Windows 7 wont "move"

[avatarTX]

I searched the internet but have not seen anyone with this problem yet. It just started about 2 days ago. I have Windows 7 Ultimate.

I cannot move anything on my desktop. Icons can be selected but will not move. Its not that I drag them and they return to their original location when I let go, they do not move in the first place. Auto-arrange is turned off.

I cannot move or resize an open window. If I right click on a window border I get the double arrow pointer but thats it. No stretching allowed. No grabbing the title bar to slide the window to a new location. No scroll bar movement to move up and down any open window either. The three buttons in the upper right work if I want to fill my screen or close an open window and I can click on the arrows to move a scroll bar too, but I cannot slide it.

If any program has a slide bar of any kind, it will not move.

Basically, if you want to move it, it wont move.

I rebooted
I rebooted in Safe Mode
I ran Malwarebytes, found nothing
I cleaned the registry using RegSeeker
Auto Arrange and Aero Snap are turned off

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Noway2]

Unless you specifically think it is caused by a hardware fault, this question would be better asked in the Windows 7 forum:

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=1726.

 

[vacunita]

Have you tried a different mouse? It may be dying or have a problem.

Is it an optical mouse? If wireless maybe the batteries are low?

Right clicking on a window, should bring up a context menu, never has it made the window draggable. If you move the pointer to the window edge the mouse pointer will automat8ically change to the double arrow no clicking needed.



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[avatarTX]

Hmm.. I do believe this to be software related, a setting changed somehow perhaps. I will post this on the suggested forum and continue this there.

 

[kjv1611]

For reference, here is the "new" thread:
thread1726-1604986