Mouse is multiselecting

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GKW in GA

Whenever I point to something in Word, Intrnet Explorer, Excel or whatever,
it selects several paragraphs, sometimes 3 or 4 of them or in Excel, clicking
in a cell will select 5 or 6 adjacent cells. Sometimes in IE 7, selecting a
word will select the whole page. I've tried switching mouses and keyboards to
no avail, so there is some setting, apparently I've triggered.

How can I stop this and what causes it. It just started last night
 
The date and time was 2/29/2008 7:08 AM, and on a whim, GKW in GA
pounded out on the keyboard:
Whenever I point to something in Word, Intrnet Explorer, Excel or whatever,
it selects several paragraphs, sometimes 3 or 4 of them or in Excel, clicking
in a cell will select 5 or 6 adjacent cells. Sometimes in IE 7, selecting a
word will select the whole page. I've tried switching mouses and keyboards to
no avail, so there is some setting, apparently I've triggered.

How can I stop this and what causes it. It just started last night
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Have you gone into the mouse settings in Control Panel? You may have
your left click set to double click that is causing the multiple
selection when clicked on. Do you have Tweak-UI installed and have you
made any changes there?

If none of that helps, did you try a System Restore to go back before it
started?

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GKW said:
Whenever I point to something in Word, Internet Explorer, Excel or whatever,
it selects several paragraphs, sometimes 3 or 4 of them or in Excel, clicking
in a cell will select 5 or 6 adjacent cells. Sometimes in IE 7, selecting a
word will select the whole page. I've tried switching mice and keyboards to
no avail, so there is some setting, apparently I've triggered.

How can I stop this and what causes it? It just started last night.
Click to expand...

If you wanted to duplicate that action, you'd click at the beginning of
a string, then Shift-click the current location. That suggests one of
the Shift keys is sticking. HTH,
 
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