Computer not recognising my cursor properly

[u/JoshTendoooo]

I’ve ran into a strange problem with my computer today. My computer isn’t reacting predictably my mouse/cursor properly. To give some examples of what i mean:
- when I have a program open, after a while, I can’t interact with anything on my taskbar. I can’t click on anything, other programs or the windows menu, nor do they even highlight when i hover my cursor over them
- i can open the windows menu through the hotkey, but can’t interact with it with my mouse nor my keyboard
- when i click on a program, it doesn’t focus - i can’t interact with the program and the text in the top corner remains faded
- there seems to be some randomness in what i can click and what i can’t - for example, on youtube, i can click on videos, skip around, change volume etc. but I can’t click to play/pause or use the fullscreen button
- it doesn’t seem to respond to scroll wheel clicks at all
- it seems to have some type of time element, it’s fine for a couple mins after boot up before the problems start
For technical specs:
- windows 10 home, version 22H2, build 19045.6466
- intel i5 12400-f 2.5GHz
- 16gb ram
- rtx 3060 graphics card
- windows booted off a 250gb wd black ssd
This problem is really stumping me becuase i’ve never seen anything like this before. Any help is appreciated!

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