Right Mouse button behavior has changed

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I have a two button mouse with a scroll wheel and the right button behavior
has changed. I cannot right click on files in Windows Explorer, drag then and
be presented with the "COPY/MOVE/etc" dialog box. In fact, not right click
drag operation works.

The context properties still seems to work, but only upon whatever object
was the last one select. So for example, if I click on My Computer to
highlight it, then move the mouse to another icon and right click and choose
PROPERTIES, I get the properties dialog for My Computer.

This is weird. I never knew how often I used the right mouse button!

I have sought tools to reset mouse button behavior and I've found nothing.
Any idears y'all?
 
Geminate said:
Start - Control Panel - Mouse - Buttons : adjust as you see fit.
Click to expand...

I actually tried that. There are very few settings there. Basically just
remapping right and left buttons. There are no properties there that let you
change button behavior. I have a Logitech Mouseman mouse and was just running
it with the default drivers that XP loaded... that's the state things were in
while it was working.

After the weird bahavior started, I downloaded and installed the Logitech
drivers. This also didn't help. But I saw that the right mouse button was
attached to an event called "Context / Properties". That made sense. But it
still didn't work.

I uninstalled the mouseman drivers and I'm still having the same problem.

It seems that a right click should do an initial SELECT of the item under
the mouse, then a CONTEXT MENU and it's not doing either.

Weird.

I don't want to reload XP to resolve this stupid little problem, so I'll
keep searching.
 
Problem Solved:

I had installed a keyboard macro program called KeyText from MJMsoftware.
This is the application that changed the behavior. After I uninstalled it,
behavior returned to normal.

Holy smokes, I never knew how much I used the right mouse button!
 
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