My track pad acts as if it is permanently being clicked.

My track pad on the left side is acting as if it is being clicked. It wasn't pressed down on or anything and you can't see a depression where it's being pressed down.

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This is the easy bit. When looking at the questions you've posted you'll find buttons above each response, one reads something like *Mark as Helpful* & one *Marked as Solution*. If you think a response is helpful to you you can mark it as helpful. If it provides the solution mark it as such. With each question you can mark just one response as the solution and up to two as helpful. When you look at a question that says *This question is not answered. "Helpful" answers available: 2 . "Solved" answers available: 1.* it means that nobody has so far offered any helpful advice to the original poster and, for those who care about such things, that points are still availible for helping out.
Nothing obvious comes to mind regarding the main problem. Do you shut down Windows when iTunes is still open? You might be interuppting the housekeeping it does when it shuts down.
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It sounds like you have assigned the primary click on the trackpad to something else, perhaps a gesture.
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Oh and you can have both the Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad powered up and working at the same time. No need to keep moving batteries around.
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Greetings ascnephew8,
It seems your trackpad isn't working as you expect it to. Have you reviewed the trackpad settings in System Preferences? The following article provides trackpad setting details which may help:
OS X Mountain Lion: Change the way your trackpad works
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