Windows 10: Mouseclicks unfocus the clicked windows

This is crossposted from /r/TechSupport, posting here to hopefully find someone who can help:

A few weeks ago, I had an issue where all of the sudden, I couldn't click on things anymore. Wherever I would click, it felt like I clicked 'through' the window rather than 'on' it. Literally, the solid colored bar at the top of the window would go transparent when I clicked on it.

Weirdly enough, I could still interact with one window at a time. I could do everything in one window, whereas I would have to use the keyboard to navigate any other windows. Every program is still 'responding', but only to keyboard inputs.

I tried everything to try and fix this, reinstalling drivers, disabling services, sfc /scannow and everything close to that. A full Windows reinstall fixed the problem and for two weeks my PC worked without problems.

However, yesterday it started again. The exact same issue. But this time a Windows reinstall didn't fix the issue. I did some more troubleshooting and found this thread on the Microsoft forums which is the closest thing I found to my own issue. The temporary fix of locking Windows with win + L works for me as well. But no permanent fix is provided.

This is where I need help. What is this issue I'm having and how can it be fixed? The temporary fixes have to be applied way too frequently and it's not worth putting up with. My computer's performance seems to be worse in the two times I've been experiencing this issue too, although the 'Performance' tab in the Task Manager shows no fluctuation or bad numbers at any given time.

Some specs for what it's worth:

CPU: i9-9900k

GPU: RTX 2070

RAM: 16 GB

I'll be more than happy to share more information, thanks loads in advance for any possible help!

My Windows version is 10.0.19042 Build 19042, Microsoft Windows 10 Home.

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