Can't move up or down with the mouse wheel toward the left of the screen

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My mouse wheel doesn't work on the left of my computer screen: I can't go up nor down using my mouse wheel when my cursor is hovering a strip which width is about from 5% to 30% from the left of my computer screen. From 0% to 5% and from 30% to 100%, it works though. Moreover, only the scrolling functionality of the mouse wheel does not work, i.e. the wheel-click works.

Any idea what could be the reason of that strange behavior?

I'm working on Windows 7 x64 bits. I already tried many mouses, but the problem still exists (i.e. it's not a problem with the mouse I'm using).

sp00m

Posted 2013-03-12T20:32:59.517

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1Have you tried updating your drivers? Is this a GPU integrated in the motherboard? Have you ran a GPU test, something like 3dmark? – DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ – 2013-03-12T20:40:21.930

1You may have to give more details (i.e. hardware--motherboard, etc). – Kazark – 2013-03-12T20:50:06.340

1Do you have any applications that might be running in that 'strip'? Any kind of desktop management app or anything like that? If it's a clearly-defined area, it seems to indicate an application might be in control of that area. – Uninspired – 2013-03-12T21:34:29.250

How does your computer display video? I ask this because I diagnosed a failing GPU from bad video a couple months back. – DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ – 2013-03-12T22:50:19.267

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Would you happen to have something like pidgin running? This sounds somewhat like a problem I had before http://superuser.com/questions/328657/windows-7-has-an-odd-idea-of-what-fullscreen-is

– Journeyman Geek – 2013-03-13T01:47:10.147

@JourneymanGeek, you have both right, it was messenger app which block this band of the screen. Strange, but thank you, I uninstall this software and it works. – sp00m – 2013-03-13T08:53:06.067

I'll post that as an answer then ;) – Journeyman Geek – 2013-03-13T08:54:11.310

Just to note, while this is teetering on being closed, with a bit more information, this might be pretty useful. Its an actual problem, so NC wouldn't count here. Too localised, I'm iffy on, this might be due to something different from what I used, and might be common to badly coded applications that dock. – Journeyman Geek – 2013-03-13T09:00:44.663

Answers

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I've had something remarkably similar to that happen with pidgin in the past, though the problem showed up in a different manner - fullscreen didn't work correctly in my case.

Quite simply you have an application that is docked but somehow is invisible, but your system knows its there and acts accordingly. As such, your mouse is acting on the invisible application rather than the visible one. A quick fix would be to kill the application from task manager and restart it. Pidgin eventually fixed that bug, so chances are once the devs work out its a problem, it will be taken care of.

Journeyman Geek

Posted 2013-03-12T20:32:59.517

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FWIW, I had Evernote and my Merriam-Webster online dictionary on, and it was the only 2 programs on. I could not scroll down using the side bar, nor scroll down a page with my mouse wheel. First, I exited MW online. Did not help. HOWEVER, after I exited Evernote, the issue stopped. I will have to recreate this to see if it was just a fluke or?

user320415

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