Right Click Menu Disappeared

"Heirloom" wrote in message
...



I think he should fire his "HiTech Guy".....and buy a new computer.
OTOH,
we could threaten him with a nasty bit of torture if he doesn't stop
messing about with things he is clueless on......hmmm, nah...won't go
there. LOL!!

Night, Mart.....get to bad, old guy!!

I'm going.....I'm going.
Heirloom, old and going to bad.

or is that 'going bad', by any chance? That wouldn't be 'too bed' either,
would it?

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed the
problem?

Of course not, Mart and if you should see her, tell Heather to mind her
'crockpot'.


Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

... and so I
got a replacement.

Well, it took a few column feet on these pages but you finally got
there
Harry, so let's be thankful for that. Next time you have an 'issue' why
not
try to think of ALL relevant detail before you compose your post then
read
it BEFORE you send it to see if it makes any sense, instead of letting
us
have to second guess. Then change the habit of a lifetime and actually
try
some of the suggestions offered and give feedback on the results. I
lost
count of the number of times Heirloom (in particular) and others
suggested
changing the mouse!

But - you got there! Well done Harry

As a 'trailer' to these comments:
It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for the mouse itself to be
at
fault.
My 'HiTech Guy' pointed out to me the possibility of some software
glitch
as
well.
Would have come up with this sooner, but time is limited. H.


Mart



"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Mart:

Firstly I hope this post will show and secondly, after seeing my
HiTech
Guy
(only possible Wednesdays) he determined the right click was 'stuck'
and
could be released by pulling, but it would continue to become stuck
and
so
I
got a replacement.
When back home I tried the following on my own with my old mouse:
Activating right click and press 'Shift' on the keyboard will make
the
button work.
What more can I ask for?
Thanks so much for everyone's input.
Now this "Nut" has invaded all of us here, hope something can be done
about
this.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, if you want to play games - fine.

But if you really want to be constructive and do some serious
checking -
and
you don't have a spare mouse to swap-out with - then open the Mouse
icon
in
Control Panel and check the mouse buttons there. And if your still
not
convinced, then transpose the left and right buttons using the test
utility
and see if the 'fault' moves with it.

Then buy a new mouse. Just don't mess us around.

Mart

Heather wrote:-

No, Mart......he is waffling as usual. You surely didn't expect to get a
straight answer, did you??

Err, no Heather, my reply was written with my tongue firmly pushed into my
cheek.

Mart


"Heather" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed the
problem?

No, Mart......he is waffling as usual. You surely didn't expect to get a
straight answer, did you??

I think he should fire his "HiTech Guy".....and buy a new computer. OTOH,
we could threaten him with a nasty bit of torture if he doesn't stop
messing about with things he is clueless on......hmmm, nah...won't go
there. LOL!!

Night, Mart.....get to bad, old guy!!

Mart asked :-
So are you telling us that the replacement mouse
still hasn't fixed the problem?
and Harry replied :-
Of course not.

Which I ASS-U-ME to mean that the replacement mouse HAS fixed the problem.

If so, then why, after sending us down the original cul-de-sac where you
implied that the right-click function issue only affected the desktop
context menus (and nothing else) and linked it with your Ad-Aware
'experiments', did you not try any/all the suggestions offered at an earlier
stage? (Admittedly, you conceded that you'd already run System Restore
without success, but that was only after further interrogation)

- Of course, I can answer that one with your perpetual stock excuse, "you
didn't have time!"

So you didn't even have time to do a very simple test on your mouse in
Control Panel?

But had you made the time and done so Harry, I think that even you would
have eventually realized that you had a faulty mouse and come to the same
"foregone conclusion" that the rest of us had already reached. Heather even
suggested substituting the mouse in the fifth post in the thread. And here
we are, some 50+ posts later, still having to ASS-U-ME that the problem is
now resolved.

Not for the first time Harry, if you're not prepared to act on advice, why
bother to ask for it. You're not only wasting your 'valuable time', but ours
too!

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed the
problem?

Of course not, Mart and if you should see her, tell Heather to mind her
'crockpot'.


Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

... and so I
got a replacement.

