Intermittantly losing right-click functionality

My wife has a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop running Vista Home Premium 32 bit. She has a logitech wireless mouse. For some reason, and so far only when she has IE7 open and browsing, she will lose all right-click functionality. Not just in IE. She can't right click anywhere at all.

I am assuming it has to do with the context menu handler, and I found the information about what to go through to clear them out. She DOES have Yahoo Toolbar installed, and I believe it adds items to the context menu. I was just curious if anyone else has run into this, and if anyone has some good ideas of how to keep it from happening.

I will be removing the toolbars for the short term, but the problem is, it doesn't happen all the time, so I have no idea whether anything I do has actually fixed the problem.

A reboot always solves it.

I have the same laptop as her, and I have never seen this problem before. The differences for me are that I do not use IE except when absolutely necessary, or for work (my company's software only works with IE), I use Vista Ultimate 32bit, and I don't install any toolbars.

Hi adar,
You use the same wireless mouse? Maybe take her wireless mouse and use it and let's see if the problem moves to your laptop (if so it's the mouse) and if the problem stays with her laptop (then it's something on her laptop). Might want to check the Logitech website for latest mouse driver too.
Raj

rajinisback said:

Hi adar,
You use the same wireless mouse? Maybe take her wireless mouse and use it and let's see if the problem moves to your laptop (if so it's the mouse) and if the problem stays with her laptop (then it's something on her laptop). Might want to check the Logitech website for latest mouse driver too.
Raj

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I suppose it is possible that it is something hardware related with her mouse. However, both of us use the same model mouse, and neither of us use anything other than the drivers that Vista installs. These are not fancy mice with a bazillion buttons, and I generally avoid installing any additional Logitech stuff. I will have to give it a shot swapping the physical mice and see if the problem follows.

I doubt that it will though. Like I said, the problem only happens when she has been browsing the web with IE. She can use her computer all day long gaming, and doing anything else, but after browsing the web for an hour or so, the problem will pop up. It will be painful for me to have to use IE to try and dupe the problem, but it will be something I can mess with this weekend. Was just curious if anyone else had ever run into this problem.