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I've searched this thoroughly and haven't found any solutions. There are no duplicates that I've found thus far.
I'm running Windows 7, and just today (not following any Windows updates, driver updates or any major changes), I cannot click on anything. Clicking anywhere simply takes the current window out of focus. The only thing that I can click on is the start menu and any start menu items.
What I've tried so far (with no success):
- Yes, I've rebooted
- I tried a different mouse
- I have the same problem in Safe Mode
- I have the same problem after a system restore
- Killing explorer.exe fixes the problem for about 30 seconds, then back again
- Event Viewer shows nothing I can see related to the problem
- I have them same problem when I take remote control of the machine through LogMeIn (therefore not a hardware problem)
- Ran
SFC
andCHKDSK
, both with no errors reported
Any idea what could possibly cause this?
4Someone took a screenshot of your desktop, removed all the icons and set the screenshot as your wallpaper? – EBGreen – 2013-08-08T18:58:47.353
Can you expand on "Clicking anywhere simply takes the current window out of focus"? So if you have a window open, and it has focus, and you click a button inside said Window, does the Window still lose focus? Have you run an
SFC
yet?CHKDSK
? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-08-08T19:00:36.907@EBGreen hilarious, but no, being a sysadmin I know to look for pranks first :) – Moses – 2013-08-08T19:01:43.643
@techie007 For the first question, yes, that explains the behavior. I can click anywhere - inside a window, outside it, and it still just goes out of focus as soon as I click. I can't bring it back into focus unless I Alt + Tab back to it. I have run both
SFC
andCHKDSK
, both came back with no errors. – Moses – 2013-08-08T19:03:43.557did you try "System Restore" to earlier points? – Dilshod – 2013-08-08T19:19:13.843
@Dilshod I restored to 3 days ago, and another 1 month ago, with no success. – Moses – 2013-08-08T19:39:57.450
sounds like Explorer.exe locked up – Keltari – 2013-08-08T20:46:30.743