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guthmund · 06-29-2005, 06:50 AM

Here's an odd problem that keeps popping up on the job.

This has happened a dozen different times on a dozen different computers.

Let me see if I can explain this properly... Whenever the mouse is used to highlight something...say the last file in a list of files, it will highlight all files. If I highlight a file in the middle, it highlights all the files before the selected file and none of them that follow.

Now, it's not just files. It's everything. I select an icon on the desktop, it selects all the icons before the selected icon as well. I want to put my cursor in the middle of a paragraph (be it Word, Notepad, Wordpad) it selects all the previous text.

I've tried Google, but I couldn't seem to find anything. I should mention, every machine (generic Dell computers with Pentium 4 chips) runs Windows XP Pro and runs virtually no extraneous programs at start up other than Symantec AV and a program called Centurion Guard (they're public access computers.)

Thanks for the help

06-29-2005, 06:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
guthmund big damn hero	Mouse selects everything! Here's an odd problem that keeps popping up on the job. This has happened a dozen different times on a dozen different computers. Let me see if I can explain this properly... Whenever the mouse is used to highlight something...say the last file in a list of files, it will highlight all files. If I highlight a file in the middle, it highlights all the files before the selected file and none of them that follow. Now, it's not just files. It's everything. I select an icon on the desktop, it selects all the icons before the selected icon as well. I want to put my cursor in the middle of a paragraph (be it Word, Notepad, Wordpad) it selects all the previous text. I've tried Google, but I couldn't seem to find anything. I should mention, every machine (generic Dell computers with Pentium 4 chips) runs Windows XP Pro and runs virtually no extraneous programs at start up other than Symantec AV and a program called Centurion Guard (they're public access computers.) Thanks for the help __________________ No signature. None. Seriously.