My track pad mouse button quit working

The mouse button on my MacBook has quit working, the track pad itself works fine, moves the mouse pointer, etc, but nothing can be selected with the button. Same problem in Windows booted through boot camp. I noticed the problem after running the boot camp support program, this may have "broken" the operation of the select button, but I don't know how to back out those driver updates.

This has been happening to me too. I can hit Escape and things go back to normal.

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