Re: Mouse is multiselecting

The date and time was 2/29/2008 7:08 AM, and on a whim, GKW in GA pounded out on the keyboard:

Whenever I point to something in Word, Intrnet Explorer, Excel or whatever, it selects several paragraphs, sometimes 3 or 4 of them or in Excel, clicking in a cell will select 5 or 6 adjacent cells. Sometimes in IE 7, selecting a word will select the whole page. I've tried switching mouses and keyboards to no avail, so there is some setting, apparently I've triggered.

How can I stop this and what causes it. It just started last night

Have you gone into the mouse settings in Control Panel? You may have your left click set to double click that is causing the multiple selection when clicked on. Do you have Tweak-UI installed and have you made any changes there?

If none of that helps, did you try a System Restore to go back before it started?

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