-- Thanks all, the problem has gone away, so it looks as if Carlo's suggestion of a temporarily sticking Control key is likely the answer.
Cheers -- David /Jun 29 ===== On 28 June 2011 17:38, cm <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]>
