left button acts like right button - Fix found!

[nehalmistry]

some while ago i posted a thread about my mouse's left button randomly started acting like right button, and to stop this you had to press right button again...

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29587&highlight=mouse

and microsoft had some words on it here (note the page sais that it happens on win95/98 ... but they do not mention ME, but it does occur on ME too)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q136592

the fix for me was disabling pdesk... for 9x/me users just run 'msconfig', go into startup tab and uncheck 'matrox powerdesk' (then restart comp)

i just wanted to post this because on the last thread it seems that i wasn't the only one with this problem...

i really don't think powerdesk is required to be enabled (ie, 3d games still work fine, etc) so if u are having troubles disable it.

[Jon P. Inghram]

It's good to know I wasn't the only person on the face of the world with that glitch. I always figured it was just a dumb MS bug myself, but never bothered to look it up.

[omegaRED]

Funny ... i`ve experienced those mouse button problems on other PCs, not only with Matrox cards & PowerDesk ... and only on 9x/Me systems ...

[nehalmistry]

omegaRED: yes, it happens only on 9x/me ... not on NT series... but i don't know what to do about non-matrox cards.. i guess you could try disabling the video card utility (the video card's equivalent to powerdesk) ... it's a huge shot in the dark... but something you could try...

[Wombat]

I'm pretty sure I've seen it on NT4 as well.

[Indiana]

I had this happen two of three times in Win2k as well. But this is without PowerDesk (not even a Matrox card installed), the occurrance was so random that it's impossible to lock it to a specific reason.

[nehalmistry]

Wombat, according to your motherboard, you have a VT82C686A/B southbridge... i have the same, i'm thinking maybe that could be the problem ?!?! Via is known have many problems with that southbridge chipset.

but, like Indiana sais, it happens so randomly it is very difficult to find the exact reason why it happens....

for me, it happens at least once every 15 mins to half hour, but since i disabled powerdesk, it has been a couple of days, and i have been fine. It obviously isnt powerdesk at fault, since you guys mention other video cards.... but disabling powerdesk is a workaround (for matrox users).

[Wombat]

Sorry nehal, I didn't mention that it wasn't on my system. I have Win98, and see this problem on my system sometimes. But I would also see it in a lab I used to help run: hundreds of boxes with Intel CPUs and CECs.