Do Not Drop Your Mouse!
The other day, I dropped my Corsair Iron Claw wireless gaming mouse, with the end result being that right-click ceased to function. I’m not normally a clumsy person, and at the time, it was sitting on my Asus gaming laptop as I was moving both to the next room. Of course, it could have been much worse – dropping the laptop would have been a disaster.
Anyway, I soon realised how often I use right-click when working with Windows, so it became a major inconvenience. I use it to select programs with which to open a file, choose an action from the drop-down dialogue, copy/paste, and many other actions. Many of these functions can be done with a keyboard, such as Ctrl+C for copy and Ctrl+V for paste, for example, so I had to find a way to emulate right-click. First, I went into the Corsair iCue software to reassign right-click, but couldn’t find a way to do it, little realising that the solution had been staring me in the face for years.
Don’t Ignore The Power Of Your Keyboard
Up until the other day, I hadn’t noticed the menu key on my various keyboards, and it turns out that if you simply highlight an icon on your desktop with a left-click and then hit the menu key, the right-click dialogue appears. Or, in Windows 11, where that dialogue has been shrunk, hit Shift+Menu key and you get the full dialogue.
On my laptop, I need to use the FN+Menu key, and the result is the same. So if you find yourself in a similar situation where your right-click no longer works, try the options I just mentioned.
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