My computer cursor won’t click on anything but it moves just fine , this is a windows ten I bought three years ago by the way. Anyone know why?

I went to test it and discovered that one of the side buttons wasn't working. So I opened the mouse, wiped it with alcohol and when the button started working again the problem didn't happen again. Thank you very much

I went to test it and discovered that one of the side buttons wasn't working. So I opened the mouse, wiped it with alcohol and when the button started working again the problem didn't happen again. Thank you very much

happens when mouse is dying, if the clicks dont take, or buttons feel held down, or mousewheel is acting backwards, check battery levels if you are on a wireless mouse.

there is other things, like some games may try to keep the mouse from clicking not in the game window, or usb adapter port may have damage (any of them damaged can cause issues with the rest of the usb ports) if its a physical port with something wrong, do tests and see which ones are best and which ones are worst, then just mark them and dont use them or get dummy usb plugs (just plastic no metal) and block the offending port.

After spending two days on this issue and seeing myriad solutions to what seems to be the same problem many people are/were having and few good solutions I think I have a solution to mine.

I had the intermittent (every two minutes or so!) problem of good curser movement but no reaction when right clicking on anything. This occured on a Logitech USB and my HP 430 both on USB and Bluetooth. The only respite I got was regularly going to Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL) which got temporary function back.

I tried many, many things I saw on line and nothing worked. I was on the verge of trying some of the really severe solutions I saw. I finally saw something on another help-line that got me close to a solution.

I went to "Device Manager" and under "Mice and Other Pointing Devices" saw there were 2 listed. An "HID Compliant Mouse" and a "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse". I took a chance and simply removed the "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" and on reboot everything seems to be fine now.

We'll see if it holds but upon restart I see the PS/2 mouse is listed again but my HP-430 is working fine - on USB.

A couple of hours now with no relapses!

Navigate to device manager with your keyboard, then uninstall your mouse driver, then scan for change or restart, this works for me. don't know if it will happen again tho