Uploaded April 2014 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Note: you can usually get usability for a while by pressing just ctrl + esc or ctrl + alt + delete and then click cancel in windows.
Unable to click on windows, clicking closes tabs instead of focusing the clicked tab, clicking won't open startmenu etc.
This issue can be a couple of different things
for ex.
mouse button is stuck or broken
Click event is stuck in OS
mouse power is being cut at wrong point in time by OS
all of these things have little bit different fixes so you need to figure out which one you have.
If the problem with the mouse is in just one machine or try the mouse with another machine.
If the problem persists, try cleaning the mouse if possible for ex. like this youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHKqewO4GE
If you don't use the problem button, most mouse control software let you disable the buttons (for ex. if the forward backward buttons on the side of the mouse are the issue). Some people have also just desoldered the buttons to get rid of the problem.
Note: you can usually get usability for a while by pressing just ctrl + esc or ctrl + alt + delete and then click cancel in windows.
Unable to click on windows, clicking closes tabs instead of focusing the clicked tab, clicking won't open startmenu etc.
This issue can be a couple of different things
for ex.
mouse button is stuck or broken
Click event is stuck in OS
mouse power is being cut at wrong point in time by OS
all of these things have little bit different fixes so you need to figure out which one you have.
If the problem with the mouse is in just one machine or try the mouse with another machine.
If the problem persists, try cleaning the mouse if possible for ex. like this youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHKqewO4GE
If you don't use the problem button, most mouse control software let you disable the buttons (for ex. if the forward backward buttons on the side of the mouse are the issue). Some people have also just desoldered the buttons to get rid of the problem.
