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    Windows 10 Unwanted text selection, and caps lock button reversal.

    for some time now, I have been having trouble with writing with my "windows10" laptop. When going back to make corrections in my text, or when adding quotation marks, it suddenly starts selecting seemingly random portions of text every time I click anywhere in the text. Restarting my computer...
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    Windows 10 Having trouble selecting data & text

    When I try to select data or text, it breaks off before I can select it all in windows 10 professional.
  3. Windows 10 Shift + Arrow Down

    Hello: The functions within a text in Microsoft Edge or IE 11, using SHIFT + ARROW DOWN or SHIFT + END, worked well, selecting the text line by line or selecting the text until the end. From about one or two months month these functions do not work anymore. For example in Word ou other...
  4. Windows 7 Selecting hyphenated words by double clicking

    I am having an issue which did not exist in Windows XP or Windows 2003. The problem is quite simple. If there is any word or letter which has hyphens and you want to Select it by double clicking it does not select in Win 7 . Example 11-1111111-11111 Try yourself by double clicking on it...
  5. Windows 7 Mousey, mousey . . . splat

    Mouse requires many tries and much persuading to highlight words or string of text, or not inadvertently do what I don't want done - don't want to rearrange text for instance. For instance, try to highlight a word within text. It may highlight whole line of text, of may not leave highlighting...
  6. Windows 7 Word 2010- can not look up new words.

    Hi, I have a trouble with my Office Word 2010. I can not look up new words in Word 2010. In the past, I often Ctrl+Right Click to get new words' meaning at once, but when I installed the Window 7 (64bit) because my RAM was upgraded to 4GB, I can not do as I used to. When I Ctrl+Right click, it...
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    Windows 7 How do you disable "hover to select" feature?

    In various forums, including this one, I've seen users post questions about the same problem. But none of the solutions works on my Gateway laptop PC with Windows 7 and Elan pointing device. Here's the problem: My mousepad clicks without my clicking it. It has sent e-mails I wasn't ready to...
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    Windows 7 G700 Mouse and all mouses not working well on system

    Hi there , First I thought it was just a problem with the Logitech G700 gaming mouse I have but then I try to switch to another mouse an the exact same problem persisted. PROBLEM: When I click left mouse button I almost always get double click command. And dragging is almost impossible...
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    Windows 7 Dragging issues, text, icon's, photoshop, everywhere!

    Whenever I want to drag something across the screen, like moving folders, selecting text, working in photoshop, playing a game, the dragging is not working properly. Sometimes it picks it up after 1 second after holding the button, sometimes it does pick up right away but it breaks after a...
  10. Windows 7 Strange pen bug

    I'm not sure when it started, but it definitely wasn't happening before RC... I've recently started experiencing a very strange problem... when I write in OneNote (2007 and 2010), after I write anythingwith my pen (Dell Latitude XT), the cursor changes to the text selection tool and I can't make...