Re: What Is Wrong With My Mouse?!?!?!, It wont let me drag and drop.

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From: Jake (jak2_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/06/04


Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 22:25:12 -0400


It probably needs cleaning, I had the same problem, but I cleaned the
wheels on the mouse, works alright now.

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:31:02 -0700, zac_haryy

 <zacharyy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Well I was just using my computer like normal and I went to drag and drop a
>file but it didnt want to let me. I tried to restart my computer but nothing
>worked. It just started doing this a couple days ago and I drag and drop all
>of the time. There should be nothing wrong with my computer as I just did a
>fresh install of Windows XP Pro about a month ago. The Keyboard and mouse are
>the Logitech cordless duo. So it's an optical mouse. Would it be due to SP2
>on WinXP?? Also it's not the mouse because I have this keyboard and mouse
>hooked up to a KVM switch and when I switch to the other computer (running
>WinXP SP1) I can drag and drop. So it has really got to be something with
>windows here.
>Anybody help me out with this one?? Thanks!!
>
>-haryy



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