause your keyboard and mouse to freeze. To know more about the issue, we will ask some questions to help us:

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Mouse, touchpad, and keyboard problems in Windows for us to check all setting needed to help us in resolving your issue.

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Gaming Mice with vertical thumb buttons

And destined to be, the thread author was in denial as to WHY his beloved mouse was discontinued. Crusade threads never last long. And I wasn't accusing him of crusading for THAT mouse like he made it sound, just vert buttons, even implying all other designs are wrong.

It just doesn't make sense to place buttons ON the thumb grip area of a mouse, esp as heavy as today's mice are. You'd have to be a slider with a light grip and never lift the mouse to not accidentally click them.

That said, the main problem some horizontal thumb buttons have is there is no ridge underneath them preventing your thumb from sliding onto them and clicking them when lifting the mouse.

Precise mousing takes a light yet controlled grip, which is benefitted by grippy material and properly shaped and placed buttons and ridges. Expecting everyone to grip a mouse ON the buttons and not have problems is nonsense. Going on a crusade about it, even more so.

 

Gaming Mice with vertical thumb buttons

The thumb buttons on RAT7 are horizontal and OP is talking about mice with vertical buttons, or stacked on top of each other. My old mouse was like that and I prefer it, too bad it died.