mouse cannot select text

[Guest]

It's funny that my mouse cannot select or highlight any
text in the browser, i can only place the cursor point n
the rest is using keyboard for selecting a word. However,
in other program my mouse could select as usual, n also
the address bar in the browser. Anyone knows why because
the tech guy who sold me the stuffs can't solve too.
Thanks.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Can you select a word by doubleclicking on it?
Can you select text by clicking at one point, holding down a Shift- key
and clicking at another point?
Can you use your mouse to drag objects? E.g. a scroll bar to move it
or a window frame to resize it?

 

[Guest]

No, duble clicking has no effect.
Nothing works when the cursor is in the browser area,
except it can place the cursor at the point i want n then
i have to use keyboard. And it can however select text
normal in the browser address bar n othe programs too.

 

[Guest]

I'm very interested in the answer to this problem, as I have the exact same symptoms. I'm running XP with all of the current patches, and my IE version number is 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633. This seems to have spontaneously started last weekend, although there's obviously some direct cause. I'm guessing that some registry key has been modified, but I haven't figured it out yet

Any help would be very useful!

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I'm running XP with all of the current patches

The only thing that I can think of is an IE Repair.
Unfortunately unless you installed IE6sp1 before XPsp1
you can not do a conventional IE Repair
but you can simulate one by doing a bunch of regsvr32 commands.


For that (inferior) alternative here is an excerpt from a previous reply:

<excerpt>
FWIW this is a list of commands created by extracting from fixie.inf
what an IE Repair would do for Windows 2000 users:

regsvr32 /i browseui.dll
regsvr32 /i shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
regsvr32 mshtmled.dll
regsvr32 actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 /i urlmon.dll

What that represents is the set of re-registrations which
FixIE.inf indicates would be done for Base.W2K.AddReg

N.B. that neither mshtmled.dll nor actxprxy.dll have an entry point
called DllInstall and hence the /i option can not be used for them.

Neither msjava.dll nor shell32.dll are referred to by FixIE.inf
but those are two other modules which are often suggested to XP users
as needing re-registration for repairing in various circumstances.

Note that such re-registrations are normally done by an IE Repair
during a boot while nothing is running so at the very least I think
that it would be best to ensure that iexplore.exe is not active in your
task list. (Close all visible IE windows and then check that the
iexplore.exe is not in the list of Processes in Task Manager.
Ctrl-Shift-Esc,Ctrl-Tab,i,i,...)
</excerpt>

For your particular problem my guess would be that if this fixes
the problem that mshtml.dll or mshtmled.dll will have been
the cause. BTW before doing this you really should make
sure that the versions of the the modules you are going to
re-register are the appropriate ones for your maintenance level.
That is another thing that an IE Repair can do for us automatically.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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I'm very interested in the answer to this problem, as I have the exact same symptoms. I'm running XP with all of the current

patches, and my IE version number is 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633. This seems to have spontaneously started last weekend,
although there's obviously some direct cause. I'm guessing that some registry key has been modified, but I haven't figured it out
yet.

 

[Guest]

Hmm..that doesn't appear to have changed any behavior

How does one do a "normal" IE Repair? I'll go google for it, but I wouldn't mind some hints

I really appreciate the help...this is the most help I've seen on this topic so far

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

seems to have spontaneously started last weekend

Have you done an updated scan for malware?
Or at least checked to see if something has installed an overriding
user style sheet in the Accessibility dialog. (Alt-T,O,Alt-e,d)


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I'm very interested in the answer to this problem, as I have the exact same symptoms. I'm running XP with all of the current

patches, and my IE version number is 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633. This seems to have spontaneously started last weekend,
although there's obviously some direct cause. I'm guessing that some registry key has been modified, but I haven't figured it out
yet.

 

[Guest]

Curiously, I have finally found a toggle for this. If i look at Internet Options -> Advanced, and I turn off "Enable third-party browser extensions", I can again select text. I turn it back on, and it breaks again. Time to go trolling through browser extensions, I suppose.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Curiously, I have finally found a toggle for this. If i look at
Internet Options -> Advanced, and I turn off "Enable third-party
browser extensions", I can again select text. I turn it back on, and
it breaks again. Time to go trolling through browser extensions, I
suppose.

Run ToolbarCop:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/utils/ToolbarCop.exe

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Guest]

That helped considerably. That tool seems to help decode some of the more obscure looking registry keys, which allowed me to find a toolbar that wasn't familiar to me. I deleted its keys, and my browser now works normally. Simply browsing the registry wasn't sufficient, in this case. And apparently, it was a real toolbar, so none of the malware detection programs could find it...it's just a broken toolbar

Thanks!!!