Mouse wont click once volume buttons pressed

Hey everyone. Ive got a good one.

I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with the volume control buttons on the front. I've had it a number of years, running XP SP2.

I just ran into this interesting issue where the mouse will not allow me to click on things once I press the volume buttons on the front. The cursor still moves, but the buttons do not do anything. In addition to the mouse problem, the Alt-Tab function doesn't work after that point as well.

Ctrl-alt-del works, but only pops the window up, but doesn't allow me to close it with the mouse (because it wont click, remember?). When I restart the computer things go back to normal, until i want to change volume again Does it have something to do with the IRQ settings?

Interesting huh?

Thanks for any help guys.

 

Pretty sure it has to do with the startup program under C/Windows/maya.exe.

I think it's a virus. Working on it now.

 

Just an update. Cleaned the registry using CCleaner. Runs a lot better now.