The right click on my mouse and my laptop seem to only work sporadically today. Is this simply a problem with the mouse or is my computer starting to die?

Yes

which mouse is it?

Its a Dell mouse with a red laser thing underneath.

Touch pad mouse being the source of the problem?
Plug in a external one & see what that does..

Doh!

Try the touchpad one…

Try the touchpad one…

When the remote one fails the touch pad does too.

That’s made me hungry

Stuck key? Try pressing all the shift, ctrl, alt, win etc keys to release them.

Reboot?

Oh, also,

Shift-F10 is a shortcut for right-click if you need to work round it.

If the touchpad and an external mouse aren’t working then it’s not the mouse that’s the problem 😛

I assume you’ve tried the faithful turn on and off again?
Is everything else working OK?

Thanks for the tips folks.