need help... mouse / text selection problem

sydthebeat

Hey everyone, hope you can help me out on an issue i have on my home pc.

My mouse is having trouble "holding" what i select.
For example if i want to copy a piece of text, say a paragraph, and i start on the first word... it will select a few words before it just stops... its like it cant hold my memory in the selection process.
strangely, if i right click and choose "select all" then theres no problem.. similarily if i double click on a word it is automatically selected..

it just the 'drag and click' type selction doesnt work.

this is infuriating because it occurs on other programs i use, such as autocad and google sketchup.... sketchup especially because an integral function is the selection one.

i use a wireless mouse, a logitec EX100 desktop package, and im 99% certain its not an issue with the communication between the mouse and base.

has anyone got any ideas? or past experience?

thank you in advance

Snowbat

That's happened to a few of my (oldish) wired mice. In each case the cause was a bad contact developing in the microswitch under the left mouse button. A few squirts of Servisol Super 10 into the microswitch fixed every one.

fionny

Can you borrow another mouse to confirm if its a hardware or software issue?

jme2010

Just a temporary solution.

Place the "I" bar at the begining of the text you want to select. Then when it's flashing, hold "Shift" and use the arrow key to select the text one letter at a time. Hold "Ctrl and Shift" then the arrow keys to select whole words at a time.

Mouse's are dirt cheap so its not worth the bother to try loads of fixes that just get you fustrated.

sydthebeat

thanks for the responses!!

ill try a different mouse this evening, and the I and shift/ctrl function (didnt know about that one )

hopefully its simply a hardware issue