Navigation keys don't work

[J T]

Hi,

I've had this problem for some time, in IE 6 (with all the
patches installed) on Windows 2000 Professional (SP4) the
nagivation keys (arrows, pageup pagedown etc.) don't work
even when a browser window (or frame) is clearly in focus.

Also related to this problem (scrolling) windows will
occasionally make my 2 button (only) serial mouse act as
if it has a scroll wheel/button. This is obvious when an
the scroll cursor replaces the regular mouse cursor
(identical to what you get when you depress your scroll
wheel on a mouse that actually has one)

Which seems to have a flow on effect to other parts of the
operating system, occasionally the task bar doesn't
respond to left or right clicks, and the only way to
resolve this is to "alt tab", and then everything works
fine. I have experimented on another system by holding the
middle buttom while trying to perform these operations,
the same problem occurrs, except it is easily solved by
letting go of the middle button.

So it may all boil down to, why is windows thinking that
my mouse has a 3rd button? It originally had the
standard "Microsoft Serial Mouse" driver installed, I
tried using the Logitech standard serial mouse driver
instead this did not remove any of the problems.

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this? Seems like a bit of
a freak case for the books.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

why is windows thinking that my mouse has a 3rd button?

Are you accidentally pressing both the right and left mouse buttons
simultaneously? Some mouse drivers allow that combination to be
interpreted as a middle button press. A single left click may take it
out of that mode.

 

[J T]

Are you accidentally pressing both the right and left mouse buttons
simultaneously?

No, I've made sure this isn't happening, I've tried every
single combination of mouse "commands" to deactivate the
phantom 3rd button when it activates, the only thing for
it is to switch focus with the keyboard, (alt tab, windows
key etc)

I was wondering if it's possible that the problem is
somewhere between the driver and the explorer shell?
Although it would make more sense if it was the driver,
I've tried two different standard serial mouse drivers so
far and both have been plagued by the same problem.
(Microsoft Serial Mouse, and Logitech compatable serial)
the actual mouse ECM-S3101 (Mitsumi) says it doesn't need
a special driver for windows.

It's not so much that this problem can probably be fixed
by trying some different hardware, but it's so strange
that it might be useful to know why?