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Menus pop up as if right clicking for no reason at all

Zone: PC Laptops
Tags: Dell, Inspiron, 1100
Customer running Windows XP on a Dell 1100 Inspiron  Laptop.  Has had it for several years.  Never goes on the Internet.  Uses it as a word processor only.  Now suddenly after she's been working on it a while, she'll get popup menus as if she were right clicking.  Happens sometimes when she's not even typing.  The popup that appears is dependent on where the cursor happens to be when its happening.  So for instance if she's in Word it will be a Word right click popup menu.  Once it starts it keeps on going more and more.  Left clicking somewhere gets rid of it.  I put a laptop cooler under it to see if it's heat related.  I just did that so I won't know for a while if it does anything. .  Also I added an external mouse and keyboard, to see if it's still happens with those.  Any idea what the base cause of this might be?  Software or hardware?
Thanks,
Al
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Zone: Computer Hardware
Question Asked By: alanlsilverman
Solution Provided By: SheharyaarSaahil
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Al
 
 
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