Photoshop CC Clone Stamp not working for me

There was another thread about this, several people reported this problem, but so far no response from Adobe. Let's try this again.
The Clone Stamp no longer works right. It's slow and sampling results are all over the place. It will sample from areas I never even ALT clicked on. And it can't keep up with rapid sampling and stamping. As is, Photoshop CC is totally unusable for photo retouching work.
I switched back to CS6, which still works fine, so the problem is NOT on my end.
Running Windows 7 64bit. Photoshop CC 64bit.
Can we get some response from Adobe please ??

I hope I have not missed something and am reinventing the wheel here, but I had a think about how Windows uses the Alt key. People are quite right, that even with the Clone tool selected, using the Alt key initially brings up the Menus (waiting for their 'mostly' first letter short cuts) but Windows releases the Alt key as soon as you left click on the source.
But what other ways does Windows use the Alt key? I think this is something Noel would be the best to answer, but THIS LINK mentions using Alt left mouse to move a window in Ubuntu, for instance. But Ubuntu is not Windows I guess. I am way out of my comfort zone with this stuff!
There is somebody HERE talking about that same Alt click drag facility to resize windows, but this time with Linux, and he is given a link to a tool that impliments the same feature in Windows. What I am saying/asking here, is do any of the people with problems have anything else on their systems that traps an Alt click?
As a little aside, I installed Lazy Nezumi while using my laptop, because it is cheap as chips, and I need all the help I can get when it comes to drawing nice lines in Photoshop. It works great, and does everything it claims, but it also messes up some Photoshop shortcuts. It allows you to reprogram those shortcuts to other keys though, so I shall be doing that when I put it on my main system. You see my point though?

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