Ok so I just bought a dell 9300 inspiron notebook with windows xp pro. Before this I was running windows me so things are quite a bit different. My first problem and most anoying, I purchased a wireless logtech mouse and keyboard to make typeing and such easier. Well the mouse is screwy, even the touch pad is screwy some times. First problem, left click istn working properly. Cant view drop down menues, cant access buttons in ie such as back, refresh and everything else -left click basically doesnt work. Touch pad is working properly 50% of the time. I went into mouse properties located in control panel but I cant seem to find a resolution! Please help! Oh yeah I almost forgot on my previous computer I only had to click once no double clicking on anything is this possible on xp? Second problem, IE is screwed up somehow. When I launch net from desktop 3 windows deploy, ie yahoo.com all the same. When I try and switch back and forth between pages Im only able to view the pages if I left click and move pointer over the page with left click held down, if I just click the window all it does is flicker and minimize faster than a speeding bullit. Since left click is screwed up all I can do is right click and close windows. Also in IE when viewing a page, if I following a link and pop a new page when I go to close the new page all pages that were previously open close along with the new one. Keep in mind left click isnt working all along on logtech only on touch pade and ocasionally that doesnt work either. Another IE problem, its not remembering my content settings. I went into internet options and disabled all of the child saftey crap but it continues to go back to the original settings. For instance I was viewing a page, the page was working fine, I followed a link out, when I came back all of the urls and such were disabled on the page. Another problem Im noticing is that images really look like crap with jagged lines and lots of blur, Ive also noticed this with some text here and there. The notebook is a 17 inch widescreen but Ive looked at a screen of this size before and it looked fine. Also if someone can post a link that can show me how to optimize the start up programs that would be great, I unchecked a few but there are several that I dont have a clue about. I think I covered it all but Im so frustrated that Im probally missing something, please help!!! Thanks, Sleeves

Ok I just figured out that script debugging was enabeld wich was one of the problems with the left click, now at least I can left click an icon and see it get pressed down the only problem is it wont do anything after that. The button just stays down and for some reason I can use the middle scroll button on the mouse to click. I looked at mouse properties again, first button page is configured left - click, right - menues and middle - scrolling. Second button menue left is double click, right is menue and middle scroll is click. I tried switch the click and double click every possible way but when I match them up on the two tabs absolutely nothing works as far as left click is concerned. Im close I can feel it can anyone help? Thanks, Sleeves

As for your single click, go to control panel>folder options>. You will see down at the bottom "click items as follows". You can select "single click", make sure that you click "apply" afterwards. The only thing that I can think of off hand with your mouse would be did you also use the disk that came with mouse? Hopfully someone else will come along that may know about laptops and their problems.

I purchased a wireless logtech mouse and keyboard to make typing and such easier with a laptop? i_XpUser

yes with a laptop, i have big hands and the keyboard and touchpad present problems to me because there so small.

NP - I understand. I've never seen anything like this so it's all new to me Have you tried looking up the troubleshooting page at Dell Support site? i_XpUser

If Dell site gives you no joy, try Logitech Support HERE. i_XpUser