Touchpad left-click (primary click) frozen..

I recently bought a MSI gt72 2qe with windows 8.1 installed..
The laptop runs Synaptics Touchpad 7.5 with the newest 18.1.30.4 driver installed.
The touchpad and laptop has worked without problems until two days ago.
For some reason when the computer booted the left-click became stuck, not physically but on the mini-icon in the buttom right corner i shows the left click is being pushed down all the time.. This makes me unable to use the computer... I just hightlight or mark everything when i move the pointer around. The right click touchpad button or secondary click works as normal but im not able to move the pointer without the primary click is pushed down.
When I plug in an external mouse i am able to use this one without any problems. but the touchpad click still doesn't work.
When i switch the primary click (normal left click) to right touchpad click the problem appears here too. This means it cant be a physical problem. Now the left click is the secondary click and functions well doing so.
I have tried installing new touchpad driver from official msi site. I located the gt72 2qe laptop, then found the driver to Synaptic touchpad.
I have tried reinstalling my whole windows system and the problem still appears.
I have tried running my drivers in compatibilty mode.
I have tried uninstalling synaptic driver and installing again.
I have tried finding similar cases on google but i cant find any, and neither any solutions
Nothing fix this very annoying problem..
Thank you

I have the same issue. the left click does not work at all. Even when the button's are interchanged. Kindly let me know if this is a software or hardware issue show that it can be addresses before my return period runs out.

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