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First post, by ratfink

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I have Windows 11 on a min-PC, I use a Razer Naga mouse that is probably close to 10 years old now.

I noticed when playing games recently that I was having trouble dragging items in-game. Now I also do photography, and today I find that when I select a set of photos to drag to another folder (or flickr or whatever) I can seelct the items OK but when I click on them to drag them, instead they get deselected and the one the mouse is on is selected.

I've had this is the past, a long time ago. I never change any settings, in fact I only use this PC to plays games or edit/upload photos. So it looks like a Windows update issue to me.

Any advice on what to change to get things back to how I want them? I can't see any mouse settings that look promising...

I don't have a Razer driver loaded, that used to be annoying enough in Windows 7. All I am using is HID-compliant mouse, whatever Win11 loaded when I plugged the mouse in nearly a year ago (I've had this PC since last autumn).

Reply 1 of 4, by NeoG_

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I had this issue on a mouse, and the mouse button was failing. It would quickly let go and click again while dragging items. If you have another mouse to test with it would rule that out.

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Reply 2 of 4, by robertmo3

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check if the same happens if you swap primary and secondary buttons

Reply 3 of 4, by VileR

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Not on Win11, but whenever I've had this, it was either a power or bandwidth issue on the specific USB controller. Usually fixed by plugging the mouse (or the receiver, if wireless) into a port on another controller. Windows updates can definitely screw with the relevant motherboard device drivers, because of course they do.

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Reply 4 of 4, by ratfink

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Thanks all, I'll try to check out some of these ideas tomorrow. Interesting about the bandwidth/power possibility, I probably had a camera plugged into the PC at the time, which I very seldom do, to read from the on-board storage. Maybe that was a factor.