"select" or "highlight" function will not quit

[Jeffrey Evans]

My computer is using a pentium 4 chip, with 512M of RAM,
Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional, a
Trackball Explorer 1.0 PS2/USB compatible mouse (I just
downloaded and installed the latest Trackball mouse
Intellipoint software).

I am having a problem with the "select" or "highlight"
function becoming "stuck" intermittently, but not a lot
of the time. (This only started occurring within the last
month or so.)

I am not sure just where the problem originates, whether
it is a Windows XP Professional or Office XP problem, but
sometimes when I select text in Word 2002, the select
function will not turn off. The problem, however, is not
limited to Word. The select function also sometimes
stays on or "sticks" in other applications like Quicken
or Timeslips and on the Windows XP desktop, such that as
I move the mouse cursor, all of the desktop icons become
selected. No matter how many times I click the cursor,
the select function will not quit and return to normal.
I have to reboot the computer to get a fresh start
whenever it occurs.

I have also run Norton Utilities from Norton System Works
2003, done a Scandisk, a Disk Doctor, and a One-Button
check, but none of the utilities has shown that there is
a problem.

Any advice, help, suggestions, someone who has
experienced the same thing?

 

[Ghengis]

My computer is using a pentium 4 chip, with 512M of RAM,
Windows XP Professional, Office XP Professional, a
Trackball Explorer 1.0 PS2/USB compatible mouse (I just
downloaded and installed the latest Trackball mouse
Intellipoint software).

I am having a problem with the "select" or "highlight"
function becoming "stuck" intermittently, but not a lot
of the time. (This only started occurring within the last
month or so.)

I am not sure just where the problem originates, whether
it is a Windows XP Professional or Office XP problem, but
sometimes when I select text in Word 2002, the select
function will not turn off. The problem, however, is not
limited to Word. The select function also sometimes
stays on or "sticks" in other applications like Quicken
or Timeslips and on the Windows XP desktop, such that as
I move the mouse cursor, all of the desktop icons become
selected. No matter how many times I click the cursor,
the select function will not quit and return to normal.
I have to reboot the computer to get a fresh start
whenever it occurs.

I have also run Norton Utilities from Norton System Works
2003, done a Scandisk, a Disk Doctor, and a One-Button
check, but none of the utilities has shown that there is
a problem.

Any advice, help, suggestions, someone who has
experienced the same thing?

Sounds like either an intermittent fault with the mouse, or a device driver
problem.