Hi David, That sounds as though it has everything to do with the keyboard. Rather than a standard mouse click, you seem to be getting a Control mouse click. Try a different keyboard temporarily to see if things change. If the problem goes away it could be a stuck key or a hardware issue.
Cheers, Carlo On 2011-06-28, at 17:19, David Noel wrote: > > Hi All -- > > -- My sister-in-law asked me to look at a problem on her fairly new > iMac, and although I was able to sort something out, use of the iMac > was greatly hindered by unwanted appearance of drop-down menus. For > example, trying to log into gmail, if you clicked on the box for > username, up would come a drop-down menu starting with Copy / Edit / > Paste. Clicking anywhere on a page in most applications also would > bring up these menus. > > -- Mostly the menu would disappear on typing Return, and usually the > box could then be typed into. Sometimes, though, clicking on a blank > box would not select it. I tried to run Repair Permissions on her > machine, but although I could select her main drive, I was unable to > select the RP option. > > -- Has anyone any ideas on this? The iMac does have a wireless > keyboard (which I'm unfamiliar with), but can't think that this would > be relevant. I couldn't find anything useful on Apple Help regarding > menus. TIA. > > David Noel > 2011 Jun 28 > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
