Just Bugging Me

Odd enough for me to post comp help here, but I need it.

My lappy updated itself yesterday, it currently runs WinXPPro with SP3. I figured it was no biggie, it around that time of month for it to update anyway.

I turn it on this afternoon and I'm poking around my files and stuff, doing some work, when I notice double-clicking doesn't do what it used to. I click on a file once, say, a picture, and the drop-down menu that shows up when I usually right click the mouse shows up on a left click. So now I have to manually open files that way rather than double clicking them.

Is there a way to fix it so it goes back to opening things on a double click rather than this drop down menu thing it's doing now? If so, where in the Control Panel would that be? I tried looking under Folder Options but found nothing. It's a weird little thing that's been bugging my most of the afternoon.

 

You can right click somewhere to bring up the context menu and then left click somewhere else to make it go away. Maybe it's almost like the left mouse button is confused until you remind it that the right mouse button has the job of bringing up the context menu.
Also the mouse may have been changed for left-handed use. To change that back to right-handed, go to control panel->mouse. It says something about swapping mouse buttons, uncheck it. There are other options there, take a look at them too.

 

I went into the Control panel and checked; sure enough, I forgot I had let my grandmother borrow the comp and she's a lefty, so she swapped my controls around. Seems to be fixed now. Thanks!

Question's been answered, so case = closed.