How to single click and select text?

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Published on 2011-01-18T01:42:33Z Indexed on 2011/01/18 1:54 UTC
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I am having a issue I have never experienced until recently, I believe (hoping) it is just a setting I can change?

The issue:

When I left click and hold the left mouse button down and slide the mouse around to select text in a document or webpage, it works as far as selecting the text, however when I release the left button , it does not stop selecting more text. Instead I must hit the left button again to stop it from selecting more text. This is very annoying, at first I thought I just had a faulty mouse but I just bought a new mouse and it is the same problem.

I am running windows 7 pro

Please help, hoping it is something simple I overlooked?

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