Well, it took a few column feet on these pages but you finally got
there
Harry, so let's be thankful for that. Next time you have an 'issue'
why
not
try to think of ALL relevant detail before you compose your post then
read
it BEFORE you send it to see if it makes any sense, instead of letting
us
have to second guess. Then change the habit of a lifetime and actually
try
some of the suggestions offered and give feedback on the results. I
lost
count of the number of times Heirloom (in particular) and others
suggested
changing the mouse!

But - you got there! Well done Harry

As a 'trailer' to these comments:
It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for the mouse itself to be
at
fault.
My 'HiTech Guy' pointed out to me the possibility of some software
glitch
as
well.
Would have come up with this sooner, but time is limited. H.


Mart



"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Mart:

Firstly I hope this post will show and secondly, after seeing my
HiTech
Guy
(only possible Wednesdays) he determined the right click was 'stuck'
and
could be released by pulling, but it would continue to become stuck
and
so
I
got a replacement.
When back home I tried the following on my own with my old mouse:
Activating right click and press 'Shift' on the keyboard will make
the
button work.
What more can I ask for?
Thanks so much for everyone's input.
Now this "Nut" has invaded all of us here, hope something can be
done
about
this.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, if you want to play games - fine.

But if you really want to be constructive and do some serious
checking -
and
you don't have a spare mouse to swap-out with - then open the Mouse
icon
in
Control Panel and check the mouse buttons there. And if your still
not
convinced, then transpose the left and right buttons using the test
utility
and see if the 'fault' moves with it.

Then buy a new mouse. Just don't mess us around.

Mart

Mart

Why waste ink?
We all know Harry!
Here's a guy, comes on this newsgroup offering advice (via Google),
yet, has to take his mouse to a "HiTech Guy" to have it checked out.

God help us.

George Gee


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Mart asked :-
So are you telling us that the replacement mouse
still hasn't fixed the problem?
and Harry replied :-
Of course not.

Which I ASS-U-ME to mean that the replacement mouse HAS fixed the problem.

If so, then why, after sending us down the original cul-de-sac where you
implied that the right-click function issue only affected the desktop
context menus (and nothing else) and linked it with your Ad-Aware
'experiments', did you not try any/all the suggestions offered at an
earlier stage? (Admittedly, you conceded that you'd already run System
Restore without success, but that was only after further interrogation)

- Of course, I can answer that one with your perpetual stock excuse, "you
didn't have time!"

So you didn't even have time to do a very simple test on your mouse in
Control Panel?

But had you made the time and done so Harry, I think that even you would
have eventually realized that you had a faulty mouse and come to the same
"foregone conclusion" that the rest of us had already reached. Heather
even suggested substituting the mouse in the fifth post in the thread. And
here we are, some 50+ posts later, still having to ASS-U-ME that the
problem is now resolved.

Not for the first time Harry, if you're not prepared to act on advice, why
bother to ask for it. You're not only wasting your 'valuable time', but
ours too!

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed the
problem?

Of course not, Mart and if you should see her, tell Heather to mind her
'crockpot'.


Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

... and so I
got a replacement.

Well, it took a few column feet on these pages but you finally got
there
Harry, so let's be thankful for that. Next time you have an 'issue'
why
not
try to think of ALL relevant detail before you compose your post then
read
it BEFORE you send it to see if it makes any sense, instead of
letting
us
have to second guess. Then change the habit of a lifetime and
actually
try
some of the suggestions offered and give feedback on the results. I
lost
count of the number of times Heirloom (in particular) and others
suggested
changing the mouse!

But - you got there! Well done Harry

As a 'trailer' to these comments:
It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for the mouse itself to be
at
fault.
My 'HiTech Guy' pointed out to me the possibility of some software
glitch
as
well.
Would have come up with this sooner, but time is limited. H.


Mart



"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Mart:

Firstly I hope this post will show and secondly, after seeing my
HiTech
Guy
(only possible Wednesdays) he determined the right click was
'stuck'
and
could be released by pulling, but it would continue to become stuck
and
so
I
got a replacement.
When back home I tried the following on my own with my old mouse:
Activating right click and press 'Shift' on the keyboard will make
the
button work.
What more can I ask for?
Thanks so much for everyone's input.
Now this "Nut" has invaded all of us here, hope something can be
done
about
this.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, if you want to play games - fine.

