By Sophia | Last Updated
Sometimes you may suddenly find that there is no responses when you do the mouse right click action. It will frustrate you when you want to use the right click function for painting a chart or submitting a report etc. It is common acknowledged that the Right Mouse button is locked. Now, we will show you how to solve the issue—mouse right click is not working.
Most people think that this issue is caused by the changed settings or data in the system registry in the reason that the items added to your registry will affect the system. Based on this factor, we demonstrate the professional steps here for you here.
Step 1: Navigate to the Start Menu located in the left-bottom of the window, and type regedit into the search bar, click the regedit.exe in the result list.
Step 2: Follow the under path to identify the item Explorer in the left side of Registry Editor window and find the item called NoViewContexMenu on the right side of it.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\Explorer
Step 3: Double click the NoViewContexMenu item to change the value of it to 00 00 00 00.
Or just click the item then press the Delete Key on your keyboard to delete it directly.
Step 4: Restart your computer. Typically, after these operations, your mouse will work properly.
We know that the wisdom of crowds isn't an oxymoron. Sometimes, they can provide us the effective solutions. Here we collected several operations they do to solve the issue—mouse right click is not working.
1. Restart the computer and the issue got solved.
When there is problem in the computer, the first solution that flashes into my mind is to restart the computer. It is very useful even I do not know the reason.
2. Run the antivirus program
Perhaps, the mouse right click function is affected by the virus so that I will enable the antivirus program to detect the virus. Sometimes, it works.
3. Check the mouse on other computer.
You can connect the mouse to other computer to see whether the right click button takes effect. If it works on other computer, it means that there are software issues on your computer. On the contrary, you can check the hardware and devices in Windows 10 Hardware and Devices troubleshooter and find & fix the problems with devices.
In conclusion, the quick fix solutions are based on the experience. To solve the issue professionally, you should utilize the Context Menu and solve the locking of Right Mouse button.
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