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hobbit709

(41,694 posts) Fri Nov 14, 2014, 07:23 AM Nov 2014

Just had an interesting thing happen on a customer's laptop

Older Toshiba with Vista on it. Needed cleaning out the junk files and removal of all the crapware and spyware. Did all that and rebooted. all of a sudden the mouse buttons were reversed. Went to Control Panel and somehow the Reverse buttons function had been checked on.

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Just had an interesting thing happen on a customer's laptop (Original Post) hobbit709 Nov 2014 OP

Could you have logged in as a different user? ChromeFoundry Nov 2014 #1

Laptop, builtin touchpad, one user. hobbit709 Nov 2014 #2

I switch the buttons on my laptop when not using a mouse, because I use the normal right click CK_John Nov 2014 #3

Looks like you are no alone... ChromeFoundry Nov 2014 #4

ChromeFoundry

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1. Could you have logged in as a different user?

Reply to hobbit709 (Original post)

Fri Nov 14, 2014, 11:07 AM

Nov 2014

The Mouse button swap is based on the current user profile settings and can be found in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse - SwapMouseButtons

DWORD: 0 = right-handed, 1 = left-handed

If you logged in as the same user prior to the reboot, I would look into getting an updated Mouse driver if you are using a third-party vendor driver.
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