But if you really want to be constructive and do some serious
checking -
and
you don't have a spare mouse to swap-out with - then open the
Mouse
icon
in
Control Panel and check the mouse buttons there. And if your still
not
convinced, then transpose the left and right buttons using the
test
utility
and see if the 'fault' moves with it.

Then buy a new mouse. Just don't mess us around.

Mart

George wrote :-

Here's a guy, comes on this newsgroup offering advice etc.,

- and, Surprise!, Surprise!. to his credit, he (very) occasionally gets
it right g

God help us.

Amen to that George.

However, I suppose that the most important lesson that I really ought to
have learned over the years of dealing with Harry is, when your head aches,
demolish the brick wall.

Mart


"George Gee" wrote in message
...
Mart

Why waste ink?
We all know Harry!
Here's a guy, comes on this newsgroup offering advice (via Google),
yet, has to take his mouse to a "HiTech Guy" to have it checked out.

God help us.

George Gee
snipped

ROFL!! I cringe when I see him offer *advice* late at night when you
gurus are fast asleep.......and I have been known to warn the OP that
Harry doesn't have two clues to rub together and that they should wait
until you all are up and about.

A thought.....how come he never has time for anything?? He claims to be
retired, so he should have all the the time in the world. Maybe he is
really 30 years old with an IQ in the single digits. (G)

Heather
(and stay off the antivirus group, Harry....you know dick all about that
sort of stuff....which you have now amply proven)

"George Gee" wrote in message
...
Mart

Why waste ink?
We all know Harry!
Here's a guy, comes on this newsgroup offering advice (via Google),
yet, has to take his mouse to a "HiTech Guy" to have it checked out.

God help us.

George Gee


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Mart asked :-
So are you telling us that the replacement mouse
still hasn't fixed the problem?
and Harry replied :-
Of course not.

Which I ASS-U-ME to mean that the replacement mouse HAS fixed the
problem.

If so, then why, after sending us down the original cul-de-sac where
you implied that the right-click function issue only affected the
desktop context menus (and nothing else) and linked it with your
Ad-Aware 'experiments', did you not try any/all the suggestions
offered at an earlier stage? (Admittedly, you conceded that you'd
already run System Restore without success, but that was only after
further interrogation)

- Of course, I can answer that one with your perpetual stock excuse,
"you didn't have time!"

So you didn't even have time to do a very simple test on your mouse
in Control Panel?

But had you made the time and done so Harry, I think that even you
would have eventually realized that you had a faulty mouse and come
to the same "foregone conclusion" that the rest of us had already
reached. Heather even suggested substituting the mouse in the fifth
post in the thread. And here we are, some 50+ posts later, still
having to ASS-U-ME that the problem is now resolved.

Not for the first time Harry, if you're not prepared to act on
advice, why bother to ask for it. You're not only wasting your
'valuable time', but ours too!

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed
the
problem?

Of course not, Mart and if you should see her, tell Heather to mind
her
'crockpot'.


Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

... and so I
got a replacement.

Well, it took a few column feet on these pages but you finally
got
there
Harry, so let's be thankful for that. Next time you have an
'issue' why
not
try to think of ALL relevant detail before you compose your post
then
read
it BEFORE you send it to see if it makes any sense, instead of
letting
us
have to second guess. Then change the habit of a lifetime and
actually
try
some of the suggestions offered and give feedback on the
results. I
lost
count of the number of times Heirloom (in particular) and others
suggested
changing the mouse!

But - you got there! Well done Harry

As a 'trailer' to these comments:
It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for the mouse itself
to be
at
fault.
My 'HiTech Guy' pointed out to me the possibility of some
software
glitch
as
well.
Would have come up with this sooner, but time is limited.
H.


Mart



"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Mart:

Firstly I hope this post will show and secondly, after seeing
my
HiTech
Guy
(only possible Wednesdays) he determined the right click was
'stuck'
and
could be released by pulling, but it would continue to become
stuck
and
so
I
got a replacement.
When back home I tried the following on my own with my old
mouse:
Activating right click and press 'Shift' on the keyboard will
make
the
button work.
What more can I ask for?
Thanks so much for everyone's input.
Now this "Nut" has invaded all of us here, hope something can
be done
about
this.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, if you want to play games - fine.

