Help! Mouse Is Running Haywire.

[society]

Whenever I click on a topic several tabs open up. I would single-click the mouse only once but yet two or sometimes three tabs opens. Also, if a tab is opened with a topic and then I open another tab, the previous tab changes to the topic/tab I've just opened. It happens with any mouse I plug in to the laptop. I am using Windows XP Pro.

Another thing that's happening - I click on a letter and the word gets highlighted or sometimes the whole paragraph.

I've never had these problems before. Why is this happening, and how can I solve this?

Thanks in advance for looking at my question, and for replying.

[chrissa1]

This is my question from when it happened to me, society. It might help.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1135339.html

[society]

Chrissa, thanks for the quick response and for the link.

I've also tried Tilly's suggestion several times but it didn't work. I even got two new mice, two different makes but no change.

I even played around with the mouse set-up in control panel but no gain. I don't know...

[chrissa1]

Sorry about that, society. Hope you get it fixed, somehow.

[society]

Methyl, thanks for your help.

"In particular it will cause clicked topic links to open in a new instance of the browser - or a new tab if you have tabbed browsing enabled. " - This exactly what's happening.

Browser is Firefox 27.0.1

All the keys are at the same level, none look stuck. How do I unstuck a key? Do I just gently pull it up?

[bibblebub]

A program that seems to have helped for the last couple of months since I first had this problem is MouseFix http://pupuweb.com/optical-mouse-single-click-problem-solved/ but it might only be a stopgap solution because my mouse has started playing up again during the last couple of days.

[society]

Thanks Biblebub. I'll have a look at that.

[society]

Many, many thanks Methyl for the in-depth reply.