Captivate 7 Software Simulation no longer records.

I've been using the software for months. Now all of the sudden when I try to record a simulation Captivate will not capture mouse clicks or movements or screen chaanges. The only things I can get to record are keystrokes. i.e. typing, TAB, Enter.
I'm using Captivate 7 64bit on windows 7 64bit.

The problem I had sounds similar to yours. When I attempted to record a software simulation on my secondary monitor, Captivate would capture keyboard-based actions and manual requests for screen shots (Prt Scr), but it would not capture mouse-click actions. The solution I found for this problem was to move the recording window, the red rectangle, to my primary monitor. Once there, all actions, including mouse-click actions, were recorded. I even found that I could switch which monitor was my primary monitor and Captivate would record normally as long as the recording window was on my system's primary monitor. 
Hope this helps.

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