But if you really want to be constructive and do some serious
checking -
and
you don't have a spare mouse to swap-out with - then open the
Mouse
icon
in
Control Panel and check the mouse buttons there. And if your
still
not
convinced, then transpose the left and right buttons using
the test
utility
and see if the 'fault' moves with it.

Then buy a new mouse. Just don't mess us around.

Mart

"George Gee" wrote in message
...
Mart

Why waste ink?
We all know Harry!
Here's a guy, comes on this newsgroup offering advice (via Google),
yet, has to take his mouse to a "HiTech Guy" to have it checked out.

God help us.

You (us) just may need that, only for a different reason!


George Gee


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Mart asked :-
So are you telling us that the replacement mouse
still hasn't fixed the problem?
and Harry replied :-
Of course not.

Which I ASS-U-ME to mean that the replacement mouse HAS fixed the
problem.

If so, then why, after sending us down the original cul-de-sac where you
implied that the right-click function issue only affected the desktop
context menus (and nothing else) and linked it with your Ad-Aware
'experiments', did you not try any/all the suggestions offered at an
earlier stage? (Admittedly, you conceded that you'd already run System
Restore without success, but that was only after further interrogation)

- Of course, I can answer that one with your perpetual stock excuse,
"you
didn't have time!"

So you didn't even have time to do a very simple test on your mouse in
Control Panel?

But had you made the time and done so Harry, I think that even you would
have eventually realized that you had a faulty mouse and come to the
same
"foregone conclusion" that the rest of us had already reached. Heather
even suggested substituting the mouse in the fifth post in the thread.
And
here we are, some 50+ posts later, still having to ASS-U-ME that the
problem is now resolved.

Not for the first time Harry, if you're not prepared to act on advice,
why
bother to ask for it. You're not only wasting your 'valuable time', but
ours too!

Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for
the mouse itself to be at fault. My 'HiTech Guy'
pointed out to me the possibility of some
software glitch as well.

So are you telling us that the replacement mouse still hasn't fixed
the
problem?

Of course not, Mart and if you should see her, tell Heather to mind her
'crockpot'.


Mart


"webster72n" wrote in message
...

"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry wrote :-

... and so I
got a replacement.

Well, it took a few column feet on these pages but you finally got
there
Harry, so let's be thankful for that. Next time you have an 'issue'
why
not
try to think of ALL relevant detail before you compose your post
then
read
it BEFORE you send it to see if it makes any sense, instead of
letting
us
have to second guess. Then change the habit of a lifetime and
actually
try
some of the suggestions offered and give feedback on the results. I
lost
count of the number of times Heirloom (in particular) and others
suggested
changing the mouse!

But - you got there! Well done Harry

As a 'trailer' to these comments:
It definitely was not a foregone conclusion for the mouse itself to
be
at
fault.
My 'HiTech Guy' pointed out to me the possibility of some software
glitch
as
well.
Would have come up with this sooner, but time is limited.
H.


Mart



"webster72n" wrote in message
...
Mart:

Firstly I hope this post will show and secondly, after seeing my
HiTech
Guy
(only possible Wednesdays) he determined the right click was
'stuck'
and
could be released by pulling, but it would continue to become
stuck
and
so
I
got a replacement.
When back home I tried the following on my own with my old mouse:
Activating right click and press 'Shift' on the keyboard will
make
the
button work.
What more can I ask for?
Thanks so much for everyone's input.
Now this "Nut" has invaded all of us here, hope something can be
done
about
this.

Harry.



"Mart" wrote in message
...
Harry, if you want to play games - fine.

But if you really want to be constructive and do some serious
checking -
and
you don't have a spare mouse to swap-out with - then open the
Mouse
icon
in
Control Panel and check the mouse buttons there. And if your
still
not
convinced, then transpose the left and right buttons using the
test
utility
and see if the 'fault' moves with it.

Then buy a new mouse. Just don't mess us around.

Mart