Sticky mouse when dragging controls in VS2005

Question

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I have the following behavior in Visual Studio 2005 while designing forms:

1 - Drop a control onto the form (suppose it's a Label, just for discussion)

2 - Drag that label to a specific location (aligning w/other controls, whatever)

3 - Release the mouse button

4 - The control is still stuck to the mouse!!!

To get it un-stuck from the mouse, I have to hit ESC, which restores the Label to it's original location.

This is driving me nuts. I literally have to use the arrow keys to move each control into place, pixel-by-pixel. I don't observe this behavior anywhere else in VS2005, nor do I observe it in the OS in general.

I am running on Windows XP inside a Parallels Virtual Machine, hosted on OS X. I don't think there is a driver problem though, b/c as I already said, no other apps demonstrate anything like this.

Please tell me there is some tiny checkbox buried somewhere that will turn off this behavior.

Answer 1

Sounds like you might have ClickLock enabled (or a similar feature). Try this:

Go to Control Panel in Windows Open the Mouse control panel Go to the Activities tab Deselect ClickLock

If that doesn't work, maybe you have a similar feature in OS X?

Answer 2

This problem spread to other applications within my VM, so I reinstalled Parallels tools and it went away.