I recently did a data recovery of a bunch of photos. I am trying to go through them right now and delete the photos that are corrupt. In order to do this I am right clicking and selecting multiple files and then going down the folder, but the problem i am having is that once i start selecting the files and get to the point where i have to drag the selection area down it just keeps on selecting and keeps on scrolling down and I can't stop it. I have tried turning off my wireless mouse which is a Redragon M686. I have tried pressing esc and that doesn't work. the only thing that works is clicking the window close button like 20 times and then it will finally just closes the window. Can someone please help me with this, i hope I explained the problem clearly. I went into mouse settings in Windows settings and there is nothing in there that looks to be related to this problem. I also checked the Redragon software that i have for this mouse and it also doesn't have a setting that relates to this problem. To be honest i don't know if this is a problem with the mouse, the mouse driver or a problem with a setting in Windows 11.
Solved Mouse Keeps Scrolling When Selecting Multiple Files
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to pinpoint the mouse (or not), pull out the receiver and either put in a corded USB mouse, or use the keyboard keys to select files (Shift or Ctrl + arrow keys).
to pinpoint a driver, reboot into Safe Mode. Windows should only load the native mouse drivers.
to pinpoint a driver, reboot into Safe Mode. Windows should only load the native mouse drivers.
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I would try another mouse as Bruce suggested and see if that solves the issue. Does the scrolling issue happen if you plug your wireless mouse into another computer?
I would try another mouse as Bruce suggested and see if that solves the issue. Does the scrolling issue happen if you plug your wireless mouse into another computer?
Sorry for the late reply. I have another wireless mouse so I'm going to try that one tonight when i get off work.
okay nevermind, just tested it and it does the same thing. TBH I think it might just be Windows. As I mentioned I'm sorting through recovered files, specifically photos, specifically 197,000 recovered photos which i have in one folder in small thumbnail view. I think what may be happening is since I'm trying to select 100s of thumbnailed photos at the same time maybe Windows cache is just getting overwhelmed? I have the folder on a pcie gen 4 m.2 nvme drive and I have 32GB of DDR4 3600 and a R9 3900x but maybe even that isn't enough for Windows to stay caught up, what do you think? I think tonight when I get off work maybe I'll give it a try in safe mode and see what happens, I have a feeling it will probably handle it just fine in safe mode.
Does the mouse arrow turn into a black down arrow?
You could try Click once on 1 photo to highlight
Then scroll down to the last photo you want Hold the shift key and click once on that photo
This will select all the photos in between
You could try Click once on 1 photo to highlight
Then scroll down to the last photo you want Hold the shift key and click once on that photo
This will select all the photos in between
So I think i got it maybe figured out. I tired doing it in safe mode and the same thing was happening, but I did notice that in safe mode and in Windows normally as long as I didn't have it select the files too fast then it was fine. What i was doing was basically highlighting/selecting an entire row, then moving down and bringing my cursor almost to thje point of being out of the window basically right on the edge of the window in order to select as many files as possible as fast as possible. As i had mentioned i think it may just be a case of Windows not being able to catch up so it starts to wig out on me. I was selecting about 500 images or more at the same time. I noticed though that I could select multiple images I just had to drag my selection area down a bit slower and it seems to work fine. Granted I still need to go through and delete 10s of thousands of files so it's just going to take a bit longer then i wanted it to. I will say though that I definately never had this problem in Windows 10, but then again i never had to go through so many files at once in Windows 10.
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