Windows 10: Moving the mouse while Search or Action Center is open closes them

If I click the Search icon on the taskbar and proceed to type something, the search results show up just fine, but the second I move my mouse to click on one of them, the whole window closes. This effectively makes searching impossible.

If I click the Action Center icon in the notification area, it comes up (but on the wrong monitor -- I have my taskbar at the top of my right monitor and the Action Center comes up on the right side of the left monitor) but the same issue from the Search window happens - the second I move my mouse away from the taskbar to actually interact with the Action Center, it disappears.

Moving the taskbar to the "traditional" place (bottom of the left monitor) gives me the exact same results. I wonder if this has something to do with my mouse settings in some way. In Windows 7 I had it so hovering the mouse over a window for a second would bring that window to the front without having to click, and since I don't seem to find that exact option in W10, I'm thinking maybe some deprecated-but-still-active setting is in a weird state causing this issue?

:)

 

Windows 10 Action Center Clear All

Suggestion: Move (or allow the option to move or duplicate) the "Clear All" action to the bottom so it is closer to the System Tray icon that was used to open the Action Center. Why force us to move the mouse all the way to the top to clear all?

Thanks.

 

File History - how to delete recent version

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Communities.

I will be glad to help you with the issue you have with the computer. I understand the frustration when things don't work the way it should.

If something goes wrong in File History, you'll see a message in the desktop that appears in the notification area on the taskbar. You can tap or click the notification to open Action Center and fix the problem. If you miss the notification, you can open
Action Center in Control Panel. Here are some notifications you might see and actions you can take to solve the problems.

To open Action Center, swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Search (or if you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, moving the mouse pointer down, and then click
Search), enter Action Center in the search box, and then tap or click
Action Center.

I suggest you to follow the below link to troubleshoot with the issue:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/what-something-goes-wrong-file-history

(Also applies to Windows 10)

Please reply with the results, we will be glad to help you further.

Thank you.

 

Anyone else experiencing this?

 

Fixed it.

"MouseKeys" in accessibility was mucking everything up.

 

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